N-Tier Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

N-Tier
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term N-Tier in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited N-Tier over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 341 465
Rank change year-on-year +41 +124 +128
Contract jobs citing N-Tier 4 4 12
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.040% 0.026% 0.046%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.12% 0.091% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 8
10th Percentile £413 £404 £443
25th Percentile £431 £466 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £495
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +16.16% +4.21%
75th Percentile £519 £659 £563
90th Percentile £538 £676 £825
UK median daily rate £552 £575 £480
% change year-on-year -4.00% +19.79% -1.54%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,272 4,408 8,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.03% 28.73% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,974 5,725
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 199 151
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.48 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.50 £31.38
Median hourly rate £41.75 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -11.30% +29.21%
75th Percentile £64.57 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

N-Tier
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing N-Tier as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

N-Tier trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

N-Tier
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing N-Tier.

N-Tier daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

N-Tier
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing N-Tier over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

N-Tier daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

N-Tier
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 Data Factory
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (25.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (25.00%) Local Government
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Angular Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Database Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) HTML CSS Developer
2 1 (25.00%) HTML Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Scala Developer
2 1 (25.00%) OpenEdge Programmer
2 1 (25.00%) Programmer
2 1 (25.00%) Progress Programmer
2 1 (25.00%) Scala Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Database Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) UI Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Web UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (25.00%) Autofac
2 1 (25.00%) Blazor
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) CSS3
2 1 (25.00%) Dapper ORM
2 1 (25.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) HTML5
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) StructureMap
2 1 (25.00%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Derivative
1 1 (25.00%) Exotic Derivative
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (50.00%) MVC
1 2 (50.00%) TDD
1 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Application Security
2 1 (25.00%) BDD
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) CRM
2 1 (25.00%) Housing Management
2 1 (25.00%) Inversion of Control
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) OOP
2 1 (25.00%) Release Management
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) SOA
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Scala
2 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) MCPD
1 1 (25.00%) MCSD
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Progress
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk