Technical Debt Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Technical Debt
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Technical Debt skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 173 147 178
Rank change year-on-year -26 +31 +17
Contract jobs citing Technical Debt 27 11 16
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.60% 0.28% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.33% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 6 13
10th Percentile £378 £135 -
25th Percentile £451 £179 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £437 £390
Median % change year-on-year +20.20% +12.00% -32.17%
75th Percentile £537 £671 £503
90th Percentile £593 £726 £581
England median daily rate £537 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.36% - -8.33%

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 3,968 3,356 4,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.33% 84.43% 88.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,622 1,824 2,846
10th Percentile £220 £294 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £479 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.92% -4.20% -
75th Percentile £556 £575 £600
90th Percentile £669 £654 £675
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 174 204
10th Percentile £15.18 £14.56 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £17.81 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £28.37
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% +14.56% +33.51%
75th Percentile £45.46 £48.44 £46.18
90th Percentile £69.83 £69.93 £60.64
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.04 £45.00
% change year-on-year -33.88% -15.48% +28.57%

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Technical Debt job vacancy trend in the North of England

Technical Debt
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

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 5 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Debt in the North of England

Technical Debt
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Technical Debt.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Technical Debt

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 5 November 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 -15 17 £537 +283.57% 8
North West -22 9 £460 -36.64% 13
North East -12 1 - -
Technical Debt
England

Technical Debt
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (48.15%) Confluence
2 1 (3.70%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 5 (18.52%) Azure
2 3 (11.11%) AWS
2 3 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (7.41%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (7.41%) GCP
4 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.70%) Fastly
4 1 (3.70%) GitHub
4 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.70%) Heroku
4 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (18.52%) Kerberos
2 1 (3.70%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 3 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.41%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.70%) BigQuery
3 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.70%) MySQL
3 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (48.15%) JIRA
2 2 (7.41%) Git
3 1 (3.70%) Bundler
3 1 (3.70%) ESLint
3 1 (3.70%) GitLab
3 1 (3.70%) Jasmine
3 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.70%) Karma Test Runner
3 1 (3.70%) Selenium
3 1 (3.70%) SonarQube
3 1 (3.70%) Visual Studio
3 1 (3.70%) webpack
General
1 8 (29.63%) Finance
2 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Banking
4 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Retail
5 1 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.70%) Military
5 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (51.85%) Architect
2 9 (33.33%) Security Architect
2 9 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
3 7 (25.93%) Security Solutions Architect
4 6 (22.22%) Senior
5 5 (18.52%) Lead
6 4 (14.81%) Lead Architect
6 4 (14.81%) Lead Security Architect
6 4 (14.81%) Lead Solutions Architect
7 3 (11.11%) Design Engineer
8 2 (7.41%) Senior Architect
8 2 (7.41%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (7.41%) Software Engineer
9 1 (3.70%) Developer
9 1 (3.70%) Java Applications Architect
9 1 (3.70%) Java Architect
9 1 (3.70%) JavaScript Developer
9 1 (3.70%) Senior Security Architect
9 1 (3.70%) Senior Solutions Architect
9 1 (3.70%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.93%) OAuth
2 5 (18.52%) SAML
3 3 (11.11%) React
4 2 (7.41%) .NET
4 2 (7.41%) .NET Core
4 2 (7.41%) .NET Framework
4 2 (7.41%) CSS
4 2 (7.41%) Entity Framework
4 2 (7.41%) HTML
4 2 (7.41%) HTML5
4 2 (7.41%) RESTful
4 2 (7.41%) YAML
5 1 (3.70%) ASP.NET
5 1 (3.70%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (3.70%) CSS3
5 1 (3.70%) DOM
5 1 (3.70%) REST
5 1 (3.70%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (3.70%) Web Services
5 1 (3.70%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Cloud Native
2 6 (22.22%) Management Information System
2 6 (22.22%) Product Ownership
3 3 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.70%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (3.70%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Linux
1 2 (7.41%) Windows
2 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (55.56%) Decision-Making
2 13 (48.15%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (48.15%) Identity Access Management
3 11 (40.74%) Secrets Management
3 11 (40.74%) UML
3 11 (40.74%) Visualisation
4 10 (37.04%) Dependency Management
4 10 (37.04%) Privileged Access Management
4 10 (37.04%) Software Engineering
4 10 (37.04%) Vulnerability Management
5 9 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
5 9 (33.33%) Cryptography
5 9 (33.33%) Incident Response
5 9 (33.33%) SABSA
5 9 (33.33%) Security Operations
5 9 (33.33%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
5 9 (33.33%) TOGAF
6 8 (29.63%) Programme Management
6 8 (29.63%) Project Governance
7 7 (25.93%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.81%) Python
2 3 (11.11%) C#
3 2 (7.41%) Bash
3 2 (7.41%) Java
3 2 (7.41%) PowerShell
3 2 (7.41%) SQL
4 1 (3.70%) ABAP
4 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (48.15%) CISM
1 13 (48.15%) CISSP
2 9 (33.33%) TOGAF Certification
3 7 (25.93%) Degree
3 7 (25.93%) Master's Degree
3 7 (25.93%) PhD
4 1 (3.70%) CSPO
4 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) GDPR
1 2 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.70%) NIST
2 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.70%) SOC 1
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Docker
1 1 (3.70%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (3.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (29.63%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (7.41%) Ansible
3 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.70%) SCCM
3 1 (3.70%) Terraform
3 1 (3.70%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (40.74%) BiZZdesign
2 9 (33.33%) CyberArk
3 8 (29.63%) Centrify
4 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
5 4 (14.81%) Thycotic
6 2 (7.41%) Google
6 2 (7.41%) SAP
7 1 (3.70%) Hitachi
7 1 (3.70%) Splunk
7 1 (3.70%) VMware