N-Tier
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term N-Tier in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited N-Tier over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 590 694 777
Rank change year-on-year +104 +83 -168
Contract jobs citing N-Tier 8 25 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.042% 0.081%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.061% 0.13% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 20 49
10th Percentile £404 £400 £356
25th Percentile £466 £410 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year +19.79% +1.05% -17.39%
75th Percentile £659 £509 £700
90th Percentile £676 £593 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £675 £420 £450
% change year-on-year +60.71% -6.67% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.25
Median hourly rate - - £27.50
75th Percentile - - £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £27.50

All Generic Skills
UK

N-Tier is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,143 19,914 29,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.35% 33.30% 33.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,422 13,704 20,462
10th Percentile £263 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £680 £653
90th Percentile £788 £800 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 903 647 727
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.11
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £16.88
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.75% -18.24% +3.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% +10.00% -16.67%

N-Tier
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing N-Tier as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for N-Tier in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing N-Tier.

Daily rate trend for N-Tier in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing N-Tier over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for N-Tier in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing N-Tier.

Hourly rate trend for N-Tier in the UK

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Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing N-Tier within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Work from Home +123 4 £575 +16.16% 2
UK excluding London +61 3 £675 +60.71% 3
Scotland - 3 £675 -
England +111 1 - - 7
London +92 1 - - 4

N-Tier
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 1 (12.50%) Confluence
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Key Vault
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Service Bus
3 3 (37.50%) IaaS
3 3 (37.50%) iPaaS
3 3 (37.50%) PaaS
4 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) LAN
1 3 (37.50%) WAN
2 1 (12.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) TestComplete
1 1 (12.50%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
1 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Back Office
2 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Architect
2 4 (50.00%) Technical Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Architect
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps Architect
3 2 (25.00%) ERP Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Technical Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) .NET
2 3 (37.50%) .NET Core
2 3 (37.50%) .NET Framework
2 3 (37.50%) ARM Templates
2 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET Web API
2 3 (37.50%) CSS
2 3 (37.50%) Entity Framework
2 3 (37.50%) J2EE
2 3 (37.50%) jQuery
2 3 (37.50%) React
2 3 (37.50%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 3 (37.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Client/Server
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 4 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
1 4 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (37.50%) Architecture Governance
2 3 (37.50%) Business Forecasting
2 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (37.50%) Deployment Automation
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven
2 3 (37.50%) Innovative Thinking
2 3 (37.50%) Microservices
2 3 (37.50%) Planning and Forecasting
2 3 (37.50%) Project Delivery
2 3 (37.50%) Record to Report
2 3 (37.50%) Source to Pay
2 3 (37.50%) Strategic Thinking
2 3 (37.50%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
2 3 (37.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) C#
2 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
2 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 3 (37.50%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Hyper-V
1 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle
1 3 (37.50%) SAP
1 3 (37.50%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) Nintex
2 1 (12.50%) Sparx