Technical Debt Contracts in the South East

Technical Debt
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 151 198 212
Rank change year-on-year +47 +14 +43
Contract jobs citing Technical Debt 8 7 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.27% 0.13% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.15% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 9
10th Percentile £505 £484 £502
25th Percentile £513 £492 £596
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £556 £700
Median % change year-on-year -1.12% -20.54% +21.74%
75th Percentile £639 £638 -
90th Percentile £677 £675 £703
England median daily rate £575 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +4.55% -15.38% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
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
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Debt in the South East

Technical Debt
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Debt in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Technical Debt in the South East

Technical Debt
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Debt in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Debt in the South East

Technical Debt
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Debt in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Debt in the South East

Technical Debt
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Surrey +20 4 - - 4
Thames Valley +40 3 £588 +14.63% 4
Berkshire +27 2 £500 -2.44% 3
Buckinghamshire - 1 £675 - 1
Hampshire - 1 £550 - 11
Technical Debt
England

Technical Debt
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) SaaS
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Stack
4 1 (12.50%) AWS
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) NetScaler
1 1 (12.50%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 4 (50.00%) Git
1 4 (50.00%) Visual Studio Code
2 2 (25.00%) Moq
2 2 (25.00%) Selenium
2 2 (25.00%) SpecFlow
2 2 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
1 4 (50.00%) Senior
1 4 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Citrix Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Migration Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Principal Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Principal Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 4 (50.00%) CSS
1 4 (50.00%) HTML
1 4 (50.00%) RESTful
1 4 (50.00%) YAML
2 2 (25.00%) .NET
2 2 (25.00%) .NET Core
2 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (25.00%) Bootstrap
2 2 (25.00%) JSON
2 2 (25.00%) React
2 2 (25.00%) Vue
2 2 (25.00%) XML
3 1 (12.50%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) Design Patterns
2 5 (62.50%) User Experience
3 4 (50.00%) DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) Insurtech
3 4 (50.00%) OO
3 4 (50.00%) Product Backlog
3 4 (50.00%) Progressive Web App
3 4 (50.00%) Scrum
3 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 4 (50.00%) SOLID
3 4 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
3 4 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 4 (50.00%) Unit Testing
3 4 (50.00%) UX Design
3 4 (50.00%) Wireframes
4 2 (25.00%) Mathematics
4 2 (25.00%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) C#
1 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (12.50%) VMware NSX
1 1 (12.50%) XenApp
1 1 (12.50%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Citrix
2 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
2 1 (12.50%) VMware