Technical Debt Contracts with Work from Home Options

Technical Debt
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 315 411 458
Rank change year-on-year +96 +47 -35
Contract jobs citing Technical Debt 32 56 163
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.21% 0.22% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.25% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 41 122
10th Percentile £459 £458 £446
25th Percentile £489 £489 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.20% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £675
90th Percentile £919 £743 £738
UK median daily rate £520 £638 £600
% change year-on-year -18.43% +6.25% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,282 22,550 40,272
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.98% 89.75% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,890 15,929 29,247
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 522 532
10th Percentile £15.05 £18.63 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £69.31 £55.38
90th Percentile £75.18 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Technical Debt
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Technical Debt as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Technical Debt trend for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Debt
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Technical Debt.

Technical Debt daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Debt
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Technical Debt over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Technical Debt daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Debt
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (21.88%) Confluence
2 3 (9.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (6.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (3.13%) CMS
4 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
4 1 (3.13%) WebSphere
4 1 (3.13%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (9.38%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.13%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Temenos T24
2 2 (6.25%) Shopify
3 1 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (3.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 10 (31.25%) AWS
1 10 (31.25%) Azure
2 3 (9.38%) Apigee
2 3 (9.38%) GitHub
2 3 (9.38%) Kong
3 2 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (6.25%) BigCommerce
3 2 (6.25%) SaaS
3 2 (6.25%) Serverless
3 2 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Datadog
4 1 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.13%) Figma
4 1 (3.13%) Lucidchart
4 1 (3.13%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.13%) PaaS
4 1 (3.13%) Sentry
4 1 (3.13%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) Firewall
1 1 (3.13%) LAN
1 1 (3.13%) MPLS
1 1 (3.13%) WAN
1 1 (3.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) MongoDB
1 3 (9.38%) MySQL
1 3 (9.38%) OLAP
1 3 (9.38%) OLTP
1 3 (9.38%) Oracle OLAP
2 2 (6.25%) Big Data
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (3.13%) Data Mining
3 1 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.13%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 9 (28.13%) JIRA
2 2 (6.25%) Cypress.io
2 2 (6.25%) Maven
3 1 (3.13%) Git
3 1 (3.13%) GitLab
3 1 (3.13%) Jasmine
3 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.13%) PostCSS
3 1 (3.13%) Storybook
General
1 14 (43.75%) Finance
2 6 (18.75%) Public Sector
3 5 (15.63%) Banking
3 5 (15.63%) Retail
3 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
4 3 (9.38%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (6.25%) Marketing
6 1 (3.13%) Games
6 1 (3.13%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.13%) Law
6 1 (3.13%) Police
Job Titles
1 14 (43.75%) Architect
2 6 (18.75%) Senior
2 6 (18.75%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (15.63%) AWS Architect
4 3 (9.38%) Developer
4 3 (9.38%) Lead
4 3 (9.38%) Technical Leader
5 2 (6.25%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Head of Infrastructure
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Delivery Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Service Delivery Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Service Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Service Delivery Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Service Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Telephony Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Test Manager
6 1 (3.13%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.13%) Service Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.75%) Spring
2 5 (15.63%) J2EE
2 5 (15.63%) Web Services
3 4 (12.50%) CSS
3 4 (12.50%) Spring Boot
4 3 (9.38%) AngularJS
4 3 (9.38%) Apache Camel
4 3 (9.38%) IBM Integration Bus
4 3 (9.38%) Kafka
4 3 (9.38%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (9.38%) REST
4 3 (9.38%) SOAP
4 3 (9.38%) Spring Integration
4 3 (9.38%) Spring MVC
5 2 (6.25%) HTML
5 2 (6.25%) jQuery
5 2 (6.25%) Middleware
5 2 (6.25%) React
5 2 (6.25%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 2 (6.25%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) DataPower
1 3 (9.38%) Management Information System
1 3 (9.38%) Public Cloud
2 2 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.13%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.13%) NHS
3 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.13%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.63%) Linux
2 3 (9.38%) Windows
3 2 (6.25%) Unix
4 1 (3.13%) Android
4 1 (3.13%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (43.75%) Agile
2 8 (25.00%) DevOps
2 8 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 7 (21.88%) Risk Management
4 6 (18.75%) Microservices
4 6 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (15.63%) Analytics
5 5 (15.63%) Artificial Intelligence
5 5 (15.63%) Data Protection
5 5 (15.63%) Data Science
5 5 (15.63%) Enterprise Architecture
5 5 (15.63%) Machine Learning
5 5 (15.63%) Migration
5 5 (15.63%) MVC
5 5 (15.63%) Technology Strategy
6 4 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 4 (12.50%) Design Patterns
6 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (12.50%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.00%) Java
2 7 (21.88%) JavaScript
3 3 (9.38%) Python
4 2 (6.25%) Go
4 2 (6.25%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.13%) C
5 1 (3.13%) C++
5 1 (3.13%) PHP
5 1 (3.13%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) SC Cleared
1 5 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (6.25%) Degree
3 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.13%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) Accessibility
2 4 (12.50%) QA
3 2 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Active Directory
1 2 (6.25%) Docker
1 2 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (9.38%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (6.25%) Ansible
2 2 (6.25%) Consul
2 2 (6.25%) Packer
2 2 (6.25%) Progress Chef
2 2 (6.25%) Puppet
2 2 (6.25%) Red Hat Satellite
2 2 (6.25%) Terraform
3 1 (3.13%) Bugsnag
3 1 (3.13%) Grafana
3 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.38%) IBM
2 3 (9.38%) Oracle
2 3 (9.38%) SAP
2 3 (9.38%) TSYS
3 2 (6.25%) Adobe
3 2 (6.25%) Dell
3 2 (6.25%) Google
3 2 (6.25%) Intel
3 2 (6.25%) Red Hat
3 2 (6.25%) Salesforce
3 2 (6.25%) Sitecore
3 2 (6.25%) Sparx
3 2 (6.25%) VMware
4 1 (3.13%) Aruba
4 1 (3.13%) Cisco
4 1 (3.13%) Mitel
4 1 (3.13%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.13%) Pega
4 1 (3.13%) Riverbed