The Twelve-Factor App Contract Job Trends

Twelve-Factor Application Methodology
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs 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 636 515 585
Rank change year-on-year -121 +70 +65
Contract jobs citing The Twelve-Factor App 8 18 9
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.016% 0.061% 0.021%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.019% 0.067% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 8
10th Percentile - - £490
25th Percentile £500 £513 £597
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -17.31% +13.04%
75th Percentile - £588 £675
90th Percentile £610 £610 £683
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £531 £650
% change year-on-year -5.88% -18.27% +20.93%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42,679 27,009 37,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.81% 91.00% 85.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,607 17,137 23,609
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,567 1,242 2,598
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.87 £16.03
Median hourly rate £43.96 £26.27 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year +67.37% -29.66% +6.69%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +76.94% -34.02% +17.29%

The Twelve-Factor App
Job Vacancy Trend

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

The Twelve-Factor App job vacancy trend in the UK

The Twelve-Factor App
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

The Twelve-Factor App
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing The Twelve-Factor App over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

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

The Twelve-Factor App
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

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 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
England -127 8 £550 +4.76% 7
London -61 4 £650 - 2
Yorkshire -66 3 £500 -4.76%
North of England -77 3 £500 -4.76%
UK excluding London -111 3 £500 -5.88% 5

The Twelve-Factor App
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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%) Threat Modelling
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