Technical Debt Contracts in London

Technical Debt
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 350 414 441
Rank change year-on-year +64 +27 -42
Contract jobs citing Technical Debt 40 79 161
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.23% 0.31% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.34% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 62 96
10th Percentile £375 £475 £474
25th Percentile £475 £613 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year -21.48% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £872 £713 £700
90th Percentile £960 £775 £823
England median daily rate £550 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £24.34 - £60.20
25th Percentile £24.59 - £65.19
Median hourly rate £25.00 £70.00 £77.00
Median % change year-on-year -64.29% -9.09% -
75th Percentile - - £80.00
90th Percentile - - £80.30
England median hourly rate £25.00 £62.50 £77.00
% change year-on-year -60.00% -18.83% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,475 23,527 35,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.65% 90.92% 92.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,094 16,975 26,024
10th Percentile £343 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 269 415
10th Percentile £15.77 £18.40 £17.55
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.49 £24.25
Median hourly rate £27.84 £37.34 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.44% -0.43% +14.77%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.25 £51.61
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.30 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +7.71%

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Debt in London

Technical Debt
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Debt in London

Technical Debt
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Debt in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Debt in London

Technical Debt
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Debt in London

Technical Debt
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 16 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
Central London +30 8 £875 +29.63% 3
Technical Debt
England

Technical Debt
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 5 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 3 (7.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (7.50%) Confluence
3 1 (2.50%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.50%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 18 (45.00%) AWS
2 14 (35.00%) Azure
3 5 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 5 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 4 (10.00%) GCP
4 4 (10.00%) GitHub
5 3 (7.50%) Amazon Cognito
5 3 (7.50%) BigCommerce
5 3 (7.50%) SaaS
6 2 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (5.00%) NuGet
6 2 (5.00%) Serverless
6 2 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (2.50%) Contentful
7 1 (2.50%) Datadog
7 1 (2.50%) Figma
7 1 (2.50%) Kong
7 1 (2.50%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.00%) Firewall
2 4 (10.00%) MPLS
3 3 (7.50%) DNS
3 3 (7.50%) VoIP
3 3 (7.50%) VPN
4 1 (2.50%) Internet
4 1 (2.50%) LAN
4 1 (2.50%) WAN
4 1 (2.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.50%) Big Data
2 5 (12.50%) Apache Hive
2 5 (12.50%) Impala
2 5 (12.50%) Power BI
2 5 (12.50%) Tableau
3 4 (10.00%) MySQL
4 3 (7.50%) NoSQL
5 2 (5.00%) Data Mining
6 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (12.50%) JIRA
2 3 (7.50%) Git
2 3 (7.50%) Maven
3 2 (5.00%) Bitbucket
3 2 (5.00%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.50%) CircleCI
4 1 (2.50%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.50%) Selenium
4 1 (2.50%) Storybook
General
1 16 (40.00%) Finance
2 8 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 7 (17.50%) Retail
4 6 (15.00%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (12.50%) Banking
5 5 (12.50%) Social Skills
6 3 (7.50%) Investment Banking
6 3 (7.50%) Marketing
6 3 (7.50%) Tech for Good
7 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (2.50%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 14 (35.00%) Architect
2 10 (25.00%) Senior
3 8 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (17.50%) AWS Architect
5 5 (12.50%) AWS Solution Architect
5 5 (12.50%) Lead
6 4 (10.00%) Technical Leader
7 3 (7.50%) Delivery Manager
7 3 (7.50%) Developer
7 3 (7.50%) Full Stack Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Senior Full Stack Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Service Delivery Manager
7 3 (7.50%) Service Manager
8 2 (5.00%) .NET Architect
8 2 (5.00%) Audio Visual Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) C# Architect
8 2 (5.00%) Head of Infrastructure
8 2 (5.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Senior Delivery Manager
8 2 (5.00%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.00%) SAML
2 5 (12.50%) .NET
2 5 (12.50%) CSS
2 5 (12.50%) Node.js
2 5 (12.50%) PySpark
2 5 (12.50%) React
3 4 (10.00%) AngularJS
3 4 (10.00%) Spring
4 3 (7.50%) .NET Core
4 3 (7.50%) J2EE
4 3 (7.50%) jQuery
4 3 (7.50%) REST
4 3 (7.50%) Sass
4 3 (7.50%) Spring MVC
4 3 (7.50%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 3 (7.50%) VML
4 3 (7.50%) Web Services
5 2 (5.00%) HTML
6 1 (2.50%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.50%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (7.50%) Public Cloud
2 3 (7.50%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (5.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.00%) Fixed Income
3 2 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.00%) Tandem
4 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.50%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.50%) Linux
2 5 (12.50%) Windows
3 3 (7.50%) Unix
4 1 (2.50%) Android
4 1 (2.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (25.00%) Agile
2 7 (17.50%) Analytics
2 7 (17.50%) Microservices
2 7 (17.50%) Software Engineering
3 6 (15.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 6 (15.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (15.00%) DevOps
3 6 (15.00%) Full Stack Development
3 6 (15.00%) Information Security
3 6 (15.00%) Machine Learning
3 6 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
3 6 (15.00%) Test Automation
4 5 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (12.50%) ETL
4 5 (12.50%) TDD
4 5 (12.50%) Technology Strategy
5 4 (10.00%) Business Case
5 4 (10.00%) Roadmaps
5 4 (10.00%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 9 (22.50%) Python
2 8 (20.00%) Java
3 6 (15.00%) Go
3 6 (15.00%) JavaScript
4 5 (12.50%) Scala
4 5 (12.50%) SQL
4 5 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 4 (10.00%) C#
5 4 (10.00%) C++
6 2 (5.00%) C
6 2 (5.00%) PHP
6 2 (5.00%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.50%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) Degree
2 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared
2 3 (7.50%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.00%) Master's Degree
3 2 (5.00%) PhD
4 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) SLA
2 2 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.00%) QA
3 1 (2.50%) GRC
3 1 (2.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.50%) Firmware
3 2 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (15.00%) Terraform
2 4 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.50%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (5.00%) Ansible
4 2 (5.00%) Consul
4 2 (5.00%) Packer
4 2 (5.00%) Progress Chef
4 2 (5.00%) Puppet
4 2 (5.00%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (2.50%) Bugsnag
Vendors
1 5 (12.50%) Talend
2 4 (10.00%) Cisco
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.50%) Adobe
3 3 (7.50%) Dell
3 3 (7.50%) Google
3 3 (7.50%) Intel
3 3 (7.50%) Okta
3 3 (7.50%) Polycom
3 3 (7.50%) Salesforce
3 3 (7.50%) SAP
3 3 (7.50%) ServiceNow
3 3 (7.50%) Sitecore
4 2 (5.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (5.00%) VMware
5 1 (2.50%) Aruba
5 1 (2.50%) Finsemble
5 1 (2.50%) Oracle
5 1 (2.50%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.50%) Riverbed