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 10 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 418 338 397
Rank change year-on-year -80 +59 +72
Contract jobs citing N-Tier 4 9 2
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.021% 0.074% 0.011%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.060% 0.20% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 1
10th Percentile £677 - -
25th Percentile £680 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £694 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +26.14% +4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £717 £554 £563
90th Percentile £726 £604 -
England median daily rate £694 £517 £525
% change year-on-year +34.19% -1.52% +15.07%

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 6,682 4,457 5,883
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.87% 36.40% 33.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,251 2,971 4,140
10th Percentile £358 £333 £315
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £725
90th Percentile £800 £838 £850
England median daily rate £525 £526 £550
% change year-on-year -0.18% -4.38% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 88 146
10th Percentile £19.03 £15.84 £15.46
25th Percentile £22.91 £22.50 £19.40
Median hourly rate £35.00 £33.70 £27.42
Median % change year-on-year +3.87% +22.88% -21.66%
75th Percentile £61.00 £49.56 £50.63
90th Percentile £88.75 £78.88 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £33.91 £36.27
% change year-on-year +29.64% -6.51% +61.32%

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Appian
1 1 (25.00%) IIS
1 1 (25.00%) JBoss
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (25.00%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Front Office
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Appian Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Appian Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (25.00%) Lead Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Lead Developer
3 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow Developer
3 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow Specialist
3 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) REST
2 3 (75.00%) SOAP
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (25.00%) React
3 1 (25.00%) Web Services
3 1 (25.00%) WinForms
3 1 (25.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) CMDB
2 1 (25.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) Derivative
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (25.00%) Equity Derivative
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) Architecture Roadmap
3 2 (50.00%) ITSM
3 2 (50.00%) Project Management
3 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (50.00%) SDLC
3 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
3 2 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (50.00%) TOGAF
4 1 (25.00%) Business Process Modelling
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (25.00%) Low Latency
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Microservices
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 2 (50.00%) Sparx