Technical Debt Jobs in the South East

Technical Debt
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 276 364 357
Rank change year-on-year +88 -7 +45
Permanent jobs citing Technical Debt 17 26 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.18% 0.15% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.18% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 7 22 14
10th Percentile £48,500 £44,942 £44,800
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,813 £46,413
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £72,250 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £84,200 £77,000 £128,500
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
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,617 14,216 13,669
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 91.72% 84.52% 94.50%
Number of salaries quoted 4,300 9,913 7,957
10th Percentile £29,975 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,250
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Debt in the South East

Technical Debt
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Technical Debt in the South East.

Salary trend for Technical Debt in the South East

Technical Debt
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for Technical Debt in the South East

Technical Debt
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Debt within the South East 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
Surrey +57 10 £50,000 -23.08% 3
Hampshire +58 4 £60,000 +30.92% 11
Berkshire - 3 - - 4
Thames Valley - 3 - - 5
Technical Debt
England

Technical Debt
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 7 (41.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) Power Automate
2 4 (23.53%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Functions
3 2 (11.76%) Serverless
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Machine Learning
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Git
2 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.76%) Selenium
3 1 (5.88%) git-flow
3 1 (5.88%) GitLab
General
1 7 (41.18%) Local Government
1 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Law
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Legal
3 1 (5.88%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Developer
2 7 (41.18%) Automation Developer
2 7 (41.18%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
2 7 (41.18%) Robotics Developer
3 3 (17.65%) IT Director
3 3 (17.65%) Services Director
4 2 (11.76%) Applications Support
4 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Applications Support Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Applications Support Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) ERP Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) ERP Support
5 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Node.js Developer
5 1 (5.88%) React Developer
5 1 (5.88%) SAP Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) SAP Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) .NET
2 2 (11.76%) Node.js
2 2 (11.76%) React
3 1 (5.88%) FastAPI
3 1 (5.88%) GraphQL
3 1 (5.88%) Jest
3 1 (5.88%) PyTorch
3 1 (5.88%) REST
3 1 (5.88%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Onboarding
1 7 (41.18%) Robotics
2 3 (17.65%) CMDB
2 3 (17.65%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.88%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (41.18%) Conversational UI
2 7 (41.18%) Robotic Process Automation
2 7 (41.18%) Software Testing
3 3 (17.65%) Agile
3 3 (17.65%) Analytics
3 3 (17.65%) BCP
3 3 (17.65%) Business Continuity
3 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
3 3 (17.65%) Coaching
3 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement Process
3 3 (17.65%) DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (17.65%) Information Security
3 3 (17.65%) ITSM
3 3 (17.65%) Lean Six Sigma
3 3 (17.65%) Performance Metrics
3 3 (17.65%) Service Management
3 3 (17.65%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) JavaScript
2 7 (41.18%) C#
2 7 (41.18%) VB.NET
3 1 (5.88%) Python
3 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
2 3 (17.65%) Master's Degree
2 3 (17.65%) Six Sigma Black Belt
2 3 (17.65%) Six Sigma Green Belt
2 3 (17.65%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
3 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.88%) CISA
3 1 (5.88%) CISSP
3 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (41.18%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.88%) NIST
2 1 (5.88%) NIST 800
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
1 7 (41.18%) UiPath
2 1 (5.88%) SAP