Technical Debt Job Trends in Swansea

Technical Debt
West Wales > Swansea

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Swansea requiring Technical Debt skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Technical Debt 5 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Swansea 1.52% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.18% - -
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £69,651 - -
25th Percentile £69,875 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Wales median annual salary £70,000 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Swansea

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 Swansea.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 229 35 157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Swansea 69.39% 77.78% 79.29%
Number of salaries quoted 152 27 137
10th Percentile £35,000 £21,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £37,733 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +45.76% -24.53% +19.46%
75th Percentile £73,750 £53,762 £57,500
90th Percentile £78,800 £59,857 £70,000
West Wales median annual salary £50,000 £37,733 £47,316
% change year-on-year +32.51% -20.25% +11.33%

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

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

Technical Debt job vacancy trend in Swansea

Technical Debt
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea 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 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Chief Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Product Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Hibernate
1 3 (60.00%) JPA
1 3 (60.00%) Kafka
1 3 (60.00%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (60.00%) RESTful
1 3 (60.00%) Spring
1 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) Observability
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (60.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) ArchiMate
4 1 (20.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
4 1 (20.00%) Coaching
4 1 (20.00%) Line Management
4 1 (20.00%) Matrix Organization
4 1 (20.00%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO 9001
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform