Technical Debt Job Trends in Cardiff

Technical Debt
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Technical Debt skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 - 61
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Technical Debt 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Cardiff 0.23% - 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% - 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66,091 - £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 - £85,000
75th Percentile £74,066 - £87,500
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median annual salary £70,079 - £85,000

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cardiff

Technical Debt falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cardiff.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 298 149 503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 68.04% 91.41% 81.39%
Number of salaries quoted 193 114 453
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,150
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,059 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.74% +8.12% -
75th Percentile £69,576 £67,029 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,790 £76,815 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +2.15%

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Technical Debt job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Technical Debt
Salary Trend in Cardiff

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Technical Debt.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Technical Debt

Technical Debt
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Locust
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Gherkin
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform