N-Tier Contracts in the UK excluding London

N-Tier
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term N-Tier in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited N-Tier over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 391 448
Rank change year-on-year +61 +57 +47
Contract jobs citing N-Tier 4 3 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.031% 0.014% 0.029%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.094% 0.049% 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 7
10th Percentile £404 - £368
25th Percentile £409 £663 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £675 £420
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +60.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £495 £688 £439
90th Percentile £508 - £459
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £480
% change year-on-year -4.35% +19.79% -1.54%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,236 6,091 7,790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.16% 29.43% 32.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,601 3,645 5,256
10th Percentile £208 £210 £213
25th Percentile £363 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £618
90th Percentile £665 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 724 436
10th Percentile £16.87 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £19.99 £14.06 £10.63
Median hourly rate £30.78 £28.38 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.48% +28.98% +10.00%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.78 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.16 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.27% +34.13% -18.24%

N-Tier
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing N-Tier as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for N-Tier in the UK excluding London

N-Tier
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing N-Tier in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for N-Tier in the UK excluding London

N-Tier
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing N-Tier in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for N-Tier in the UK excluding London

N-Tier
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Scotland +10 2 £413 -38.89% 1
South East - 2 £496 - 5
N-Tier
UK

N-Tier
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (25.00%) OpenEdge
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) dbt
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (25.00%) TestComplete
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (25.00%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (25.00%) Local Government
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) C# Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Web Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# Web Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) OpenEdge Programmer
2 1 (25.00%) Programmer
2 1 (25.00%) Progress Programmer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (50.00%) Blazor
1 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) ADO
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Coaching
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Housing Management
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Kanban
2 1 (25.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) SDLC
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) User Stories
2 1 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) ISEB
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Progress