Technical Debt Job Trends in Stoke-on-Trent

Technical Debt
Staffordshire > Stoke-on-Trent

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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Technical Debt 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Stoke-on-Trent 0.26% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - -
75th Percentile £82,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Staffordshire median annual salary £80,000 - £35,000
% change year-on-year - - -57.58%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Stoke-on-Trent

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 Stoke-on-Trent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 249 88 290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent 64.51% 88.89% 85.04%
Number of salaries quoted 163 56 247
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,000 £21,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £43,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £54,375 £61,500
Staffordshire median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% +6.25% -11.11%

Technical Debt
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stoke-on-Trent 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Nutanix
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix