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 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 609 516 598
Rank change year-on-year -93 +82 +127
Contract jobs citing PowerDesigner 21 15 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.049% 0.049% 0.011%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.36% 0.36% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 13 5
10th Percentile £389 £466 £565
25th Percentile £510 £500 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £583 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.58% -10.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £700 £600 £675
90th Percentile £925 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £638 £586 -
% change year-on-year +8.74% - -

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 5,830 4,177 5,370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.65% 13.63% 11.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,952 2,709 3,694
10th Percentile £343 £330 £356
25th Percentile £405 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £630
90th Percentile £688 £725 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £483 £500
% change year-on-year -1.66% -3.40% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 70 214
10th Percentile £34.05 £25.23 £37.50
25th Percentile £53.13 £48.81 £46.20
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £73.13 £71.25 £73.75
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £84.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 7 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PowerDesigner in the UK

PowerDesigner
Top 8 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 7 March 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 -99 20 £550 -5.58% 3
London -24 19 £550 +57.14% 3
Work from Home -25 3 £456 -21.72%
UK excluding London -89 2 £638 +8.74% 1
North of England -66 1 £525 -
Yorkshire - 1 £525 -
Wales - 1 £750 -
Scotland - 1 £750 - 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.76%) Apache
1 1 (4.76%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 8 (38.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (4.76%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 9 (42.86%) Azure
2 7 (33.33%) AWS
2 7 (33.33%) Snowflake
3 6 (28.57%) GCP
4 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.76%) Matillion
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (57.14%) Metadata
2 10 (47.62%) Data Vault
3 9 (42.86%) Snowflake Schema
4 7 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (19.05%) Big Data
5 4 (19.05%) Star Schema
6 2 (9.52%) NoSQL
6 2 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (9.52%) Power BI
6 2 (9.52%) Relational Database
6 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
6 2 (9.52%) Tableau
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (4.76%) Apache Hudi
7 1 (4.76%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
7 1 (4.76%) IBM InfoSphere
7 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 17 (80.95%) ERwin
2 8 (38.10%) ER Studio
3 6 (28.57%) JIRA
4 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket
General
1 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Finance
3 2 (9.52%) Retail
4 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (71.43%) Data Modeller
2 4 (19.05%) Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Data Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Integration Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Senior
3 2 (9.52%) Senior Data Modeller
4 1 (4.76%) Data Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 13 (61.90%) Data Structures
2 4 (19.05%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (19.05%) Reference Data
2 4 (19.05%) Reinsurance
3 2 (9.52%) Taxonomies
4 1 (4.76%) Credit Risk
4 1 (4.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (85.71%) Data Modelling
2 16 (76.19%) Data Governance
3 15 (71.43%) Logical Data Model
4 12 (57.14%) Physical Data Model
5 11 (52.38%) Analytics
6 9 (42.86%) Data Lineage
7 8 (38.10%) Dimensional Modelling
8 7 (33.33%) Agile
8 7 (33.33%) Data Architecture
8 7 (33.33%) Metadata Management
8 7 (33.33%) Scrum
8 7 (33.33%) Use Case
9 6 (28.57%) Conceptual Models
9 6 (28.57%) Kanban
9 6 (28.57%) Master Data Management
9 6 (28.57%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 6 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 6 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (19.05%) DAMA
10 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 11 (52.38%) SQL
2 1 (4.76%) C
2 1 (4.76%) PL/SQL
2 1 (4.76%) Python
2 1 (4.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (76.19%) Data Quality
2 3 (14.29%) GDPR
2 3 (14.29%) Solvency II
3 2 (9.52%) IFRS
4 1 (4.76%) IFRS 17
4 1 (4.76%) IFRS 9
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Sparx
2 4 (19.05%) Databricks
2 4 (19.05%) IBM
3 3 (14.29%) Oracle
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.76%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.76%) SAP