Tandem
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Tandem in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Tandem over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 557 667 784
Rank change year-on-year +110 +117 -185
Contract jobs citing Tandem 34 38 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.079% 0.066% 0.072%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.26% 0.20% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 27 51
10th Percentile £298 £324 £400
25th Percentile £463 £448 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £620 £663 £654
90th Percentile £633 £700 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £525
% change year-on-year -2.56% -7.14% +47.89%

All Generic Skills
UK

Tandem is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,067 19,290 28,879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.35% 33.26% 33.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,406 13,245 20,158
10th Percentile £270 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £660
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 898 636 708
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.13 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.43% -18.24% +4.05%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.25 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +29.55% +4.76% -12.50%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Tandem.

Daily rate trend for Tandem in the UK

Tandem
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Tandem over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Tandem in the UK

Tandem
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Tandem.

Hourly rate trend for Tandem in the UK

Tandem
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
England +114 29 £588 -4.08% 36
London +93 21 £600 -4.00% 18
Work from Home +129 16 £550 - 21
UK excluding London +47 11 £475 -2.56% 17
Scotland +41 5 £475 -3.80%
South East +28 4 £425 -27.35% 4
North of England +24 2 £550 +69.23% 4
North West +11 2 £550 +69.23% 2

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 (2.94%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (26.47%) Azure
2 6 (17.65%) AWS
3 5 (14.71%) Power Platform
4 3 (8.82%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (8.82%) IaaS
4 3 (8.82%) OCI
4 3 (8.82%) Oracle Service Cloud
5 2 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (5.88%) GCP
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) Internet
1 2 (5.88%) NAS
1 2 (5.88%) SAN
1 2 (5.88%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.71%) Power BI
2 3 (8.82%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (8.82%) Oracle Database
2 3 (8.82%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (8.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (5.88%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.88%) Data Mining
3 2 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (2.94%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 13 (38.24%) Social Skills
2 9 (26.47%) Finance
3 7 (20.59%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (11.76%) Manufacturing
5 3 (8.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (8.82%) Marketing
6 2 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.88%) Retail
7 1 (2.94%) Banking
7 1 (2.94%) German Language
7 1 (2.94%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (23.53%) Consultant
2 4 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (8.82%) Analyst
3 3 (8.82%) Azure Consultant
3 3 (8.82%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 3 (8.82%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (8.82%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 3 (8.82%) Data Warehouse Developer
3 3 (8.82%) Developer
3 3 (8.82%) ETL Developer
3 3 (8.82%) IT Consultant
3 3 (8.82%) IT Support
3 3 (8.82%) Power BI Developer
3 3 (8.82%) Senior
3 3 (8.82%) SSIS Developer
3 3 (8.82%) Support Consultant
4 2 (5.88%) Azure Developer
4 2 (5.88%) Cloud Automation Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.88%) Middleware
2 1 (2.94%) .NET
2 1 (2.94%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Data Centre
1 5 (14.71%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (11.76%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.88%) Social Media
4 1 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.94%) Podcast
4 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.59%) Windows
2 6 (17.65%) Linux
3 3 (8.82%) Ubuntu
3 3 (8.82%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.94%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (32.35%) Migration
2 9 (26.47%) Agile
3 8 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (20.59%) DevOps
5 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (14.71%) CI/CD
6 5 (14.71%) Computer Science
7 4 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (11.76%) Project Management
8 3 (8.82%) Code Quality
8 3 (8.82%) Data Visualisation
8 3 (8.82%) ETL
8 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Maintenance
8 3 (8.82%) Re-Platforming
8 3 (8.82%) Visualisation
9 2 (5.88%) Architectural Patterns
9 2 (5.88%) Decision-Making
9 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 2 (5.88%) Matrix Organization
9 2 (5.88%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.71%) SQL
2 4 (11.76%) Java
2 4 (11.76%) Python
3 2 (5.88%) Bicep
3 2 (5.88%) C
3 2 (5.88%) C++
3 2 (5.88%) PowerShell
3 2 (5.88%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.94%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (14.71%) Degree
2 3 (8.82%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (5.88%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.88%) Master's Degree
3 2 (5.88%) PhD
3 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.88%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.94%) CISSP
4 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.94%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.94%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.88%) Active Directory
1 2 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (5.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (17.65%) Terraform
2 3 (8.82%) Grafana
3 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.82%) Oracle
3 2 (5.88%) VMware
4 1 (2.94%) Databricks
4 1 (2.94%) IBM
4 1 (2.94%) SAP