Technical Debt Contracts in the South West

Technical Debt
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Technical Debt skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Technical Debt over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 145 156 152
Rank change year-on-year +11 -4 -17
Contract jobs citing Technical Debt 5 12 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.16% 0.33% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.36% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 10
10th Percentile - £350 £549
25th Percentile £481 £363 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £443 £638
Median % change year-on-year +10.17% -30.59% -2.67%
75th Percentile £494 £750 £662
90th Percentile - - £677
England median daily rate £575 £663 £625
% change year-on-year -13.21% +6.00% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Technical Debt is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,650 3,299 3,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.97% 89.57% 88.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,714 2,417 2,348
10th Percentile £223 £313 £301
25th Percentile £406 £425 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +9.00% +6.95%
75th Percentile £625 £640 £588
90th Percentile £700 £719 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 348 194
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.63 £17.69 £17.25
Median hourly rate £47.83 £61.50 £48.38
Median % change year-on-year -22.23% +27.13% +7.50%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £64.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.34 £69.95
England median hourly rate £35.00 £38.35 £24.00
% change year-on-year -8.74% +59.79% -

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Debt in the South West

Technical Debt
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Debt in the South West

Technical Debt
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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
Bristol +19 4 £488 +30.00% 1
Wiltshire - 1 - -
Technical Debt
England

Technical Debt
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (40.00%) Tech for Good
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Solution Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) Application Virtualisation
1 2 (40.00%) BDD
1 2 (40.00%) Business Case
1 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Full Stack Development
1 2 (40.00%) Microservices
1 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (40.00%) TDD
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (20.00%) ArchiMate
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) Document Management
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (20.00%) UML
2 1 (20.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Go
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (40.00%) XenApp
1 2 (40.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Citrix
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) BiZZdesign
2 1 (20.00%) Ivanti
2 1 (20.00%) Sparx