Progress 4GL Jobs

Progress 4GL
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Progress 4GL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Progress 4GL over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 650 879 983
Rank change year-on-year +229 +104 -
Permanent jobs citing Progress 4GL 34 6 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.065% 0.006% 0.004%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.22% 0.018% 0.009%
Number of salaries quoted 34 6 1
10th Percentile - £42,500 -
25th Percentile £35,000 - £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £27,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +81.82% -
75th Percentile £46,875 - £28,750
90th Percentile £60,000 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £27,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% +81.82% -

All Programming Languages
UK

Progress 4GL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 15,664 33,221 45,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.03% 33.78% 43.42%
Number of salaries quoted 11,561 25,021 28,803
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £106,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% +2.33%

Progress 4GL
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Progress 4GL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Progress 4GL in the UK

Progress 4GL
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Progress 4GL.

Salary trend for Progress 4GL in the UK

Progress 4GL
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Progress 4GL over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Progress 4GL in the UK

Progress 4GL
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Progress 4GL within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. 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 +217 34 £40,000 -20.00% 1
UK excluding London +226 25 £40,000 -20.00% 1
South West +136 22 £40,000 -
Work from Home - 12 £48,750 - 1
London - 5 £63,000 -
North of England - 3 £33,198 -
North East - 2 £33,198 -
North West - 1 £35,698 -

Progress 4GL
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:

Application Platforms
1 26 (76.47%) OpenEdge
2 3 (8.82%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (23.53%) Azure
2 5 (14.71%) AWS
3 3 (8.82%) Apigee
3 3 (8.82%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.65%) Firewall
2 2 (5.88%) Internet
2 2 (5.88%) Unified Communications
2 2 (5.88%) WAN
2 2 (5.88%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) EDMS
1 2 (5.88%) RDBMS
1 2 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Git
1 3 (8.82%) Postman
2 2 (5.88%) Ant
2 2 (5.88%) Bitbucket
2 2 (5.88%) WebSpeed
General
1 22 (64.71%) Manufacturing
2 4 (11.76%) Local Government
2 4 (11.76%) Social Housing
3 3 (8.82%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Finance
Job Titles
1 28 (82.35%) Developer
1 28 (82.35%) Progress Developer
2 22 (64.71%) ERP Developer
3 3 (8.82%) Applications Support
3 3 (8.82%) Consultant
3 3 (8.82%) OpenEdge Developer
3 3 (8.82%) Technical Consultant
4 2 (5.88%) Progress 4GL Developer
5 1 (2.94%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Applications Support Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Software Developer
5 1 (2.94%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.71%) JSON
1 5 (14.71%) REST
2 4 (11.76%) HTML
3 3 (8.82%) .NET
3 3 (8.82%) GraphQL
3 3 (8.82%) JWT
3 3 (8.82%) OAuth
3 3 (8.82%) OAuth2
3 3 (8.82%) RESTful
3 3 (8.82%) SOAP
3 3 (8.82%) Swagger
3 3 (8.82%) XML
4 2 (5.88%) Bootstrap
4 2 (5.88%) HTML5
5 1 (2.94%) CSS
5 1 (2.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) Housing Association
2 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 22 (64.71%) Linux
1 22 (64.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (73.53%) ERP
2 22 (64.71%) Continuous Improvement
2 22 (64.71%) Customer Service
3 4 (11.76%) Facilities Management
3 4 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (8.82%) Agile
4 3 (8.82%) API Development
4 3 (8.82%) API Integration
4 3 (8.82%) Change Control
4 3 (8.82%) CI/CD
4 3 (8.82%) Code Quality
4 3 (8.82%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (8.82%) Data Migration
4 3 (8.82%) Line Management
4 3 (8.82%) Microservices
4 3 (8.82%) Migration
4 3 (8.82%) Project Management
4 3 (8.82%) Time Management
4 3 (8.82%) Trend Analysis
4 3 (8.82%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.71%) OpenEdge ABL
2 4 (11.76%) JavaScript
3 3 (8.82%) Java
3 3 (8.82%) SQL
4 2 (5.88%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.94%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (2.94%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (64.71%) SLA
2 1 (2.94%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (8.82%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 32 (94.12%) Progress
2 23 (67.65%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.82%) Capita
4 2 (5.88%) Sun
5 1 (2.94%) Cisco
5 1 (2.94%) Meraki