Technical Debt Contracts in Manchester

Technical Debt
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 114 130
Rank change year-on-year +28 +16 -38
Contract jobs citing Technical Debt 12 1 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.80% 0.053% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.058% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 12
10th Percentile - - £513
25th Percentile £525 - £555
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £588
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.68%
75th Percentile £713 - £644
90th Percentile £738 - £649
North West median daily rate £563 - £638
% change year-on-year - - +13.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,310 1,723 2,305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.22% 91.80% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 891 1,266 1,815
10th Percentile £315 £315 £263
25th Percentile £410 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £493
Median % change year-on-year - +1.52% +9.44%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £578
90th Percentile £694 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 57 51
10th Percentile £12.43 £16.85 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £25.10 £37.30 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.72% +140.65% -3.13%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £24.38
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £33.75
North West median hourly rate £21.56 £35.50 £20.75
% change year-on-year -39.28% +71.13% +12.14%

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Debt in Manchester

Technical Debt
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Debt in Manchester

Technical Debt
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Debt in Manchester over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Debt in Manchester

Technical Debt
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
General
1 4 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Architect
1 5 (41.67%) Solutions Architect
2 4 (33.33%) Site Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Telephony Architect
3 3 (25.00%) Senior
4 2 (16.67%) Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Voice Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Node.js
2 1 (8.33%) CSS
2 1 (8.33%) CSS3
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) React
2 1 (8.33%) RESTful
2 1 (8.33%) Sass
2 1 (8.33%) Spring
2 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (8.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Migration
2 5 (41.67%) Budgeting
2 5 (41.67%) Business Strategy
2 5 (41.67%) Data Privacy
2 5 (41.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 4 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 4 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (25.00%) Agile
4 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (25.00%) IT Strategy
4 3 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
5 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (16.67%) Cost Management
5 2 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
5 2 (16.67%) Identity Management
5 2 (16.67%) Kalman Filter
5 2 (16.67%) Microservices
5 2 (16.67%) Mob Programming
5 2 (16.67%) Pair Programming
5 2 (16.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (8.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (8.33%) Mitel