The Twelve-Factor App Contract Job Trends in England

Twelve-Factor Application Methodology
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring The Twelve-Factor App skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 589 462 542
Rank change year-on-year -127 +80 +61
Contract jobs citing The Twelve-Factor App 8 16 7
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.019% 0.065% 0.019%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.022% 0.071% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 7
10th Percentile - - £549
25th Percentile £500 £513 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -19.23% -7.14%
75th Percentile - £588 £675
90th Percentile £610 - £685
UK median daily rate £550 £538 £650
% change year-on-year +2.33% -17.31% +13.04%

All Process & 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 36,560 22,594 31,972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.16% 91.33% 85.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,106 14,607 20,685
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £726 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,294 1,062 2,382
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.10 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.45 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year +71.22% -27.28% +7.09%
75th Percentile £68.00 £57.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £26.27 £37.34
% change year-on-year +67.37% -29.66% +6.69%

The Twelve-Factor App
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing The Twelve-Factor App relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

The Twelve-Factor App job vacancy trend in England

The Twelve-Factor App
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing The Twelve-Factor App.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing The Twelve-Factor App

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 17 June 2026.

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 17 June 2026. 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
London -61 4 £650 - 3
Yorkshire -66 3 £500 -4.76%
North of England -77 3 £500 -4.76%
The Twelve-Factor App
UK

The Twelve-Factor App
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon S3
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (37.50%) Serverless
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) MongoDB
1 3 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (37.50%) Redis
2 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Git
2 3 (37.50%) Vite
3 2 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
1 4 (50.00%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Lead Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Lead Software Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Lead Test Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Node.js Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Software Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Java Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (87.50%) Node.js
2 4 (50.00%) Jest
2 4 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 3 (37.50%) JWT
3 3 (37.50%) OAuth
3 3 (37.50%) React
3 3 (37.50%) Redux
3 3 (37.50%) RESTful
3 3 (37.50%) Zustand
4 1 (12.50%) Django
4 1 (12.50%) FastAPI
4 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Microservices
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
3 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (50.00%) DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (37.50%) Code Quality
4 3 (37.50%) Performance Monitoring
4 3 (37.50%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (37.50%) Software Testing
5 2 (25.00%) BDD
5 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
5 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
5 2 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (25.00%) System Testing
5 2 (25.00%) TDD
5 2 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
6 1 (12.50%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (50.00%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) Python
3 3 (37.50%) Go
4 1 (12.50%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (25.00%) Degree
3 2 (25.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes