PowerBroker Contract Job Trends in the North of England

BeyondTrust PowerBroker
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring PowerBroker skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 - 170
Rank change year-on-year - - +43
Contract jobs citing PowerBroker 1 0 14
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.017% - 0.29%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.094% - 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 11
10th Percentile - - £495
25th Percentile £425 - £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 - £582
Median % change year-on-year - - +79.08%
75th Percentile £473 - £583
90th Percentile - - £625
England median daily rate £449 - £582
% change year-on-year - - +78.80%

All Systems Management Skills
North of England

PowerBroker falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,061 587 528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 17.70% 18.41% 11.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 721 393 378
10th Percentile £319 £269 £245
25th Percentile £402 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £492 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.02% +3.58% -13.64%
75th Percentile £550 £584 £575
90th Percentile £630 £650 £645
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 5 22
10th Percentile £40.72 £22.30 £16.89
25th Percentile £52.50 £24.18 £17.72
Median hourly rate £58.00 £43.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.88% +91.11% -41.63%
75th Percentile £68.75 £77.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £82.15 £80.38
England median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £27.88
% change year-on-year +107.55% -4.96% -51.51%

PowerBroker
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PowerBroker relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

PowerBroker job vacancy trend in the North of England

PowerBroker
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing PowerBroker.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing PowerBroker

PowerBroker
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerBroker within the North of England region over the 6 months to 10 April 2026. 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
North West - 1 £449 -
PowerBroker
England

PowerBroker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) FTP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) AIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) NFS
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas