Technical Debt Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Technical Debt
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Technical Debt skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 42 61
Rank change year-on-year -11 +19 +6
Contract jobs citing Technical Debt 1 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 0.23% 1.11% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 1.27% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £653 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £707 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.68%
75th Percentile £760 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £688 £738 £625
% change year-on-year -6.81% +18.04% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
South East median hourly rate - - £50.00

All Process & Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 361 316 541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 82.23% 87.78% 84.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 197 414
10th Percentile £204 £195 £200
25th Percentile £350 £260 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £489
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.81% -3.69%
75th Percentile £582 £550 £575
90th Percentile £688 £663 £679
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £505
% change year-on-year -0.10% -0.89% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 15 42
10th Percentile £25.15 £15.95 £13.25
25th Percentile £33.10 £22.24 £16.31
Median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +127.46% -51.64% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60.00 £26.50 £76.53
90th Percentile £75.00 £31.95 £77.40
South East median hourly rate £25.08 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -44.28% -5.26% +5.56%

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Technical Debt job vacancy trend in Surrey

Technical Debt
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

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

Technical Debt
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 (100.00%) SAP CO
1 1 (100.00%) SAP FI
1 1 (100.00%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (100.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Product Lead
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Product Management
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) SAP
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow