Technical Debt Contracts in the UK excluding London

Technical Debt
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Technical Debt skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Technical Debt over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 353 374 387
Rank change year-on-year +21 +13 +2
Contract jobs citing Technical Debt 48 56 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.25% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.28% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 38 96
10th Percentile £416 £413 £423
25th Percentile £462 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.86% -8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £625 £590
% change year-on-year -18.00% +5.93% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - +120.00% -
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £62.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -60.00% +140.38% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Technical Debt falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 +31 20 £600 +6.67% 5
North West +30 16 £613 - 2
Scotland +47 8 £450 -8.91%
East Midlands +10 8 £435 +2.35% 6
Midlands +10 8 £435 -12.21% 12
South East +6 7 £513 -17.84% 18
Yorkshire +13 4 £600 +6.67% 2
South West +1 4 £488 +14.71% 4
East of England +3 1 - - 7
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 7 (14.58%) Confluence
2 5 (10.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (8.33%) CMS
4 1 (2.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (12.50%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.08%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 6 (12.50%) Payment Gateway
1 6 (12.50%) Temenos T24
2 1 (2.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 19 (39.58%) AWS
1 19 (39.58%) Azure
2 7 (14.58%) Kong
3 6 (12.50%) Apigee
4 5 (10.42%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (6.25%) SaaS
6 2 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (4.17%) GCP
6 2 (4.17%) NuGet
6 2 (4.17%) OpenShift
6 2 (4.17%) Serverless
6 2 (4.17%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (2.08%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.08%) Lucidchart
7 1 (2.08%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.08%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.58%) MongoDB
2 6 (12.50%) OLAP
2 6 (12.50%) OLTP
3 5 (10.42%) Oracle OLAP
4 4 (8.33%) Metadata
5 3 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (4.17%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (14.58%) JIRA
2 2 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.08%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.08%) Cypress.io
General
1 17 (35.42%) Finance
2 15 (31.25%) Banking
3 10 (20.83%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (8.33%) Publishing
4 4 (8.33%) Social Skills
5 2 (4.17%) Retail
5 2 (4.17%) Tech for Good
6 1 (2.08%) Games
6 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (50.00%) Architect
2 16 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
3 9 (18.75%) Senior
4 6 (12.50%) AWS Architect
5 5 (10.42%) Designer
5 5 (10.42%) Senior Designer
5 5 (10.42%) Telephony Architect
6 4 (8.33%) Content Designer
6 4 (8.33%) Senior Content Designer
7 3 (6.25%) Developer
7 3 (6.25%) Lead
7 3 (6.25%) Technical Leader
8 2 (4.17%) Analyst
8 2 (4.17%) Java Developer
8 2 (4.17%) Product Manager
8 2 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Software Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Technical Manager
8 2 (4.17%) Technical Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.83%) Spring
1 10 (20.83%) Spring Boot
2 7 (14.58%) Kafka
3 6 (12.50%) Apache Camel
3 6 (12.50%) IBM Integration Bus
3 6 (12.50%) J2EE
3 6 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
3 6 (12.50%) SOAP
3 6 (12.50%) Spring Integration
3 6 (12.50%) Web Services
4 3 (6.25%) .NET
4 3 (6.25%) REST
5 2 (4.17%) AWS CDK
5 2 (4.17%) CSS
5 2 (4.17%) HTML
5 2 (4.17%) Node.js
5 2 (4.17%) React
5 2 (4.17%) Spring MVC
5 2 (4.17%) Spring Web Flow
5 2 (4.17%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 6 (12.50%) DataPower
2 4 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.08%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.17%) Windows
2 1 (2.08%) Linux
2 1 (2.08%) Windows 10
2 1 (2.08%) Windows 7
2 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (37.50%) Microservices
2 17 (35.42%) Enterprise Architecture
3 16 (33.33%) DevOps
3 16 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 13 (27.08%) Agile
4 13 (27.08%) Business Strategy
5 11 (22.92%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (18.75%) IT Strategy
6 9 (18.75%) Technology Strategy
7 8 (16.67%) CI/CD
7 8 (16.67%) Migration
7 8 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
8 7 (14.58%) Data Transformation
8 7 (14.58%) ETL
8 7 (14.58%) Event-Driven
8 7 (14.58%) OO
8 7 (14.58%) Risk Management
8 7 (14.58%) TOGAF
9 6 (12.50%) Data Privacy
9 6 (12.50%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 10 (20.83%) Java
2 6 (12.50%) SQL
3 4 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 3 (6.25%) C#
5 2 (4.17%) Go
5 2 (4.17%) Python
6 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (4.17%) Degree
1 2 (4.17%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.08%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.08%) DV Cleared
2 1 (2.08%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.08%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.08%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (8.33%) Docker
2 1 (2.08%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (2.08%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.08%) XenApp
2 1 (2.08%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 6 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.25%) Grafana
4 2 (4.17%) Terraform
5 1 (2.08%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.08%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (12.50%) IBM
1 6 (12.50%) TSYS
2 5 (10.42%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.42%) Oracle
3 4 (8.33%) MuleSoft
4 2 (4.17%) Mitel
4 2 (4.17%) SAP
4 2 (4.17%) Sparx
5 1 (2.08%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (2.08%) Citrix
5 1 (2.08%) Ivanti
5 1 (2.08%) Splunk