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 11 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 341 401
Rank change year-on-year -21 +60 +126
Contract jobs citing N-Tier 2 15 2
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.014% 0.11% 0.011%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.037% 0.31% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £840 -
Median % change year-on-year -34.52% - -
England median daily rate £573 £725 £720
% change year-on-year -21.03% +0.76% +30.82%

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 5,370 4,815 6,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.06% 34.29% 33.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,480 3,056 4,293
10th Percentile £350 £325 £315
25th Percentile £435 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £713
90th Percentile £800 £847 £813
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 60 122
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.93 £17.02
25th Percentile £20.62 £24.62 £19.99
Median hourly rate £26.30 £35.25 £29.61
Median % change year-on-year -25.39% +19.05% -2.12%
75th Percentile £47.00 £61.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £66.85 £81.00 £64.95
England median hourly rate £28.56 £37.50 £37.63
% change year-on-year -23.83% -0.33% +50.50%

N-Tier
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing N-Tier relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

N-Tier job vacancy trend 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
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Back Office
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (50.00%) Front Office
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Greeks
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) MVVM
1 1 (50.00%) OO
1 1 (50.00%) OOP
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft