Technical Debt Job Trends in Wales

Technical Debt
UK > Wales

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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 56 107
Rank change year-on-year -21 +51 -
Permanent jobs citing Technical Debt 4 15 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.34% 2.32% 0.069%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 2.58% 0.081%
Number of salaries quoted 4 15 1
10th Percentile - £62,500 -
25th Percentile £50,250 £68,750 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,750 £77,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.48% -8.82% -
75th Percentile £67,267 £78,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £71,346 £81,000 -
UK median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% -12.50%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 851 582 1,239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 71.57% 89.95% 85.92%
Number of salaries quoted 533 278 955
10th Percentile £27,100 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £38,300 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,029 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,800 £78,750 £70,450
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Technical Debt job vacancy trend in Wales

Technical Debt
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Technical Debt.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Technical Debt

Technical Debt
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Debt in Wales over the 6 months to 5 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Technical Debt in Wales

Technical Debt
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Debt within the Wales region over the 6 months to 5 March 2026. 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
South Wales - 4 £57,750 - 3
Technical Debt
UK

Technical Debt
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Datadog
2 1 (25.00%) dbt
2 1 (25.00%) PaaS
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Modbus
1 2 (50.00%) MQTT
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (25.00%) JMeter
1 1 (25.00%) Locust
General
1 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Firmware Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) IoT
2 2 (50.00%) Device Driver
3 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Unix
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) API Development
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Product Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (25.00%) FinOps
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C
1 2 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) QA
1 1 (25.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Firmware
2 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform