Tandem
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Tandem in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Tandem over the 6 months leading up to 19 February 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 656 721 905
Rank change year-on-year +65 +184 -35
Permanent jobs citing Tandem 78 83 111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.11% 0.10%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.37% 0.30% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 38 74 91
10th Percentile £47,000 £43,900 £48,136
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,813 £61,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £70,250 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.66% -17.35% +70.00%
75th Percentile £116,250 £112,500 £136,250
90th Percentile £138,750 £138,750 £150,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £57,164
% change year-on-year -4.55% -3.78% +14.33%

All Generic Skills
UK

Tandem falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 21,275 27,379 47,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.50% 35.54% 43.01%
Number of salaries quoted 9,201 19,673 25,789
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,000 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% -15.38% +5.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £100,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Tandem
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Tandem as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Tandem in the UK

Tandem
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Tandem.

Salary trend for Tandem in the UK

Tandem
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Tandem over the 6 months to 19 February 2025.

Salary histogram for Tandem in the UK

Tandem
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Tandem within the UK over the 6 months to 19 February 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +47 56 £82,500 -17.50% 31
UK excluding London +75 31 £52,500 -4.55% 14
London +13 27 £107,500 +2.38% 23
Work from Home +89 23 £75,000 +30.43% 6
North of England +38 9 £52,500 -4.55% 2
East of England - 8 £65,000 - 2
South East +41 7 £52,750 +5.50% 8
South West +66 5 £50,750 +3.57%
Yorkshire +42 5 £27,500 -45.00% 1
North West +6 3 £75,000 +13.21% 1
Scotland +50 2 £52,500 +16.02%
North East +25 1 £52,500 -

Tandem
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (6.41%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 24 (30.77%) AWS
2 17 (21.79%) Serverless
3 16 (20.51%) Amazon EC2
3 16 (20.51%) Amazon ECS
3 16 (20.51%) Amazon S3
3 16 (20.51%) Amazon SQS
3 16 (20.51%) AWS CloudFormation
3 16 (20.51%) AWS Lambda
3 16 (20.51%) OpenShift
4 4 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.56%) Google Workspace
5 2 (2.56%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.28%) Azure
6 1 (1.28%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.82%) Internet
2 6 (7.69%) 5G
2 6 (7.69%) DNS
2 6 (7.69%) HTTP
2 6 (7.69%) SD-WAN
2 6 (7.69%) SMTP
2 6 (7.69%) TCP/IP
2 6 (7.69%) WAN
3 5 (6.41%) NetScaler
4 1 (1.28%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (1.28%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (1.28%) Firewall
4 1 (1.28%) Network Security
4 1 (1.28%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (20.51%) Amazon RDS
1 16 (20.51%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (6.41%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (2.56%) Data Mining
3 2 (2.56%) NonStop SQL
3 2 (2.56%) Power BI
4 1 (1.28%) GIS
4 1 (1.28%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 16 (20.51%) Artifactory
1 16 (20.51%) Jenkins
2 6 (7.69%) Git
2 6 (7.69%) Subversion
3 2 (2.56%) JIRA
General
1 36 (46.15%) Finance
2 26 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 18 (23.08%) Law
4 16 (20.51%) Front Office
5 14 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (16.67%) Marketing
7 7 (8.97%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (5.13%) Retail
8 4 (5.13%) Telecoms
9 3 (3.85%) Banking
10 2 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.28%) Advertising
11 1 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.28%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (20.51%) AWS DevOps
1 16 (20.51%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 16 (20.51%) AWS Engineer
1 16 (20.51%) DevOps Engineer
1 16 (20.51%) Kubernetes Engineer
1 16 (20.51%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 12 (15.38%) Developer
3 11 (14.10%) Oracle Developer
4 10 (12.82%) Senior
5 9 (11.54%) Business Development Manager
5 9 (11.54%) Business Manager
5 9 (11.54%) Development Manager
6 6 (7.69%) Architect
6 6 (7.69%) Embedded Engineer
6 6 (7.69%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
6 6 (7.69%) Firmware Engineer
6 6 (7.69%) Senior Embedded Engineer
6 6 (7.69%) Senior Firmware Engineer
6 6 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (6.41%) Citrix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (20.51%) J2EE
1 16 (20.51%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (2.56%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (2.56%) Node.js
3 1 (1.28%) GraphQL
3 1 (1.28%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (1.28%) MACH
3 1 (1.28%) Middleware
3 1 (1.28%) Next.js
3 1 (1.28%) React
3 1 (1.28%) WebSockets
3 1 (1.28%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 15 (19.23%) Onboarding
2 13 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 13 (16.67%) Virtual Team
3 7 (8.97%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (7.69%) Algorithms
4 6 (7.69%) FPGA
4 6 (7.69%) GNSS
4 6 (7.69%) Management Information System
4 6 (7.69%) MicroBlaze
4 6 (7.69%) Self-Driving Car
5 5 (6.41%) Private Cloud
5 5 (6.41%) Public Cloud
6 3 (3.85%) Lidar
7 2 (2.56%) NHS
8 1 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.28%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.54%) Windows
2 7 (8.97%) Unix
3 6 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (28.21%) Open Source
1 22 (28.21%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (26.92%) Decision-Making
3 19 (24.36%) Agile
4 18 (23.08%) Asset Management
5 17 (21.79%) CI/CD
5 17 (21.79%) DevOps
5 17 (21.79%) Software Engineering
6 16 (20.51%) Deployment Automation
6 16 (20.51%) Financial Modelling
6 16 (20.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 13 (16.67%) Business Development
7 13 (16.67%) Business Enablement
7 13 (16.67%) Technology Enablement
8 12 (15.38%) User Experience
9 10 (12.82%) Cybersecurity
10 9 (11.54%) Computer Science
10 9 (11.54%) Presales
10 9 (11.54%) Value Proposition
11 8 (10.26%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 22 (28.21%) Python
2 16 (20.51%) Go
2 16 (20.51%) Java
3 7 (8.97%) C++
4 6 (7.69%) C
5 5 (6.41%) SQL
6 2 (2.56%) COBOL
6 2 (2.56%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.28%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 14 (17.95%) Degree
2 7 (8.97%) SC Cleared
2 7 (8.97%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.28%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.28%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.28%) CCNA
4 1 (1.28%) CCNP
4 1 (1.28%) CCSA
4 1 (1.28%) CCSE
4 1 (1.28%) CISA
4 1 (1.28%) CISM
4 1 (1.28%) CISSP
4 1 (1.28%) CRISC
4 1 (1.28%) MCSA
4 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.28%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.28%) GDPR
3 1 (1.28%) NIST
3 1 (1.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (21.79%) Docker
2 6 (7.69%) Embedded Firmware
2 6 (7.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (21.79%) Kubernetes
2 16 (20.51%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (20.51%) Oracle
2 13 (16.67%) YouTube
3 5 (6.41%) Citrix
4 3 (3.85%) Google
4 3 (3.85%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.56%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.28%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.28%) Cisco
6 1 (1.28%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.28%) JDA
6 1 (1.28%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.28%) Veeam
6 1 (1.28%) VMware