PowerHA Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

IBM PowerHA
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring PowerHA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PowerHA 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.073% - -
As % of the System Software category 0.48% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £419 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £413 £374 -
% change year-on-year +10.29% - -

All System Software Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 420 196 180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.31% 14.46% 9.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 137 134
10th Percentile £256 £159 £150
25th Percentile £373 £200 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £489 £400
Median % change year-on-year +2.25% +22.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £500
90th Percentile £675 £700 £600
England median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 7
10th Percentile - £15.22 £14.94
25th Percentile £42.50 £15.95 £16.58
Median hourly rate £45.00 £18.13 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +148.21% -2.00% -7.50%
75th Percentile £47.50 £29.85 £19.60
90th Percentile - £37.86 £21.47
England median hourly rate £34.00 £32.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year +4.62% +3.17% -18.18%

PowerHA
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

PowerHA job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

PowerHA
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing PowerHA

PowerHA
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerHA within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 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
Birmingham - 1 - -
Warwickshire - 1 £413 -
PowerHA
England

PowerHA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Administrator
1 2 (100.00%) AIX Administrator
1 2 (100.00%) Server Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) AIX
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre Operations
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Security Hardening
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) IBM