Technical Debt Jobs in the UK excluding London

Technical Debt
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Technical Debt skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Technical Debt over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 628 600 589
Rank change year-on-year -28 -11 -52
Permanent jobs citing Technical Debt 129 161 271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.27% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.28% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 104 81 192
10th Percentile £44,942 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £54,750 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +19.23% +20.93%
75th Percentile £75,772 £88,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £137,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.67% -

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,550 57,521 66,624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.98% 95.64% 94.06%
Number of salaries quoted 41,216 29,548 40,995
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

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
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Technical Debt in the UK excluding London

Technical Debt
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Debt in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Technical Debt in the UK excluding London

Technical Debt
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Debt within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +76 59 £64,250 +2.80% 13
North West +28 39 £65,000 -7.14% 6
West Midlands +11 26 £70,000 -12.50% 8
South East -11 26 £65,000 -13.33% 20
Midlands -11 26 £70,000 -12.50% 13
Yorkshire +96 18 £61,206 -0.07% 5
South West -28 11 £72,500 +11.54% 3
East of England +13 6 £55,000 -18.52% 4
North East - 2 £73,805 - 2
Isle of Man - 1 - - 1
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 (3.88%) SharePoint
1 5 (3.88%) Umbraco
2 3 (2.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 10 (7.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (3.88%) SAP IBP
2 5 (3.88%) SAP PP
2 5 (3.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 58 (44.96%) Azure
2 28 (21.71%) AWS
3 15 (11.63%) Power Platform
4 11 (8.53%) SaaS
5 9 (6.98%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (5.43%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (5.43%) GCP
7 6 (4.65%) PowerApps
8 5 (3.88%) Power Automate
9 3 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.33%) GitHub
10 1 (0.78%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.78%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.78%) Boomi
10 1 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.78%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.10%) Network Security
2 1 (0.78%) Firewall
2 1 (0.78%) LAN
2 1 (0.78%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.78%) VPN
2 1 (0.78%) WAN
2 1 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.08%) MySQL
2 9 (6.98%) Power BI
3 7 (5.43%) Metadata
3 7 (5.43%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.88%) Power Query
4 5 (3.88%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.10%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.33%) QualityStage
7 2 (1.55%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.78%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.78%) Redis
Development Applications
1 22 (17.05%) Git
2 12 (9.30%) GitLab
2 12 (9.30%) JIRA
3 10 (7.75%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.65%) NUnit
5 4 (3.10%) Subversion
6 1 (0.78%) Moq
6 1 (0.78%) Phabricator
6 1 (0.78%) Sourcetree
General
1 33 (25.58%) Social Skills
2 27 (20.93%) Finance
3 14 (10.85%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.75%) Legal
5 7 (5.43%) Manufacturing
5 7 (5.43%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.88%) Digital Healthcare
6 5 (3.88%) Games
7 4 (3.10%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.10%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.10%) Retail
8 3 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.33%) Wearables
9 2 (1.55%) Electronics
9 2 (1.55%) Marketing
9 2 (1.55%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.78%) Law
10 1 (0.78%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 38 (29.46%) Architect
2 34 (26.36%) Developer
3 33 (25.58%) Lead
4 26 (20.16%) Senior
4 26 (20.16%) Solutions Architect
5 15 (11.63%) Software Manager
6 14 (10.85%) Product Manager
7 12 (9.30%) .NET Developer
7 12 (9.30%) Lead Developer
7 12 (9.30%) Lead Product Manager
8 10 (7.75%) Engineering Manager
8 10 (7.75%) Software Engineering Manager
9 8 (6.20%) Senior Architect
9 8 (6.20%) Senior Solutions Architect
10 7 (5.43%) Data Architect
10 7 (5.43%) Lead .NET Developer
10 7 (5.43%) PHP Developer
11 6 (4.65%) Lead Architect
12 5 (3.88%) Development Manager
12 5 (3.88%) Software Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (19.38%) .NET
2 22 (17.05%) HTML
3 19 (14.73%) CSS
4 18 (13.95%) .NET Framework
5 11 (8.53%) Laravel
6 10 (7.75%) React
7 9 (6.98%) Web Services
8 7 (5.43%) ASP.NET
8 7 (5.43%) ASP.NET MVC
8 7 (5.43%) Tailwind CSS
8 7 (5.43%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 7 (5.43%) Vue
9 6 (4.65%) React Native
10 5 (3.88%) .NET Core
10 5 (3.88%) jQuery
10 5 (3.88%) LINQ
10 5 (3.88%) SAP TM
11 4 (3.10%) AngularJS
11 4 (3.10%) RESTful
11 4 (3.10%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.85%) Management Information System
2 13 (10.08%) Mobile App
3 7 (5.43%) Blog
3 7 (5.43%) Video\Live Streaming
4 6 (4.65%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.88%) FMCG
6 4 (3.10%) PMI
7 3 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.33%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.55%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.78%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.78%) IoT
9 1 (0.78%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.30%) Linux
2 8 (6.20%) VME
3 6 (4.65%) Windows
4 4 (3.10%) Android
4 4 (3.10%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.78%) Debian
5 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (59.69%) Agile
2 60 (46.51%) Roadmaps
3 51 (39.53%) Mentoring
4 30 (23.26%) Product Roadmap
5 29 (22.48%) Coaching
6 28 (21.71%) DevOps
7 24 (18.60%) CI/CD
8 23 (17.83%) Scrum
9 20 (15.50%) Product Strategy
9 20 (15.50%) Project Delivery
10 19 (14.73%) Computer Science
10 19 (14.73%) Product Management
11 17 (13.18%) Decision-Making
11 17 (13.18%) Software Engineering
12 16 (12.40%) Product Vision
12 16 (12.40%) Project Management
12 16 (12.40%) Test Automation
13 15 (11.63%) Business Strategy
13 15 (11.63%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (11.63%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 31 (24.03%) JavaScript
2 28 (21.71%) C#
3 17 (13.18%) SQL
4 13 (10.08%) PHP
5 9 (6.98%) TypeScript
6 8 (6.20%) COBOL
6 8 (6.20%) Micro Focus COBOL
7 7 (5.43%) Python
8 5 (3.88%) Ada
8 5 (3.88%) Formula Language
9 4 (3.10%) Java
10 3 (2.33%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.55%) C++
11 2 (1.55%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.55%) R
11 2 (1.55%) Scala
11 2 (1.55%) Tcl
12 1 (0.78%) Ruby
12 1 (0.78%) Rust
12 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (18.60%) Degree
2 12 (9.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (5.43%) AWS Certification
3 7 (5.43%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.10%) PMI Certification
4 4 (3.10%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (1.55%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.55%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.78%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.63%) QA
2 7 (5.43%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.43%) GDPR
3 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.78%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (3.10%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (1.55%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (6.20%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.10%) Jamf Pro
2 4 (3.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (3.10%) ZABBIX
3 2 (1.55%) Ansible
4 1 (0.78%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.78%) Grafana
4 1 (0.78%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.78%) Podman
4 1 (0.78%) Puppet
4 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (0.78%) Terraform
4 1 (0.78%) WSUS
Vendors
1 19 (14.73%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.20%) Micro Focus
3 7 (5.43%) SAP
4 4 (3.10%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.10%) Tanium
5 1 (0.78%) CheckPoint
5 1 (0.78%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.78%) iManage
5 1 (0.78%) Intapp
5 1 (0.78%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.78%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.78%) Veracode