Technical Debt Jobs in the UK excluding London

Technical Debt
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Technical Debt skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Technical Debt over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 630 577 581
Rank change year-on-year -53 +4 -57
Permanent jobs citing Technical Debt 132 156 280
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.26% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.28% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 106 74 190
10th Percentile £44,942 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,813 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £78,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.46% +21.15% +18.18%
75th Percentile £75,267 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £137,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £77,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +0.65% +2.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Technical Debt is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,837 56,365 67,584
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.55% 95.59% 94.14%
Number of salaries quoted 41,306 29,082 41,028
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Technical Debt as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Debt in the UK excluding London

Technical Debt
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Technical Debt in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Technical Debt in the UK excluding London

Technical Debt
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Debt in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Technical Debt in the UK excluding London

Technical Debt
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Debt within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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
North of England +75 57 £66,750 +11.25% 3
North West +20 38 £66,750 +11.25% 1
West Midlands +15 29 £62,500 -21.88% 4
Midlands -7 29 £62,500 -21.88% 8
South East -7 26 £65,000 -13.33% 23
Yorkshire +89 17 £61,206 +2.01%
South West -31 11 £72,500 +11.54% 3
East of England +1 8 £55,000 -18.52% 6
North East - 2 £73,805 - 2
Isle of Man - 1 - -
Technical Debt
UK

