Tandem
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Tandem in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Tandem 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 565 674 790
Rank change year-on-year +109 +116 -195
Contract jobs citing Tandem 33 45 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.076% 0.075% 0.066%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.25% 0.23% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 34 47
10th Percentile £293 £325 £384
25th Percentile £463 £417 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.67% -13.46%
75th Percentile £623 £663 £650
90th Percentile £690 £700 £793
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £413 £525
% change year-on-year +15.15% -21.43% +45.83%

All Generic Skills
UK

Tandem 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%

Tandem
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Tandem in the UK

Tandem
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Tandem in the UK

Tandem
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Tandem over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Tandem in the UK

Tandem
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Tandem in the UK

Tandem
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Tandem 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
England +119 28 £600 - 42
London +102 20 £600 -4.00% 21
Work from Home +131 15 £550 -3.08% 26
UK excluding London +57 11 £475 +15.15% 23
Scotland +33 5 £475 -3.80% 2
South East +28 4 £425 -28.27% 6
North of England +25 2 £550 +69.23% 4
North West +9 2 £550 +69.23% 3

Tandem
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 (3.03%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (27.27%) Azure
2 7 (21.21%) AWS
3 5 (15.15%) Power Platform
4 3 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (9.09%) IaaS
4 3 (9.09%) OCI
4 3 (9.09%) Oracle Service Cloud
5 2 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (6.06%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (6.06%) GCP
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (3.03%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) Internet
1 2 (6.06%) NAS
1 2 (6.06%) SAN
1 2 (6.06%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.15%) Power BI
2 3 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (9.09%) Oracle Database
2 3 (9.09%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (6.06%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 2 (6.06%) Data Mining
3 2 (6.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.03%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Artifactory
1 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 13 (39.39%) Social Skills
2 10 (30.30%) Finance
3 7 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (12.12%) Manufacturing
5 3 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (6.06%) Marketing
6 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
6 2 (6.06%) Retail
7 1 (3.03%) Banking
7 1 (3.03%) Front Office
7 1 (3.03%) German Language
7 1 (3.03%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (24.24%) Consultant
2 5 (15.15%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) Analyst
3 3 (9.09%) Azure Consultant
3 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 3 (9.09%) Data Warehouse Developer
3 3 (9.09%) Developer
3 3 (9.09%) ETL Developer
3 3 (9.09%) IT Consultant
3 3 (9.09%) IT Support
3 3 (9.09%) Power BI Developer
3 3 (9.09%) Senior
3 3 (9.09%) SSIS Developer
3 3 (9.09%) Support Consultant
4 2 (6.06%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Azure Developer
4 2 (6.06%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) Middleware
2 1 (3.03%) .NET
2 1 (3.03%) J2EE
2 1 (3.03%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Data Centre
1 5 (15.15%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.06%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.03%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (21.21%) Windows
2 6 (18.18%) Linux
3 3 (9.09%) Ubuntu
3 3 (9.09%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.03%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (33.33%) Migration
2 10 (30.30%) Agile
3 8 (24.24%) DevOps
3 8 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 6 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (15.15%) Computer Science
6 4 (12.12%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (12.12%) Project Management
7 3 (9.09%) Asset Management
7 3 (9.09%) Code Quality
7 3 (9.09%) Data Visualisation
7 3 (9.09%) Decision-Making
7 3 (9.09%) ETL
7 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure Maintenance
7 3 (9.09%) Re-Platforming
7 3 (9.09%) Visualisation
8 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (6.06%) Matrix Organization
8 2 (6.06%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.15%) Java
1 5 (15.15%) Python
1 5 (15.15%) SQL
2 2 (6.06%) Bicep
2 2 (6.06%) C
2 2 (6.06%) C++
2 2 (6.06%) PowerShell
2 2 (6.06%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.03%) C#
3 1 (3.03%) Go
Qualifications
1 5 (15.15%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (15.15%) Degree
2 2 (6.06%) Azure Certification
2 2 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (6.06%) Master's Degree
2 2 (6.06%) PhD
2 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.06%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) CISSP
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.03%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.03%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.06%) Active Directory
1 2 (6.06%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (6.06%) vSphere
2 1 (3.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (21.21%) Terraform
2 3 (9.09%) Grafana
3 2 (6.06%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (24.24%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.09%) Oracle
3 2 (6.06%) VMware
4 1 (3.03%) Databricks
4 1 (3.03%) IBM
4 1 (3.03%) SAP