Technical Debt Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Technical Debt
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Technical Debt skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 87 111
Rank change year-on-year -16 +24 +8
Contract jobs citing Technical Debt 11 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.49% 0.094% 0.051%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.11% 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 0
10th Percentile £458 - -
25th Percentile £481 £663 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £675 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% - -
75th Percentile £600 £688 -
90th Percentile £697 - -
England median daily rate £550 £575 £513
% change year-on-year -4.35% +12.20% -21.15%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,765 950 1,653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.83% 89.45% 84.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 891 482 666
10th Percentile £190 £213 £206
25th Percentile £378 £366 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £442
Median % change year-on-year - +13.12% -9.33%
75th Percentile £594 £575 £575
90th Percentile £688 £650 £664
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 406 187 619
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.60 £16.95 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.00 £31.64 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.14% -20.90% +90.48%
75th Percentile £67.50 £66.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £84.40 £71.65
England median hourly rate £47.00 £26.45 £37.50
% change year-on-year +77.69% -29.47% +6.72%

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Technical Debt job vacancy trend in the East of England

Technical Debt
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Technical Debt.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Technical Debt

Technical Debt
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Debt in the East of England over the 6 months to 25 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Debt in the East of England

Technical Debt
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 25 June 2026. 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
Hertfordshire - 5 £475 -
Bedfordshire - 4 £600 -
Cambridgeshire +5 1 £688 +1.85% 1
Suffolk - 1 £500 -
Technical Debt
England

Technical Debt
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
3 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
3 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (9.09%) Google Workspace
4 1 (9.09%) Serverless
4 1 (9.09%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) DHCP
1 1 (9.09%) DNS
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) Network Security
1 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
1 1 (9.09%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Power BI
1 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
2 1 (9.09%) Semantic Layer
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 4 (36.36%) Manufacturing
1 4 (36.36%) Pharmaceutical
1 4 (36.36%) Retail
2 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 1 (9.09%) Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Local Government
4 1 (9.09%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Architect
2 4 (36.36%) Product Owner
3 2 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Data Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Data Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Supply Chain Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Technology Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Kafka
1 1 (9.09%) LDAP
1 1 (9.09%) OAuth
1 1 (9.09%) OAuth2
1 1 (9.09%) OpenID
1 1 (9.09%) REST
1 1 (9.09%) RESTful
1 1 (9.09%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Life Science
1 4 (36.36%) Product Ownership
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
3 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 1 (9.09%) PKI
3 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) VMS
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
1 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Agile
1 6 (54.55%) Roadmaps
2 5 (45.45%) Validation
3 4 (36.36%) Acceptance Criteria
3 4 (36.36%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 4 (36.36%) Decision-Making
3 4 (36.36%) Kanban
3 4 (36.36%) Product Backlog
3 4 (36.36%) Product Roadmap
3 4 (36.36%) Product Vision
3 4 (36.36%) Scrum
3 4 (36.36%) Software Assurance
3 4 (36.36%) User Stories
4 3 (27.27%) Migration
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) Product Requirements
4 3 (27.27%) Sprint Planning
4 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
5 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
1 1 (9.09%) Python
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
2 1 (9.09%) CCSP
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (9.09%) CISSP
2 1 (9.09%) CSPO
2 1 (9.09%) DBS Check
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) 21 CFR Part 11
1 4 (36.36%) GxP
1 4 (36.36%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
2 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (9.09%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
1 1 (9.09%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Citrix
2 1 (9.09%) Databricks
2 1 (9.09%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) VMware
2 1 (9.09%) Wyse