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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 562 661 774
Rank change year-on-year +99 +113 -131
Contract jobs citing N-Tier 9 26 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.046% 0.080%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.070% 0.14% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 21 51
10th Percentile £413 £400 £338
25th Percentile £488 £410 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £485 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% -7.62% -1.87%
75th Percentile £650 £500 £738
90th Percentile £673 £575 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £675 £420 £450
% change year-on-year +60.71% -6.67% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.25
Median hourly rate - - £27.50
75th Percentile - - £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £27.50

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 12,884 18,935 29,011
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.26% 33.25% 33.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,299 13,036 20,297
10th Percentile £266 £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 £680 £660
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 896 624 711
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.16 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.38 £22.26 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.98% -19.07% +4.90%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £21.13
% change year-on-year +36.36% +4.14% -11.29%

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 18 May 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 18 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
Work from Home +100 4 £575 +16.16% 3
UK excluding London +54 3 £675 +60.71% 4
Scotland - 3 £675 -
England +92 2 £525 +15.07% 6
London +91 2 £525 +2.44% 3

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