Technical Debt Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Technical Debt
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Technical Debt skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 65 77
Rank change year-on-year -13 +12 +46
Contract jobs citing Technical Debt 4 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.44% 0.42% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.49% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £395 - -
25th Percentile £444 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £390
Median % change year-on-year - - -32.47%
75th Percentile £590 - -
90th Percentile £600 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £537 £145 £390
% change year-on-year +270.34% -62.82% -32.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £102.00 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £102.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West 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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 785 615 1,066
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 85.89% 86.74% 90.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 532 385 685
10th Percentile £285 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £388 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.77% -1.90%
75th Percentile £573 £565 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £477 £500
% change year-on-year +1.05% -4.60% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 22 13
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.27 £13.60
25th Percentile £15.97 £17.43 £16.92
Median hourly rate £22.14 £32.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.88% +71.05% -11.63%
75th Percentile £46.56 £40.81 £21.97
90th Percentile £81.25 £92.60 £29.42
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £21.75 £21.31
% change year-on-year +15.63% +2.06% +1.48%

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Technical Debt job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Technical Debt
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

Technical Debt
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Debt in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Debt in West Yorkshire

Technical Debt
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 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
Leeds -12 3 £485 - 2
Huddersfield - 1 £550 -
Technical Debt
Yorkshire

Technical Debt
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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 1 (25.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Bundler
1 1 (25.00%) ESLint
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jasmine
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) Karma Test Runner
1 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (25.00%) webpack
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Lead Developer
1 1 (25.00%) React Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Bootstrap
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) CSS3
1 1 (25.00%) DOM
1 1 (25.00%) Enzyme
1 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (25.00%) Handlebars
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) HTML5
1 1 (25.00%) Jest
1 1 (25.00%) Mustache
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
1 1 (25.00%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) AI
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Code Coverage
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (25.00%) Security Hardening
2 1 (25.00%) Security Patching
2 1 (25.00%) SEO
2 1 (25.00%) SOLID
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
1 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) SCCM
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) VMware