Tandem Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Tandem
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Tandem in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Tandem over the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 117 140
Rank change year-on-year +1 +23 +58
Contract jobs citing Tandem 1 10 1
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.059% 0.47% 0.035%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.15% 1.54% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - £560 -
25th Percentile £458 £613 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £700 £525
Median % change year-on-year -33.50% +33.33% -8.70%
75th Percentile £473 £725 £538
90th Percentile - £815 -
Central London median daily rate £466 £700 £525
% change year-on-year -33.50% +33.33% -8.70%

All Generic Skills
City of London

Tandem falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 658 649 902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.12% 30.70% 31.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 404 577
10th Percentile £350 £352 £323
25th Percentile £450 £463 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% -1.25% -
75th Percentile £688 £725 £738
90th Percentile £779 £838 £825
Central London median daily rate £569 £576 £600
% change year-on-year -1.30% -3.96% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 10
10th Percentile £16.85 £32.05 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.43 £39.63 £19.31
Median hourly rate £27.50 £56.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.89% +57.75% -24.06%
75th Percentile £50.79 £76.13 £45.64
90th Percentile £74.84 £85.95 £54.58
Central London median hourly rate £26.29 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -2.64% -22.86% -25.13%

Tandem
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Tandem relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Tandem job vacancy trend in the City of London

Tandem
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Tandem.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Tandem

Tandem
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Tandem.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Tandem

Tandem
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSH
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Attestation
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft