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 have cited N-Tier over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 570 657 777
Rank change year-on-year +87 +120 -115
Contract jobs citing N-Tier 9 27 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.048% 0.073%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.069% 0.14% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 21 49
10th Percentile £413 £400 £335
25th Percentile £488 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £485 £529
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% -8.23% +7.31%
75th Percentile £650 £500 £763
90th Percentile £673 £575 £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 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 12,955 18,790 29,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.06% 33.33% 33.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,316 12,953 20,440
10th Percentile £270 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - +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 923 610 691
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.20 £10.63 £17.34
Median hourly rate £35.00 £22.00 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +59.09% -18.46% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £75.00 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £21.88 £21.30
% change year-on-year +60.00% +2.70% -7.39%

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 2 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 2 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 +101 4 £575 +16.16% 3
UK excluding London +44 3 £675 +60.71% 1
Scotland - 3 £675 -
London +91 2 £525 +2.44% 7
England +79 2 £525 +15.07% 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%) Business Forecasting
3 3 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
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%) Planning and Forecasting
3 3 (33.33%) PLM
3 3 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 3 (33.33%) Record to Report
3 3 (33.33%) Source to Pay
3 3 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
3 3 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
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