Technical Debt Contracts in the UK excluding London

Technical Debt
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Technical Debt skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Technical Debt over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 319 369 389
Rank change year-on-year +50 +20 +31
Contract jobs citing Technical Debt 50 44 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.21% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.24% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 32 89
10th Percentile £310 £360 £429
25th Percentile £419 £390 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £485 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.86% -11.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £711 £550 £653
90th Percentile £750 £600 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £530 £575
% change year-on-year +3.77% -7.83% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £52.15 - -
25th Percentile £52.75 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +100.00% -
75th Percentile £56.75 - -
90th Percentile £57.05 - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% +92.31% -

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 contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,041 18,439 26,837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.81% 88.33% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,020 12,105 18,694
10th Percentile £250 £250 £260
25th Percentile £381 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £686 £688 £680
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 897 1,303 1,340
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £12.66
25th Percentile £18.13 £17.72 £15.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.33 £28.90
Median % change year-on-year -19.22% +49.93% +60.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.38
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.50 £70.30
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £43.86 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.92% +25.31% +66.67%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Debt in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Technical Debt in the UK excluding London

Technical Debt
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Debt in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Debt in the UK excluding London

Technical Debt
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Debt in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Debt in the UK excluding London

Technical Debt
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Midlands +20 21 £445 +39.06% 8
East Midlands +16 13 £425 +32.81% 3
North of England +26 12 £437 +12.00% 5
Scotland +27 8 £487 +8.83% 4
West Midlands +7 8 £613 +53.13% 5
South West +30 5 £750 - 4
North West +22 5 £726 +101.67% 2
South East +35 4 £765 +43.66% 3
Yorkshire +16 4 £140 -66.67% 3
North East -5 3 £325 -32.99%
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 (6.00%) Confluence
2 2 (4.00%) CMS
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (8.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (12.00%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (4.00%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 15 (30.00%) AWS
2 11 (22.00%) Azure
3 4 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (8.00%) Serverless
4 3 (6.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (6.00%) Apigee
4 3 (6.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (6.00%) Kong
4 3 (6.00%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.00%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.00%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.00%) GCP
5 1 (2.00%) GitHub
5 1 (2.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (6.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (6.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.00%) Big Data
4 2 (4.00%) Metadata
4 2 (4.00%) MongoDB
4 2 (4.00%) OLAP
4 2 (4.00%) OLTP
5 1 (2.00%) GIS
5 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.00%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 4 (8.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (8.00%) JIRA
2 3 (6.00%) Cypress.io
3 2 (4.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (4.00%) JMeter
3 2 (4.00%) JUnit
4 1 (2.00%) Git
4 1 (2.00%) GitLab
4 1 (2.00%) Maven
4 1 (2.00%) Mocha
4 1 (2.00%) Postman
4 1 (2.00%) WebDriver
General
1 19 (38.00%) Finance
2 12 (24.00%) Social Skills
3 11 (22.00%) Public Sector
4 10 (20.00%) Banking
5 6 (12.00%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (10.00%) Military
7 3 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (4.00%) Publishing
9 1 (2.00%) General Ledger
9 1 (2.00%) Legal
9 1 (2.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (34.00%) Lead
2 15 (30.00%) Architect
3 9 (18.00%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (14.00%) Lead Software Engineer
4 7 (14.00%) Senior
4 7 (14.00%) Service Transition Leader
4 7 (14.00%) Software Engineer
4 7 (14.00%) Technical Leader
5 6 (12.00%) Developer
6 5 (10.00%) Test Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Chief Architect
8 3 (6.00%) Designer
8 3 (6.00%) Senior Designer
9 2 (4.00%) AWS Architect
9 2 (4.00%) Data Analyst
9 2 (4.00%) Junior Analyst
9 2 (4.00%) Junior Data Analyst
9 2 (4.00%) Lead Developer
9 2 (4.00%) Product Owner
9 2 (4.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (22.00%) React
2 8 (16.00%) Spring
2 8 (16.00%) Spring Boot
3 7 (14.00%) FastAPI
3 7 (14.00%) Pandas
3 7 (14.00%) SQLAlchemy
3 7 (14.00%) Vue
4 5 (10.00%) REST
5 4 (8.00%) Kafka
6 3 (6.00%) AWS CDK
6 3 (6.00%) CSS
6 3 (6.00%) HTML
6 3 (6.00%) OAuth
6 3 (6.00%) OAuth2
6 3 (6.00%) SOAP
6 3 (6.00%) Spring MVC
6 3 (6.00%) Spring Web Flow
6 3 (6.00%) Thymeleaf
7 2 (4.00%) J2EE
7 2 (4.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (24.00%) Product Ownership
2 7 (14.00%) Distributed Architecture
3 6 (12.00%) Data Centre
3 6 (12.00%) Onboarding
4 5 (10.00%) Shadow IT
5 3 (6.00%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (4.00%) DataPower
7 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
7 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (42.00%) Microservices
2 18 (36.00%) Roadmaps
3 15 (30.00%) Agile
4 13 (26.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 12 (24.00%) DevOps
6 11 (22.00%) Scrum
6 11 (22.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (20.00%) ETL
7 10 (20.00%) Test Automation
8 8 (16.00%) Matrix Organization
8 8 (16.00%) Software Engineering
8 8 (16.00%) Strategic Roadmap
8 8 (16.00%) Technical Leadership
9 7 (14.00%) Collaborative Culture
9 7 (14.00%) IT Strategy
9 7 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (14.00%) Project Management
9 7 (14.00%) Technology Strategy
9 7 (14.00%) Workflow
10 6 (12.00%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 11 (22.00%) JavaScript
1 11 (22.00%) SQL
2 10 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 9 (18.00%) Java
3 9 (18.00%) Python
4 1 (2.00%) C#
4 1 (2.00%) RPG
4 1 (2.00%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 17 (34.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (24.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (4.00%) Degree
4 2 (4.00%) PMI Certification
4 2 (4.00%) PMP
5 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (22.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.00%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (4.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.00%) QA
4 1 (2.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (10.00%) Grafana
2 2 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (4.00%) IBM
1 2 (4.00%) TSYS
2 1 (2.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (2.00%) Cadence
2 1 (2.00%) MuleSoft
2 1 (2.00%) Oracle
2 1 (2.00%) Splunk
2 1 (2.00%) WSO2