Technical Debt Jobs in the UK excluding London

Technical Debt
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 491 629 593
Rank change year-on-year +138 -36 0
Permanent jobs citing Technical Debt 82 130 157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.18% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.22% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 58 105 80
10th Percentile £53,375 £44,942 £47,500
25th Percentile £59,168 £54,000 £57,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -17.46% +21.15%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,772 £89,688
90th Percentile £85,375 £77,500 £137,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £77,250
% change year-on-year +7.14% -9.39% +3.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,295 59,625 57,307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.88% 84.00% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 18,237 41,241 29,486
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,200 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

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 11 May 2025.

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 11 May 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
North of England +35 31 £72,500 +12.84% 32
North West -18 19 £75,000 +15.38% 20
Wales - 18 £77,500 - 3
South East +92 17 £60,000 -7.69% 50
Yorkshire +60 11 £62,779 +2.57% 11
Scotland - 7 £100,000 - 10
Midlands +44 5 £75,000 +7.14% 12
West Midlands +38 4 £68,889 -1.59% 8
South West +98 2 - - 9
East of England +35 2 £86,000 +56.36% 10
North East +50 1 £62,779 -14.94% 1
East Midlands - 1 £75,708 - 3
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 3 (3.66%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.44%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (8.54%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.22%) AutoCAD
2 1 (1.22%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (2.44%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 35 (42.68%) Azure
2 16 (19.51%) AWS
3 8 (9.76%) Serverless
4 7 (8.54%) GCP
4 7 (8.54%) Power Automate
5 6 (7.32%) Amazon SQS
5 6 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (6.10%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (4.88%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.44%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (1.22%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (1.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (21.95%) Network Security
2 10 (12.20%) Modbus
2 10 (12.20%) MQTT
2 10 (12.20%) TCP/IP
3 4 (4.88%) Internet
4 1 (1.22%) Firewall
4 1 (1.22%) LAN
4 1 (1.22%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.22%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.22%) VoIP
4 1 (1.22%) WAN
4 1 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (18.29%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (14.63%) RDBMS
2 12 (14.63%) Relational Database
3 8 (9.76%) Data Lake
4 5 (6.10%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (6.10%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.66%) BigQuery
5 3 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.66%) Looker
5 3 (3.66%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.66%) MySQL
5 3 (3.66%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.66%) Power BI
5 3 (3.66%) Power Query
6 2 (2.44%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (7.32%) Git
2 2 (2.44%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.44%) JIRA
2 2 (2.44%) Selenium
3 1 (1.22%) git-flow
3 1 (1.22%) GitLab
General
1 43 (52.44%) Social Skills
2 14 (17.07%) Finance
3 10 (12.20%) Public Sector
4 8 (9.76%) Legal
5 7 (8.54%) Local Government
6 5 (6.10%) Law
7 4 (4.88%) Marketing
8 3 (3.66%) Advertising
9 2 (2.44%) Banking
10 1 (1.22%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (1.22%) Games
10 1 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.22%) Retail
10 1 (1.22%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 27 (32.93%) Lead
2 19 (23.17%) Architect
2 19 (23.17%) Developer
3 16 (19.51%) Software Engineer
4 15 (18.29%) Senior
5 13 (15.85%) Solutions Architect
6 12 (14.63%) Lead Software Engineer
6 12 (14.63%) Team Leader
7 10 (12.20%) Software Team Leader
8 9 (10.98%) Lead Developer
9 8 (9.76%) Senior Architect
9 8 (9.76%) Senior Solutions Architect
10 7 (8.54%) Automation Developer
10 7 (8.54%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
10 7 (8.54%) Robotics Developer
11 6 (7.32%) Firmware Developer
11 6 (7.32%) Senior Software Engineer
12 4 (4.88%) Analyst
12 4 (4.88%) Enterprise Architect
12 4 (4.88%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (39.02%) .NET
2 9 (10.98%) AngularJS
3 8 (9.76%) React
3 8 (9.76%) Vue
4 6 (7.32%) Laravel
5 5 (6.10%) Node.js
6 4 (4.88%) CSS
6 4 (4.88%) HTML
7 3 (3.66%) Serverless Framework
8 2 (2.44%) .NET Core
8 2 (2.44%) .NET Framework
9 1 (1.22%) ASP.NET
9 1 (1.22%) GraphQL
9 1 (1.22%) PyTorch
9 1 (1.22%) REST
9 1 (1.22%) RESTful
9 1 (1.22%) TensorFlow
9 1 (1.22%) Web Services
9 1 (1.22%) WinForms
9 1 (1.22%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 18 (21.95%) IoT
2 13 (15.85%) Public Cloud
3 10 (12.20%) Device Driver
4 8 (9.76%) Distributed Architecture
5 7 (8.54%) Onboarding
5 7 (8.54%) Product Ownership
5 7 (8.54%) Robotics
6 5 (6.10%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (3.66%) Cloud Native
8 3 (3.66%) CMDB
8 3 (3.66%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.22%) Augmented Reality
9 1 (1.22%) Operational Technology
9 1 (1.22%) Private Cloud
9 1 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (21.95%) Linux
1 18 (21.95%) Unix
1 18 (21.95%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (51.22%) Agile
2 36 (43.90%) Mentoring
3 28 (34.15%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (34.15%) Software Engineering
4 23 (28.05%) Technical Leadership
5 22 (26.83%) CI/CD
6 19 (23.17%) Product Strategy
7 18 (21.95%) Roadmaps
8 17 (20.73%) Coaching
9 16 (19.51%) Full-Stack Development
10 13 (15.85%) Analytics
10 13 (15.85%) Business Intelligence
10 13 (15.85%) User Experience
11 12 (14.63%) Data Strategy
11 12 (14.63%) Web Development
12 11 (13.41%) API Development
12 11 (13.41%) Architectural Design
13 10 (12.20%) Computer Architecture
13 10 (12.20%) Data Architecture
13 10 (12.20%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 31 (37.80%) C#
2 23 (28.05%) SQL
3 21 (25.61%) JavaScript
4 11 (13.41%) TypeScript
5 10 (12.20%) C
5 10 (12.20%) C++
6 7 (8.54%) VB.NET
7 6 (7.32%) PHP
8 3 (3.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (2.44%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.44%) Python
10 1 (1.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (8.54%) Azure Certification
2 6 (7.32%) Degree
3 5 (6.10%) AWS Certification
3 5 (6.10%) TOGAF Certification
4 3 (3.66%) Master's Degree
4 3 (3.66%) Six Sigma Black Belt
4 3 (3.66%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 3 (3.66%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
5 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.22%) CISA
6 1 (1.22%) CISSP
6 1 (1.22%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (18.29%) QA
2 2 (2.44%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.44%) SLA
3 1 (1.22%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.22%) GRC
3 1 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.22%) NIST
3 1 (1.22%) NIST 800
System Software
1 10 (12.20%) Firmware
2 5 (6.10%) Docker
3 1 (1.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (8.54%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.32%) Terraform
3 1 (1.22%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 11 (13.41%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.54%) UiPath
3 4 (4.88%) Google
4 2 (2.44%) Oracle
4 2 (2.44%) SAP
5 1 (1.22%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.22%) Cisco
5 1 (1.22%) Mitel