Technical Debt Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Technical Debt
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Technical Debt skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Technical Debt over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 266 308 419
Rank change year-on-year +42 +111 +49
Contract jobs citing Technical Debt 38 37 58
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.38% 0.24% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.27% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 26 41
10th Percentile £135 £457 £453
25th Percentile £139 £489 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £568 £625
Median % change year-on-year -25.11% -9.20% -
75th Percentile £720 £713 £700
90th Percentile £738 £938 £743
UK median daily rate £575 £525 £638
% change year-on-year +9.52% -17.65% +4.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £37.93 - -
25th Percentile £56.94 - -
Median hourly rate £86.00 - -
75th Percentile £102.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £90.42 £25.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +261.66% -60.00% -19.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Technical Debt
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Technical Debt as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Technical Debt trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Technical Debt
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Technical Debt.

Technical Debt daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Debt
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Technical Debt over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Technical Debt daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Debt
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Technical Debt.

Technical Debt hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Debt
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Technical Debt over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Technical Debt hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Debt
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (10.53%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.63%) Confluence
2 1 (2.63%) GeoServer
2 1 (2.63%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.63%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 14 (36.84%) AWS
2 8 (21.05%) GCP
3 7 (18.42%) Azure
4 3 (7.89%) Power Platform
5 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.26%) Cloud Composer
5 2 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (5.26%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 2 (5.26%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.63%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.63%) GitHub
6 1 (2.63%) IaaS
6 1 (2.63%) PaaS
6 1 (2.63%) SaaS
6 1 (2.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) DHCP
1 1 (2.63%) DNS
1 1 (2.63%) Kerberos
1 1 (2.63%) NAS
1 1 (2.63%) NetScaler
1 1 (2.63%) SAN
1 1 (2.63%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.63%) VLAN
1 1 (2.63%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.05%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (13.16%) Looker
3 4 (10.53%) Big Data
3 4 (10.53%) Data Mining
4 3 (7.89%) BigQuery
4 3 (7.89%) Power BI
5 2 (5.26%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.63%) GIS
6 1 (2.63%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.63%) OLAP
6 1 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.63%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Git
1 2 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.63%) JIRA
2 1 (2.63%) TeamCity
General
1 12 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 11 (28.95%) Finance
3 5 (13.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (10.53%) Law
4 4 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.26%) Banking
6 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (21.05%) Analyst
1 8 (21.05%) Data Analyst
2 7 (18.42%) Developer
2 7 (18.42%) Lead
3 5 (13.16%) Junior
3 5 (13.16%) Junior Analyst
3 5 (13.16%) Junior Data Analyst
4 4 (10.53%) Architect
4 4 (10.53%) Big Data Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Server Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Technical Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Lead Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Linux Server Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Salesforce Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Senior
6 2 (5.26%) Windows Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 1 (2.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.53%) Ray
2 3 (7.89%) Kafka
3 2 (5.26%) .NET
3 2 (5.26%) AngularJS
3 2 (5.26%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (5.26%) React
3 2 (5.26%) Spring
4 1 (2.63%) ADO
4 1 (2.63%) ASP.NET
4 1 (2.63%) AWS CDK
4 1 (2.63%) CSS
4 1 (2.63%) HTML
4 1 (2.63%) J2EE
4 1 (2.63%) jQuery
4 1 (2.63%) JSON
4 1 (2.63%) LDAP
4 1 (2.63%) Middleware
4 1 (2.63%) SOAP
4 1 (2.63%) Struts
4 1 (2.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Product Ownership
2 4 (10.53%) Distributed Computing
2 4 (10.53%) Tandem
3 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.26%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.63%) BYOD
4 1 (2.63%) Clustering
4 1 (2.63%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.63%) Legacy Code
4 1 (2.63%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (23.68%) Windows
2 8 (21.05%) Linux
3 7 (18.42%) Windows Server
4 5 (13.16%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (5.26%) Unix
6 1 (2.63%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (2.63%) Solaris
6 1 (2.63%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (34.21%) Agile
2 12 (31.58%) Decision-Making
3 11 (28.95%) ETL
4 9 (23.68%) Data Governance
5 8 (21.05%) CI/CD
5 8 (21.05%) Data Analysis
5 8 (21.05%) Data Strategy
5 8 (21.05%) ETL Development
6 7 (18.42%) ITIL
6 7 (18.42%) Microservices
6 7 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (18.42%) Roadmaps
6 7 (18.42%) Technical Leadership
7 6 (15.79%) DevOps
7 6 (15.79%) Mentoring
7 6 (15.79%) Project Delivery
7 6 (15.79%) Service-Level Objective
8 5 (13.16%) Low Latency
8 5 (13.16%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (13.16%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 10 (26.32%) Python
2 6 (15.79%) Java
3 5 (13.16%) SQL
4 4 (10.53%) C
4 4 (10.53%) C++
4 4 (10.53%) Shell Script
5 2 (5.26%) Apex Code
5 2 (5.26%) C#
5 2 (5.26%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.26%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.63%) Bash
6 1 (2.63%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.63%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (18.42%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.63%) Degree
4 1 (2.63%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (21.05%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.26%) QA
3 1 (2.63%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.63%) GDPR
3 1 (2.63%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (2.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (2.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (7.89%) Docker
3 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.63%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (2.63%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.63%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.63%) XenApp
3 1 (2.63%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 5 (13.16%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.89%) Terraform
3 2 (5.26%) Ansible
4 1 (2.63%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (2.63%) Grafana
4 1 (2.63%) Netcool
4 1 (2.63%) Tivoli
4 1 (2.63%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 8 (21.05%) VMware
2 7 (18.42%) Google
3 5 (13.16%) Red Hat
4 3 (7.89%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.26%) Cisco
5 2 (5.26%) IBM
5 2 (5.26%) Oracle
5 2 (5.26%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.63%) Citrix
6 1 (2.63%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.63%) EMC
6 1 (2.63%) Isilon
6 1 (2.63%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.63%) Pega
6 1 (2.63%) Qualys
6 1 (2.63%) Serena
6 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.63%) Splunk
6 1 (2.63%) Sybase
6 1 (2.63%) Tanium