PowerBuilder Contract Job Trends

Sybase PowerBuilder
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring PowerBuilder skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 661 - 571
Rank change year-on-year - - +97
Contract jobs citing PowerBuilder 6 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.011% - 0.002%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.097% - 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £292 - -
25th Percentile £346 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
75th Percentile £389 - -
90th Percentile £414 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Development Application Skills
UK

PowerBuilder falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 6,209 4,811 5,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.75% 14.69% 12.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,981 3,250 3,356
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £598 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 106 221
10th Percentile £26.10 £24.05 £25.99
25th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.15 £84.50 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +5.69%

PowerBuilder
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PowerBuilder relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

PowerBuilder job vacancy trend in the UK

PowerBuilder
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PowerBuilder.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PowerBuilder

PowerBuilder
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerBuilder over the 6 months to 28 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PowerBuilder in the UK

PowerBuilder
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PowerBuilder.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PowerBuilder

PowerBuilder
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerBuilder within the UK over the 6 months to 28 July 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
London - 5 £375 - 4
England - 5 £375 - 4
Work from Home - 1 - -

PowerBuilder
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) PowerBuilder Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) PowerBuilder Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Client/Server
1 3 (50.00%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 2 (33.33%) GAP Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Strategic Planning
3 2 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Sybase