Tandem Contract Job Trends in the North West

Tandem
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Tandem in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Tandem over the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 - 143
Rank change year-on-year - - +28
Contract jobs citing Tandem 12 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.52% - 0.10%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.52% - 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 3
10th Percentile £313 - -
25th Percentile £344 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - £200
Median % change year-on-year - - -42.86%
75th Percentile £488 - £400
90th Percentile £492 - £520
England median daily rate £467 £651 £485
% change year-on-year -28.17% +34.12% -15.65%

All Generic Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 787 685 832
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 34.41% 28.95% 29.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 544 359 563
10th Percentile £268 £293 £257
25th Percentile £363 £379 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +2.15%
75th Percentile £575 £564 £600
90th Percentile £656 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 27 39
10th Percentile £15.80 £17.56 £16.20
25th Percentile £19.29 £21.15 £21.18
Median hourly rate £31.36 £32.50 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% -20.73% +88.25%
75th Percentile £52.50 £52.75 £51.88
90th Percentile £70.93 £89.70 £74.00
England median hourly rate £27.52 £52.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -47.59% +16.67% +75.03%

Tandem
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Tandem relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Tandem job vacancy trend in the North West

Tandem
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Tandem.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Tandem

Tandem
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Tandem in the North West over the 6 months to 21 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Tandem in the North West

Tandem
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Tandem.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Tandem

Tandem
Contract 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 Tandem within the North West region over the 6 months to 21 October 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
Cheshire - 9 £430 - 3
Manchester - 3 £466 - 2
Tandem
England

Tandem
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 11 (91.67%) Confluence
1 11 (91.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
1 1 (8.33%) SaaS
1 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (91.67%) SSH
Development Applications
1 11 (91.67%) JIRA
General
1 10 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (91.67%) Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (8.33%) Node.js
1 1 (8.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) Unix
1 11 (91.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Computer Science
1 11 (91.67%) Cryptography
1 11 (91.67%) Information Security
1 11 (91.67%) ITIL
1 11 (91.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 10 (83.33%) Incident Response
3 9 (75.00%) Change Management
3 9 (75.00%) Release Management
4 8 (66.67%) Key Management
5 7 (58.33%) Data Protection
5 7 (58.33%) Project Management
6 6 (50.00%) Attestation
6 6 (50.00%) Customer Experience
6 6 (50.00%) Incident Management
6 6 (50.00%) Project Delivery
6 6 (50.00%) Service Management
7 3 (25.00%) Problem Management
8 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 1 (8.33%) Decision-Making
9 1 (8.33%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (91.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 11 (91.67%) Degree
2 5 (41.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 1 (8.33%) CISM
4 1 (8.33%) CISSP
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) IBM
2 6 (50.00%) Gemalto
2 6 (50.00%) Thales
3 3 (25.00%) Microsoft