Technical Debt Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Technical Debt
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Technical Debt skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 84 -
Rank change year-on-year +4 - -
Contract jobs citing Technical Debt 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.19% 0.18% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.22% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £765 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.50% - -
South East median daily rate £700 £765 £531
% change year-on-year -8.50% +44.00% -1.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 934 906 1,168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 86.40% 80.11% 87.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 617 598 649
10th Percentile £312 £360 £280
25th Percentile £447 £460 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £551 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.68% +2.47% +2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £639 £638
90th Percentile £656 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £511 £520
% change year-on-year -2.06% -1.83% +1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 61 90
10th Percentile £16.17 £26.25 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £31.25 £21.05
Median hourly rate £20.71 £67.50 £51.96
Median % change year-on-year -69.32% +29.91% +15.47%
75th Percentile £26.33 £75.00 £61.88
90th Percentile £50.00 - £70.59
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.30 £52.50
% change year-on-year -64.48% +11.05% +40.00%

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Technical Debt job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Technical Debt
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

Technical Debt
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 5 November 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
Portsmouth - 2 £700 - 2
Technical Debt
South East

Technical Debt
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (100.00%) Juniper
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto