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 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 637 788 906
Rank change year-on-year +151 +118 +75
Permanent jobs citing Tandem 55 108 83
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.11% 0.080%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.31% 0.31% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 22 80 74
10th Percentile £50,500 £43,750 £51,250
25th Percentile £63,221 £48,750 £60,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.15% -10.34% +38.10%
75th Percentile £116,250 £112,500 £136,250
90th Percentile £138,750 £138,750 £150,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £54,500 £63,500
% change year-on-year +5.50% -14.17% +20.95%

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 18,030 35,099 45,250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.65% 35.64% 43.54%
Number of salaries quoted 9,845 23,059 23,957
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,251
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £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 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Tandem in the UK

Tandem
Top 9 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 1 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +106 34 £82,500 +13.79% 58
Work from Home +183 21 £75,000 +30.43% 29
London +71 21 £107,500 +2.38% 34
UK excluding London +176 13 £57,500 +5.50% 29
East of England - 7 £50,000 -
North of England +77 4 £60,000 +20.00% 8
North West +33 3 £60,000 -9.43% 5
South East +105 2 £60,384 +20.77% 13
Yorkshire +69 1 £60,000 +26.32% 3

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.82%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 12 (21.82%) AWS
2 11 (20.00%) OpenShift
2 11 (20.00%) Serverless
3 10 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
3 10 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
3 10 (18.18%) Amazon S3
3 10 (18.18%) Amazon SQS
3 10 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
3 10 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (9.09%) Power Platform
5 3 (5.45%) Azure
5 3 (5.45%) Google Workspace
6 2 (3.64%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (3.64%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.64%) Power Automate
6 2 (3.64%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.55%) Internet
2 7 (12.73%) NetScaler
3 4 (7.27%) 5G
3 4 (7.27%) DNS
3 4 (7.27%) HTTP
3 4 (7.27%) SD-WAN
3 4 (7.27%) SMTP
3 4 (7.27%) TCP/IP
3 4 (7.27%) WAN
4 1 (1.82%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (1.82%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (1.82%) Firewall
4 1 (1.82%) Network Security
4 1 (1.82%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (18.18%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (9.09%) Power BI
3 3 (5.45%) Data Mining
4 2 (3.64%) NonStop SQL
5 1 (1.82%) DTS
5 1 (1.82%) GIS
5 1 (1.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (18.18%) Artifactory
1 10 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 4 (7.27%) Git
2 4 (7.27%) Subversion
General
1 29 (52.73%) Social Skills
2 19 (34.55%) Finance
3 18 (32.73%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (25.45%) Marketing
5 10 (18.18%) Front Office
6 6 (10.91%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (5.45%) Law
8 2 (3.64%) Banking
8 2 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.64%) Legal
8 2 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.82%) Advertising
9 1 (1.82%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.82%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (18.18%) AWS DevOps
1 10 (18.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 10 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
1 10 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
1 10 (18.18%) Kubernetes Engineer
1 10 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 9 (16.36%) Business Development Manager
2 9 (16.36%) Business Manager
2 9 (16.36%) Development Manager
3 7 (12.73%) Citrix Engineer
3 7 (12.73%) Presales Engineer
3 7 (12.73%) Senior
3 7 (12.73%) Technical Engineer
4 4 (7.27%) Embedded C Engineer
4 4 (7.27%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
4 4 (7.27%) Embedded C++ Engineer
4 4 (7.27%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
4 4 (7.27%) Firmware Engineer
4 4 (7.27%) Senior Embedded Engineer
4 4 (7.27%) Senior Firmware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.18%) J2EE
2 3 (5.45%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (3.64%) Middleware
4 1 (1.82%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.82%) CSS
4 1 (1.82%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.82%) HTML
4 1 (1.82%) JSON
4 1 (1.82%) Kafka
4 1 (1.82%) KnockoutJS
4 1 (1.82%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (1.82%) LESS
4 1 (1.82%) MACH
4 1 (1.82%) Next.js
4 1 (1.82%) Node.js
4 1 (1.82%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.82%) React
4 1 (1.82%) RequireJS
4 1 (1.82%) Sass
4 1 (1.82%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 15 (27.27%) Onboarding
2 14 (25.45%) Virtual Team
3 13 (23.64%) Data Centre
4 7 (12.73%) Management Information System
4 7 (12.73%) Private Cloud
4 7 (12.73%) Public Cloud
5 6 (10.91%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (7.27%) Algorithms
6 4 (7.27%) FPGA
6 4 (7.27%) GNSS
6 4 (7.27%) MicroBlaze
6 4 (7.27%) Self-Driving Car
7 3 (5.45%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (5.45%) NHS
8 2 (3.64%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.82%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (1.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.09%) Linux
1 5 (9.09%) Unix
1 5 (9.09%) Windows
2 1 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (41.82%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (25.45%) Open Source
3 13 (23.64%) Agile
3 13 (23.64%) Business Development
3 13 (23.64%) Business Enablement
3 13 (23.64%) Technology Enablement
4 12 (21.82%) Decision-Making
4 12 (21.82%) User Experience
5 11 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 11 (20.00%) Presales
5 11 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 10 (18.18%) Asset Management
6 10 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
6 10 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
6 10 (18.18%) DevOps
6 10 (18.18%) Financial Modelling
6 10 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 9 (16.36%) Computer Science
7 9 (16.36%) Value Proposition
8 7 (12.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 15 (27.27%) Python
2 11 (20.00%) Java
3 10 (18.18%) Go
4 5 (9.09%) SQL
5 4 (7.27%) C
5 4 (7.27%) C++
6 2 (3.64%) COBOL
6 2 (3.64%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (23.64%) Degree
2 5 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 5 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.64%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.82%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.82%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.82%) CCNA
4 1 (1.82%) CCNP
4 1 (1.82%) CCSA
4 1 (1.82%) CCSE
4 1 (1.82%) CISA
4 1 (1.82%) CISM
4 1 (1.82%) CISSP
4 1 (1.82%) CRISC
4 1 (1.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.82%) MCSA
4 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.82%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.27%) GDPR
2 2 (3.64%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.82%) ISO 15022
3 1 (1.82%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.82%) NIST
3 1 (1.82%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (18.18%) Docker
2 4 (7.27%) Embedded Firmware
2 4 (7.27%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (18.18%) Kubernetes
1 10 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (23.64%) YouTube
2 7 (12.73%) Citrix
3 4 (7.27%) Google
3 4 (7.27%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.45%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.64%) Oracle
6 1 (1.82%) Adobe
6 1 (1.82%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.82%) Cisco
6 1 (1.82%) Databricks
6 1 (1.82%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.82%) HP
6 1 (1.82%) IBM
6 1 (1.82%) JDA
6 1 (1.82%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.82%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.82%) Veeam
6 1 (1.82%) VMware