Technical Debt Contracts in the UK excluding London

Technical Debt
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 345 397 411
Rank change year-on-year +52 +14 -36
Contract jobs citing Technical Debt 43 56 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.24% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.27% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 40 79
10th Percentile £411 £358 £416
25th Percentile £481 £459 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £650
90th Percentile £700 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £638 £600
% change year-on-year -17.65% +6.25% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £62.50 £77.00
% change year-on-year -60.00% -18.83% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,300 21,032 27,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.50% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,314 14,532 18,929
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 1,281 1,348
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.44 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.00 £47.05
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.92
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Technical Debt as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Debt in the UK excluding London

Technical Debt
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Debt in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Technical Debt in the UK excluding London

Technical Debt
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Debt in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Debt in the UK excluding London

Technical Debt
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Debt in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Debt in the UK excluding London

Technical Debt
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
North of England +38 21 £575 +6.98% 13
North West +39 18 £563 - 5
Scotland +40 7 £450 -7.83% 1
South East +12 7 £556 -14.42% 22
South West +11 4 £488 +21.88% 3
East Midlands +20 3 £419 -1.41% 5
Yorkshire +20 3 £600 +14.29% 5
Midlands +18 3 £419 -10.09% 13
East of England +6 1 - - 4
Technical Debt
UK

Technical Debt
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (11.63%) Confluence
2 4 (9.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (6.98%) CMS
4 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (9.30%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.33%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (9.30%) Temenos T24
2 1 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 13 (30.23%) AWS
2 11 (25.58%) Azure
3 5 (11.63%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (9.30%) Apigee
4 4 (9.30%) Kong
4 4 (9.30%) SaaS
5 2 (4.65%) GCP
5 2 (4.65%) NuGet
5 2 (4.65%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.33%) Lucidchart
6 1 (2.33%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.33%) PaaS
6 1 (2.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.33%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.95%) MongoDB
2 4 (9.30%) OLAP
2 4 (9.30%) OLTP
2 4 (9.30%) Oracle OLAP
3 3 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.65%) Metadata
4 2 (4.65%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (13.95%) JIRA
2 2 (4.65%) Artifactory
2 2 (4.65%) GitLab
3 1 (2.33%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.33%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (18.60%) Finance
2 7 (16.28%) Social Skills
3 6 (13.95%) Banking
4 5 (11.63%) Public Sector
5 4 (9.30%) Retail
6 2 (4.65%) Games
6 2 (4.65%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.65%) Publishing
6 2 (4.65%) Tech for Good
7 1 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (34.88%) Architect
2 9 (20.93%) Senior
3 8 (18.60%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (11.63%) Telephony Architect
5 4 (9.30%) AWS Architect
5 4 (9.30%) Developer
5 4 (9.30%) Site Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Designer
6 3 (6.98%) Lead
6 3 (6.98%) Product Manager
6 3 (6.98%) Senior Designer
6 3 (6.98%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Software Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Technical Leader
7 2 (4.65%) Analyst
7 2 (4.65%) Java Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Technical Manager
7 2 (4.65%) Technical Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.95%) Spring
1 6 (13.95%) Spring Boot
2 5 (11.63%) Kafka
3 4 (9.30%) .NET
3 4 (9.30%) Apache Camel
3 4 (9.30%) IBM Integration Bus
3 4 (9.30%) J2EE
3 4 (9.30%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (9.30%) SOAP
3 4 (9.30%) Spring Integration
3 4 (9.30%) Web Services
4 3 (6.98%) Node.js
4 3 (6.98%) React
4 3 (6.98%) REST
5 2 (4.65%) CSS
5 2 (4.65%) HTML
6 1 (2.33%) ASP.NET
6 1 (2.33%) JSP
6 1 (2.33%) Middleware
6 1 (2.33%) Spring Web Flow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.30%) DataPower
2 2 (4.65%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.65%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.33%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.98%) Linux
1 3 (6.98%) Windows
2 1 (2.33%) Windows 10
2 1 (2.33%) Windows 7
2 1 (2.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (34.88%) DevOps
2 14 (32.56%) Agile
3 9 (20.93%) CI/CD
3 9 (20.93%) Enterprise Architecture
3 9 (20.93%) Microservices
3 9 (20.93%) Migration
3 9 (20.93%) Roadmaps
4 7 (16.28%) Business Strategy
5 6 (13.95%) Data Privacy
5 6 (13.95%) Full Stack Development
5 6 (13.95%) Pair Programming
5 6 (13.95%) Risk Management
5 6 (13.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 6 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (13.95%) Test Automation
6 5 (11.63%) Event-Driven
6 5 (11.63%) OO
6 5 (11.63%) Software Engineering
6 5 (11.63%) TDD
6 5 (11.63%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 7 (16.28%) Java
1 7 (16.28%) JavaScript
2 6 (13.95%) SQL
3 4 (9.30%) C#
4 3 (6.98%) Python
5 2 (4.65%) Go
6 1 (2.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (6.98%) Degree
1 3 (6.98%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (2.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (23.26%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.33%) QA
2 1 (2.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.33%) Docker
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (2.33%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (2.33%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (2.33%) XenApp
1 1 (2.33%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 5 (11.63%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.30%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (6.98%) Grafana
3 3 (6.98%) Terraform
4 2 (4.65%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (11.63%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.30%) IBM
2 4 (9.30%) Oracle
2 4 (9.30%) TSYS
3 3 (6.98%) MuleSoft
3 3 (6.98%) SAP
4 2 (4.65%) Mitel
4 2 (4.65%) Sparx
4 2 (4.65%) Splunk
5 1 (2.33%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (2.33%) Citrix
5 1 (2.33%) Ivanti
5 1 (2.33%) Pega