Tandem Contracts in England

Tandem
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Tandem in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Tandem 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 466 513 617
Rank change year-on-year +47 +104 +118
Contract jobs citing Tandem 19 29 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.078% 0.078% 0.071%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.23% 0.25% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 24 28
10th Percentile £425 £343 £325
25th Percentile £462 £491 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £600 £613
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -2.04% +11.36%
75th Percentile £838 £625 £663
90th Percentile - £720 £700
UK median daily rate £648 £563 £600
% change year-on-year +15.11% -6.25% +6.67%

All Generic Skills
England

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 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%

Tandem
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Tandem in England

Tandem
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Tandem in England

Tandem
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Tandem in England

Tandem
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Tandem in England

Tandem
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 Tandem 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 +29 12 £775 +29.17% 34
South East +44 2 £473 +11.18% 15
North of England +19 2 £510 -7.27% 9
North West +17 2 £510 -7.27% 4
South West - 2 £475 - 3
East Midlands - 1 £358 - 3
Midlands - 1 £358 - 5
Tandem
UK

Tandem
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (21.05%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (15.79%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) Amazon EC2
1 5 (26.32%) Amazon ECS
1 5 (26.32%) Amazon S3
1 5 (26.32%) Amazon SQS
1 5 (26.32%) AWS
1 5 (26.32%) AWS CloudFormation
1 5 (26.32%) AWS Lambda
1 5 (26.32%) OpenShift
1 5 (26.32%) Serverless
2 1 (5.26%) ChatGPT
2 1 (5.26%) Figma
2 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (26.32%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (21.05%) Big Data
2 4 (21.05%) Data Mining
2 4 (21.05%) NonStop SQL
3 1 (5.26%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Artifactory
1 5 (26.32%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.53%) JIRA
3 1 (5.26%) Eclipse
General
1 14 (73.68%) Finance
2 5 (26.32%) Front Office
3 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.26%) Advertising
5 1 (5.26%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) AWS DevOps
1 5 (26.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 5 (26.32%) AWS Engineer
1 5 (26.32%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (26.32%) Kubernetes Engineer
1 5 (26.32%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Big Data Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Implementation Manager
4 1 (5.26%) OSS Architect
4 1 (5.26%) PMO Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.26%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) SAP Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) UI Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) J2EE
2 4 (21.05%) Ray
3 1 (5.26%) ODBC
3 1 (5.26%) XML
3 1 (5.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (10.53%) EMV
2 2 (10.53%) Mainframe
3 1 (5.26%) APACS
3 1 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Agile
2 6 (31.58%) CI/CD
3 5 (26.32%) Artificial Intelligence
3 5 (26.32%) Asset Management
3 5 (26.32%) Decision-Making
3 5 (26.32%) Deployment Automation
3 5 (26.32%) DevOps
3 5 (26.32%) Financial Modelling
3 5 (26.32%) Open Source
3 5 (26.32%) Roadmaps
3 5 (26.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 5 (26.32%) Software Engineering
4 4 (21.05%) Deep Learning
4 4 (21.05%) Low Latency
4 4 (21.05%) Machine Learning
4 4 (21.05%) Parallel Computing
4 4 (21.05%) Pattern Recognition
4 4 (21.05%) Technical Debt
4 4 (21.05%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (10.53%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) Python
2 10 (52.63%) Java
3 7 (36.84%) C++
4 6 (31.58%) C
5 5 (26.32%) Go
5 5 (26.32%) Shell Script
6 3 (15.79%) COBOL
7 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
8 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) Degree
1 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) ISO 8583
1 2 (10.53%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.26%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (26.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Kubernetes
1 5 (26.32%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) HP
2 3 (15.79%) SAP
3 1 (5.26%) BT
3 1 (5.26%) IBM
3 1 (5.26%) Openreach
3 1 (5.26%) Virgin Media