Progress Contracts in the UK excluding London

Progress
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Progress products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Progress over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the Progress Software Corporation.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 373 437 468
Rank change year-on-year +64 +31 -36
Contract jobs citing Progress 12 9 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.059% 0.039% 0.12%
As % of the Vendors category 0.14% 0.088% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 7
10th Percentile £406 £226 £178
25th Percentile £425 £370 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £588 £510
Median % change year-on-year -16.81% +15.20% -0.97%
75th Percentile £516 £791 £581
90th Percentile £527 £841 £613
UK median daily rate £413 £508 £563
% change year-on-year -18.72% -9.78% +28.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.71 - £19.00
Median hourly rate £15.61 - £20.00
75th Percentile £16.50 - £21.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £15.61 - £20.00
% change year-on-year - - -27.84%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

Progress is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,662 10,238 12,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 42.62% 44.56% 40.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,214 7,022 8,280
10th Percentile £208 £205 £187
25th Percentile £363 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +7.53% +8.14%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 965 456 641
10th Percentile £11.88 £14.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £14.16 £17.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £21.46 £34.00 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -36.88% +81.82% +1.08%
75th Percentile £58.70 £60.84 £36.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £57.38
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £40.59 £21.50
% change year-on-year -47.03% +88.79% -2.27%

Progress
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Progress as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Progress in the UK excluding London

Progress
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Progress in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Progress in the UK excluding London

Progress
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Progress in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Progress in the UK excluding London

Progress
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Progress within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands +35 7 £450 - 6
West Midlands +30 7 £450 - 6
Wales +21 2 £503 -30.69% 1
Scotland +45 1 - -
South East +13 1 £400 -38.46% 6
South West - 1 £525 - 1
Progress
UK

Progress
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (8.33%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Maximo
2 1 (8.33%) MFGPRO
2 1 (8.33%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (33.33%) Avionics
1 4 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 2 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) French Language
3 1 (8.33%) German Language
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
3 1 (8.33%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Administrator
2 3 (25.00%) Project Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Agile Project Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Software Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Software Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) 1st Line Support
4 1 (8.33%) 1st Line Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Agile Development Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Development Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Development Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) IT Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) IT Support
4 1 (8.33%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Procurement Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Service Desk Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Development Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Software Development Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (8.33%) Client/Server
3 1 (8.33%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Android
1 1 (8.33%) HPUX
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Unix
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Agile
1 4 (33.33%) Project Management
2 3 (25.00%) Project Governance
3 2 (16.67%) Analytics
3 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (16.67%) Customer Service
3 2 (16.67%) Data Analytics
3 2 (16.67%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (16.67%) Kanban
3 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 2 (16.67%) Scrum
3 2 (16.67%) SDLC
4 1 (8.33%) BCP
4 1 (8.33%) Business Continuity
4 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (8.33%) Data Architecture
4 1 (8.33%) Data Modelling
4 1 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (8.33%) ERP
4 1 (8.33%) Logistics
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Atlassian
3 1 (8.33%) Anaplan
3 1 (8.33%) Apple
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco
3 1 (8.33%) HP
3 1 (8.33%) Mitel
3 1 (8.33%) QAD
3 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (8.33%) SAP