Technical Debt Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Technical Debt
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Technical Debt skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 51 67
Rank change year-on-year -26 +16 -
Contract jobs citing Technical Debt 3 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.35% 0.38% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.43% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £520 - -
25th Percentile £543 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.38% - -
75th Percentile £644 £538 -
90th Percentile £670 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £590 £525 £750
% change year-on-year +12.38% -30.00% +60.94%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 733 470 634
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 85.13% 90.04% 83.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 334 415
10th Percentile £306 £190 £243
25th Percentile £405 £383 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.15% +11.28% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £575
90th Percentile £658 £700 £670
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 13 45
10th Percentile £13.25 - £13.21
25th Percentile £16.09 £12.62 £18.50
Median hourly rate £17.69 £22.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.59% -22.81% +105.41%
75th Percentile £25.00 £30.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £30.00 £30.68 £67.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.01 £18.13 £23.00
% change year-on-year +21.40% -21.17% +29.87%

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Technical Debt relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Technical Debt job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Technical Debt
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Technical Debt.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Technical Debt

Technical Debt
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Debt in Birmingham over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Debt in Birmingham

Technical Debt
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Confluence
2 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
1 2 (66.67%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) ArchiMate
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Community of Practice
2 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
2 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Pair Programming
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Kotlin
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk
1 1 (33.33%) Zscaler