Technical Debt Contracts in the South East

Technical Debt
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 194 209 255
Rank change year-on-year +15 +46 -52
Contract jobs citing Technical Debt 7 10 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.13% 0.17% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.19% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 5
10th Percentile £484 £502 -
25th Percentile £492 £596 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £700 £575
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% +21.74% +21.05%
75th Percentile £638 - £613
90th Percentile £675 £703 £635
England median daily rate £550 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
England median hourly rate £25.00 £62.50 £77.50
% change year-on-year -60.00% -19.35% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,709 5,162 6,946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.82% 89.29% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,741 3,578 4,703
10th Percentile £243 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 435 221 287
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.25 £12.21
25th Percentile £18.26 £23.00 £15.56
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -18.18%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.79 £63.45
England median hourly rate £35.96 £37.50 £24.50
% change year-on-year -4.12% +53.06% +2.08%

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Technical Debt as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Debt in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Debt in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Technical Debt in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Debt in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Debt in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Debt in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Debt in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Thames Valley -1 6 £513 -26.79% 2
Berkshire -12 6 £513 -26.79%
Surrey +11 1 £700 +50.54% 4
Technical Debt
England

Technical Debt
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (14.29%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (14.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) NuGet
4 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SAP HANA
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Lead
1 3 (42.86%) Technical Leader
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Product Manager
2 1 (14.29%) SAP Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Service Operations Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
2 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
2 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (14.29%) Entity Framework
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) HTML5
2 1 (14.29%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Business Case
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Process Improvement
2 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
3 2 (28.57%) SDLC
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (14.29%) ERP
4 1 (14.29%) ITSM
4 1 (14.29%) MVC
4 1 (14.29%) Regression Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
4 1 (14.29%) Scrum
4 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Service Management
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) Sparx