N-Tier Contracts

N-Tier
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term N-Tier in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited N-Tier over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 575 671 788
Rank change year-on-year +96 +117 -121
Contract jobs citing N-Tier 9 26 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.047% 0.069%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.069% 0.14% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 20 47
10th Percentile £413 £400 £351
25th Percentile £488 £412 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £485 £530
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% -8.49% +11.58%
75th Percentile £650 £509 £763
90th Percentile £673 £593 £863
UK excluding London median daily rate £675 £420 £450
% change year-on-year +60.71% -6.67% +20.00%

All Generic Skills
UK

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 requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,045 18,435 29,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.87% 33.19% 33.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,307 12,697 20,403
10th Percentile £275 £310 £315
25th Percentile £413 £446 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 939 605 684
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.29
25th Percentile £15.39 £10.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%
75th Percentile £61.40 £58.75 £50.77
90th Percentile £71.88 £75.00 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.25 £22.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +60.23% +2.33% -4.44%

N-Tier
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing N-Tier as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for N-Tier in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for N-Tier in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing N-Tier over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for N-Tier in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for N-Tier in the UK

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Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing N-Tier within the UK over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Work from Home +107 4 £575 +16.16% 3
UK excluding London +25 3 £675 +60.71% 4
Scotland - 3 £675 -
London +73 2 £525 +2.44% 4
England +69 2 £525 +10.53% 8

N-Tier
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 (11.11%) Confluence
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
3 3 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
3 3 (33.33%) IaaS
3 3 (33.33%) iPaaS
3 3 (33.33%) PaaS
4 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) LAN
1 3 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (11.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
1 1 (11.11%) TestComplete
1 1 (11.11%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 4 (44.44%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Back Office
3 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Architect
2 4 (44.44%) Technical Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Architect
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps Architect
3 2 (22.22%) ERP Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Technical Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Lead
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Leader
4 1 (11.11%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) .NET
2 4 (44.44%) Web Services
3 3 (33.33%) .NET Core
3 3 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 3 (33.33%) ARM Templates
3 3 (33.33%) ASP.NET Web API
3 3 (33.33%) CSS
3 3 (33.33%) Entity Framework
3 3 (33.33%) J2EE
3 3 (33.33%) jQuery
3 3 (33.33%) React
3 3 (33.33%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 1 (11.11%) RESTful
4 1 (11.11%) SOAP
4 1 (11.11%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Client/Server
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (44.44%) Enterprise Architecture
2 4 (44.44%) Integration Patterns
2 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
3 3 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
3 3 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 3 (33.33%) High Availability
3 3 (33.33%) Innovative Thinking
3 3 (33.33%) Microservices
3 3 (33.33%) MVC
3 3 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 3 (33.33%) Record to Report
3 3 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
3 3 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 3 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) C#
2 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 3 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle
1 3 (33.33%) SAP
1 3 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) Nintex
2 1 (11.11%) Sparx