N-Tier Contracts in the North West

N-Tier
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term N-Tier in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited N-Tier over the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 - 142
Rank change year-on-year - - +45
DemandTrendContract jobs citing N-Tier 6 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.27% - 0.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.84% - 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £561 - £372
25th Percentile £561 - £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £485
Median % change year-on-year - - +56.20%
75th Percentile £585 - £488
90th Percentile £587 - -
England median daily rate £554 £525 £485
% change year-on-year +5.52% +8.25% -19.17%

All Generic Skills
North West

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 the North West.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 717 638 879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.58% 26.43% 29.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 476 397 580
10th Percentile £300 £313 £256
25th Percentile £375 £425 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.95% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £725 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 29 36
10th Percentile £22.50 £11.25 £16.13
25th Percentile £26.88 £16.85 £16.85
Median hourly rate £40.59 £31.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year +30.94% -20.00% +93.75%
75th Percentile £67.25 £57.50 £47.14
90th Percentile £78.75 £93.90 £68.50
England median hourly rate £30.50 £47.75 £43.00
% change year-on-year -36.13% +11.05% +65.38%

N-Tier
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing N-Tier as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for N-Tier in the North West

N-Tier
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing N-Tier.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing N-Tier

N-Tier
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing N-Tier.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing N-Tier

N-Tier
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing N-Tier within the North West region over the 6 months to 19 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester - 6 £575 - 5
N-Tier
England

N-Tier
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) GCP
1 6 (100.00%) Serverless
2 5 (83.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 5 (83.33%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (83.33%) Amazon ECS
2 5 (83.33%) Amazon EMR
2 5 (83.33%) Amazon EventBridge
2 5 (83.33%) Apigee
2 5 (83.33%) AWS Fargate
2 5 (83.33%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) Datadog
2 5 (83.33%) GitHub
2 5 (83.33%) Loggly
2 5 (83.33%) Route 53
3 4 (66.67%) AWS Step Functions
3 4 (66.67%) PaaS
3 4 (66.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 6 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (83.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (83.33%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (83.33%) BigQuery
2 5 (83.33%) MySQL
2 5 (83.33%) NoSQL
2 5 (83.33%) RDBMS
2 5 (83.33%) Redis
2 5 (83.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Git
1 6 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (83.33%) Gradle
2 5 (83.33%) Maven
2 5 (83.33%) SonarLint
2 5 (83.33%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Architect
1 6 (100.00%) Java Architect
1 6 (100.00%) Java Technical Architect
1 6 (100.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Dropwizard
1 6 (100.00%) J2EE
1 6 (100.00%) Micronaut
1 6 (100.00%) RESTful
1 6 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (83.33%) Celery
2 5 (83.33%) JWT
3 3 (50.00%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (66.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) API Design
1 6 (100.00%) BDD
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 6 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 6 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 6 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 6 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 6 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 6 (100.00%) Microservices
1 6 (100.00%) OOP
1 6 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 6 (100.00%) TDD
1 6 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 6 (100.00%) Waterfall
2 5 (83.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 5 (83.33%) Integration Patterns
2 5 (83.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Gigya