Progress Jobs

Progress
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Progress products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Progress over the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within the Progress Software Corporation.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 612 809 800
Rank change year-on-year +197 -9 +321
Permanent jobs citing Progress 88 93 173
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.094% 0.17%
As % of the Vendors category 0.44% 0.26% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 85 56 141
10th Percentile - £30,625 -
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile - £63,750 £66,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,250 £43,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.17% -17.14% +9.38%

All Vendors
UK

Progress falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 20,127 36,342 42,300
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.89% 36.67% 41.74%
Number of salaries quoted 11,986 24,990 24,164
10th Percentile £26,902 £26,700 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,600 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +5.26%

Progress
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Progress in the UK

Progress
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Progress in the UK

Progress
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Progress over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Progress in the UK

Progress
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Progress within the UK over the 6 months to 10 May 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 +146 88 £58,000 +16.00% 44
Work from Home +173 63 £63,000 +8.62% 17
UK excluding London +172 60 £41,250 -5.17% 18
London +104 24 £63,000 +5.00% 28
Midlands +75 22 £63,000 +186.36% 2
West Midlands +63 22 £63,000 - 2
South West +129 20 £40,000 -20.00% 1
South East +107 14 £42,500 +97.67% 8
North of England +37 4 £33,198 -42.76% 7
North West +4 2 £35,698 -38.45% 5
North East - 2 £33,198 -

Progress
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 62 (70.45%) OpenEdge
2 3 (3.41%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (11.36%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.14%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (10.23%) Azure
2 4 (4.55%) AWS
2 4 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (3.41%) Apigee
4 1 (1.14%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.82%) Firewall
2 2 (2.27%) Internet
2 2 (2.27%) Unified Communications
2 2 (2.27%) WAN
2 2 (2.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.27%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Git
1 3 (3.41%) Postman
General
1 55 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 21 (23.86%) Manufacturing
3 7 (7.95%) Finance
4 5 (5.68%) Social Housing
5 4 (4.55%) Local Government
5 4 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.14%) Electronics
7 1 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 64 (72.73%) Developer
1 64 (72.73%) Progress Developer
2 41 (46.59%) OpenEdge Developer
3 20 (22.73%) ERP Developer
4 5 (5.68%) Administrator
4 5 (5.68%) Analyst
4 5 (5.68%) IT Administrator
4 5 (5.68%) IT Systems Administrator
4 5 (5.68%) Systems Administrator
5 4 (4.55%) IT Analyst
5 4 (4.55%) Systems Analyst
6 3 (3.41%) Applications Support
6 3 (3.41%) Consultant
6 3 (3.41%) Technical Consultant
7 2 (2.27%) Lead
7 2 (2.27%) Project Manager
8 1 (1.14%) IT Support Technician
8 1 (1.14%) Senior
8 1 (1.14%) Senior Project Manager
8 1 (1.14%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.41%) .NET
1 3 (3.41%) GraphQL
1 3 (3.41%) JSON
1 3 (3.41%) JWT
1 3 (3.41%) OAuth
1 3 (3.41%) OAuth2
1 3 (3.41%) REST
1 3 (3.41%) RESTful
1 3 (3.41%) SOAP
1 3 (3.41%) Swagger
1 3 (3.41%) XML
2 2 (2.27%) HTML
3 1 (1.14%) CSS
3 1 (1.14%) Middleware
3 1 (1.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.41%) Housing Association
2 1 (1.14%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.14%) Onboarding
2 1 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 30 (34.09%) Windows
2 20 (22.73%) Linux
3 10 (11.36%) Windows 10
4 9 (10.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (51.14%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (26.14%) ERP
3 20 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
3 20 (22.73%) Customer Service
4 6 (6.82%) Project Management
5 5 (5.68%) Migration
6 4 (4.55%) Agile
6 4 (4.55%) CI/CD
6 4 (4.55%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (4.55%) Facilities Management
6 4 (4.55%) Line Management
6 4 (4.55%) Microservices
7 3 (3.41%) API Development
7 3 (3.41%) API Integration
7 3 (3.41%) Change Control
7 3 (3.41%) Code Quality
7 3 (3.41%) Data Migration
7 3 (3.41%) Time Management
7 3 (3.41%) Trend Analysis
7 3 (3.41%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 30 (34.09%) Progress 4GL
2 4 (4.55%) Java
3 3 (3.41%) OpenEdge ABL
3 3 (3.41%) SQL
4 2 (2.27%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.27%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.14%) C#
5 1 (1.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (3.41%) Degree
2 2 (2.27%) HND
3 1 (1.14%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.14%) HNC
3 1 (1.14%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.14%) PMP
3 1 (1.14%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (22.73%) SLA
2 1 (1.14%) GDPR
2 1 (1.14%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (14.77%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 32 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.41%) Capita
3 2 (2.27%) Sun
4 1 (1.14%) Cisco
4 1 (1.14%) Guidewire
4 1 (1.14%) Meraki