Technical Debt Jobs in the North of England

Technical Debt
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Technical Debt skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Technical Debt over the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 305 327 402
Rank change year-on-year +22 +75 -2
Permanent jobs citing Technical Debt 31 59 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.27% 0.34% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.40% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 27 44 20
10th Percentile £46,750 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £59,168 £54,688 £54,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £64,250 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +12.84% +4.90% -2.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,772 £91,250
90th Percentile £82,600 - £137,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,984 14,610 16,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 95.02% 83.41% 96.86%
Number of salaries quoted 5,776 11,215 8,016
10th Percentile £25,500 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Technical Debt as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Debt in the North of England

Technical Debt
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Technical Debt in the North of England.

Salary trend for Technical Debt in the North of England

Technical Debt
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Debt in the North of England over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Debt in the North of England

Technical Debt
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Debt within the North of England region over the 6 months to 13 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West -8 19 £75,000 +15.38% 23
Yorkshire +65 11 £62,779 +2.57% 11
North East +44 1 £62,779 -14.94% 2
Technical Debt
England

Technical Debt
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 3 (9.68%) OpenStack
2 2 (6.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) AutoCAD
1 1 (3.23%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 14 (45.16%) AWS
2 7 (22.58%) Azure
3 6 (19.35%) Amazon SQS
3 6 (19.35%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (19.35%) GCP
3 6 (19.35%) Serverless
4 5 (16.13%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (12.90%) Power Platform
6 3 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (6.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (3.23%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (22.58%) Data Lake
2 5 (16.13%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (16.13%) SQL Server
3 3 (9.68%) BigQuery
3 3 (9.68%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (9.68%) Looker
3 3 (9.68%) MySQL
3 3 (9.68%) NoSQL
3 3 (9.68%) Power BI
3 3 (9.68%) Power Query
4 2 (6.45%) MongoDB
4 2 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Git
2 2 (6.45%) JIRA
General
1 13 (41.94%) Social Skills
2 9 (29.03%) Public Sector
3 6 (19.35%) Finance
4 3 (9.68%) Advertising
5 1 (3.23%) Banking
5 1 (3.23%) Games
5 1 (3.23%) Legal
5 1 (3.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (45.16%) Architect
2 10 (32.26%) Solutions Architect
3 9 (29.03%) Senior
4 8 (25.81%) Lead
5 7 (22.58%) Senior Architect
5 7 (22.58%) Senior Solutions Architect
6 4 (12.90%) Enterprise Architect
6 4 (12.90%) Team Leader
7 3 (9.68%) Data Engineer
7 3 (9.68%) Developer
7 3 (9.68%) Technical Leader
8 2 (6.45%) C# Architect
8 2 (6.45%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
8 2 (6.45%) Node.js Developer
8 2 (6.45%) Software Architect
8 2 (6.45%) Software Engineering Team Leader
8 2 (6.45%) Software Team Leader
9 1 (3.23%) ERP Architect
9 1 (3.23%) Head of Architecture
9 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365 Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (29.03%) AngularJS
2 8 (25.81%) Vue
3 6 (19.35%) .NET
3 6 (19.35%) Laravel
4 4 (12.90%) CSS
4 4 (12.90%) HTML
4 4 (12.90%) React
5 3 (9.68%) Node.js
5 3 (9.68%) Serverless Framework
6 2 (6.45%) .NET Framework
7 1 (3.23%) ASP.NET
7 1 (3.23%) RESTful
7 1 (3.23%) Web Services
7 1 (3.23%) WinForms
7 1 (3.23%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (32.26%) Public Cloud
2 7 (22.58%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (9.68%) Data Centre
3 3 (9.68%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.23%) Operational Technology
5 1 (3.23%) Private Cloud
5 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (48.39%) Mentoring
2 12 (38.71%) Roadmaps
2 12 (38.71%) User Experience
3 11 (35.48%) Coaching
3 11 (35.48%) Data Strategy
4 10 (32.26%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (25.81%) Agile
5 8 (25.81%) Architectural Design
5 8 (25.81%) Data Architecture
5 8 (25.81%) Digital Strategy
6 7 (22.58%) Analytics
6 7 (22.58%) CI/CD
6 7 (22.58%) Data Acquisition
6 7 (22.58%) Domain-Driven Design
6 7 (22.58%) Event-Driven
6 7 (22.58%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 7 (22.58%) Product Roadmap
6 7 (22.58%) Service Delivery
6 7 (22.58%) Software Engineering
7 5 (16.13%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 10 (32.26%) JavaScript
1 10 (32.26%) TypeScript
2 7 (22.58%) SQL
3 6 (19.35%) PHP
4 5 (16.13%) C#
5 3 (9.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 5 (16.13%) AWS Certification
1 5 (16.13%) Azure Certification
2 2 (6.45%) Degree
2 2 (6.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (19.35%) QA
2 2 (6.45%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.23%) GRC
3 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (6.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (16.13%) Terraform
2 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (12.90%) Google
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.23%) CheckPoint
3 1 (3.23%) SAP