Technical Debt Contract Job Trends in Exeter

Technical Debt
Devon > Exeter

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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 - 26
Rank change year-on-year - - 0
Contract jobs citing Technical Debt 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Exeter 0.53% - 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% - 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +62.50%
Devon median daily rate £450 - £650
% change year-on-year - - +62.50%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Exeter

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 Exeter.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 164 65 99
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Exeter 87.70% 80.25% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 31 71
10th Percentile £346 £275 £313
25th Percentile £447 £309 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £557 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +23.71% -10.00% -13.05%
75th Percentile £659 £550 £650
90th Percentile £800 £588 £685
Devon median daily rate £534 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +33.50% -20.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £13.63 - -
25th Percentile £15.00 - -
Median hourly rate £19.78 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Devon median hourly rate £18.11 £25.15 £65.00
% change year-on-year -27.99% -61.31% +109.34%

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend in Exeter

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

Technical Debt job vacancy trend in Exeter

Technical Debt
Daily Rate Trend in Exeter

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

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

Technical Debt
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Exeter 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes