N-Tier Contracts in England

N-Tier
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term N-Tier in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited N-Tier over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 470 541 635
Rank change year-on-year +71 +94 +85
Contract jobs citing N-Tier 15 1 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.062% 0.003% 0.036%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.18% 0.009% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 15
10th Percentile £496 - £398
25th Percentile £504 - £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 - £438
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.63%
75th Percentile £625 - £519
90th Percentile £707 - £575
UK median daily rate £552 £575 £480
% change year-on-year -4.00% +19.79% -1.54%

All Generic Skills
England

N-Tier 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 8,317 11,465 17,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.15% 30.83% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,436 7,505 11,795
10th Percentile £300 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 827 591
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.01 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%
75th Percentile £64.63 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.40 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

N-Tier
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for N-Tier in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for N-Tier in England

N-Tier
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing N-Tier in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for N-Tier in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for N-Tier in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +50 13 £565 - 16
South East - 2 £496 - 6
N-Tier
UK

N-Tier
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 5 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (13.33%) PaaS
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (6.67%) AWS
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) dbt
4 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.67%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (6.67%) MySQL
3 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Git
2 3 (20.00%) Bitbucket Server
2 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (20.00%) TeamCity
3 1 (6.67%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (6.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (26.67%) Front Office
2 2 (13.33%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) Developer
2 8 (53.33%) Senior
3 5 (33.33%) Data Engineer
3 5 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
3 5 (33.33%) Senior Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Angular Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) UI Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Azure Data Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Azure Developer
5 2 (13.33%) C# Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Java Developer
6 1 (6.67%) .NET Developer
6 1 (6.67%) .NET Web Developer
6 1 (6.67%) C# Web Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Database Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) HTML Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Database Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (53.33%) .NET
1 8 (53.33%) ASP.NET
2 7 (46.67%) HTML
3 6 (40.00%) AngularJS
3 6 (40.00%) HTML5
3 6 (40.00%) Node.js
4 5 (33.33%) .NET Core
4 5 (33.33%) .NET Framework
4 5 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
4 5 (33.33%) ASP.NET Web API
4 5 (33.33%) Autofac
4 5 (33.33%) Dapper ORM
4 5 (33.33%) Entity Framework
4 5 (33.33%) REST
4 5 (33.33%) StructureMap
4 5 (33.33%) WCF
4 5 (33.33%) Web Services
5 4 (26.67%) CSS
6 3 (20.00%) CSS3
7 2 (13.33%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Derivative
2 3 (20.00%) Equity Derivative
3 2 (13.33%) Equities
3 2 (13.33%) Fixed Income
3 2 (13.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (6.67%) Exotic Derivative
4 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
4 1 (6.67%) PKI
4 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Agile
1 13 (86.67%) TDD
2 11 (73.33%) Design Patterns
3 10 (66.67%) Unit Testing
4 8 (53.33%) CI/CD
5 7 (46.67%) MVC
6 6 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (40.00%) CRM
6 6 (40.00%) OOP
6 6 (40.00%) Release Management
6 6 (40.00%) Scrum
6 6 (40.00%) SOA
6 6 (40.00%) Systems Engineering
6 6 (40.00%) Web Development
7 5 (33.33%) BDD
7 5 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
7 5 (33.33%) Data Design
7 5 (33.33%) Inversion of Control
8 4 (26.67%) Change Data Capture
8 4 (26.67%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) C#
2 7 (46.67%) SQL
3 6 (40.00%) Java
3 6 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (40.00%) T-SQL
4 5 (33.33%) TypeScript
5 4 (26.67%) Scala
6 1 (6.67%) Python
6 1 (6.67%) Ruby
6 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Degree
1 5 (33.33%) MCPD
1 5 (33.33%) MCSD
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Splunk