Technical Debt Contracts in the UK excluding London

Technical Debt
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 339 390 414
Rank change year-on-year +51 +24 -27
Contract jobs citing Technical Debt 49 57 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.24% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.27% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 40 79
10th Percentile £409 £363 £416
25th Percentile £456 £459 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £656 £650
90th Percentile £700 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £514 £638 £600
% change year-on-year -19.41% +6.25% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £62.50 £77.00
% change year-on-year -60.00% -18.83% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,480 21,395 27,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.68% 89.58% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,444 14,842 19,202
10th Percentile £250 £256 £231
25th Percentile £375 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,054 1,309 1,355
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £15.24 £15.63 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.36
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Technical Debt as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Debt in the UK excluding London

Technical Debt
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Debt in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Technical Debt in the UK excluding London

Technical Debt
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Debt in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Debt in the UK excluding London

Technical Debt
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Debt in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Debt in the UK excluding London

Technical Debt
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
North of England +41 21 £575 +6.98% 13
North West +43 18 £563 - 5
Scotland +40 11 £450 -7.83% 1
South East +15 7 £556 -14.42% 23
South West +18 5 £488 +21.88% 4
Midlands +22 4 £419 -15.44% 10
East Midlands +19 4 £419 -20.19% 4
Yorkshire +20 3 £600 +14.29% 6
East of England +7 1 - - 4
Technical Debt
UK

Technical Debt
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (10.20%) Confluence
2 4 (8.16%) CMS
2 4 (8.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (2.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (8.16%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.04%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (8.16%) Temenos T24
2 1 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.04%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 16 (32.65%) AWS
2 13 (26.53%) Azure
3 6 (12.24%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (8.16%) Apigee
4 4 (8.16%) Kong
4 4 (8.16%) SaaS
5 3 (6.12%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (6.12%) OpenShift
5 3 (6.12%) Serverless
6 2 (4.08%) Amazon S3
6 2 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (4.08%) GCP
6 2 (4.08%) NuGet
6 2 (4.08%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.04%) Lucidchart
7 1 (2.04%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.04%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.24%) MongoDB
2 5 (10.20%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (8.16%) OLAP
3 4 (8.16%) OLTP
3 4 (8.16%) Oracle OLAP
4 3 (6.12%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (4.08%) Metadata
5 2 (4.08%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.04%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.04%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 7 (14.29%) JIRA
2 4 (8.16%) Cypress.io
3 3 (6.12%) GitLab
3 3 (6.12%) Jenkins
4 2 (4.08%) Artifactory
General
1 9 (18.37%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.33%) Finance
3 7 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 6 (12.24%) Banking
5 4 (8.16%) Retail
6 3 (6.12%) Games
7 2 (4.08%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (4.08%) Publishing
7 2 (4.08%) Tech for Good
8 1 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.04%) Retail Banking
8 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (30.61%) Architect
2 9 (18.37%) Senior
3 8 (16.33%) Developer
3 8 (16.33%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (10.20%) Telephony Architect
5 4 (8.16%) AWS Architect
5 4 (8.16%) Full Stack Developer
5 4 (8.16%) Site Engineer
5 4 (8.16%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Designer
6 3 (6.12%) Lead
6 3 (6.12%) Product Manager
6 3 (6.12%) Senior Designer
6 3 (6.12%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Software Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Technical Leader
7 2 (4.08%) Java Developer
7 2 (4.08%) SAP Manager
7 2 (4.08%) Technical Manager
7 2 (4.08%) Technical Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.33%) Spring
1 8 (16.33%) Spring Boot
2 7 (14.29%) React
3 6 (12.24%) REST
4 5 (10.20%) CSS
4 5 (10.20%) HTML
4 5 (10.20%) Kafka
5 4 (8.16%) .NET
5 4 (8.16%) Apache Camel
5 4 (8.16%) IBM Integration Bus
5 4 (8.16%) J2EE
5 4 (8.16%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (8.16%) SOAP
5 4 (8.16%) Spring Integration
5 4 (8.16%) Web Services
6 3 (6.12%) AWS CDK
6 3 (6.12%) Node.js
6 3 (6.12%) Spring MVC
6 3 (6.12%) Spring Web Flow
6 3 (6.12%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.16%) DataPower
2 2 (4.08%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.08%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.04%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.04%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.16%) Windows
2 3 (6.12%) Linux
3 2 (4.08%) Windows 10
3 2 (4.08%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.08%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (4.08%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (2.04%) Windows 7
4 1 (2.04%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (40.82%) Agile
2 18 (36.73%) DevOps
3 13 (26.53%) Roadmaps
4 12 (24.49%) Microservices
5 11 (22.45%) CI/CD
5 11 (22.45%) Pair Programming
5 11 (22.45%) Test Automation
6 10 (20.41%) Migration
7 9 (18.37%) Enterprise Architecture
7 9 (18.37%) Full Stack Development
8 8 (16.33%) Analytics
8 8 (16.33%) TDD
9 7 (14.29%) Business Strategy
9 7 (14.29%) Inclusive Design
10 6 (12.24%) Community of Practice
10 6 (12.24%) Data Privacy
10 6 (12.24%) Human-Centred Design
10 6 (12.24%) Risk Management
10 6 (12.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 6 (12.24%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (24.49%) JavaScript
2 11 (22.45%) Java
3 8 (16.33%) SQL
4 5 (10.20%) C#
4 5 (10.20%) Python
5 2 (4.08%) Go
5 2 (4.08%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.04%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (6.12%) Degree
1 3 (6.12%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.04%) DV Cleared
2 1 (2.04%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (28.57%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.04%) QA
2 1 (2.04%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (6.12%) Docker
2 2 (4.08%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.08%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (4.08%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (4.08%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (4.08%) XenApp
2 2 (4.08%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 6 (12.24%) Grafana
2 5 (10.20%) Kubernetes
3 4 (8.16%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (6.12%) Terraform
5 2 (4.08%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.04%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (12.24%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.16%) IBM
2 4 (8.16%) Oracle
2 4 (8.16%) TSYS
3 3 (6.12%) MuleSoft
3 3 (6.12%) SAP
4 2 (4.08%) Citrix
4 2 (4.08%) Mitel
4 2 (4.08%) Pega
4 2 (4.08%) Sparx
4 2 (4.08%) Splunk
5 1 (2.04%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (2.04%) Ivanti