Technical Debt Jobs in the North West

Technical Debt
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 270 252 273
Rank change year-on-year -18 +21 +12
Permanent jobs citing Technical Debt 19 39 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.24% 0.40% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.48% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 17 25 15
10th Percentile £59,168 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,401 £56,809 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -7.14% +17.60%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £120,000
90th Percentile £81,000 £75,772 £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 West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,669 8,165 7,493
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.77% 82.81% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 4,125 6,197 3,919
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,500 £30,831
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Debt in the North West

Technical Debt
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Technical Debt in the North West

Technical Debt
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Debt in the North West over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Debt in the North West

Technical Debt
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Manchester +46 14 £75,000 +13.64% 18
Cheshire +6 3 £80,000 +45.45% 1
Lancashire -69 2 £62,492 +2.10% 6
Technical Debt
England

Technical Debt
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (15.79%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) AutoCAD
1 1 (5.26%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) AWS
2 6 (31.58%) Amazon SQS
2 6 (31.58%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (31.58%) Serverless
3 5 (26.32%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (26.32%) Azure
4 3 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (15.79%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.26%) MySQL
3 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Git
General
1 11 (57.89%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Finance
2 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.26%) Games
3 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Architect
1 8 (42.11%) Lead
2 6 (31.58%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (21.05%) Enterprise Architect
3 4 (21.05%) Senior
3 4 (21.05%) Team Leader
4 3 (15.79%) Senior Architect
4 3 (15.79%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 3 (15.79%) Technical Leader
5 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Software Engineering Team Leader
5 2 (10.53%) Software Team Leader
6 1 (5.26%) Development Team Leader
6 1 (5.26%) ERP Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Head of Architecture
6 1 (5.26%) Head of Payments
6 1 (5.26%) Lead .NET Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365 Architect
6 1 (5.26%) PHP Team Leader
6 1 (5.26%) Technical Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (36.84%) AngularJS
2 6 (31.58%) Laravel
2 6 (31.58%) Vue
3 4 (21.05%) .NET
3 4 (21.05%) CSS
3 4 (21.05%) HTML
4 3 (15.79%) Serverless Framework
5 2 (10.53%) .NET Framework
5 2 (10.53%) React
6 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET
6 1 (5.26%) Node.js
6 1 (5.26%) RESTful
6 1 (5.26%) Web Services
6 1 (5.26%) WinForms
6 1 (5.26%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Public Cloud
2 3 (15.79%) Data Centre
2 3 (15.79%) Distributed Architecture
2 3 (15.79%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) Operational Technology
3 1 (5.26%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) Mentoring
2 8 (42.11%) Roadmaps
2 8 (42.11%) User Experience
3 7 (36.84%) Coaching
4 5 (26.32%) Agile
4 5 (26.32%) Business Strategy
4 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
4 5 (26.32%) Code Quality
4 5 (26.32%) Market Research
4 5 (26.32%) Software Engineering
5 4 (21.05%) Architectural Design
5 4 (21.05%) Data Architecture
5 4 (21.05%) Digital Strategy
5 4 (21.05%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (21.05%) SQL Optimisation
5 4 (21.05%) TOGAF
6 3 (15.79%) Customer Requirements
6 3 (15.79%) Data Acquisition
6 3 (15.79%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) JavaScript
1 8 (42.11%) TypeScript
2 6 (31.58%) PHP
3 5 (26.32%) SQL
4 3 (15.79%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) AWS Certification
1 3 (15.79%) Azure Certification
2 2 (10.53%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) GRC
2 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) CheckPoint
2 1 (5.26%) Google
2 1 (5.26%) SAP