Progress Developer Jobs

Progress Developer
UK

The median Progress Developer salary in the UK is £63,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 678 836 805
Rank change year-on-year +158 -31 +433
Permanent jobs requiring a Progress Developer 50 69 113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.084% 0.064% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.094% 0.068% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 49 55 109
10th Percentile - £45,000 -
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £54,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £55,000 £60,000
90th Percentile - £62,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +26.00% -4.76% +23.53%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 53,224 101,891 81,094
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.89% 94.82% 91.21%
Number of salaries quoted 28,964 71,748 54,252
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,750 £38,750 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,708 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £53,118
% change year-on-year - -5.87% +5.18%

Progress Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Progress Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Progress Developer in the UK

Progress Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Progress Developer in the UK

Progress Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Progress Developer over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Progress Developer in the UK

Progress Developer
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Progress Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 4 July 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 +125 49 £63,000 +16.67% 4
Work from Home +141 36 £63,000 +5.00% 3
UK excluding London +177 30 £63,000 +26.00% 3
London +101 18 £63,000 +14.55% 1
Midlands +84 17 £63,000 +40.00% 1
West Midlands +56 17 £63,000 +40.00% 1
South West +109 13 £40,000 - 1

Progress Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 July 2025, Progress Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Progress Developer in the job title.

1 48 (96.00%) Progress
2 45 (90.00%) OpenEdge
3 33 (66.00%) Problem-Solving
3 33 (66.00%) Social Skills
4 18 (36.00%) Progress 4GL
5 16 (32.00%) ERP
6 13 (26.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (26.00%) Manufacturing
6 13 (26.00%) Windows
6 13 (26.00%) Linux
6 13 (26.00%) SLA
6 13 (26.00%) Microsoft
6 13 (26.00%) Customer Service
7 4 (8.00%) OpenEdge ABL
7 4 (8.00%) XML
7 4 (8.00%) Agile
7 4 (8.00%) JSON
7 4 (8.00%) REST
7 4 (8.00%) Azure
7 4 (8.00%) AWS
8 3 (6.00%) Unit Testing
8 3 (6.00%) OAuth
8 3 (6.00%) Git
8 3 (6.00%) RESTful
8 3 (6.00%) SOAP
8 3 (6.00%) Java
8 3 (6.00%) JavaScript
8 3 (6.00%) .NET
8 3 (6.00%) GraphQL
8 3 (6.00%) Postman

Progress Developer Skill Set
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 45 (90.00%) OpenEdge
Cloud Services
1 4 (8.00%) AWS
1 4 (8.00%) Azure
2 3 (6.00%) Apigee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Git
1 3 (6.00%) Postman
2 1 (2.00%) Ant
2 1 (2.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.00%) WebSpeed
General
1 33 (66.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (26.00%) Manufacturing
3 3 (6.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.00%) Local Government
4 1 (2.00%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.00%) JSON
1 4 (8.00%) REST
1 4 (8.00%) XML
2 3 (6.00%) .NET
2 3 (6.00%) GraphQL
2 3 (6.00%) JWT
2 3 (6.00%) OAuth
2 3 (6.00%) OAuth2
2 3 (6.00%) RESTful
2 3 (6.00%) SOAP
2 3 (6.00%) Swagger
3 2 (4.00%) HTML
4 1 (2.00%) Bootstrap
4 1 (2.00%) CSS
4 1 (2.00%) HTML5
4 1 (2.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.00%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 13 (26.00%) Linux
1 13 (26.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (66.00%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (32.00%) ERP
3 13 (26.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 13 (26.00%) Customer Service
4 4 (8.00%) Agile
5 3 (6.00%) API Development
5 3 (6.00%) API Integration
5 3 (6.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (6.00%) Code Quality
5 3 (6.00%) Microservices
5 3 (6.00%) Unit Testing
6 1 (2.00%) Facilities Management
6 1 (2.00%) SDLC
6 1 (2.00%) User Experience
6 1 (2.00%) XML Parsing
Programming Languages
1 18 (36.00%) Progress 4GL
2 4 (8.00%) OpenEdge ABL
3 3 (6.00%) Java
3 3 (6.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (26.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 48 (96.00%) Progress
2 13 (26.00%) Microsoft