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 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 704 602 543
Rank change year-on-year -102 -59 +62
Permanent jobs citing Technical Debt 200 412 950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.41% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.43% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 165 193 463
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.67% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £99,000 £139,282 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £77,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -16.13% +19.23% +20.93%

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 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
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 9 May 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 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
England -32 197 £70,000 -6.67% 79
UK excluding London -28 129 £65,000 -16.13% 56
Work from Home +12 101 £70,000 -9.68% 47
London -33 67 £90,000 +5.88% 29
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% 12
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
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 (3.00%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.50%) Umbraco
3 4 (2.00%) CMS
3 4 (2.00%) Confluence
3 4 (2.00%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.50%) Drupal
4 1 (0.50%) IIS
4 1 (0.50%) Tornado
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Notion
Business Applications
1 19 (9.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (3.00%) Oracle General Ledger
2 6 (3.00%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 5 (2.50%) SAP IBP
3 5 (2.50%) SAP PP
3 5 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.50%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 90 (45.00%) Azure
2 56 (28.00%) AWS
3 24 (12.00%) Power Platform
4 16 (8.00%) Dynamics 365
4 16 (8.00%) SaaS
5 10 (5.00%) Amazon S3
6 9 (4.50%) Amazon SQS
6 9 (4.50%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (4.50%) AWS Step Functions
6 9 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (4.50%) Serverless
7 7 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (3.50%) GCP
8 6 (3.00%) GitHub
8 6 (3.00%) OCI
8 6 (3.00%) PowerApps
9 5 (2.50%) IaaS
9 5 (2.50%) PaaS
9 5 (2.50%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.00%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.00%) Network Security
2 2 (1.00%) Firewall
3 1 (0.50%) Internet
3 1 (0.50%) LAN
3 1 (0.50%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.50%) VPN
3 1 (0.50%) WAN
3 1 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (12.00%) SQL Server
2 16 (8.00%) NoSQL
3 14 (7.00%) MySQL
4 10 (5.00%) Power BI
5 7 (3.50%) Metadata
5 7 (3.50%) Relational Database
6 6 (3.00%) SAP BW
7 5 (2.50%) Power Query
8 3 (1.50%) MariaDB
8 3 (1.50%) QualityStage
9 2 (1.00%) Redis
10 1 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.50%) Dremio
10 1 (0.50%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 39 (19.50%) Git
2 14 (7.00%) JIRA
3 12 (6.00%) GitLab
4 11 (5.50%) Jenkins
5 10 (5.00%) NUnit
6 4 (2.00%) MSTest
6 4 (2.00%) Subversion
6 4 (2.00%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.00%) Moq
7 2 (1.00%) Selenium
7 2 (1.00%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.50%) Gradle
8 1 (0.50%) Phabricator
8 1 (0.50%) Sourcetree
8 1 (0.50%) Vagrant
General
1 52 (26.00%) Social Skills
2 51 (25.50%) Finance
3 22 (11.00%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.00%) Front Office
4 10 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (5.00%) Legal
4 10 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.00%) Law
6 7 (3.50%) Manufacturing
6 7 (3.50%) Retail
7 6 (3.00%) Back Office
7 6 (3.00%) Games
7 6 (3.00%) General Ledger
8 5 (2.50%) Digital Healthcare
8 5 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.00%) Marketing
10 3 (1.50%) Wearables
11 2 (1.00%) Electronics
11 2 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 57 (28.50%) Lead
2 49 (24.50%) Architect
3 48 (24.00%) Developer
4 44 (22.00%) Senior
5 34 (17.00%) Solutions Architect
6 22 (11.00%) .NET Developer
6 22 (11.00%) Software Manager
7 18 (9.00%) Engineering Manager
8 17 (8.50%) Software Engineer
9 16 (8.00%) Lead Developer
10 14 (7.00%) Product Manager
11 12 (6.00%) Lead Product Manager
12 11 (5.50%) Development Manager
