Technical Debt Contracts in Scotland

Technical Debt
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 110 146
Rank change year-on-year -9 +36 +14
Contract jobs citing Technical Debt 7 7 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.40% 0.36% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.41% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 12
10th Percentile £420 £415 £415
25th Percentile £431 £438 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £468 £456
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +2.58% -5.05%
75th Percentile £472 £488 £518
90th Percentile £485 £492 £550
UK median daily rate £564 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +7.33% -4.55% -4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,591 1,692 2,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 91.97% 86.77% 91.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 895 1,049 1,687
10th Percentile £260 £213 £250
25th Percentile £368 £360 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.89% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £653 £625
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 59 56
10th Percentile £16.49 £12.30 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.25 £13.15
Median hourly rate £20.00 £20.29 £18.33
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +10.70% -51.04%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.94 £55.00
90th Percentile £28.07 £54.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -5.88% +60.38%

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Technical Debt as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Debt in Scotland

Technical Debt
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Debt in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Technical Debt in Scotland

Technical Debt
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 July 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
Edinburgh +9 7 £450 - 11
Technical Debt
UK

Technical Debt
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (14.29%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (28.57%) GIS
1 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 4 (57.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (57.14%) Law
3 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Server Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Linux Server Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) AWS CDK
1 2 (28.57%) PostGIS
2 1 (14.29%) React
2 1 (14.29%) Spring
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Product Ownership
2 2 (28.57%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Amazon Linux
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
1 5 (71.43%) Windows Server
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) ITIL
1 5 (71.43%) Mentoring
1 5 (71.43%) Problem Management
1 5 (71.43%) Project Delivery
1 5 (71.43%) Service-Level Objective
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Architecture Roadmap
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Human-Centred Design
2 2 (28.57%) Inclusive Design
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (28.57%) Product Roadmap
2 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
2 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
2 2 (28.57%) Unit Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Code Coverage
3 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Java
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Grafana
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Red Hat
1 5 (71.43%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Tanium