N-Tier Contract Job Trends in London

N-Tier
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term N-Tier in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited N-Tier over the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 368 372 447
Rank change year-on-year +4 +75 +113
Contract jobs citing N-Tier 5 5 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.037% 0.031% 0.027%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.097% 0.091% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile - - £550
25th Percentile - £488 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £715 £800
Median % change year-on-year -23.05% -10.66% +10.34%
75th Percentile £552 £932 £850
90th Percentile £553 - -
England median daily rate £554 £525 £610
% change year-on-year +5.52% -13.90% -2.44%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,151 5,497 7,689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.25% 33.71% 35.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,337 3,637 5,565
10th Percentile £336 £325 £350
25th Percentile £442 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £700 £738 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £825
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 67 85
10th Percentile £16.30 £17.25 £17.27
25th Percentile £23.71 £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £27.50 £31.62 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.03% +7.19% -0.42%
75th Percentile £46.55 £54.38 £53.25
90th Percentile £70.88 £71.50 £74.46
England median hourly rate £33.03 £57.35 £45.88
% change year-on-year -42.41% +25.00% +81.06%

N-Tier
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for N-Tier in London

N-Tier
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing N-Tier.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing N-Tier

N-Tier
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing N-Tier.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing N-Tier

N-Tier
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
West London - 2 £552 - 1
N-Tier
England

N-Tier
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Back Office
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (20.00%) Front Office
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
1 3 (60.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Database Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Database Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
2 4 (80.00%) Web Services
3 3 (60.00%) .NET Core
3 3 (60.00%) .NET Framework
3 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET
3 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET Web API
3 3 (60.00%) Autofac
3 3 (60.00%) Dapper ORM
3 3 (60.00%) Entity Framework
3 3 (60.00%) REST
3 3 (60.00%) StructureMap
3 3 (60.00%) WCF
4 1 (20.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) OOP
1 4 (80.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) BDD
2 3 (60.00%) CRM
2 3 (60.00%) Data Design
2 3 (60.00%) Design Patterns
2 3 (60.00%) Inversion of Control
2 3 (60.00%) MVC
2 3 (60.00%) TDD
2 3 (60.00%) Unit Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Web Development
3 2 (40.00%) Batch Processing
3 2 (40.00%) Change Data Capture
4 1 (20.00%) Auto-Scaling
4 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Greeks
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (20.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 3 (60.00%) MCPD
2 3 (60.00%) MCSD
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft