Technical Debt Contracts in England

Technical Debt
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Technical Debt skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Technical Debt over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 457 519 526
Rank change year-on-year +62 +7 -21
Contract jobs citing Technical Debt 85 134 261
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.27% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.29% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 92 175
10th Percentile £398 £428 £450
25th Percentile £482 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £706 £713 £688
90th Percentile £928 £749 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £638 £607
% change year-on-year -17.65% +4.98% +10.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile £24.34 £54.25 £61.86
25th Percentile £24.59 £56.88 £69.34
Median hourly rate £25.00 £62.50 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% -19.35% -
75th Percentile - £66.88 £80.13
90th Percentile - £68.75 £80.35
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £62.50 £77.50
% change year-on-year -60.00% -19.35% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Technical Debt is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,193 45,529 64,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.56% 90.24% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,105 31,969 45,783
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,246 1,592 1,771
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £37.50 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +53.06% +2.08%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.42% +49.20% -

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Technical Debt as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Debt in England

Technical Debt
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Debt in England.

Daily rate trend for Technical Debt in England

Technical Debt
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Debt in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Debt in England

Technical Debt
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Debt in England.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Debt in England

Technical Debt
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Debt within the England region over the 6 months to 30 April 2024. 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
London +63 42 £600 -11.11% 25
North of England +48 20 £575 +6.98% 13
North West +36 17 £563 - 5
South East +12 7 £556 -20.54% 18
Midlands +27 6 £419 -15.44% 9
South West +3 5 £488 +14.71% 3
East Midlands +19 4 £419 -20.19% 4
Yorkshire +26 3 £600 +14.29% 5
West Midlands +20 1 £750 +60.94% 5
East of England +9 1 - - 8
Technical Debt
UK

