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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 696 589 529
Rank change year-on-year -107 -60 +79
Permanent jobs citing Technical Debt 215 352 1,131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.38% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.40% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 166 161 475
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £56,854 £66,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% - +10.42%
75th Percentile £86,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,625 £150,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £77,500 £66,500
% change year-on-year -16.13% +16.54% +20.91%

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 89,730 89,109 165,036
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.98% 95.44% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 62,034 53,947 83,947
10th Percentile £29,500 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,000
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 8 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 8 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 -55 212 £70,000 -6.67% 63
UK excluding London -29 141 £65,000 -16.13% 45
Work from Home +26 110 £70,000 -11.11% 44
London -32 71 £90,000 +5.88% 25
North of England +43 57 £66,750 +11.25% 6
North West +13 38 £66,750 +11.25% 3
West Midlands +8 30 £62,500 -21.88% 5
South East -5 30 £65,000 - 18
Midlands -28 30 £62,500 -21.88% 9
Yorkshire +76 17 £61,206 -0.07% 2
East of England -7 12 £55,000 -18.52% 7
South West -35 11 £72,500 +9.43% 3
North East - 2 £73,805 - 1
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 (2.79%) Confluence
1 6 (2.79%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.33%) Umbraco
3 4 (1.86%) CMS
3 4 (1.86%) EPiServer
4 2 (0.93%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.47%) Drupal
5 1 (0.47%) IIS
5 1 (0.47%) Tornado
Applications
1 2 (0.93%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.47%) Notion
Business Applications
1 19 (8.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (2.79%) Oracle General Ledger
2 6 (2.79%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 5 (2.33%) SAP IBP
3 5 (2.33%) SAP PP
3 5 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.93%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.47%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 100 (46.51%) Azure
2 71 (33.02%) AWS
3 23 (10.70%) Power Platform
4 17 (7.91%) SaaS
5 16 (7.44%) Dynamics 365
6 12 (5.58%) Amazon S3
7 11 (5.12%) Amazon SQS
7 11 (5.12%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (5.12%) AWS Step Functions
7 11 (5.12%) Serverless
8 10 (4.65%) GCP
8 10 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (4.19%) GitHub
10 6 (2.79%) OCI
10 6 (2.79%) PowerApps
11 5 (2.33%) PaaS
11 5 (2.33%) Power Automate
12 3 (1.40%) IaaS
13 2 (0.93%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.86%) Network Security
2 2 (0.93%) 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 (11.63%) SQL Server
2 20 (9.30%) MySQL
3 18 (8.37%) NoSQL
4 9 (4.19%) Power BI
5 8 (3.72%) Relational Database
6 7 (3.26%) Metadata
7 6 (2.79%) SAP BW
8 5 (2.33%) Power Query
9 3 (1.40%) MariaDB
9 3 (1.40%) QualityStage
9 3 (1.40%) Redis
10 2 (0.93%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.93%) OLAP
10 2 (0.93%) OLTP
10 2 (0.93%) Oracle OLAP
11 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 42 (19.53%) Git
2 16 (7.44%) JIRA
3 14 (6.51%) GitLab
4 11 (5.12%) Jenkins
5 9 (4.19%) NUnit
6 7 (3.26%) Subversion
7 4 (1.86%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.40%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.40%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.40%) MSTest
9 2 (0.93%) 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 55 (25.58%) Social Skills
2 53 (24.65%) Finance
3 23 (10.70%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.05%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.58%) Front Office
6 11 (5.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (4.19%) Law
7 9 (4.19%) Legal
8 8 (3.72%) Retail
9 6 (2.79%) Back Office
9 6 (2.79%) Games
9 6 (2.79%) General Ledger
9 6 (2.79%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.79%) Wearables
10 5 (2.33%) Digital Healthcare
11 4 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.40%) Banking
12 3 (1.40%) Marketing
13 1 (0.47%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 64 (29.77%) Lead
2 54 (25.12%) Developer
3 50 (23.26%) Architect
4 46 (21.40%) Senior
5 29 (13.49%) Solutions Architect
