Technical Debt Job Trends in Merseyside

Technical Debt
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Technical Debt skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Technical Debt 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Merseyside 0.083% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - -
75th Percentile £58,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £64,750
% change year-on-year -13.33% +15.83% +7.92%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 864 440 971
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 71.70% 93.42% 74.87%
Number of salaries quoted 561 174 807
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £27,650
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,250 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.82% +1.61% +3.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,938 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £76,250 £80,497
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.77% +4.00% -9.09%

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Technical Debt job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Technical Debt
Salary Trend in Merseyside

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Technical Debt.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Technical Debt

Technical Debt
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Debt within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 25 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Liverpool - 1 £57,500 - 1
Technical Debt
North West

Technical Debt
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM Developer
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CAD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Webhook
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow