The first table below looks at the demand for PowerBuilder skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PowerBuilder over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Development Applications category for the London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sybase PowerBuilder
Rank 380 376 418
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +42
Contract jobs citing PowerBuilder 9 29 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.041% 0.107% 0.039%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.338% 1.119% 0.345%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 10
Average daily rate £550 £469 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.39% +44.15%
UK excluding London average daily rate £600 £350 £369
% change year-on-year
+71.42% -5.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Average hourly rate - £38.75 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
2665 2592 3475
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 12.10% 9.606% 11.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1975 1760 2375
Average daily rate £413 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.94% -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £285 £295
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 38 29
Average hourly rate £41.50 £35.75 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.08% +27.67%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.72 £22.20 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £48.40 £45.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
PowerBuilder
England

PowerBuilder
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing PowerBuilder across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

London PowerBuilder Jobs Demand Trend

PowerBuilder
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing PowerBuilder across the London region.

London PowerBuilder Daily Rate Trend

PowerBuilder
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PowerBuilder across the London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

London PowerBuilder Daily Rate Histogram

PowerBuilder
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing PowerBuilder across the London region.

London PowerBuilder Hourly Rate Trend

PowerBuilder
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing PowerBuilder also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited PowerBuilder.

1 17 (100.00%) SQL
2 10 (58.82%) ETL
3 8 (47.06%) Shell Script
3 8 (47.06%) PL/SQL
3 8 (47.06%) T-SQL
3 8 (47.06%) Finance
3 8 (47.06%) Banking
4 7 (41.18%) UNIX
5 6 (35.29%) Oracle
5 6 (35.29%) SQL Server
5 6 (35.29%) Sybase
5 6 (35.29%) Sybase ASE
5 6 (35.29%) Kondor+
6 5 (29.41%) OO
7 4 (23.53%) Oracle 8/8i
7 4 (23.53%) Data Modelling
7 4 (23.53%) OOD
7 4 (23.53%) Front Office
7 4 (23.53%) Risk Management
7 4 (23.53%) ETRM
7 4 (23.53%) Retail
8 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
8 3 (17.65%) C
8 3 (17.65%) Java
9 2 (11.76%) Perl
9 2 (11.76%) PHP
9 2 (11.76%) C#
9 2 (11.76%) Delphi
9 2 (11.76%) DB2
9 2 (11.76%) MS Office

PowerBuilder
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing PowerBuilder also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited PowerBuilder. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (5.882%) .NET
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) MS Office
1 2 (11.76%) MS Visio
1 2 (11.76%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Kondor+
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) SQL Server
1 6 (35.29%) Sybase ASE
2 4 (23.53%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (11.76%) DB2
3 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (11.76%) TOAD
3 2 (11.76%) Star Schema
3 2 (11.76%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (11.76%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) ERwin
General
1 8 (47.06%) Finance
1 8 (47.06%) Banking
2 4 (23.53%) Front Office
2 4 (23.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Developer
2 6 (35.29%) Applications Support
3 3 (17.65%) Gloss Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Database Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Systems Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Business Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) SQL Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Data Analyst
5 1 (5.882%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Data Warehouse Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Database Developer
5 1 (5.882%) PowerBuilder Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Data Warehouse Analyst
5 1 (5.882%) Developer Analyst
5 1 (5.882%) SQL Database Developer
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) UNIX
2 2 (11.76%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) ETL
2 5 (29.41%) OO
3 4 (23.53%) Data Modelling
3 4 (23.53%) OOD
3 4 (23.53%) Risk Management
3 4 (23.53%) ETRM
4 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
5 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (11.76%) Systems Analysis
5 2 (11.76%) Kimball Methodology
5 2 (11.76%) Automation Testing
5 2 (11.76%) Migration
6 1 (5.882%) Scrum
6 1 (5.882%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (5.882%) Data Analysis
6 1 (5.882%) Data Migration
6 1 (5.882%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) SQL
2 8 (47.06%) Shell Script
2 8 (47.06%) PL/SQL
2 8 (47.06%) T-SQL
3 3 (17.65%) C
3 3 (17.65%) Java
4 2 (11.76%) Perl
4 2 (11.76%) PHP
4 2 (11.76%) C#
4 2 (11.76%) Delphi
4 2 (11.76%) MATLAB
4 2 (11.76%) R
5 1 (5.882%) Scala
5 1 (5.882%) Python
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Oracle
1 6 (35.29%) Sybase
2 2 (11.76%) MicroStrategy
3 1 (5.882%) TOWER Software
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