The Twelve-Factor App Contracts with Work from Home Options

Twelve-Factor Application Methodology
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for The Twelve-Factor App skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited The Twelve-Factor App over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 341 468 587
Rank change year-on-year +127 +119 -119
Contract jobs citing The Twelve-Factor App 8 6 36
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.052% 0.023% 0.081%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.059% 0.026% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 19
10th Percentile £549 - £540
25th Percentile £625 £500 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -12.50% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £631 £694
90th Percentile £685 £733 £756
UK median daily rate £650 £550 £613
% change year-on-year +18.18% -10.20% -0.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

The Twelve-Factor App is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,465 23,106 40,645
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.81% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,984 16,334 29,499
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 579 532 548
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £30.54 £19.98
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £36.42 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.53% +45.69% -

The Twelve-Factor App
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing The Twelve-Factor App as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

The Twelve-Factor App trend for jobs with a WFH option

The Twelve-Factor App
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing The Twelve-Factor App.

The Twelve-Factor App daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

The Twelve-Factor App
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing The Twelve-Factor App over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

The Twelve-Factor App daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

The Twelve-Factor App
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (12.50%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) AWS
2 6 (75.00%) Azure
3 5 (62.50%) CloudFront
3 5 (62.50%) Entra ID
3 5 (62.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (12.50%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) Serverless
4 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) DNS
1 5 (62.50%) Network Security
1 5 (62.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (12.50%) MySQL
2 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) JUnit
2 1 (12.50%) Mockito
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
1 5 (62.50%) Retail
2 1 (12.50%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Applications Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Security Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) J2EE Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Server Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Server Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) OAuth
1 5 (62.50%) OAuth2
1 5 (62.50%) SAML
2 2 (25.00%) Spring
2 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (12.50%) J2EE
3 1 (12.50%) JMS
3 1 (12.50%) JSON
3 1 (12.50%) Kafka
3 1 (12.50%) Node.js
3 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) Application Security
2 5 (62.50%) Cloud Security
2 5 (62.50%) Data Security
2 5 (62.50%) Defensive Programming
2 5 (62.50%) DevSecOps
2 5 (62.50%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (62.50%) Incident Response
2 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Management
2 5 (62.50%) Penetration Testing
2 5 (62.50%) Task Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Agile
3 1 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
3 1 (12.50%) Design Patterns
3 1 (12.50%) Microservices
3 1 (12.50%) Observability
3 1 (12.50%) TDD
3 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Go
1 2 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) AWS Certification
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) Docker
2 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Grafana
2 1 (12.50%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (12.50%) Rancher
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Dynatrace
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle
1 1 (12.50%) Splunk