Technical Debt Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Technical Debt
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 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 37 50
Rank change year-on-year -36 +13 -
Contract jobs citing Technical Debt 16 6 2
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 2.06% 1.88% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.17% 2.03% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 1
10th Percentile £465 £135 -
25th Percentile £492 £137 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £145 £450
Median % change year-on-year +262.07% -67.78% -
75th Percentile £537 £148 -
90th Percentile - £348 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £531 £145 £390
% change year-on-year +266.21% -62.82% -32.47%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 739 296 415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 94.99% 92.79% 96.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 170 255
10th Percentile £316 £212 £379
25th Percentile £401 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £509 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.85% -3.14% -
75th Percentile £538 £599 £625
90th Percentile £638 £677 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £481 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.26% -5.00% -3.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 6
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £19.25
25th Percentile £14.71 £14.35 £20.31
Median hourly rate £20.08 £18.10 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -19.58% +60.71%
75th Percentile £25.15 £20.38 £29.38
90th Percentile - £21.05 £40.63
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.08 £21.75 £21.31
% change year-on-year +15.29% +2.06% +0.28%

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Technical Debt job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Technical Debt
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Technical Debt

Technical Debt
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Debt in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Debt in South Yorkshire

Technical Debt
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 23 December 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
Sheffield -30 16 £525 -4.30% 1
Technical Debt
Yorkshire

Technical Debt
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (81.25%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) Kerberos
Development Applications
1 13 (81.25%) JIRA
General
1 5 (31.25%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) Architect
2 10 (62.50%) Security Architect
2 10 (62.50%) Solutions Architect
3 9 (56.25%) Security Solutions Architect
4 5 (31.25%) Lead
4 5 (31.25%) Lead Architect
4 5 (31.25%) Lead Security Architect
4 5 (31.25%) Lead Solutions Architect
5 4 (25.00%) Design Engineer
6 3 (18.75%) CyberArk Architect
7 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Architect
7 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
7 1 (6.25%) Voice Design Engineer
7 1 (6.25%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) OAuth
1 5 (31.25%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 5 (31.25%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Decision-Making
2 15 (93.75%) Cybersecurity
2 15 (93.75%) Identity Access Management
3 12 (75.00%) Secrets Management
3 12 (75.00%) UML
3 12 (75.00%) Visualisation
4 11 (68.75%) Architectural Patterns
4 11 (68.75%) Cryptography
4 11 (68.75%) Dependency Management
4 11 (68.75%) Incident Response
4 11 (68.75%) Privileged Access Management
4 11 (68.75%) SABSA
4 11 (68.75%) Security Operations
4 11 (68.75%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 11 (68.75%) TOGAF
4 11 (68.75%) Vulnerability Management
5 9 (56.25%) Project Governance
5 9 (56.25%) Thought Leadership
6 8 (50.00%) Programme Management
6 8 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Qualifications
1 15 (93.75%) CISM
1 15 (93.75%) CISSP
2 11 (68.75%) TOGAF Certification
3 8 (50.00%) Degree
3 8 (50.00%) Master's Degree
3 8 (50.00%) PhD
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (75.00%) BiZZdesign
2 11 (68.75%) CyberArk
3 10 (62.50%) Centrify
4 4 (25.00%) Thycotic
5 3 (18.75%) Microsoft