Technical Debt Contracts in the Thames Valley

Technical Debt
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 135 141 161
Rank change year-on-year +6 +20 -22
Contract jobs citing Technical Debt 6 7 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.22% 0.24% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.26% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 2
10th Percentile £484 £614 £505
25th Percentile £488 £656 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £700 £550
Median % change year-on-year -26.79% +27.27% +12.82%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £613
90th Percentile £630 £705 £635
South East median daily rate £556 £700 £575
% change year-on-year -20.54% +21.74% +21.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,335 2,654 3,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.00% 91.45% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,309 1,852 2,114
10th Percentile £213 £323 £225
25th Percentile £370 £413 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £484
Median % change year-on-year - +3.31% +7.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.91% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 62 87
10th Percentile £14.42 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.86 £11.78
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £24.38
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £66.75
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.99
% change year-on-year -5.00% +127.43% -20.05%

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Debt in the Thames Valley

Technical Debt
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Debt in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Technical Debt in the Thames Valley

Technical Debt
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Debt in the Thames Valley

Technical Debt
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 2 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
Berkshire -12 6 £513 -26.79% 1
Technical Debt
South East

Technical Debt
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (16.67%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) NuGet
4 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Lead
1 3 (50.00%) Technical Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Service Operations Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Business Case
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
3 1 (16.67%) ITSM
3 1 (16.67%) Regression Testing
3 1 (16.67%) SDLC
3 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Service Management
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C#
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Sparx