Tandem Contracts in London

Tandem
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Tandem in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Tandem over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 341 370 474
Rank change year-on-year +29 +104 +97
Contract jobs citing Tandem 12 21 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.096% 0.12% 0.070%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.27% 0.36% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 18 16
10th Percentile £569 £298 £518
25th Percentile £713 £553 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year +29.17% -4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £838 £625 £700
90th Percentile - £803 £706
England median daily rate £520 £600 £613
% change year-on-year -13.33% -2.04% +11.36%

All Generic Skills
London

Tandem 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 4,516 5,909 9,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.99% 33.14% 35.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,054 4,182 6,966
10th Percentile £325 £301 £375
25th Percentile £451 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £583 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% -2.92% -
75th Percentile £738 £725 £750
90th Percentile £850 £850 £838
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 160 109
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.50 £18.93
25th Percentile £22.60 £18.93 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.69% -25.71% -21.35%
75th Percentile £50.31 £47.81 £64.50
90th Percentile £80.05 £66.78 £83.15
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Tandem
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Tandem as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Tandem in London

Tandem
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Tandem in London

Tandem
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Tandem in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Tandem in London

Tandem
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Tandem in London

Tandem
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Amazon EC2
1 5 (41.67%) Amazon ECS
1 5 (41.67%) Amazon S3
1 5 (41.67%) Amazon SQS
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
1 5 (41.67%) AWS CloudFormation
1 5 (41.67%) AWS Lambda
1 5 (41.67%) OpenShift
1 5 (41.67%) Serverless
2 1 (8.33%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (41.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (33.33%) Big Data
2 4 (33.33%) Data Mining
3 2 (16.67%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Artifactory
1 5 (41.67%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (83.33%) Finance
2 5 (41.67%) Front Office
3 1 (8.33%) Advertising
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) AWS DevOps
1 5 (41.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) AWS Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Big Data Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) IT Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Python Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) J2EE
2 4 (33.33%) Ray
3 1 (8.33%) ODBC
3 1 (8.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) EMV
2 1 (8.33%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 5 (41.67%) Asset Management
2 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
2 5 (41.67%) Decision-Making
2 5 (41.67%) Deployment Automation
2 5 (41.67%) DevOps
2 5 (41.67%) Financial Modelling
2 5 (41.67%) Open Source
2 5 (41.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 5 (41.67%) Software Engineering
3 4 (33.33%) Deep Learning
3 4 (33.33%) Low Latency
3 4 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 4 (33.33%) Parallel Computing
3 4 (33.33%) Pattern Recognition
3 4 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 4 (33.33%) Technical Debt
3 4 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (8.33%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) Python
2 10 (83.33%) Java
3 5 (41.67%) C
3 5 (41.67%) C++
3 5 (41.67%) Go
3 5 (41.67%) Shell Script
4 1 (8.33%) COBOL
4 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) ISO 8583
1 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
1 5 (41.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) HP
2 1 (8.33%) IBM