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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 304 331 427
Rank change year-on-year +27 +96 +165
Contract jobs citing N-Tier 6 2 5
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.060% 0.015% 0.023%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.17% 0.051% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 4
10th Percentile £404 £393 -
25th Percentile £409 £438 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £485
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +8.25% -20.82%
75th Percentile £541 £613 £616
90th Percentile £546 £658 £846
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £493
% change year-on-year +4.76% +6.60% -17.92%

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 3,548 3,890 6,721
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 35.26% 29.92% 31.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,288 2,618 4,801
10th Percentile £340 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £813 £850 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 115 135
10th Percentile £13.60 £19.00 £19.40
25th Percentile £22.69 £29.19 £25.71
Median hourly rate £33.89 £62.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.35% +24.00% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £68.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £76.05
UK median hourly rate £29.50 £45.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -34.44% +12.50% +50.94%

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 15 August 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 (16.67%) OpenEdge
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) SaaS
2 3 (50.00%) Serverless
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (33.33%) Apigee
3 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (33.33%) Datadog
3 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 2 (33.33%) GitHub
3 2 (33.33%) Loggly
3 2 (33.33%) PaaS
3 2 (33.33%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (33.33%) BigQuery
2 2 (33.33%) DynamoDB
2 2 (33.33%) MySQL
2 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (33.33%) RDBMS
2 2 (33.33%) Redis
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) Gradle
2 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) Maven
2 2 (33.33%) SonarLint
2 2 (33.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (16.67%) TestComplete
3 1 (16.67%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Local Government
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Java Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Java Technical Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
1 2 (33.33%) Technical Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Database Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) OpenEdge Programmer
2 1 (16.67%) Programmer
2 1 (16.67%) Progress Programmer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior C# Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Database Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Web Services
2 2 (33.33%) Celery
2 2 (33.33%) Dropwizard
2 2 (33.33%) J2EE
2 2 (33.33%) JWT
2 2 (33.33%) Micronaut
2 2 (33.33%) RESTful
2 2 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (16.67%) .NET
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Core
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (16.67%) Autofac
3 1 (16.67%) Dapper ORM
3 1 (16.67%) Entity Framework
3 1 (16.67%) REST
3 1 (16.67%) StructureMap
3 1 (16.67%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) BDD
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (50.00%) MVC
1 3 (50.00%) OOP
1 3 (50.00%) TDD
2 2 (33.33%) Architectural Design
2 2 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 2 (33.33%) CQRS
2 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (33.33%) Microservices
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C#
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) Python
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) ISEB
2 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
2 1 (16.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (16.67%) MCPD
2 1 (16.67%) MCSD
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Gigya
2 1 (16.67%) Progress