Technical Debt Job Trends in the Midlands

Technical Debt
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Technical Debt skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 224 219
Rank change year-on-year +17 -5 +82
Permanent jobs citing Technical Debt 7 16 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.090% 0.25% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.28% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 7 12 6
10th Percentile £73,450 £44,167 £61,375
25th Percentile £73,750 £69,070 £69,522
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £88,750 £73,805
Median % change year-on-year -9.86% +20.25% -1.59%
75th Percentile £82,500 £96,250 £77,188
90th Percentile £83,000 - £77,500
England median annual salary £85,000 £70,000 £73,805
% change year-on-year +21.43% -5.15% -7.74%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,328 5,757 4,965
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.33% 90.41% 86.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3,508 2,513 4,092
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Technical Debt job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Technical Debt
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Technical Debt.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Technical Debt

Technical Debt
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Debt within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
East Midlands -2 7 £80,000 +5.67% 9
Technical Debt
England

Technical Debt
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (14.29%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
1 6 (85.71%) SaaS
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
3 3 (42.86%) GCP
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 1 (14.29%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) SAS EBI
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Law
2 3 (42.86%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Architect
2 4 (57.14%) Product Architect
3 3 (42.86%) .NET Architect
3 3 (42.86%) C# Architect
3 3 (42.86%) SaaS Architect
3 3 (42.86%) Technical Architect
4 2 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (28.57%) Technical Solutions Architect
5 1 (14.29%) Data Manager
5 1 (14.29%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Client/Server
1 3 (42.86%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Event-Driven
1 6 (85.71%) Microservices
1 6 (85.71%) Roadmaps
1 6 (85.71%) Software Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) Architecture Roadmap
3 3 (42.86%) Collaborative Culture
3 3 (42.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 3 (42.86%) Product Management
3 3 (42.86%) SOA
3 3 (42.86%) Software Delivery
3 3 (42.86%) Strategic Roadmap
3 3 (42.86%) Strategic Thinking
3 3 (42.86%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (28.57%) Architectural Design
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) Creative Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (28.57%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) C#
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Databricks