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 12 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 395 336 392
Rank change year-on-year -59 +56 +117
Contract jobs citing N-Tier 3 16 1
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.019% 0.12% 0.005%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.050% 0.35% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £703 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.71% - -
England median daily rate £550 £625 £565
% change year-on-year -12.00% +10.67% +18.89%

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 5,975 4,515 5,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.89% 34.97% 32.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,884 2,986 4,207
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £439 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £702
90th Percentile £800 £850 £825
England median daily rate £513 £547 £550
% change year-on-year -6.31% -0.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 68 179
10th Percentile £17.60 £20.02 £15.50
25th Percentile £20.82 £24.66 £18.93
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.70 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.76% +27.48% -20.00%
75th Percentile £57.00 £57.81 £47.50
90th Percentile £73.50 £80.75 £65.35
England median hourly rate £36.32 £34.25 £28.50
% change year-on-year +6.04% +20.18% +26.67%

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 (33.33%) Appian
1 1 (33.33%) IIS
1 1 (33.33%) JBoss
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
1 1 (33.33%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Front Office
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) C# Developer
3 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Appian Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Appian Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Developer
3 1 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack C# Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Lead
3 1 (33.33%) Lead Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) SOAP
2 1 (33.33%) WinForms
2 1 (33.33%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Client/Server
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Derivative
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (33.33%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Auto-Scaling
2 1 (33.33%) Business Process Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Low Latency
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Pair Programming
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Process Management
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) SOA
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle