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 20 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 386 361 417
Rank change year-on-year -25 +56 +142
Contract jobs citing N-Tier 2 15 5
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.014% 0.095% 0.025%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.036% 0.28% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 2
10th Percentile - £555 -
25th Percentile - £589 £750
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £783 £800
Median % change year-on-year -29.71% -2.19% +19.63%
75th Percentile - £895 £850
90th Percentile - £932 -
England median daily rate £573 £680 £720
% change year-on-year -15.81% -5.49% +27.91%

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 5,547 5,332 6,749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.24% 33.91% 34.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,532 3,415 4,810
10th Percentile £335 £325 £325
25th Percentile £437 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £590
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.54% -1.67%
75th Percentile £688 £713 £720
90th Percentile £825 £850 £825
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 62 100
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.28 £18.76
25th Percentile £19.89 £23.98 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% +13.01% +1.65%
75th Percentile £42.47 £56.00 £50.10
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.75 £68.08
England median hourly rate £29.14 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -36.91% +2.62% +47.54%

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