Technical Debt Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Technical Debt
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Technical Debt skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 178 186 171
Rank change year-on-year +8 -15 +47
Permanent jobs citing Technical Debt 3 7 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.086% 0.16% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.098% 0.19% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 0
10th Percentile - £63,000 -
25th Percentile £81,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 -
90th Percentile - £92,000 -
South East median annual salary £82,000 £66,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year +23.77% +1.92% -16.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,067 3,621 3,096
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 88.18% 83.97% 93.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,552 1,746 2,125
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £33,995 £43,790 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £56,509 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% +2.74% -
75th Percentile £66,290 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Technical Debt job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Technical Debt
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Technical Debt.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Technical Debt

Technical Debt
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Debt within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 6 November 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
Buckinghamshire +10 2 - - 1
Berkshire +8 1 £82,500 +3.13% 20
Technical Debt
South East

Technical Debt
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) SAS EBI
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Data Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Service Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Apple iOS
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) IT Strategy
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
1 2 (66.67%) Technology Strategy
1 2 (66.67%) Technology Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Business Development
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Coaching
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Dimensional Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Kimball Methodology
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks