Technical Debt
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 713 579 557
Rank change year-on-year -134 -22 +45
Permanent jobs citing Technical Debt 183 443 910
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.42% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.44% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 156 205 456
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £66,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £105,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,625 £139,110 £105,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £80,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -18.75% +23.08% +18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Technical Debt as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Debt in the UK

Technical Debt
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Technical Debt.

Salary trend for Technical Debt in the UK

Technical Debt
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Debt over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Technical Debt in the UK

Technical Debt
Top 14 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England -59 180 £70,000 -9.68% 72
UK excluding London -39 121 £65,000 -18.75% 52
Work from Home 0 88 £73,805 -7.74% 49
London -31 58 £90,000 +5.88% 28
North of England +68 57 £66,000 -8.97% 14
North West +22 37 £65,000 -13.33% 6
West Midlands +19 22 £70,000 -12.50% 4
South East +13 22 £65,000 -13.33% 18
Midlands +1 22 £70,000 -12.50% 6
Yorkshire +98 18 £68,152 +9.04% 5
South West -8 14 £71,250 +9.62% 3
East of England +4 5 £63,750 -5.56% 9
North East - 2 £73,805 - 3
Isle of Man - 1 - - 1

Technical Debt
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (3.28%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.73%) Umbraco
3 4 (2.19%) CMS
3 4 (2.19%) Confluence
3 4 (2.19%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.55%) Drupal
4 1 (0.55%) IIS
4 1 (0.55%) Tornado
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Notion
Business Applications
1 18 (9.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.73%) Oracle General Ledger
2 5 (2.73%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 5 (2.73%) SAP IBP
2 5 (2.73%) SAP PP
2 5 (2.73%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.55%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 85 (46.45%) Azure
2 47 (25.68%) AWS
3 24 (13.11%) Power Platform
4 18 (9.84%) SaaS
5 15 (8.20%) Dynamics 365
6 9 (4.92%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (3.28%) GCP
8 6 (3.28%) PowerApps
9 5 (2.73%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.73%) IaaS
9 5 (2.73%) OCI
9 5 (2.73%) Power Automate
10 4 (2.19%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (2.19%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.19%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (2.19%) PaaS
10 4 (2.19%) Serverless
11 2 (1.09%) GitHub
11 2 (1.09%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.19%) Network Security
2 2 (1.09%) Firewall
3 1 (0.55%) Internet
3 1 (0.55%) LAN
3 1 (0.55%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.55%) VPN
3 1 (0.55%) WAN
3 1 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (13.11%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.01%) MySQL
3 10 (5.46%) NoSQL
3 10 (5.46%) Power BI
4 7 (3.83%) Metadata
5 5 (2.73%) Power Query
5 5 (2.73%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.73%) SAP BW
6 4 (2.19%) QualityStage
7 3 (1.64%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.09%) Redis
9 1 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.55%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.55%) Dremio
9 1 (0.55%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.55%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 30 (16.39%) Git
2 13 (7.10%) JIRA
3 12 (6.56%) GitLab
4 11 (6.01%) Jenkins
5 10 (5.46%) NUnit
6 4 (2.19%) MSTest
6 4 (2.19%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.09%) Moq
7 2 (1.09%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.55%) Gradle
8 1 (0.55%) Phabricator
8 1 (0.55%) Sourcetree
8 1 (0.55%) TestCafe
8 1 (0.55%) Vagrant
General
1 50 (27.32%) Social Skills
2 49 (26.78%) Finance
3 20 (10.93%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.01%) Legal
5 9 (4.92%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.37%) Retail
7 7 (3.83%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (3.83%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.73%) Back Office
8 5 (2.73%) Digital Healthcare
8 5 (2.73%) Front Office
8 5 (2.73%) Games
8 5 (2.73%) General Ledger
8 5 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.19%) Marketing
10 2 (1.09%) Electronics
10 2 (1.09%) Law
10 2 (1.09%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.55%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 52 (28.42%) Lead
2 48 (26.23%) Developer
3 46 (25.14%) Architect
4 33 (18.03%) Senior
5 31 (16.94%) Solutions Architect
