Technical Debt Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Technical Debt
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 494 502
Rank change year-on-year +134 +8 -89
Permanent jobs citing Technical Debt 53 95 174
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.35% 0.28% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.31% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 41 87 92
10th Percentile £43,750 £49,000 £55,125
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,809 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,779 £70,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.32% -9.68% -8.82%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,875 £100,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £150,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -9.68% +3.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,938 31,020 41,026
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.13% 91.65% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,733 23,575 28,496
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,800 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Technical Debt
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Technical Debt as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Technical Debt trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Technical Debt
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Technical Debt.

Technical Debt salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Debt
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Technical Debt over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Technical Debt salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Debt
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (1.89%) Confluence
1 1 (1.89%) OpenStack
1 1 (1.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (13.21%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 20 (37.74%) AWS
2 8 (15.09%) Azure
3 7 (13.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 7 (13.21%) Power Automate
4 6 (11.32%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (11.32%) Serverless
5 4 (7.55%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (7.55%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (7.55%) GCP
5 4 (7.55%) SaaS
6 3 (5.66%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (5.66%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.77%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.89%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (1.89%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.89%) Firewall
1 1 (1.89%) LAN
1 1 (1.89%) SD-WAN
1 1 (1.89%) Unified Communications
1 1 (1.89%) VoIP
1 1 (1.89%) WAN
1 1 (1.89%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.98%) SQL Server
2 8 (15.09%) Data Lake
3 6 (11.32%) Amazon Athena
3 6 (11.32%) Redis
4 4 (7.55%) MongoDB
5 3 (5.66%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (5.66%) BigQuery
5 3 (5.66%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (5.66%) Looker
5 3 (5.66%) Power BI
5 3 (5.66%) Power Query
6 2 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (20.75%) Git
2 2 (3.77%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.77%) Selenium
3 1 (1.89%) git-flow
3 1 (1.89%) GitLab
3 1 (1.89%) Jasmine
3 1 (1.89%) JIRA
3 1 (1.89%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 14 (26.42%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.09%) Finance
2 8 (15.09%) Public Sector
3 7 (13.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (13.21%) Local Government
4 6 (11.32%) Games
5 3 (5.66%) Advertising
6 1 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Banking
6 1 (1.89%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.89%) Legal
6 1 (1.89%) Marketing
6 1 (1.89%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 24 (45.28%) Senior
2 17 (32.08%) Developer
3 12 (22.64%) Architect
4 9 (16.98%) Solutions Architect
5 8 (15.09%) Senior Architect
5 8 (15.09%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 8 (15.09%) Software Engineer
6 7 (13.21%) Automation Developer
6 7 (13.21%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
6 7 (13.21%) Robotics Developer
6 7 (13.21%) Senior Developer
7 6 (11.32%) Lead
8 4 (7.55%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (5.66%) Data Engineer
9 3 (5.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (5.66%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (5.66%) Technical Leader
10 2 (3.77%) Azure Engineer
10 2 (3.77%) DevOps Engineer
10 2 (3.77%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (32.08%) .NET
2 13 (24.53%) React
3 12 (22.64%) AngularJS
4 11 (20.75%) Vue
5 8 (15.09%) CSS
5 8 (15.09%) HTML
5 8 (15.09%) HTML5
5 8 (15.09%) RESTful
6 7 (13.21%) .NET Core
6 7 (13.21%) .NET Framework
6 7 (13.21%) ASP.NET Web API
6 7 (13.21%) Sass
7 6 (11.32%) Lambda Expressions
8 5 (9.43%) Kafka
8 5 (9.43%) Laravel
8 5 (9.43%) Node.js
9 4 (7.55%) GraphQL
9 4 (7.55%) REST
10 3 (5.66%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (5.66%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.98%) Public Cloud
2 8 (15.09%) Distributed Architecture
3 7 (13.21%) Algorithms
3 7 (13.21%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (13.21%) Onboarding
3 7 (13.21%) Robotics
4 1 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.89%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (1.89%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.89%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.89%) e-Learning
4 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.89%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.89%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.89%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.89%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (28.30%) Analytics
2 14 (26.42%) Mentoring
3 13 (24.53%) User Experience
4 12 (22.64%) Coaching
4 12 (22.64%) Data Strategy
4 12 (22.64%) Software Engineering
5 11 (20.75%) Business Intelligence
5 11 (20.75%) DevOps
5 11 (20.75%) Roadmaps
6 9 (16.98%) Event-Driven
6 9 (16.98%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 9 (16.98%) Product Roadmap
7 8 (15.09%) Architectural Design
7 8 (15.09%) Artificial Intelligence
7 8 (15.09%) Data Architecture
7 8 (15.09%) Digital Strategy
7 8 (15.09%) Domain-Driven Design
7 8 (15.09%) Performance Analysis
7 8 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (15.09%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 24 (45.28%) C#
2 23 (43.40%) JavaScript
3 19 (35.85%) SQL
4 16 (30.19%) TypeScript
5 7 (13.21%) VB.NET
6 5 (9.43%) PHP
7 4 (7.55%) C
8 3 (5.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (5.66%) Python
9 2 (3.77%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (13.21%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.32%) Degree
2 6 (11.32%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (1.89%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.89%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (18.87%) QA
2 2 (3.77%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.89%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (5.66%) Docker
2 2 (3.77%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (7.55%) Terraform
2 3 (5.66%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.89%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (15.09%) Microsoft
2 7 (13.21%) UiPath
3 4 (7.55%) Google
4 1 (1.89%) Cisco
4 1 (1.89%) Mitel
4 1 (1.89%) SAP