Tandem Contracts in the North of England

Tandem
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Tandem in contract job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Tandem over the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 184 - 195
Rank change year-on-year - - +59
Contract jobs citing Tandem 5 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.13% - 0.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.37% - 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile £311 - -
25th Percentile £375 - £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 - £320
Median % change year-on-year - - -28.09%
75th Percentile £488 - £322
90th Percentile £490 - £504
England median daily rate £466 £600 £450
% change year-on-year -22.42% +33.33% -25.00%

All Generic Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,362 1,157 1,487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 34.14% 28.03% 28.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 866 691 985
10th Percentile £296 £300 £256
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 81 55
10th Percentile £17.30 £12.15 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.63 £13.50 £17.05
Median hourly rate £35.00 £16.19 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year +116.18% -42.14% +43.49%
75th Percentile £64.38 £34.75 £45.88
90th Percentile £78.75 £58.00 £65.90
England median hourly rate £30.75 £47.50 £41.27
% change year-on-year -35.26% +15.10% +58.73%

Tandem
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Tandem as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Tandem in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Tandem in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Tandem in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Tandem in the North of England over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Tandem in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Tandem in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Tandem in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Tandem within the North of England region over the 6 months to 15 August 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West - 5 £466 - 4
Tandem
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (80.00%) Confluence
1 4 (80.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) SaaS
1 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) SSH
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
1 1 (20.00%) React
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Unix
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Attestation
1 4 (80.00%) Change Management
1 4 (80.00%) Computer Science
1 4 (80.00%) Cryptography
1 4 (80.00%) Customer Experience
1 4 (80.00%) Data Protection
1 4 (80.00%) Incident Management
1 4 (80.00%) Incident Response
1 4 (80.00%) Information Security
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
1 4 (80.00%) Key Management
1 4 (80.00%) Project Delivery
1 4 (80.00%) Project Management
1 4 (80.00%) Release Management
1 4 (80.00%) Service Management
1 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (20.00%) Microservices
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft