🦖 PowerBuilder: The Legacy Tech That Refuses to Die
(below is a screenshot of a compensation calculator for physician groups developed in less than a year around 2003 and was still in use in 2024, a decade after I left the company)
In the past few days, I’ve had two different recruiters reach out about PowerBuilder roles in big companies: an airline and a healthcare organization.
PowerBuilder? In 2025?
I did a little digging, and here’s what I found:
🔹 up to around 50 PowerBuilder developer roles open across the U.S.
🔹 mission-critical legacy systems
🔹 most roles are contracts paying between ~$60–$70/hr
🔹 obviously the PowerBuilder dev pool is aging: many have 25+ years of experience. Recruiters must be struggling to find talent.
No, you won’t find a “junior PowerBuilder dev with 5 years experience” 🙃
Companies must be racing to modernize, but until they do, they need someone who can keep the old systems alive. It must be like being the last person who knows how to fix a cassette player. 😂
Have you ever worked on or around PowerBuilder? Still seeing demand?
Check out my article comparing PowerBuilder DataWindow with Salesforce Lightning DataTable: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/imagine-ultimate-lightning-data-table-swiss-army-knife-fernandez-kl4ec/
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