Technical Debt Contracts in London

Technical Debt
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Technical Debt skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Technical Debt over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 312 349 411
Rank change year-on-year +37 +62 +21
Contract jobs citing Technical Debt 41 42 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.33% 0.24% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.27% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 25 61
10th Percentile £375 £375 £475
25th Percentile £475 £475 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £744 £925 £713
90th Percentile £750 £1,003 £775
England median daily rate £575 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +4.55% -15.38% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £25.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -64.29% -9.68%
England median hourly rate £90.42 £25.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +261.66% -60.00% -19.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Technical Debt as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Debt in London

Technical Debt
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Debt in London.

Daily rate trend for Technical Debt in London

Technical Debt
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Debt in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Debt in London

Technical Debt
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Debt in London.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Debt in London

Technical Debt
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London +2 6 £660 -24.57% 5
South London - 5 £738 - 6
West London - 2 £750 - 2
Technical Debt
England

Technical Debt
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (19.51%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.88%) Jupyter
3 1 (2.44%) Confluence
3 1 (2.44%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) IBM Planning Analytics
1 1 (2.44%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 11 (26.83%) Azure
2 9 (21.95%) AWS
3 4 (9.76%) Entra ID
4 3 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (7.32%) Power Platform
4 3 (7.32%) SaaS
5 2 (4.88%) GCP
5 2 (4.88%) IaaS
5 2 (4.88%) PaaS
6 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.44%) BigCommerce
6 1 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.44%) Nutanix
6 1 (2.44%) Rubrik
6 1 (2.44%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.44%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.76%) TCP/IP
2 3 (7.32%) DHCP
2 3 (7.32%) DNS
3 2 (4.88%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.44%) Ethernet
4 1 (2.44%) Kerberos
4 1 (2.44%) NAS
4 1 (2.44%) SAN
4 1 (2.44%) VLAN
4 1 (2.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (24.39%) SQL Server
2 7 (17.07%) Big Data
2 7 (17.07%) Data Mining
3 5 (12.20%) MongoDB
4 3 (7.32%) NoSQL
4 3 (7.32%) Oracle Database
4 3 (7.32%) Power BI
5 2 (4.88%) Hadoop
5 2 (4.88%) Impala
5 2 (4.88%) Redis
6 1 (2.44%) Apache Hive
6 1 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.44%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.44%) Flink
6 1 (2.44%) OLAP
6 1 (2.44%) Parquet
6 1 (2.44%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.44%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 5 (12.20%) JIRA
2 4 (9.76%) Git
2 4 (9.76%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.88%) Artifactory
3 2 (4.88%) Bitbucket
3 2 (4.88%) SonarQube
3 2 (4.88%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (2.44%) Eclipse
4 1 (2.44%) TeamCity
General
1 14 (34.15%) Finance
1 14 (34.15%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.76%) Banking
3 3 (7.32%) Retail
4 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.88%) Financial Institution
4 2 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.44%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (17.07%) Architect
1 7 (17.07%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 6 (14.63%) Consultant
3 5 (12.20%) Developer
3 5 (12.20%) Lead
3 5 (12.20%) Python Engineer
3 5 (12.20%) Senior
4 4 (9.76%) Big Data Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Site Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Applications Consultant
5 3 (7.32%) Java Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Software Consultant
5 3 (7.32%) Technical Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Python Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Python Software Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Software Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.07%) Ray
2 4 (9.76%) Kafka
2 4 (9.76%) React
3 3 (7.32%) .NET
3 3 (7.32%) ASP.NET
4 2 (4.88%) .NET Framework
4 2 (4.88%) AngularJS
4 2 (4.88%) FastAPI
4 2 (4.88%) pytest
5 1 (2.44%) Apache Avro
5 1 (2.44%) Apache Beam
5 1 (2.44%) Apache Camel
5 1 (2.44%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (2.44%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (2.44%) Hibernate
5 1 (2.44%) jQuery
5 1 (2.44%) JSON
5 1 (2.44%) RESTful
5 1 (2.44%) SOAP
5 1 (2.44%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.07%) Distributed Computing
2 4 (9.76%) Public Cloud
2 4 (9.76%) Tandem
3 3 (7.32%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.88%) PKI
4 2 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.44%) Clustering
5 1 (2.44%) Digital Signage
5 1 (2.44%) Legacy Code
5 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.44%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (26.83%) Linux
2 7 (17.07%) Windows
3 3 (7.32%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.88%) Unix
5 1 (2.44%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.44%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.44%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.44%) Solaris
5 1 (2.44%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (39.02%) Agile
2 15 (36.59%) Roadmaps
3 12 (29.27%) Technical Leadership
4 11 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (21.95%) Software Engineering
5 9 (21.95%) Test Automation
6 8 (19.51%) Low Latency
6 8 (19.51%) Root Cause Analysis
6 8 (19.51%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (17.07%) Artificial Intelligence
7 7 (17.07%) Code Quality
7 7 (17.07%) Data Protection
7 7 (17.07%) Deep Learning
7 7 (17.07%) DevOps
7 7 (17.07%) Machine Learning
7 7 (17.07%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 6 (14.63%) Microservices
9 5 (12.20%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (12.20%) Software Architecture
10 4 (9.76%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 17 (41.46%) Python
2 16 (39.02%) Java
3 10 (24.39%) SQL
4 7 (17.07%) C
4 7 (17.07%) C++
4 7 (17.07%) Shell Script
5 4 (9.76%) C#
6 3 (7.32%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.88%) VB
8 1 (2.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (2.44%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.44%) Scala
8 1 (2.44%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (26.83%) Degree
2 5 (12.20%) Security Cleared
3 3 (7.32%) Azure Certification
3 3 (7.32%) Master's Degree
3 3 (7.32%) PhD
4 2 (4.88%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.44%) CSPO
5 1 (2.44%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.32%) Government Security Classifications
1 3 (7.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 3 (7.32%) QA
2 2 (4.88%) GDPR
3 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (9.76%) Active Directory
1 4 (9.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.44%) Docker
2 1 (2.44%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (17.07%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.32%) Ansible
3 2 (4.88%) Terraform
4 1 (2.44%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (2.44%) Netcool
4 1 (2.44%) Tivoli
4 1 (2.44%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 12 (29.27%) Microsoft
2 10 (24.39%) Oracle
3 4 (9.76%) VMware
4 3 (7.32%) Cisco
5 2 (4.88%) IBM
5 2 (4.88%) Salesforce
5 2 (4.88%) SAP
5 2 (4.88%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.44%) Adobe
6 1 (2.44%) Apple
6 1 (2.44%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.44%) EMC
6 1 (2.44%) Google
6 1 (2.44%) Isilon
6 1 (2.44%) OpenText
6 1 (2.44%) Pega
6 1 (2.44%) Serena
6 1 (2.44%) Sitecore
6 1 (2.44%) Splunk
6 1 (2.44%) Sybase