Technical Debt Contracts in the Midlands

Technical Debt
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Technical Debt skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Technical Debt over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 132 152 190
Rank change year-on-year +20 +38 -43
Contract jobs citing Technical Debt 6 13 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.22% 0.38% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.43% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 11
10th Percentile - £286 £405
25th Percentile £404 £428 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £496 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.44% +10.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £595 £584 £490
90th Percentile £699 £658 £663
England median daily rate £575 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Technical Debt is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,243 3,047 4,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.19% 88.47% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,493 2,126 3,298
10th Percentile £238 £250 £249
25th Percentile £356 £370 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +4.21% +17.65%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £567
90th Percentile £700 £675 £653
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 119 152
10th Percentile £11.07 £11.96 £10.05
25th Percentile £13.81 £15.05 £13.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £17.72 £17.49
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% +1.32% +9.31%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.81 £22.03
90th Percentile £55.00 £55.50 £34.20
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Debt in the Midlands

Technical Debt
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Debt in the Midlands

Technical Debt
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Debt in the Midlands over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Debt in the Midlands

Technical Debt
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
East Midlands +19 4 £419 -20.19% 3
West Midlands +23 1 £750 +60.94% 4
Technical Debt
England

Technical Debt
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Games
3 2 (33.33%) Finance
4 1 (16.67%) Banking
4 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Agile Scrum Master
1 1 (16.67%) Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Digital Product Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Finance Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Product Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Risk Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Scrum Master
1 1 (16.67%) Security Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Security Product Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Senior
1 1 (16.67%) Senior Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) React
2 1 (16.67%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Continuous Delivery
3 3 (50.00%) Pair Programming
3 3 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (50.00%) Web Development
4 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
5 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity
5 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (16.67%) Data Privacy
5 1 (16.67%) Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (16.67%) Product Management
5 1 (16.67%) Project Management
5 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
5 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (16.67%) Statistics
5 1 (16.67%) Validation
5 1 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) C#
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Cadence