Technical Debt Contracts in the North of England

Technical Debt
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 169 210 211
Rank change year-on-year +41 +1 -43
Contract jobs citing Technical Debt 20 6 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.42% 0.10% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.11% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 4 29
10th Percentile £489 £478 £463
25th Percentile £516 £500 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £638
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -15.69% +7.14%
75th Percentile £672 £581 £650
90th Percentile £738 £593 £750
England median daily rate £575 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,108 5,304 6,350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.82% 90.84% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,517 3,679 4,645
10th Percentile £287 £300 £240
25th Percentile £400 £413 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.08%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £560
90th Percentile £675 £681 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 212 263
10th Percentile £11.04 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.50 £12.94
Median hourly rate £17.72 £27.60 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -35.80% +47.59% -1.29%
75th Percentile £44.74 £45.05 £33.66
90th Percentile £53.85 £65.00 £51.69
England median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Debt in the North of England

Technical Debt
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Debt in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Technical Debt in the North of England

Technical Debt
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Debt in the North of England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Debt in the North of England

Technical Debt
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Debt in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Debt in the North of England

Technical Debt
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 26 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
North West +36 17 £563 - 6
Yorkshire +20 3 £600 +14.29% 6
Technical Debt
England

Technical Debt
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (25.00%) Confluence
2 4 (20.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (20.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 10 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) Apigee
2 4 (20.00%) Azure
2 4 (20.00%) Kong
3 3 (15.00%) SaaS
4 2 (10.00%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.00%) PaaS
5 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) MongoDB
2 4 (20.00%) OLAP
2 4 (20.00%) OLTP
2 4 (20.00%) Oracle OLAP
3 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) GitLab
General
1 5 (25.00%) Finance
2 4 (20.00%) Banking
2 4 (20.00%) Retail
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Architect
2 6 (30.00%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (25.00%) Telephony Architect
4 4 (20.00%) AWS Architect
4 4 (20.00%) Senior
4 4 (20.00%) Site Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Product Manager
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Technical Manager
5 2 (10.00%) Technical Product Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (5.00%) Java Developer
6 1 (5.00%) SAP Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Software Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Voice Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) Kafka
1 5 (25.00%) Spring
1 5 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 4 (20.00%) Apache Camel
2 4 (20.00%) IBM Integration Bus
2 4 (20.00%) J2EE
2 4 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (20.00%) SOAP
2 4 (20.00%) Spring Integration
2 4 (20.00%) Web Services
3 2 (10.00%) Node.js
4 1 (5.00%) CSS
4 1 (5.00%) CSS3
4 1 (5.00%) React
4 1 (5.00%) RESTful
4 1 (5.00%) Sass
4 1 (5.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) DataPower
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 7 (35.00%) Migration
3 6 (30.00%) Agile
3 6 (30.00%) Business Strategy
3 6 (30.00%) Data Privacy
3 6 (30.00%) Microservices
4 5 (25.00%) Budgeting
4 5 (25.00%) Design Patterns
4 5 (25.00%) DevOps
4 5 (25.00%) Event-Driven
4 5 (25.00%) OO
4 5 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 5 (25.00%) TOGAF
5 4 (20.00%) CQRS
5 4 (20.00%) E-Commerce
5 4 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 4 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
5 4 (20.00%) OOA/OOD
5 4 (20.00%) SOA
5 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
1 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) IBM
1 4 (20.00%) Oracle
1 4 (20.00%) TSYS
2 3 (15.00%) MuleSoft
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.00%) Mitel
3 2 (10.00%) SAP