Technical Debt Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Technical Debt
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Technical Debt skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 51 -
Rank change year-on-year -20 - -
Contract jobs citing Technical Debt 3 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.46% 0.38% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.44% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £715 -
25th Percentile £410 £719 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £726 -
Median % change year-on-year -42.15% - -
75th Percentile £430 £733 -
90th Percentile - £737 -
North West median daily rate £500 £726 £500
% change year-on-year -31.13% +45.20% -14.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 584 450 344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 89.98% 85.88% 88.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 278 199
10th Percentile £300 £323 £265
25th Percentile £358 £390 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year -6.21% -4.04% +10.00%
75th Percentile £520 £575 £586
90th Percentile £688 £650 £626
North West median daily rate £455 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -7.43% -1.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 17 31
10th Percentile - £16.00 £17.14
25th Percentile £12.82 - £20.07
Median hourly rate £17.75 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -49.29% +14.60% +69.34%
75th Percentile £35.38 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £47.50 £35.75
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.84% +21.43% +59.09%

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Debt in Cheshire

Technical Debt
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Technical Debt
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Technical Debt.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Technical Debt

Technical Debt
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Debt within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 22 September 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford -17 1 £420 -42.15%
Crewe - 1 - -
Technical Debt
North West

Technical Debt
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) ABAP Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Product Owner
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Core
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) Entity Framework
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) HTML5
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) Vue
1 1 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Pair Programming
2 1 (33.33%) Product Backlog
2 1 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Management
2 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (33.33%) Software Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) SOLID
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Review
2 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) ABAP
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CSPO
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) SAP