Technical Debt Contract Job Trends in the North East

Technical Debt
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East 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 51 39 33
Rank change year-on-year -12 -6 +27
Contract jobs citing Technical Debt 4 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.78% 0.93% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 1.10% 0.77%
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 - - -
England median daily rate £537 £549 £550
% change year-on-year -2.24% -0.13% -16.98%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 426 272 259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 83.53% 83.95% 81.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 181 127
10th Percentile £183 £300 £187
25th Percentile £364 £358 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £460 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -3.16% -13.64%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £581
90th Percentile £596 £650 £643
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 9 49
10th Percentile £17.88 - £11.50
25th Percentile £51.25 £11.60 £12.13
Median hourly rate £61.16 £16.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +270.67% -5.71% -57.06%
75th Percentile £72.50 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile - £46.69 £50.00
England median hourly rate £30.32 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -12.12% +6.15% -9.72%

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Technical Debt job vacancy trend in the North East

Technical Debt
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

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

Technical Debt
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Debt in the North East over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Debt in the North East

Technical Debt
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 14 March 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
Tyne and Wear -16 4 £625 +92.31% 2
Technical Debt
England

Technical Debt
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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