Technical Debt Jobs in South Wales

Technical Debt
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 - 105
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendPermanent jobs citing Technical Debt 5 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 0.34% - 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% - 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50,250 - £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 - £45,000
75th Percentile £53,750 - £46,500
90th Percentile £59,000 - -
Wales median annual salary £68,750 - £45,000

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,198 861 1,027
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 82.00% 67.85% 96.52%
Number of salaries quoted 852 547 486
10th Percentile £21,620 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile - £35,700 £37,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,087 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -49.83% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £51,344 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £66,000 £75,000 £72,750
Wales median annual salary £25,087 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -44.25% - -10.00%

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Debt in South Wales

Technical Debt
Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Technical Debt.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Technical Debt

Technical Debt
Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
DemandTrendPermanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Torfaen - 5 £52,500 - 1
Technical Debt
Wales

Technical Debt
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Modbus
1 4 (80.00%) MQTT
1 4 (80.00%) Network Security
1 4 (80.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Firmware Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) IoT
2 4 (80.00%) Device Driver
3 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Unix
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) API Development
2 4 (80.00%) Computer Architecture
2 4 (80.00%) Product Strategy
3 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 2 (40.00%) Systems Thinking
5 1 (20.00%) Agile
5 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (20.00%) Mobile Application Development
5 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (20.00%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) C
1 4 (80.00%) C++
2 1 (20.00%) C#
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Firmware