The Twelve-Factor App Contracts in England

Twelve-Factor Application Methodology
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring The Twelve-Factor App skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited The Twelve-Factor App over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 472 535 620
Rank change year-on-year +63 +85 +123
Contract jobs citing The Twelve-Factor App 13 7 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.053% 0.019% 0.065%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.059% 0.022% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 7 17
10th Percentile - £549 -
25th Percentile £513 £625 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -18.27% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £750
90th Percentile - £685 £875
UK median daily rate £538 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -17.31% +18.18% -10.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

The Twelve-Factor App falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

The Twelve-Factor App
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing The Twelve-Factor App as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for The Twelve-Factor App in England

The Twelve-Factor App
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing The Twelve-Factor App in England.

Daily rate trend for The Twelve-Factor App in England

The Twelve-Factor App
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing The Twelve-Factor App in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for The Twelve-Factor App in England

The Twelve-Factor App
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing The Twelve-Factor App within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Yorkshire - 12 £531 -
North of England - 12 £531 -
North West - 4 £550 -
East of England - 1 - -
The Twelve-Factor App
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The Twelve-Factor App
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (7.69%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Akamai
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) BGP
1 1 (7.69%) DHCP
1 1 (7.69%) DMVPN
1 1 (7.69%) DNS
1 1 (7.69%) DWDM
1 1 (7.69%) GLBP
1 1 (7.69%) HTTP
1 1 (7.69%) HTTPS
1 1 (7.69%) IGRP
1 1 (7.69%) Internet
1 1 (7.69%) IPsec
1 1 (7.69%) LAN
1 1 (7.69%) MPLS
1 1 (7.69%) Multicast
1 1 (7.69%) NetScaler
1 1 (7.69%) OSPF
1 1 (7.69%) SNMP
1 1 (7.69%) SSL
1 1 (7.69%) VPN
1 1 (7.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Hive
1 1 (7.69%) Big Data
1 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
1 1 (7.69%) Presto
Development Applications
1 7 (53.85%) GitLab
General
1 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (7.69%) Banking
1 1 (7.69%) Finance
1 1 (7.69%) Front Office
1 1 (7.69%) International Banking
1 1 (7.69%) Retail
1 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) Lead
3 3 (23.08%) Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Java Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Lead Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Lead Java Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Senior
4 2 (15.38%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Java Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) JavaScript Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Lead Java Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) Jest
1 4 (30.77%) Node.js
1 4 (30.77%) Spring Boot
2 3 (23.08%) Spring
3 1 (7.69%) 802.1X
3 1 (7.69%) HTML
3 1 (7.69%) Kafka
3 1 (7.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Credit Risk
1 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
1 1 (7.69%) FMCG
1 1 (7.69%) Market Risk
1 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Microservices
2 11 (84.62%) Agile
3 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
3 7 (53.85%) DevOps
3 7 (53.85%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (30.77%) BDD
4 4 (30.77%) TDD
5 3 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
6 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
6 2 (15.38%) Technology Strategy
7 1 (7.69%) Coaching
7 1 (7.69%) Computer Science
7 1 (7.69%) Due Diligence
7 1 (7.69%) Event-Driven
7 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (7.69%) Load Balancing
7 1 (7.69%) Network Management
7 1 (7.69%) Risk Management
7 1 (7.69%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) JavaScript
2 7 (53.85%) Python
3 4 (30.77%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) CCDP
1 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) Kubernetes
1 7 (53.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Arista
1 1 (7.69%) Blue Coat
1 1 (7.69%) Cisco
1 1 (7.69%) Citrix
1 1 (7.69%) F5
1 1 (7.69%) Juniper
1 1 (7.69%) Riverbed
1 1 (7.69%) Zscaler