Technical Debt Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Technical Debt
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Technical Debt skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 33 27
Rank change year-on-year -16 -6 +30
Contract jobs citing Technical Debt 4 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.95% 1.36% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 1.55% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £455 - -
25th Percentile £519 £313 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £325 £485
Median % change year-on-year +92.31% -32.99% +2.11%
75th Percentile - £338 £503
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £625 £325 £485
% change year-on-year +92.31% -32.99% +2.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 365 194 170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 86.29% 87.78% 85.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 134 89
10th Percentile £260 £300 £225
25th Percentile £373 £352 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year - -7.22% -11.82%
75th Percentile £538 £555 £588
90th Percentile £596 £625 £650
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 4 19
10th Percentile £17.88 £14.90 £17.70
25th Percentile £51.25 £15.13 £19.13
Median hourly rate £60.00 £16.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +263.64% -65.26% -
75th Percentile £69.44 £25.88 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £39.60 £68.75
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £57.50 £16.25 £17.50
% change year-on-year +253.85% -7.14% -

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Technical Debt job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Technical Debt
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Technical Debt.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Technical Debt

Technical Debt
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Debt in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Debt in Newcastle upon Tyne

Technical Debt
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Copilot
2 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (25.00%) Redis
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (25.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Platform Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) Keycloak
1 1 (25.00%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 2 (50.00%) Impact Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) SFIA
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Kotlin
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) Groovy
3 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (25.00%) Rancher
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Zscaler
2 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow