Technical Debt Contract Job Trends in Kent

Technical Debt
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Kent requiring Technical Debt skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Technical Debt 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Kent 0.44% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £589 £550 £556
% change year-on-year +7.11% -1.12% -14.42%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 170 103 128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 74.56% 90.35% 64.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 78 89
10th Percentile £180 £180 £205
25th Percentile £192 £213 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £346 £425
Median % change year-on-year +27.80% -18.53% +19.72%
75th Percentile £576 £509 £540
90th Percentile £648 £642 £656
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £501
% change year-on-year +2.50% -0.20% -1.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 6 12
10th Percentile £21.00 £14.68 £11.36
25th Percentile £25.15 £17.52 £14.34
Median hourly rate £36.71 £21.43 £29.75
Median % change year-on-year +71.30% -27.97% -47.91%
75th Percentile £41.83 £22.61 £50.89
90th Percentile £77.20 £51.55 £62.96
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £28.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +96.43% -41.05% -4.04%

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Technical Debt job vacancy trend in Kent

Technical Debt
Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

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

Technical Debt
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent 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 Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) X.509
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification