Technical Debt Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Technical Debt
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Technical Debt skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 110 127
Rank change year-on-year -53 +17 +55
Contract jobs citing Technical Debt 3 12 6
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.095% 0.55% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.64% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 5
10th Percentile £523 £376 -
25th Percentile £546 £475 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £525 £419
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% +25.30% +1.58%
75th Percentile £646 £631 £648
90th Percentile £671 £703 £709
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -10.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
England median hourly rate £42.50 £90.42 £50.00
% change year-on-year -52.99% +80.83% -28.57%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,708 1,887 2,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 85.59% 87.12% 84.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,687 1,167 1,449
10th Percentile £236 £229 £255
25th Percentile £381 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 69 105
10th Percentile £14.39 £14.70 £14.05
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £17.07
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.59 £24.60
Median % change year-on-year -12.60% -12.24% +46.17%
75th Percentile £25.15 £31.76 £51.50
90th Percentile £30.00 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -20.00% +21.43%

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Technical Debt job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Technical Debt
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Technical Debt

Technical Debt
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Debt in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

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 12 January 2026. 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
West Midlands -40 2 £675 +10.20% 4
East Midlands -23 1 £515 +29.56% 9
Technical Debt
England

Technical Debt
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) ChatGPT
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) ArchiMate
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Product Management
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) PHP
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle