Technical Debt Contracts in the North West

Technical Debt
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Technical Debt skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Technical Debt over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 152 155
Rank change year-on-year +32 +3 -17
Contract jobs citing Technical Debt 19 1 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.71% 0.032% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.036% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 0 23
10th Percentile £489 - £473
25th Percentile £513 - £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £638
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.87%
75th Percentile £712 - £663
90th Percentile £739 - £700
England median daily rate £543 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -16.54% +4.00% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,287 2,794 3,570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 85.91% 90.25% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,459 1,960 2,596
10th Percentile £311 £313 £240
25th Percentile £406 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £575
90th Percentile £689 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 139 168
10th Percentile £10.96 £16.25 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.50 £22.47 £14.25
Median hourly rate £24.19 £35.03 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -30.94% +50.85% +28.19%
75th Percentile £46.18 £49.08 £50.95
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.75% +48.60% +8.70%

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Technical Debt as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Debt in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Debt in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Technical Debt in the North West

Technical Debt
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Debt in the North West over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Debt in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Debt in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Debt in the North West

Technical Debt
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Debt within the North West region over the 6 months to 19 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +26 12 £600 -
Cheshire - 6 £492 - 1
Technical Debt
England

Technical Debt
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 6 (31.58%) Confluence
2 5 (26.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 6 (31.58%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 12 (63.16%) AWS
2 6 (31.58%) Apigee
2 6 (31.58%) Azure
2 6 (31.58%) Kong
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) MongoDB
2 6 (31.58%) OLAP
2 6 (31.58%) OLTP
3 5 (26.32%) Oracle OLAP
4 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) GitLab
General
1 6 (31.58%) Banking
1 6 (31.58%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Retail
3 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (63.16%) Architect
2 7 (36.84%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (31.58%) AWS Architect
4 5 (26.32%) Telephony Architect
5 4 (21.05%) Site Engineer
5 4 (21.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (15.79%) Senior
7 1 (5.26%) AWS Solution Architect
7 1 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
7 1 (5.26%) Cloud Solutions Architect
7 1 (5.26%) Designer
7 1 (5.26%) Interaction Designer
7 1 (5.26%) Java Developer
7 1 (5.26%) Senior Designer
7 1 (5.26%) Senior Developer
7 1 (5.26%) Senior Interaction Designer
7 1 (5.26%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Voice Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (36.84%) Kafka
1 7 (36.84%) Spring
1 7 (36.84%) Spring Boot
2 6 (31.58%) Apache Camel
2 6 (31.58%) IBM Integration Bus
2 6 (31.58%) J2EE
2 6 (31.58%) RabbitMQ
2 6 (31.58%) SOAP
2 6 (31.58%) Spring Integration
2 6 (31.58%) Web Services
3 2 (10.53%) Node.js
4 1 (5.26%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) DataPower
2 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) Enterprise Architecture
2 8 (42.11%) Microservices
3 7 (36.84%) Design Patterns
3 7 (36.84%) Event-Driven
3 7 (36.84%) Migration
3 7 (36.84%) OO
3 7 (36.84%) TOGAF
4 6 (31.58%) API Management
4 6 (31.58%) Business Strategy
4 6 (31.58%) CQRS
4 6 (31.58%) Data Privacy
4 6 (31.58%) DevOps
4 6 (31.58%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 6 (31.58%) Identity Access Management
4 6 (31.58%) OOA/OOD
4 6 (31.58%) Risk Management
4 6 (31.58%) SOA
4 6 (31.58%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (26.32%) Budgeting
6 4 (21.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) Java
2 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
1 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (5.26%) Degree
1 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (31.58%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (31.58%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) IBM
1 6 (31.58%) TSYS
2 5 (26.32%) Oracle
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.53%) Mitel