Technical Debt Contracts in Merseyside

Technical Debt
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Technical Debt 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 0.55% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £792 - -
North West median daily rate £500 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +1.11% -1.10% -14.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 154 144 223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 84.15% 71.29% 86.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 76 150
10th Percentile £129 £176 £262
25th Percentile £213 £213 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £420 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -16.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £572 £513 £545
90th Percentile £681 £594 £600
North West median daily rate £455 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -9.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 11
10th Percentile - £16.37 £15.25
25th Percentile £12.21 £19.14 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.30 £27.69 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.52% +45.72% +8.57%
75th Percentile £17.44 £39.06 £39.50
90th Percentile - £54.00 £50.00
North West median hourly rate £26.08 £35.00 £31.88
% change year-on-year -25.50% +9.80% +46.36%

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Debt in Merseyside

Technical Debt
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 23 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Liverpool - 1 £792 - 1
Technical Debt
North West

Technical Debt
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (100.00%) SOC 1
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk