Tandem Contracts in the UK excluding London

Tandem
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Tandem in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Tandem 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 327 383 438
Rank change year-on-year +56 +55 +66
Contract jobs citing Tandem 7 11 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.055% 0.053% 0.071%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.17% 0.18% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 13
10th Percentile £399 £379 £323
25th Percentile £461 £413 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year - -2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £500 £488 £600
90th Percentile £518 £550 £621
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -5.45% -8.33% +4.35%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding 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 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%

Tandem
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Tandem in the UK excluding London

Tandem
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Tandem in the UK excluding London

Tandem
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Tandem in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Tandem in the UK excluding London

Tandem
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Tandem in the UK excluding London

Tandem
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 Tandem 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
South East +34 2 £473 +11.18% 14
North of England +11 2 £510 -7.27% 9
North West +10 2 £510 -7.27% 3
South West - 2 £475 - 3
East Midlands - 1 £358 - 2
Midlands - 1 £358 - 4
Tandem
UK

Tandem
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Figma
1 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Eclipse
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Manufacturing
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
3 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (14.29%) Architect
1 1 (14.29%) BASE24 Developer
1 1 (14.29%) BSS Architect
1 1 (14.29%) Consultant
1 1 (14.29%) Designer
1 1 (14.29%) Developer
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architect
1 1 (14.29%) Implementation Manager
1 1 (14.29%) OSS Architect
1 1 (14.29%) PMO Manager
1 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
1 1 (14.29%) SAP Consultant
1 1 (14.29%) SAP Financial Consultant
1 1 (14.29%) SAP Implementation Manager
1 1 (14.29%) SAP Manager
1 1 (14.29%) SAP PMO Manager
1 1 (14.29%) Telecoms Architect
1 1 (14.29%) UI Designer
1 1 (14.29%) UI/UX Designer
1 1 (14.29%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) APACS
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) EMV
1 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (14.29%) Mainframe
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Time Management
2 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
2 1 (14.29%) Coaching
2 1 (14.29%) Customer Experience
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
2 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
2 1 (14.29%) High Availability
2 1 (14.29%) Objectives and Key Results
2 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
2 1 (14.29%) Project Management
2 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
2 1 (14.29%) SDLC
2 1 (14.29%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (14.29%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (14.29%) User Experience
2 1 (14.29%) User Stories
2 1 (14.29%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) C++
1 2 (28.57%) COBOL
2 1 (14.29%) C
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO 8583
1 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
1 1 (14.29%) PMO
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) SAP
2 2 (28.57%) HP
3 1 (14.29%) BT
3 1 (14.29%) Openreach
3 1 (14.29%) Virgin Media