Technical Debt Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Technical Debt
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Technical Debt skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Technical Debt 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 0.73% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £503 - -
25th Percentile £506 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £556 - -
90th Percentile £568 - -
South East median daily rate £589 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -12.72% +8.00% +19.05%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 216 123 225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 78.83% 88.49% 94.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 79 165
10th Percentile £205 £284 £205
25th Percentile £353 £361 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £525
90th Percentile £720 £638 £600
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 7 12
10th Percentile - £16.17 £13.41
25th Percentile £13.13 £16.95 £17.50
Median hourly rate £33.56 £18.82 £20.44
Median % change year-on-year +78.32% -7.91% -7.77%
75th Percentile £60.00 £44.21 £22.25
90th Percentile £67.50 £72.45 £28.25
South East median hourly rate £30.00 £42.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -29.41% +13.33% -16.67%

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Technical Debt job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Technical Debt
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 West Sussex region over the 6 months to 13 March 2026. 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
Worthing - 2 £525 - 1
Technical Debt
South East

Technical Debt
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
1 2 (100.00%) Qlik Sense
1 2 (100.00%) QlikView
1 2 (100.00%) SAP BW
2 1 (50.00%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration Project Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Migration Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Migration Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Project Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) SAP