PowerHA Contract Job Trends

IBM PowerHA
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring PowerHA 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 627 527 -
Rank change year-on-year -100 - -
Contract jobs citing PowerHA 3 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.007% 0.013% -
As % of the System Software category 0.062% 0.10% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £365 -
25th Percentile £406 £368 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £374 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% - -
75th Percentile £419 £381 -
90th Percentile - £385 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £375 -
% change year-on-year +10.15% - -

All System Software Skills
UK

PowerHA falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,846 3,943 4,940
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.35% 12.87% 11.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,318 2,616 3,349
10th Percentile £206 £206 £190
25th Percentile £400 £393 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +9.38% -8.57%
75th Percentile £594 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 92 242
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.34 £14.06
25th Percentile £20.58 £21.25 £16.81
Median hourly rate £41.94 £30.75 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.39% -23.13% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £85.88 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.94 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +11.84% -6.25% +62.47%

PowerHA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

PowerHA job vacancy trend in the UK

PowerHA
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

PowerHA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

PowerHA
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerHA 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 -103 3 £413 +10.29% 2
UK excluding London -78 2 £413 +10.15% 2
Midlands - 2 £413 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £413 - 1
London - 1 - -

PowerHA
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (33.33%) Misys Equation
1 1 (33.33%) Temenos T24
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) General Ledger
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) AIX Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Server Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) AS400
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) AIX
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Data Centre Operations
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Security Hardening
3 1 (33.33%) Business Case
3 1 (33.33%) Collateral Management
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) CRM
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Perl
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) PMI Certification
1 1 (33.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Basel III
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) Misys
2 1 (33.33%) Temenos