Market rates

What is asked, what is offered

Three sources, shown separately: what consultants ask, what companies offer, and what is actually paid. The gap between the three is the one thing nobody publishes.

The method, in four points

Median and quartiles, never an average: a single assignment at €1,500 would skew everything.
The median shown is a rate someone actually declared, not a halfway point between two.
Nothing is shown below 5 data points. Below that, we write “not enough data yet”.
No outside market data, no estimates, nothing filled in.

Roles covered

Not enough data yet. No role has reached 5 data points yet, on either side. This page will fill up on its own, and not before.

Where these figures come from

Rates come from the profiles published on Tierless, filed under the role each person declared. Budgets come from the assignments published here, closed ones included, filed under the category the company chose. And the rates actually paid come from engagements both parties confirmed: not an intention, not an advert, a piece of work that happened. Nothing is bought, nothing is estimated, nothing is imported. No individual data is exposed: the breakdowns hide any cell that would lead back to a person.

If you are a consultant, your day rate feeds these figures, anonymously. That is the trade for the service, and it works both ways.