N-Tier Contracts 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 352 402 476
Rank change year-on-year +50 +74 +105
Contract jobs citing N-Tier 8 3 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.060% 0.017% 0.035%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.16% 0.051% 0.098%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 6
10th Percentile - - £416
25th Percentile £500 £488 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +2.44% -31.67%
75th Percentile £554 £563 £566
90th Percentile £604 - £713
England median daily rate £517 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -1.52% +9.38% -18.30%

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 4,897 5,884 9,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.87% 33.39% 35.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,225 4,129 6,620
10th Percentile £331 £315 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £738 £738 £743
90th Percentile £838 £850 £838
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 141 98
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.50 £17.93
25th Percentile £22.50 £21.00 £22.49
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -20.00% -13.58%
75th Percentile £47.81 £50.25 £58.44
90th Percentile £65.03 £71.25 £85.99
England median hourly rate £32.72 £37.50 £25.58
% change year-on-year -12.74% +46.60% -3.47%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for N-Tier in London

N-Tier
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for N-Tier in London

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 5 July 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 - 3 £550 -
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 5 (62.50%) Azure
1 5 (62.50%) Azure Data Factory
1 5 (62.50%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon Cognito
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Relational Database
2 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 2 (25.00%) Front Office
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Senior
2 5 (62.50%) Data Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 5 (62.50%) Senior Data Engineer
3 4 (50.00%) Senior Developer
4 3 (37.50%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (25.00%) Azure Data Engineer
5 2 (25.00%) Azure Developer
6 1 (12.50%) Database Engineer
6 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
6 1 (12.50%) Senior Database Engineer
6 1 (12.50%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) .NET
1 6 (75.00%) ASP.NET
2 5 (62.50%) .NET Core
2 5 (62.50%) .NET Framework
2 5 (62.50%) ASP.NET MVC
2 5 (62.50%) ASP.NET Web API
2 5 (62.50%) Autofac
2 5 (62.50%) Dapper ORM
2 5 (62.50%) Entity Framework
2 5 (62.50%) REST
2 5 (62.50%) StructureMap
2 5 (62.50%) WCF
2 5 (62.50%) Web Services
3 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (25.00%) HTML
3 2 (25.00%) HTML5
4 1 (12.50%) JSON
4 1 (12.50%) SAML
4 1 (12.50%) XML
4 1 (12.50%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Derivative
1 2 (25.00%) Equities
1 2 (25.00%) Equity Derivative
1 2 (25.00%) Fixed Income
1 2 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (12.50%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
1 8 (100.00%) TDD
2 7 (87.50%) Design Patterns
2 7 (87.50%) Unit Testing
3 6 (75.00%) OOP
4 5 (62.50%) BDD
4 5 (62.50%) CRM
4 5 (62.50%) Data Design
4 5 (62.50%) Inversion of Control
4 5 (62.50%) MVC
4 5 (62.50%) Scrum
4 5 (62.50%) Web Development
5 4 (50.00%) Batch Processing
5 4 (50.00%) Change Data Capture
6 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
7 2 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
7 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (25.00%) Release Management
7 2 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
7 2 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) C#
1 6 (75.00%) SQL
1 6 (75.00%) T-SQL
2 3 (37.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) Ruby
3 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Degree
1 5 (62.50%) MCPD
1 5 (62.50%) MCSD
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft