Technical Debt Contract Job Trends in Reading

Technical Debt
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Technical Debt skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 90 89
Rank change year-on-year +17 -1 +13
Contract jobs citing Technical Debt 2 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.27% 0.20% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.22% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £713 -
25th Percentile £413 £728 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £754 £600
Median % change year-on-year -43.63% +25.67% -5.51%
75th Percentile £438 £778 -
90th Percentile - £792 -
Berkshire median daily rate £425 £754 £600
% change year-on-year -43.63% +25.67% +10.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 658 897 915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 89.40% 91.91% 92.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 507 599
10th Percentile £350 £314 £213
25th Percentile £425 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -0.52%
75th Percentile £614 £650 £615
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 7 18
10th Percentile £14.75 £27.90 £45.30
25th Percentile £24.81 £35.75 £60.12
Median hourly rate £68.50 £57.50 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year +19.13% -9.15% -2.63%
75th Percentile £95.00 £63.24 £65.81
90th Percentile £103.85 £68.78 £67.58
Berkshire median hourly rate £40.44 £59.00 £61.65
% change year-on-year -31.47% -4.29% +25.17%

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Technical Debt job vacancy trend in Reading

Technical Debt
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Technical Debt.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Technical Debt

Technical Debt
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Remedy AR System
1 1 (50.00%) Remedy ITSM
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Product Owner
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) CMDB
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) API Development
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Escalation Management
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) ITSM
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Project Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Resource Allocation
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (50.00%) Sprint Review
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) BMC
1 1 (50.00%) Remedy