Technical Debt Jobs

Technical Debt
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Technical Debt skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Technical Debt over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 697 612 519
Rank change year-on-year -85 -93 +84
Permanent jobs citing Technical Debt 212 362 1,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.38% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.40% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 166 168 470
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £42,450
25th Percentile £56,854 £66,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £77,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +0.65% +7.79%
75th Percentile £86,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,625 £150,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £77,500 £66,000
% change year-on-year -16.13% +17.42% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Technical Debt as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Debt in the UK

Technical Debt
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Technical Debt.

Salary trend for Technical Debt in the UK

Technical Debt
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Debt over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Technical Debt in the UK

Technical Debt
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Debt within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -45 209 £70,000 -6.67% 77
UK excluding London -23 139 £65,000 -16.13% 50
Work from Home +10 108 £70,000 -9.68% 52
London -1 70 £90,000 +5.88% 33
North of England +60 56 £66,750 +11.25% 7
North West +14 37 £66,750 +11.25% 3
West Midlands 0 30 £62,500 -21.88% 4
Midlands -2 30 £62,500 -21.88% 7
South East -6 30 £65,000 - 23
Yorkshire +70 17 £61,206 -0.07% 2
East of England +1 11 £55,000 -18.52% 6
South West -28 11 £72,500 +9.43% 4
North East - 2 £73,805 - 2
Isle of Man - 1 - - 1

