Progress OpenEdge
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for OpenEdge skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited OpenEdge over the 6 months to 30 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 715 1001 1059
Rank change year-on-year +286 +58 -318
Permanent jobs citing OpenEdge 12 89 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.022% 0.070% 0.035%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.23% 0.61% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 9 17 20
10th Percentile - £35,250 £44,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £36,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +14.58%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £59,750 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £37,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +46.67% -31.82% +15.79%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

OpenEdge is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 5,243 14,661 16,248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.74% 11.60% 12.55%
Number of salaries quoted 4,006 8,657 10,368
10th Percentile £31,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -

OpenEdge
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing OpenEdge as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for OpenEdge in the UK

OpenEdge
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OpenEdge.

Salary trend for OpenEdge in the UK

OpenEdge
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenEdge within the UK over the 6 months to 30 November 2023. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +245 12 £55,000 +4.76% 7
UK excluding London +172 8 £55,000 +46.67% 5
Midlands +130 7 £55,000 +10.00% 3
London +275 4 £55,000 - 3
East Midlands - 4 £55,000 -
West Midlands +132 3 - - 3
North of England +86 1 £67,500 - 1
Yorkshire +45 1 £67,500 - 1

OpenEdge
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Functions
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (8.33%) IaaS
2 1 (8.33%) PaaS
2 1 (8.33%) SaaS
2 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (66.67%) RDBMS
1 8 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (91.67%) Developer
1 11 (91.67%) Progress Developer
2 8 (66.67%) OpenEdge Developer
2 8 (66.67%) Senior
2 8 (66.67%) Senior Developer
2 8 (66.67%) Senior Progress Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (66.67%) CSS
1 8 (66.67%) HTML
1 8 (66.67%) RESTful
2 1 (8.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Agile
1 9 (75.00%) SDLC
2 8 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
2 8 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 8 (66.67%) Integration Testing
2 8 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 8 (66.67%) Mobile Application Development
2 8 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (66.67%) Project Delivery
2 8 (66.67%) Requirements Gathering
2 8 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 8 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 8 (66.67%) Translating Business Requirements
2 8 (66.67%) Unit Testing
2 8 (66.67%) Web Development
3 1 (8.33%) Business Strategy
3 1 (8.33%) Change Management
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 8 (66.67%) OpenEdge ABL
2 8 (66.67%) Progress 4GL
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) Progress