The Twelve-Factor App Contracts in the UK excluding London

Twelve-Factor Application Methodology
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 394 436
Rank change year-on-year +68 +42 +56
Contract jobs citing The Twelve-Factor App 13 5 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.024% 0.046%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.028% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 £625 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £650 £538
Median % change year-on-year -18.27% +20.93% -13.13%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £556
90th Percentile - - £579
UK median daily rate £538 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -17.31% +18.18% -10.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,562 17,588 21,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.75% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,253 10,507 14,891
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 821 2,055 1,305
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £15.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.52 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

The Twelve-Factor App
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing The Twelve-Factor App as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for The Twelve-Factor App in the UK excluding London

The Twelve-Factor App
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing The Twelve-Factor App in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for The Twelve-Factor App in the UK excluding London

The Twelve-Factor App
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing The Twelve-Factor App in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for The Twelve-Factor App in the UK excluding London

The Twelve-Factor App
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
North of England - 12 £531 -
Yorkshire - 12 £531 -
North West - 4 £550 -
East of England - 1 - -
The Twelve-Factor App
UK

The Twelve-Factor App
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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%) Senior 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%) Business Strategy
7 1 (7.69%) Coaching
7 1 (7.69%) Computer Science
7 1 (7.69%) Due Diligence
7 1 (7.69%) Load Balancing
7 1 (7.69%) Network Management
7 1 (7.69%) Risk Management
7 1 (7.69%) Roadmaps
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