PowerDesigner Contract Job Trends

Sybase PowerDesigner
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring PowerDesigner skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 612 509 579
Rank change year-on-year -103 +70 +119
Contract jobs citing PowerDesigner 18 15 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.038% 0.051% 0.007%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.31% 0.37% 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 13 2
10th Percentile £371 £466 £529
25th Percentile £497 £500 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £583 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.84% +3.56% -26.23%
75th Percentile £925 £600 £584
90th Percentile - - £586
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £586 -
% change year-on-year -10.45% - -

All Development Application Skills
UK

PowerDesigner 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 5,812 4,101 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.30% 14.01% 11.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,853 2,743 3,477
10th Percentile £348 £340 £356
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £717 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £483 £500
% change year-on-year -1.66% -3.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 67 197
10th Percentile £37.71 £26.92 £32.48
25th Percentile £60.00 £51.53 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £86.15 £81.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%

PowerDesigner
Job Vacancy Trend

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

PowerDesigner job vacancy trend in the UK

PowerDesigner
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

PowerDesigner
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerDesigner over the 6 months to 1 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PowerDesigner in the UK

PowerDesigner
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerDesigner within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England -97 17 £531 -8.84% 1
London -38 16 £537 +53.43%
Work from Home -32 4 £537 -7.81%
North of England -67 1 £525 - 1
UK excluding London -109 1 £525 -10.45% 1
Yorkshire - 1 £525 - 1

PowerDesigner
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:

Applications
1 1 (5.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Loan IQ
1 1 (5.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) Power Platform
3 4 (22.22%) Lucidchart
4 3 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (16.67%) GCP
5 2 (11.11%) AWS
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
6 1 (5.56%) Matillion
6 1 (5.56%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (61.11%) Metadata
2 8 (44.44%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (38.89%) Data Vault
4 5 (27.78%) Power BI
5 4 (22.22%) Big Data
6 3 (16.67%) Snowflake Schema
6 3 (16.67%) Tableau
7 2 (11.11%) BigQuery
7 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
8 1 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (5.56%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (5.56%) Apache Hudi
8 1 (5.56%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
8 1 (5.56%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
8 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
8 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (5.56%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (72.22%) ERwin
2 4 (22.22%) ER Studio
3 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
General
1 10 (55.56%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
3 5 (27.78%) Finance
4 3 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (11.11%) Banking
6 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (66.67%) Data Modeller
2 5 (27.78%) Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Integration Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Data Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Data Modeller
4 1 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) JSON
1 2 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) Data Structures
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.11%) Clustering
2 2 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (11.11%) Reference Data
3 1 (5.56%) Credit Risk
3 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.56%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) Data Modelling
2 12 (66.67%) Data Governance
3 10 (55.56%) Logical Data Model
4 9 (50.00%) Analytics
4 9 (50.00%) Physical Data Model
5 7 (38.89%) Kimball Methodology
5 7 (38.89%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (33.33%) Data Architecture
7 5 (27.78%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (27.78%) Data Integration
7 5 (27.78%) Dimensional Modelling
7 5 (27.78%) Metadata Management
7 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (27.78%) Validation
8 4 (22.22%) AI
8 4 (22.22%) Conceptual Models
8 4 (22.22%) Data Design
8 4 (22.22%) Requirements Gathering
8 4 (22.22%) Roadmaps
8 4 (22.22%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (5.56%) C
2 1 (5.56%) PL/SQL
2 1 (5.56%) Python
2 1 (5.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (61.11%) Data Quality
2 7 (38.89%) GDPR
3 4 (22.22%) Solvency II
4 1 (5.56%) IFRS
4 1 (5.56%) IFRS 9
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) IBM
3 3 (16.67%) Databricks
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle
4 1 (5.56%) SAP
4 1 (5.56%) Sparx