Technical Debt
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (2.83%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.36%) Confluence
2 5 (2.36%) Umbraco
3 4 (1.89%) CMS
3 4 (1.89%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.47%) Drupal
4 1 (0.47%) IIS
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.47%) Tornado
Applications
1 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.47%) Notion
Business Applications
1 19 (8.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (2.83%) Oracle General Ledger
2 6 (2.83%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 5 (2.36%) SAP IBP
3 5 (2.36%) SAP PP
3 5 (2.36%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.47%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.47%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 97 (45.75%) Azure
2 68 (32.08%) AWS
3 23 (10.85%) Power Platform
4 16 (7.55%) Dynamics 365
4 16 (7.55%) SaaS
5 12 (5.66%) Amazon S3
6 11 (5.19%) Amazon SQS
6 11 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (5.19%) AWS Step Functions
6 11 (5.19%) Serverless
7 9 (4.25%) GCP
7 9 (4.25%) GitHub
7 9 (4.25%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (2.83%) OCI
9 6 (2.83%) PowerApps
10 5 (2.36%) PaaS
10 5 (2.36%) Power Automate
11 3 (1.42%) IaaS
12 2 (0.94%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.89%) Network Security
2 2 (0.94%) Firewall
3 1 (0.47%) Internet
3 1 (0.47%) LAN
3 1 (0.47%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.47%) VPN
3 1 (0.47%) WAN
3 1 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (11.79%) SQL Server
2 19 (8.96%) MySQL
3 18 (8.49%) NoSQL
4 9 (4.25%) Power BI
5 7 (3.30%) Metadata
5 7 (3.30%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.83%) SAP BW
7 5 (2.36%) Power Query
8 3 (1.42%) MariaDB
8 3 (1.42%) QualityStage
8 3 (1.42%) Redis
9 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.47%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.47%) OLAP
9 1 (0.47%) OLTP
9 1 (0.47%) Oracle OLAP
9 1 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 42 (19.81%) Git
2 15 (7.08%) JIRA
3 13 (6.13%) GitLab
4 11 (5.19%) Jenkins
5 9 (4.25%) NUnit
6 7 (3.30%) Subversion
7 4 (1.89%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.42%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.42%) MSTest
9 2 (0.94%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.94%) Selenium
10 1 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.47%) Gradle
10 1 (0.47%) Moq
10 1 (0.47%) Phabricator
10 1 (0.47%) Sourcetree
10 1 (0.47%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.47%) Vagrant
General
1 54 (25.47%) Social Skills
2 52 (24.53%) Finance
3 23 (10.85%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.66%) Front Office
4 12 (5.66%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (4.25%) Law
6 9 (4.25%) Legal
7 8 (3.77%) Retail
8 6 (2.83%) Back Office
8 6 (2.83%) Games
8 6 (2.83%) General Ledger
8 6 (2.83%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.83%) Wearables
9 5 (2.36%) Digital Healthcare
10 4 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.42%) Marketing
12 2 (0.94%) Banking
13 1 (0.47%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 64 (30.19%) Lead
2 52 (24.53%) Developer
3 50 (23.58%) Architect
4 45 (21.23%) Senior
5 30 (14.15%) Solutions Architect
6 22 (10.38%) Software Manager
7 21 (9.91%) .NET Developer
8 20 (9.43%) Engineering Manager
9 19 (8.96%) Software Engineer
10 15 (7.08%) Lead Developer
11 14 (6.60%) Product Manager
12 12 (5.66%) Lead Product Manager
13 11 (5.19%) Development Manager
13 11 (5.19%) Lead Software Engineer
13 11 (5.19%) Software Development Manager
13 11 (5.19%) Software Engineering Manager
14 10 (4.72%) Lead .NET Developer
14 10 (4.72%) Lead Architect
15 9 (4.25%) .NET Software Engineer
15 9 (4.25%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (30.19%) .NET
2 43 (20.28%) .NET Framework
3 39 (18.40%) HTML
4 35 (16.51%) CSS
5 30 (14.15%) React
6 26 (12.26%) .NET Core
7 19 (8.96%) AngularJS
8 17 (8.02%) jQuery
9 16 (7.55%) JSON
9 16 (7.55%) Laravel
9 16 (7.55%) Web Services
10 15 (7.08%) XML
11 11 (5.19%) ASP.NET
11 11 (5.19%) Unity DI Container
12 10 (4.72%) Spring
12 10 (4.72%) Vue
13 9 (4.25%) REST
13 9 (4.25%) RESTful
13 9 (4.25%) SOAP
14 8 (3.77%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.49%) Blog
2 17 (8.02%) Management Information System
3 14 (6.60%) Product Ownership
4 13 (6.13%) Mobile App
4 13 (6.13%) Private Cloud
5 11 (5.19%) Hedge funds
6 10 (4.72%) Legacy Applications
7 9 (4.25%) Onboarding
8 8 (3.77%) N-Tier
9 7 (3.30%) Client/Server
9 7 (3.30%) Derivative
9 7 (3.30%) PropTech
9 7 (3.30%) Video\Live Streaming
10 6 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (2.83%) Reinsurance
11 5 (2.36%) FMCG
12 4 (1.89%) PMI
13 3 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (1.42%) Cloud Native
13 3 (1.42%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.13%) Linux
2 8 (3.77%) VME
3 7 (3.30%) Windows
4 5 (2.36%) Android
4 5 (2.36%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.47%) Debian
5 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (57.55%) Agile
2 79 (37.26%) Roadmaps
3 69 (32.55%) Mentoring
4 52 (24.53%) Scrum
4 52 (24.53%) Software Engineering
5 49 (23.11%) Coaching
6 42 (19.81%) Test Automation
7 40 (18.87%) DevOps
8 35 (16.51%) CI/CD
9 33 (15.57%) Microservices
9 33 (15.57%) Product Roadmap
10 32 (15.09%) Decision-Making
11 31 (14.62%) TDD
12 28 (13.21%) Design Patterns
13 27 (12.74%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (12.74%) Problem-Solving
13 27 (12.74%) Project Delivery
14 25 (11.79%) OOP
15 24 (11.32%) Enterprise Architecture
16 22 (10.38%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (30.66%) C#
2 60 (28.30%) JavaScript
3 44 (20.75%) SQL
4 29 (13.68%) Java
5 25 (11.79%) Python
6 24 (11.32%) TypeScript
7 18 (8.49%) PHP
8 17 (8.02%) T-SQL
9 8 (3.77%) COBOL
9 8 (3.77%) Micro Focus COBOL
10 5 (2.36%) Ada
10 5 (2.36%) Formula Language
11 4 (1.89%) XPath
12 3 (1.42%) C++
12 3 (1.42%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.42%) Scala
13 2 (0.94%) R
13 2 (0.94%) Tcl
14 1 (0.47%) Ruby
14 1 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (13.21%) Degree
2 13 (6.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (5.66%) AWS Certification
4 7 (3.30%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.83%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (1.89%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.94%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.94%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.47%) MCSA
9 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.47%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (16.51%) QA
2 7 (3.30%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.30%) GDPR
3 6 (2.83%) GAAP
3 6 (2.83%) IFRS
4 3 (1.42%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.94%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (3.30%) Docker
2 4 (1.89%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (4.25%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.89%) Jamf Pro
2 4 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (1.89%) ZABBIX
3 2 (0.94%) Ansible
3 2 (0.94%) Terraform
4 1 (0.47%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.47%) Grafana
4 1 (0.47%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.47%) Podman
4 1 (0.47%) Puppet
4 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.47%) WSUS
Vendors
1 38 (17.92%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.13%) SAP
3 8 (3.77%) Micro Focus
4 7 (3.30%) Bloomberg
4 7 (3.30%) Oracle
5 6 (2.83%) PeopleSoft
6 4 (1.89%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.89%) Tanium
7 2 (0.94%) Finsemble
7 2 (0.94%) Google
7 2 (0.94%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.47%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.47%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.47%) IBM
8 1 (0.47%) iManage
8 1 (0.47%) Intapp
8 1 (0.47%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.47%) TSYS
8 1 (0.47%) Veracode