12 11 (5.50%) Lead .NET Developer
12 11 (5.50%) Software Development Manager
12 11 (5.50%) Software Engineering Manager
13 9 (4.50%) .NET Software Engineer
13 9 (4.50%) Lead Architect
13 9 (4.50%) Lead Software Engineer
13 9 (4.50%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (31.00%) .NET
2 41 (20.50%) .NET Framework
3 34 (17.00%) HTML
4 31 (15.50%) CSS
5 26 (13.00%) React
6 25 (12.50%) .NET Core
7 20 (10.00%) AngularJS
8 17 (8.50%) jQuery
9 15 (7.50%) XML
10 14 (7.00%) JSON
11 13 (6.50%) Web Services
12 11 (5.50%) ASP.NET
12 11 (5.50%) Laravel
12 11 (5.50%) Vue
13 9 (4.50%) REST
13 9 (4.50%) Unity DI Container
14 8 (4.00%) Akka.NET
15 7 (3.50%) ASP.NET MVC
15 7 (3.50%) Tailwind CSS
15 7 (3.50%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.50%) Management Information System
2 16 (8.00%) Blog
3 13 (6.50%) Mobile App
4 11 (5.50%) Private Cloud
5 10 (5.00%) Onboarding
6 9 (4.50%) Hedge funds
7 8 (4.00%) Legacy Applications
7 8 (4.00%) Product Ownership
8 7 (3.50%) Client/Server
8 7 (3.50%) PropTech
8 7 (3.50%) Video\Live Streaming
9 6 (3.00%) N-Tier
9 6 (3.00%) Reinsurance
10 5 (2.50%) Derivative
10 5 (2.50%) FMCG
11 4 (2.00%) PMI
12 3 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.50%) Cloud Native
12 3 (1.50%) IoT
12 3 (1.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.50%) Linux
2 8 (4.00%) VME
3 7 (3.50%) Windows
4 5 (2.50%) Android
4 5 (2.50%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.50%) Debian
5 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (55.00%) Agile
2 78 (39.00%) Roadmaps
3 66 (33.00%) Mentoring
4 48 (24.00%) Scrum
4 48 (24.00%) Software Engineering
5 45 (22.50%) Coaching
6 39 (19.50%) DevOps
7 36 (18.00%) Test Automation
8 32 (16.00%) CI/CD
8 32 (16.00%) Microservices
8 32 (16.00%) Product Roadmap
9 30 (15.00%) Decision-Making
10 28 (14.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 27 (13.50%) Design Patterns
11 27 (13.50%) Project Delivery
12 26 (13.00%) TDD
13 25 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
14 22 (11.00%) OOP
15 21 (10.50%) Enterprise Architecture
15 21 (10.50%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 63 (31.50%) C#
2 55 (27.50%) JavaScript
3 44 (22.00%) SQL
4 24 (12.00%) Java
4 24 (12.00%) Python
5 20 (10.00%) TypeScript
6 18 (9.00%) T-SQL
7 13 (6.50%) PHP
8 8 (4.00%) COBOL
8 8 (4.00%) Micro Focus COBOL
9 5 (2.50%) Ada
9 5 (2.50%) Formula Language
9 5 (2.50%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.00%) XPath
11 3 (1.50%) C++
12 2 (1.00%) Go
12 2 (1.00%) R
12 2 (1.00%) Ruby
12 2 (1.00%) Scala
12 2 (1.00%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 29 (14.50%) Degree
2 14 (7.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (4.50%) AWS Certification
4 7 (3.50%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.00%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (2.00%) PMI Certification
6 4 (2.00%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.00%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.00%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.50%) MCSA
8 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (14.50%) QA
2 7 (3.50%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.50%) GDPR
3 6 (3.00%) GAAP
3 6 (3.00%) IFRS
4 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (4.00%) Docker
2 4 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.50%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 11 (5.50%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.50%) Ansible
3 4 (2.00%) Jamf Pro
3 4 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (2.00%) ZABBIX
4 3 (1.50%) Puppet
4 3 (1.50%) Terraform
5 2 (1.00%) Grafana
6 1 (0.50%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.50%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.50%) Kibana
6 1 (0.50%) Podman
6 1 (0.50%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 36 (18.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.00%) SAP
3 8 (4.00%) Micro Focus
4 6 (3.00%) Oracle
4 6 (3.00%) PeopleSoft
5 5 (2.50%) Bloomberg
6 4 (2.00%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.00%) Tanium
7 2 (1.00%) Finsemble
8 1 (0.50%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.50%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.50%) iManage
8 1 (0.50%) Intapp
8 1 (0.50%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.50%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.50%) Veracode