Technical Debt
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (3.79%) SharePoint
1 5 (3.79%) Umbraco
2 4 (3.03%) Confluence
3 1 (0.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (7.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (3.79%) SAP IBP
2 5 (3.79%) SAP PP
2 5 (3.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.76%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 61 (46.21%) Azure
2 34 (25.76%) AWS
3 15 (11.36%) Power Platform
4 11 (8.33%) SaaS
5 9 (6.82%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (5.30%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (5.30%) GCP
7 6 (4.55%) PowerApps
8 5 (3.79%) Power Automate
9 3 (2.27%) GitHub
10 2 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.76%) Apigee
11 1 (0.76%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.76%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (0.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (0.76%) Boomi
11 1 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.76%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.76%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.03%) Network Security
2 1 (0.76%) Firewall
2 1 (0.76%) LAN
2 1 (0.76%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.76%) VPN
2 1 (0.76%) WAN
2 1 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.61%) MySQL
2 9 (6.82%) Power BI
3 7 (5.30%) Metadata
3 7 (5.30%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.79%) Power Query
4 5 (3.79%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.03%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.27%) QualityStage
7 2 (1.52%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.76%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.76%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.76%) OLAP
8 1 (0.76%) OLTP
8 1 (0.76%) Oracle OLAP
8 1 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 22 (16.67%) Git
2 13 (9.85%) JIRA
3 12 (9.09%) GitLab
4 10 (7.58%) Jenkins
5 6 (4.55%) NUnit
6 4 (3.03%) Subversion
7 2 (1.52%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.76%) Moq
8 1 (0.76%) Phabricator
8 1 (0.76%) Sourcetree
General
1 32 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 26 (19.70%) Finance
3 14 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.82%) Legal
4 9 (6.82%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.55%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.79%) Digital Healthcare
7 4 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.03%) Games
7 4 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.03%) Retail
8 3 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.27%) Wearables
9 1 (0.76%) Banking
9 1 (0.76%) Electronics
9 1 (0.76%) Local Government
9 1 (0.76%) Marketing
9 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (29.55%) Architect
2 36 (27.27%) Developer
3 34 (25.76%) Lead
4 25 (18.94%) Senior
5 23 (17.42%) Solutions Architect
6 15 (11.36%) Software Manager
7 14 (10.61%) Product Manager
8 12 (9.09%) .NET Developer
8 12 (9.09%) Lead Developer
8 12 (9.09%) Lead Product Manager
9 10 (7.58%) Engineering Manager
9 10 (7.58%) Software Engineering Manager
10 8 (6.06%) Senior Architect
10 8 (6.06%) Senior Solutions Architect
11 7 (5.30%) Data Architect
11 7 (5.30%) Lead .NET Developer
11 7 (5.30%) PHP Developer
12 6 (4.55%) Lead Architect
13 5 (3.79%) Lead PHP Developer
13 5 (3.79%) SAP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (18.94%) .NET
2 23 (17.42%) HTML
3 20 (15.15%) CSS
4 18 (13.64%) .NET Framework
5 12 (9.09%) Laravel
6 11 (8.33%) React
7 10 (7.58%) Web Services
8 7 (5.30%) ASP.NET
8 7 (5.30%) ASP.NET MVC
8 7 (5.30%) Tailwind CSS
8 7 (5.30%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 7 (5.30%) Vue
9 6 (4.55%) React Native
10 5 (3.79%) .NET Core
10 5 (3.79%) jQuery
10 5 (3.79%) LINQ
10 5 (3.79%) SAP TM
10 5 (3.79%) Spring
10 5 (3.79%) Spring Boot
11 4 (3.03%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.61%) Management Information System
2 13 (9.85%) Mobile App
3 7 (5.30%) Blog
3 7 (5.30%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.30%) Video\Live Streaming
4 5 (3.79%) FMCG
5 4 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.03%) PMI
6 3 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.27%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.52%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.52%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.76%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.76%) DataPower
8 1 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.76%) IoT
8 1 (0.76%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.09%) Linux
2 8 (6.06%) VME
3 6 (4.55%) Windows
4 4 (3.03%) Android
4 4 (3.03%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.76%) Debian
5 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (59.85%) Agile
2 60 (45.45%) Roadmaps
3 51 (38.64%) Mentoring
4 30 (22.73%) Coaching
4 30 (22.73%) Product Roadmap
5 28 (21.21%) DevOps
6 24 (18.18%) CI/CD
7 23 (17.42%) Scrum
8 20 (15.15%) Product Strategy
8 20 (15.15%) Project Delivery
9 19 (14.39%) Computer Science
9 19 (14.39%) Product Management
10 17 (12.88%) Decision-Making
10 17 (12.88%) Software Engineering
11 16 (12.12%) Design Patterns
11 16 (12.12%) Product Vision
11 16 (12.12%) Project Management
12 15 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (11.36%) Test Automation
13 14 (10.61%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 31 (23.48%) JavaScript
2 29 (21.97%) C#
3 17 (12.88%) SQL
4 14 (10.61%) PHP
5 10 (7.58%) TypeScript
6 8 (6.06%) COBOL
6 8 (6.06%) Micro Focus COBOL
7 7 (5.30%) Python
8 5 (3.79%) Ada
8 5 (3.79%) Formula Language
8 5 (3.79%) Java
9 3 (2.27%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.52%) C++
10 2 (1.52%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.52%) R
10 2 (1.52%) Scala
10 2 (1.52%) Tcl
11 1 (0.76%) Ruby
11 1 (0.76%) Rust
11 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (18.18%) Degree
2 12 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (7.58%) AWS Certification
4 7 (5.30%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.03%) PMI Certification
5 4 (3.03%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (1.52%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.52%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.76%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.36%) QA
2 7 (5.30%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.30%) GDPR
3 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.76%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (3.03%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (2.27%) Docker
3 2 (1.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (6.06%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.03%) Jamf Pro
2 4 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (3.03%) ZABBIX
3 2 (1.52%) Ansible
4 1 (0.76%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.76%) Grafana
4 1 (0.76%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.76%) Podman
4 1 (0.76%) Puppet
4 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.76%) Terraform
4 1 (0.76%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.06%) Micro Focus
3 6 (4.55%) SAP
4 4 (3.03%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.03%) Tanium
5 1 (0.76%) CheckPoint
5 1 (0.76%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.76%) IBM
5 1 (0.76%) iManage
5 1 (0.76%) Intapp
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle
5 1 (0.76%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.76%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.76%) TSYS
5 1 (0.76%) Veracode