Technical Debt Job Trends in Preston

Technical Debt
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Preston requiring Technical Debt skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 - 24
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Technical Debt 5 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Preston 1.28% - 2.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% - 2.74%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile - - £63,250
25th Percentile £62,500 - £64,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - £65,000
75th Percentile £67,500 - £68,750
90th Percentile - - £71,000
Lancashire median annual salary £65,000 - £63,277

All Process & Methodology Skills
Preston

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 Preston.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 249 45 146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Preston 63.52% 76.27% 97.33%
Number of salaries quoted 175 30 115
10th Percentile £34,000 £40,125 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £36,600
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,763 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +3.53% +8.70%
75th Percentile £70,000 £54,948 £61,875
90th Percentile £78,000 £61,500 £71,200
Lancashire median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

Technical Debt job vacancy trend in Preston

Technical Debt
Salary Trend in Preston

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing Technical Debt.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing Technical Debt

Technical Debt
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (40.00%) Metadata
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
General
1 3 (60.00%) Influencing Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Aerospace
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
1 3 (60.00%) Data Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 5 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 5 (100.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (60.00%) Architectural Design
2 3 (60.00%) Business Strategy
2 3 (60.00%) DAMA
2 3 (60.00%) Data Strategy
2 3 (60.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (60.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) ITSM
2 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (60.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 3 (60.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 3 (60.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
1 3 (60.00%) TOGAF Certification
2 2 (40.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) BiZZdesign
2 2 (40.00%) Alteryx