Technical Debt Job Trends in Yorkshire

Technical Debt
England > Yorkshire

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

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 137 163
Rank change year-on-year -4 +26 +83
Permanent jobs citing Technical Debt 15 12 14
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.45% 0.38% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.42% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 11 12 8
10th Percentile - - £58,375
25th Percentile £57,500 £47,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £57,500 £73,805
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -22.09% -10.54%
75th Percentile £95,000 £65,800 £75,772
90th Percentile - £66,389 £78,916
England median annual salary £83,750 £68,000 £73,805
% change year-on-year +23.16% -7.86% -7.74%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,650 2,863 2,843
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 79.80% 89.95% 90.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,528 1,122 2,214
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £28,807
25th Percentile £30,000 £40,991 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £69,125 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,375 £84,056
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Technical Debt job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Technical Debt
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Technical Debt.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Technical Debt

Technical Debt
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Salary histogram for Technical Debt in Yorkshire

Technical Debt
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Debt within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 5 January 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
West Yorkshire -11 10 £70,000 +40.00%
South Yorkshire +2 5 £86,250 +39.13%
Technical Debt
England

Technical Debt
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 3 (20.00%) Apache
1 3 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (13.33%) HCL Notes
2 2 (13.33%) IIS
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (6.67%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) GitHub
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 3 (20.00%) Azure
3 3 (20.00%) dbt
3 3 (20.00%) Serverless
4 1 (6.67%) Azure AI
4 1 (6.67%) Azure App Service
4 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (6.67%) Firebase
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 3 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (20.00%) Apache Iceberg
1 3 (20.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (20.00%) Data Vault
1 3 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Legal
3 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Finance
4 2 (13.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (6.67%) Back Office
5 1 (6.67%) Games
5 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Architect
1 6 (40.00%) Senior
2 5 (33.33%) Lead
3 4 (26.67%) Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Lead Architect
3 4 (26.67%) Technical Architect
3 4 (26.67%) Technical Leader
4 3 (20.00%) Data Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Senior Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Software Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Software Developer
6 1 (6.67%) .NET Developer
6 1 (6.67%) .NET Web Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Security Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Security Solutions Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Software Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) .NET
2 3 (20.00%) Pandas
3 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET
3 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (13.33%) WCF
4 1 (6.67%) .NET Framework
4 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 1 (6.67%) GraphQL
4 1 (6.67%) Kafka
4 1 (6.67%) OAuth
4 1 (6.67%) OAuth2
4 1 (6.67%) OpenID
4 1 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (6.67%) React
4 1 (6.67%) React Native
4 1 (6.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Mobile App
1 3 (20.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (6.67%) Legacy Code
2 1 (6.67%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (40.00%) DevOps
1 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (33.33%) Agile
2 5 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (33.33%) Release Management
3 4 (26.67%) Analytics
3 4 (26.67%) Decision-Making
3 4 (26.67%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (26.67%) Scrum
4 3 (20.00%) Data Development
4 3 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (20.00%) Data Science
4 3 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 3 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 3 (20.00%) Kimball Methodology
4 3 (20.00%) People Management
4 3 (20.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) SQL
2 5 (33.33%) Python
3 4 (26.67%) C#
4 3 (20.00%) T-SQL
5 2 (13.33%) C++
5 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
6 1 (6.67%) Java
6 1 (6.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (6.67%) CISM
1 1 (6.67%) CISSP
1 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (13.33%) QA
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Ansible
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Lotus
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle
3 1 (6.67%) Avaya
3 1 (6.67%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (6.67%) Centrify
3 1 (6.67%) CyberArk
3 1 (6.67%) Foundry
3 1 (6.67%) Genesys
3 1 (6.67%) Thycotic
3 1 (6.67%) Verint