Technical Debt Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Technical Debt
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Technical Debt skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 51 -
Rank change year-on-year -24 - -
Contract jobs citing Technical Debt 3 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.40% 0.63% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.71% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £385 - -
25th Percentile £418 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 - -
75th Percentile £551 - -
90th Percentile £584 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £485 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £102.00 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £102.00 -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 667 423 806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 88.93% 89.05% 89.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 444 259 524
10th Percentile £313 £263 £281
25th Percentile £413 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £654 £690 £684
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £498
% change year-on-year +11.11% -9.55% -5.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 13 12
10th Percentile - £17.08 £11.17
25th Percentile £14.25 £26.25 £11.75
Median hourly rate £15.25 £37.50 £12.53
Median % change year-on-year -59.33% +199.28% -78.49%
75th Percentile £40.06 £41.50 £15.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £100.93 £21.30
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.87 £32.81 £15.00
% change year-on-year -42.49% +118.73% -57.21%

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Technical Debt job vacancy trend in Leeds

Technical Debt
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Technical Debt
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Debt in Leeds over the 6 months to 9 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Debt in Leeds

Technical Debt
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Bundler
1 1 (33.33%) ESLint
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jasmine
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) Karma Test Runner
1 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
1 1 (33.33%) webpack
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Lead Developer
1 1 (33.33%) React Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Site Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Bootstrap
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) CSS3
1 1 (33.33%) DOM
1 1 (33.33%) Enzyme
1 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
1 1 (33.33%) Handlebars
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) HTML5
1 1 (33.33%) Jest
1 1 (33.33%) Mustache
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
1 1 (33.33%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Backends for Frontends
1 1 (33.33%) Code Coverage
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Transformation
1 1 (33.33%) OO
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (33.33%) Progressive Web App
1 1 (33.33%) Security Hardening
1 1 (33.33%) Security Patching
1 1 (33.33%) SEO
1 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) SOLID
1 1 (33.33%) TDD
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
1 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) SCCM
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) VMware