6 22 (10.23%) Software Manager
7 21 (9.77%) .NET Developer
8 20 (9.30%) Engineering Manager
8 20 (9.30%) Software Engineer
9 15 (6.98%) Lead Developer
10 14 (6.51%) Product Manager
11 12 (5.58%) Lead Product Manager
11 12 (5.58%) Lead Software Engineer
12 11 (5.12%) Development Manager
12 11 (5.12%) Software Development Manager
12 11 (5.12%) Software Engineering Manager
13 10 (4.65%) Lead .NET Developer
13 10 (4.65%) PHP Developer
13 10 (4.65%) Senior Developer
14 9 (4.19%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (29.77%) .NET
2 43 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 40 (18.60%) HTML
4 36 (16.74%) CSS
5 31 (14.42%) React
6 26 (12.09%) .NET Core
7 19 (8.84%) AngularJS
8 17 (7.91%) jQuery
8 17 (7.91%) Laravel
8 17 (7.91%) Web Services
9 16 (7.44%) JSON
10 15 (6.98%) XML
11 11 (5.12%) ASP.NET
11 11 (5.12%) Spring
11 11 (5.12%) Unity DI Container
12 10 (4.65%) SOAP
12 10 (4.65%) Vue
13 9 (4.19%) REST
13 9 (4.19%) RESTful
13 9 (4.19%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.37%) Blog
2 17 (7.91%) Management Information System
3 14 (6.51%) Product Ownership
4 13 (6.05%) Mobile App
4 13 (6.05%) Private Cloud
5 11 (5.12%) Hedge funds
6 10 (4.65%) Legacy Applications
7 9 (4.19%) Onboarding
8 8 (3.72%) N-Tier
9 7 (3.26%) Client/Server
9 7 (3.26%) Derivative
9 7 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (3.26%) PropTech
9 7 (3.26%) Video\Live Streaming
10 6 (2.79%) Reinsurance
11 5 (2.33%) FMCG
12 4 (1.86%) PMI
13 3 (1.40%) Algorithms
13 3 (1.40%) Cloud Native
13 3 (1.40%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.05%) Linux
2 8 (3.72%) VME
3 7 (3.26%) Windows
4 5 (2.33%) Android
4 5 (2.33%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.47%) Debian
5 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (58.14%) Agile
2 78 (36.28%) Roadmaps
3 71 (33.02%) Mentoring
4 55 (25.58%) Scrum
5 54 (25.12%) Software Engineering
6 49 (22.79%) Coaching
7 43 (20.00%) DevOps
7 43 (20.00%) Test Automation
8 37 (17.21%) CI/CD
9 34 (15.81%) Microservices
10 33 (15.35%) Product Roadmap
11 32 (14.88%) Decision-Making
12 31 (14.42%) TDD
13 29 (13.49%) Design Patterns
14 27 (12.56%) Continuous Improvement
14 27 (12.56%) Problem-Solving
14 27 (12.56%) Project Delivery
15 25 (11.63%) Enterprise Architecture
15 25 (11.63%) OOP
16 22 (10.23%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (30.23%) C#
2 62 (28.84%) JavaScript
3 44 (20.47%) SQL
4 30 (13.95%) Java
5 26 (12.09%) Python
6 24 (11.16%) TypeScript
7 19 (8.84%) PHP
8 17 (7.91%) T-SQL
9 8 (3.72%) COBOL
9 8 (3.72%) Micro Focus COBOL
10 5 (2.33%) Ada
10 5 (2.33%) Formula Language
11 4 (1.86%) XPath
12 3 (1.40%) C++
12 3 (1.40%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.40%) Scala
13 2 (0.93%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.93%) R
13 2 (0.93%) Tcl
14 1 (0.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 29 (13.49%) Degree
2 14 (6.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (6.05%) AWS Certification
4 7 (3.26%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.79%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (1.86%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.40%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.93%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.93%) 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 36 (16.74%) QA
2 7 (3.26%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.26%) GDPR
3 6 (2.79%) GAAP
3 6 (2.79%) IFRS
4 3 (1.40%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.93%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (3.72%) Docker
2 4 (1.86%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (4.19%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.86%) Jamf Pro
2 4 (1.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (1.86%) ZABBIX
3 2 (0.93%) Ansible
3 2 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.93%) 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%) WSUS
Vendors
1 38 (17.67%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.05%) SAP
3 8 (3.72%) Micro Focus
3 8 (3.72%) Oracle
4 7 (3.26%) Bloomberg
5 6 (2.79%) PeopleSoft
6 4 (1.86%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.86%) Tanium
7 3 (1.40%) Google
7 3 (1.40%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.93%) Finsemble
8 2 (0.93%) IBM
8 2 (0.93%) TSYS
9 1 (0.47%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.47%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.47%) iManage
9 1 (0.47%) Intapp
9 1 (0.47%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.47%) Veracode