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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 353 420
Rank change year-on-year +27 +67 +42
Contract jobs citing Technical Debt 58 42 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.42% 0.26% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.29% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 24 33
10th Percentile £386 £453 £354
25th Percentile £447 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £675
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -18.52% +8.00%
75th Percentile £731 £708 £750
90th Percentile £756 £915 £825
England median daily rate £575 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £25.00 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £25.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +180.00% -54.55% +111.54%

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 12,649 14,450 21,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.17% 88.82% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,469 10,228 15,919
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 197 229
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.18 £18.63
25th Percentile £24.54 £22.00 £24.25
Median hourly rate £29.50 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.71% -13.58% +14.08%
75th Percentile £49.69 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.25 £71.88 £80.45
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 +7 15 £650 -27.78% 2
West London - 5 £380 - 3
South London - 3 £738 -
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 11 (18.97%) Confluence
2 3 (5.17%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) IBM Planning Analytics
1 1 (1.72%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 21 (36.21%) AWS
2 18 (31.03%) Azure
3 8 (13.79%) GCP
4 5 (8.62%) Power Platform
5 4 (6.90%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (6.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (5.17%) Entra ID
6 3 (5.17%) SaaS
7 2 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.72%) BigCommerce
8 1 (1.72%) Cloud Functions
8 1 (1.72%) Fastly
8 1 (1.72%) Heroku
8 1 (1.72%) IaaS
8 1 (1.72%) iPaaS
8 1 (1.72%) PaaS
8 1 (1.72%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (1.72%) Serverless
8 1 (1.72%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.17%) DNS
1 3 (5.17%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.45%) DHCP
2 2 (3.45%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.72%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.72%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.79%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.62%) Big Data
2 5 (8.62%) BigQuery
2 5 (8.62%) Data Lake
2 5 (8.62%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (5.17%) NoSQL
3 3 (5.17%) Oracle Database
3 3 (5.17%) Power BI
4 2 (3.45%) Data Mining
4 2 (3.45%) Hadoop
4 2 (3.45%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.45%) Parquet
5 1 (1.72%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.72%) Flink
5 1 (1.72%) OLAP
5 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.72%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (27.59%) JIRA
2 4 (6.90%) Git
3 2 (3.45%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.72%) Spinnaker
4 1 (1.72%) Subversion
General
1 23 (39.66%) Social Skills
2 17 (29.31%) Finance
3 9 (15.52%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.90%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (6.90%) Retail
5 3 (5.17%) Banking
5 3 (5.17%) Marketing
6 1 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (32.76%) Architect
2 12 (20.69%) Solutions Architect
3 7 (12.07%) Developer
4 6 (10.34%) Data Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) Consultant
5 5 (8.62%) Lead
5 5 (8.62%) Senior
6 4 (6.90%) Analyst
6 4 (6.90%) Azure Data Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Business Analyst
7 3 (5.17%) C++ Developer
7 3 (5.17%) Software Consultant
7 3 (5.17%) Technical Architect
8 2 (3.45%) .NET Architect
8 2 (3.45%) .NET Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.45%) C++ Software Developer
8 2 (3.45%) Data Analyst
8 2 (3.45%) Java Architect
8 2 (3.45%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (20.69%) AngularJS
1 12 (20.69%) REST
2 11 (18.97%) .NET
2 11 (18.97%) React
3 5 (8.62%) Kafka
4 3 (5.17%) Angular 2
4 3 (5.17%) CSS
4 3 (5.17%) HTML
4 3 (5.17%) JSON
5 2 (3.45%) .NET Framework
5 2 (3.45%) Apache Avro
5 2 (3.45%) ASP.NET
5 2 (3.45%) Ray
6 1 (1.72%) Apache Beam
6 1 (1.72%) Flask
6 1 (1.72%) MACH
6 1 (1.72%) SOAP
6 1 (1.72%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (1.72%) VML
6 1 (1.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.07%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.62%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.90%) Public Cloud
4 3 (5.17%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.45%) Data Fabric
5 2 (3.45%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (3.45%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.45%) PKI
5 2 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.72%) Digital Signage
6 1 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.72%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.72%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.97%) Linux
2 4 (6.90%) Windows
3 2 (3.45%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.72%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.72%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.72%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (55.17%) Agile
2 17 (29.31%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (27.59%) CI/CD
4 14 (24.14%) Scrum
5 12 (20.69%) Architectural Patterns
5 12 (20.69%) Design Patterns
5 12 (20.69%) Test Automation
6 11 (18.97%) DevOps
6 11 (18.97%) Roadmaps
6 11 (18.97%) SDLC
7 10 (17.24%) Risk Management
7 10 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (15.52%) Analytics
8 9 (15.52%) Data Engineering
8 9 (15.52%) Data Pipeline
8 9 (15.52%) Project Management
8 9 (15.52%) Resource Allocation
8 9 (15.52%) Software Architecture
9 8 (13.79%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 8 (13.79%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 22 (37.93%) Python
2 21 (36.21%) Java
3 14 (24.14%) SQL
4 9 (15.52%) TypeScript
5 5 (8.62%) C++
5 5 (8.62%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.45%) C
6 2 (3.45%) C#
6 2 (3.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (3.45%) Shell Script
6 2 (3.45%) VB
7 1 (1.72%) Scala
7 1 (1.72%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (20.69%) Degree
2 7 (12.07%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.17%) Azure Certification
3 3 (5.17%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.17%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.45%) CASP
4 2 (3.45%) CCSP
4 2 (3.45%) CISSP
4 2 (3.45%) CREST Certified
4 2 (3.45%) CSSLP
4 2 (3.45%) GIAC
4 2 (3.45%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.72%) CCNA
5 1 (1.72%) PhD
5 1 (1.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.79%) QA
2 6 (10.34%) Data Quality
3 4 (6.90%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 4 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (5.17%) GDPR
5 2 (3.45%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (3.45%) NCSC
5 2 (3.45%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (8.62%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (8.62%) Terraform
2 4 (6.90%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.45%) SELinux
4 1 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (31.03%) Microsoft
2 13 (22.41%) ServiceNow
3 6 (10.34%) Oracle
4 5 (8.62%) Google
5 4 (6.90%) Databricks
5 4 (6.90%) Salesforce
6 3 (5.17%) SAP
7 2 (3.45%) Cisco
7 2 (3.45%) VMware
8 1 (1.72%) Adobe
8 1 (1.72%) Apple
8 1 (1.72%) IBM
8 1 (1.72%) OpenText
8 1 (1.72%) Qualtrics
8 1 (1.72%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (1.72%) Sitecore
8 1 (1.72%) Spotify