Technical Debt
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (12.94%) Confluence
2 5 (5.88%) Apache Spark
3 4 (4.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (3.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (1.18%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.18%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.18%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (4.71%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.18%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (4.71%) Temenos T24
2 3 (3.53%) Shopify
3 1 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 33 (38.82%) AWS
2 28 (32.94%) Azure
3 7 (8.24%) SaaS
4 6 (7.06%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (7.06%) GCP
5 5 (5.88%) Entra ID
5 5 (5.88%) Kong
5 5 (5.88%) Power Platform
6 4 (4.71%) Apigee
6 4 (4.71%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (4.71%) GitHub
6 4 (4.71%) NuGet
6 4 (4.71%) Serverless
7 3 (3.53%) Amazon Cognito
7 3 (3.53%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (3.53%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (3.53%) BigCommerce
7 3 (3.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (2.35%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (1.18%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.06%) Firewall
2 4 (4.71%) MPLS
3 3 (3.53%) DNS
3 3 (3.53%) VoIP
3 3 (3.53%) VPN
4 1 (1.18%) Internet
4 1 (1.18%) LAN
4 1 (1.18%) NetScaler
4 1 (1.18%) WAN
4 1 (1.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.41%) Big Data
2 6 (7.06%) MongoDB
3 5 (5.88%) Apache Hive
3 5 (5.88%) Impala
3 5 (5.88%) NoSQL
3 5 (5.88%) Power BI
3 5 (5.88%) Tableau
4 4 (4.71%) MySQL
4 4 (4.71%) OLAP
4 4 (4.71%) OLTP
4 4 (4.71%) Oracle OLAP
5 2 (2.35%) Data Mining
5 2 (2.35%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.18%) SAP HANA
6 1 (1.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (15.29%) JIRA
2 3 (3.53%) Git
2 3 (3.53%) Maven
3 2 (2.35%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.35%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.18%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.18%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.18%) GitLab
4 1 (1.18%) Jasmine
4 1 (1.18%) PostCSS
4 1 (1.18%) Selenium
4 1 (1.18%) Storybook
General
1 25 (29.41%) Finance
2 12 (14.12%) Social Skills
3 11 (12.94%) Banking
3 11 (12.94%) Public Sector
3 11 (12.94%) Retail
4 5 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
4 5 (5.88%) Tech for Good
5 4 (4.71%) Games
5 4 (4.71%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.53%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.53%) Marketing
7 2 (2.35%) Police
8 1 (1.18%) Front Office
8 1 (1.18%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.18%) Spanish Language
8 1 (1.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (36.47%) Architect
2 18 (21.18%) Senior
3 15 (17.65%) Solutions Architect
4 12 (14.12%) AWS Architect
5 8 (9.41%) Lead
6 7 (8.24%) Technical Leader
7 6 (7.06%) Developer
8 5 (5.88%) AWS Solution Architect
8 5 (5.88%) Product Manager
8 5 (5.88%) Software Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) Telephony Architect
9 4 (4.71%) Analyst
9 4 (4.71%) Senior Developer
9 4 (4.71%) Senior Software Engineer
9 4 (4.71%) Site Engineer
9 4 (4.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 3 (3.53%) Delivery Manager
10 3 (3.53%) Full Stack Engineer
10 3 (3.53%) Service Delivery Manager
10 3 (3.53%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.76%) React
2 9 (10.59%) .NET
2 9 (10.59%) Spring
3 8 (9.41%) SAML
4 7 (8.24%) CSS
4 7 (8.24%) J2EE
4 7 (8.24%) Node.js
4 7 (8.24%) Web Services
5 6 (7.06%) Spring Boot
6 5 (5.88%) AngularJS
6 5 (5.88%) Kafka
6 5 (5.88%) PySpark
7 4 (4.71%) Apache Camel
7 4 (4.71%) IBM Integration Bus
7 4 (4.71%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (4.71%) Sass
7 4 (4.71%) SOAP
7 4 (4.71%) Spring Integration
8 3 (3.53%) jQuery
8 3 (3.53%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.06%) Management Information System
2 5 (5.88%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.88%) Public Cloud
3 4 (4.71%) DataPower
4 3 (3.53%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.53%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (2.35%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.35%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.35%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.35%) Tandem
6 1 (1.18%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.18%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.59%) Windows
2 8 (9.41%) Linux
3 3 (3.53%) Unix
4 2 (2.35%) Windows 10
4 2 (2.35%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.35%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (2.35%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.18%) Android
5 1 (1.18%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.18%) Windows 7
5 1 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (30.59%) Agile
2 22 (25.88%) DevOps
3 18 (21.18%) CI/CD
4 16 (18.82%) Microservices
5 14 (16.47%) Roadmaps
6 12 (14.12%) Test Automation
7 11 (12.94%) Full Stack Development
7 11 (12.94%) Risk Management
7 11 (12.94%) Software Engineering
8 10 (11.76%) Business Case
8 10 (11.76%) Migration
9 9 (10.59%) Enterprise Architecture
9 9 (10.59%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (10.59%) TDD
10 8 (9.41%) Analytics
10 8 (9.41%) Business Strategy
10 8 (9.41%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (9.41%) Technical Leadership
10 8 (9.41%) Technology Strategy
11 7 (8.24%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 13 (15.29%) Java
1 13 (15.29%) JavaScript
2 11 (12.94%) Python
3 9 (10.59%) C#
3 9 (10.59%) Go
4 8 (9.41%) SQL
5 6 (7.06%) TypeScript
6 5 (5.88%) Scala
7 4 (4.71%) C++
8 2 (2.35%) C
8 2 (2.35%) PHP
8 2 (2.35%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.18%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.18%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.59%) Degree
3 8 (9.41%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.53%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.35%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.35%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.59%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.53%) QA
2 3 (3.53%) SLA
3 1 (1.18%) GRC
3 1 (1.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (8.24%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.53%) Firmware
3 2 (2.35%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (2.35%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (2.35%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.35%) XenApp
3 2 (2.35%) XenDesktop
4 1 (1.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (11.76%) Terraform
2 7 (8.24%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.24%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (3.53%) Ansible
3 3 (3.53%) Consul
3 3 (3.53%) Packer
3 3 (3.53%) Progress Chef
3 3 (3.53%) Puppet
4 2 (2.35%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (1.18%) Bugsnag
5 1 (1.18%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.06%) SAP
3 5 (5.88%) Oracle
3 5 (5.88%) ServiceNow
3 5 (5.88%) Talend
4 4 (4.71%) Cisco
4 4 (4.71%) IBM
4 4 (4.71%) TSYS
5 3 (3.53%) Adobe
5 3 (3.53%) Dell
5 3 (3.53%) Google
5 3 (3.53%) Intel
5 3 (3.53%) MuleSoft
5 3 (3.53%) Okta
5 3 (3.53%) Polycom
5 3 (3.53%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.53%) Sitecore
6 2 (2.35%) Mitel
6 2 (2.35%) Sparx
6 2 (2.35%) VMware