Technical Debt Contracts in the North of England

Technical Debt
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Technical Debt skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Technical Debt over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 165 213
Rank change year-on-year +18 +48 -13
Contract jobs citing Technical Debt 19 20 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.58% 0.42% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.49% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 18 4
10th Percentile - £489 £478
25th Percentile £135 £516 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £145 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -74.78% +6.98% -15.69%
75th Percentile £505 £672 £581
90th Percentile £704 £738 £593
England median daily rate £575 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +4.55% -15.38% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £72.51 - -
25th Percentile £80.02 - -
Median hourly rate £96.21 - -
75th Percentile £102.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £90.42 £25.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +261.66% -60.00% -19.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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 1 May 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Technical Debt in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 1 May 2025. 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
Yorkshire +16 11 £140 -76.67% 10
North West +8 8 £606 +7.78% 18
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) GCP
2 3 (15.79%) Power Platform
2 3 (15.79%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 3 (15.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 2 (10.53%) Cloud Composer
4 1 (5.26%) AWS
4 1 (5.26%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (26.32%) Looker
3 3 (15.79%) BigQuery
3 3 (15.79%) Power BI
General
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Finance
2 3 (15.79%) Retail
3 2 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.26%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Analyst
2 8 (42.11%) Data Analyst
3 5 (26.32%) Junior
3 5 (26.32%) Junior Analyst
3 5 (26.32%) Junior Data Analyst
4 4 (21.05%) Architect
4 4 (21.05%) Lead
5 3 (15.79%) Developer
5 3 (15.79%) Lead Developer
5 3 (15.79%) Salesforce Developer
6 2 (10.53%) Product Manager
6 2 (10.53%) Technical Architect
6 2 (10.53%) Technical Manager
6 2 (10.53%) Technical Product Manager
7 1 (5.26%) Chief Technology Officer
7 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Architect
7 1 (5.26%) Senior Solutions Architect
7 1 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (5.26%) Systems Analyst
7 1 (5.26%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (5.26%) .NET
2 1 (5.26%) Node.js
2 1 (5.26%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) BYOD
2 1 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) ETL
2 10 (52.63%) Decision-Making
3 8 (42.11%) Data Analysis
3 8 (42.11%) Data Governance
3 8 (42.11%) Data Strategy
3 8 (42.11%) ETL Development
4 7 (36.84%) Agile
5 6 (31.58%) Roadmaps
6 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
6 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (21.05%) User Experience
8 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (15.79%) Data Cleansing
8 3 (15.79%) Data Management
8 3 (15.79%) Data Modelling
8 3 (15.79%) Product Roadmap
8 3 (15.79%) Scrum
9 2 (10.53%) Collaborative Working
9 2 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
9 2 (10.53%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (42.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.26%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Google
2 3 (15.79%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.26%) SAP