6 22 (12.02%) Software Manager
7 21 (11.48%) .NET Developer
8 15 (8.20%) Engineering Manager
8 15 (8.20%) Lead Developer
9 14 (7.65%) Product Manager
10 12 (6.56%) Lead Product Manager
10 12 (6.56%) Software Engineer
11 11 (6.01%) Development Manager
11 11 (6.01%) Software Development Manager
11 11 (6.01%) Software Engineering Manager
12 10 (5.46%) Lead .NET Developer
12 10 (5.46%) Lead Architect
12 10 (5.46%) Senior Developer
13 9 (4.92%) .NET Software Engineer
13 9 (4.92%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (28.42%) .NET
2 35 (19.13%) .NET Framework
3 32 (17.49%) CSS
3 32 (17.49%) HTML
4 23 (12.57%) React
5 20 (10.93%) .NET Core
5 20 (10.93%) AngularJS
6 17 (9.29%) jQuery
7 15 (8.20%) XML
8 13 (7.10%) JSON
9 11 (6.01%) ASP.NET
9 11 (6.01%) Vue
10 10 (5.46%) Tailwind CSS
10 10 (5.46%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 10 (5.46%) Web Services
11 9 (4.92%) Laravel
11 9 (4.92%) React Native
12 8 (4.37%) Akka.NET
13 7 (3.83%) Node.js
13 7 (3.83%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.20%) Management Information System
2 14 (7.65%) Mobile App
3 11 (6.01%) Blog
4 10 (5.46%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.83%) Client/Server
5 7 (3.83%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.83%) PropTech
6 6 (3.28%) Video\Live Streaming
7 5 (2.73%) FMCG
7 5 (2.73%) Reinsurance
8 4 (2.19%) Hedge funds
8 4 (2.19%) PMI
8 4 (2.19%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.64%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.64%) IoT
9 3 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.64%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.55%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.46%) Linux
2 7 (3.83%) Windows
3 6 (3.28%) Android
3 6 (3.28%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.09%) VME
5 1 (0.55%) Debian
5 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (49.18%) Agile
2 72 (39.34%) Roadmaps
3 60 (32.79%) Mentoring
4 41 (22.40%) Scrum
4 41 (22.40%) Software Engineering
5 39 (21.31%) DevOps
6 33 (18.03%) Coaching
7 31 (16.94%) CI/CD
8 28 (15.30%) Continuous Improvement
8 28 (15.30%) Test Automation
9 26 (14.21%) Microservices
9 26 (14.21%) Product Roadmap
9 26 (14.21%) Project Delivery
10 24 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (13.11%) Product Strategy
11 22 (12.02%) Decision-Making
12 21 (11.48%) Product Management
13 20 (10.93%) MVC
13 20 (10.93%) Technology Roadmap
14 19 (10.38%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 56 (30.60%) C#
2 52 (28.42%) JavaScript
3 36 (19.67%) SQL
4 20 (10.93%) Python
5 18 (9.84%) T-SQL
6 15 (8.20%) Java
6 15 (8.20%) TypeScript
7 11 (6.01%) PHP
8 5 (2.73%) Ada
8 5 (2.73%) Formula Language
8 5 (2.73%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.19%) XPath
10 3 (1.64%) C++
11 2 (1.09%) COBOL
11 2 (1.09%) Go
11 2 (1.09%) Micro Focus COBOL
11 2 (1.09%) R
11 2 (1.09%) Ruby
11 2 (1.09%) Tcl
12 1 (0.55%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 25 (13.66%) Degree
2 12 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (4.37%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.28%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.73%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (2.19%) PMI Certification
6 4 (2.19%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.09%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.09%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.55%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.55%) MCSA
8 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (13.66%) QA
2 7 (3.83%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.83%) GDPR
3 5 (2.73%) GAAP
3 5 (2.73%) IFRS
4 1 (0.55%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (3.83%) Docker
2 4 (2.19%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.09%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.55%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 12 (6.56%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.73%) Ansible
3 4 (2.19%) Jamf Pro
3 4 (2.19%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (2.19%) Puppet
3 4 (2.19%) Terraform
3 4 (2.19%) ZABBIX
4 2 (1.09%) Grafana
5 1 (0.55%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.55%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.55%) Kibana
5 1 (0.55%) Podman
5 1 (0.55%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (0.55%) WSUS
Vendors
1 33 (18.03%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.10%) SAP
3 5 (2.73%) Oracle
3 5 (2.73%) PeopleSoft
4 4 (2.19%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.19%) Tanium
5 2 (1.09%) Micro Focus
6 1 (0.55%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.55%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.55%) iManage
6 1 (0.55%) Intapp
6 1 (0.55%) New Relic
6 1 (0.55%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.55%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.55%) Veracode