The Twelve-Factor App Contracts

Twelve-Factor Application Methodology
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 575 660 793
Rank change year-on-year +85 +133 -97
Contract jobs citing The Twelve-Factor App 9 37 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.067% 0.063%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.024% 0.074% 0.070%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 23 27
10th Percentile £490 £503 £499
25th Percentile £597 £513 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £775 £719
90th Percentile £683 £915 £777
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £538 £619
% change year-on-year +20.93% -13.13% -

All Process and 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 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

The Twelve-Factor App
Job Vacancy Trend

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

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

The Twelve-Factor App
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

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

The Twelve-Factor App
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing The Twelve-Factor App over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

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

The Twelve-Factor App
Top 7 Contract 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 12 June 2024. 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
Work from Home +117 8 £650 - 1
England +59 7 £650 -7.14% 2
UK excluding London +24 6 £650 +20.93% 2
Midlands - 5 £650 -
West Midlands - 5 £650 -
London +61 1 £436 -41.87% 1
Scotland +49 1 £525 -

The Twelve-Factor App
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (11.11%) Apache Spark
1 1 (11.11%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) AWS
2 7 (77.78%) Azure
3 5 (55.56%) CloudFront
3 5 (55.56%) Entra ID
3 5 (55.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (22.22%) GCP
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
5 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (11.11%) Serverless
5 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) DNS
1 5 (55.56%) Network Security
1 5 (55.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
2 1 (11.11%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (11.11%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
1 2 (22.22%) Mockito
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) JUnit
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
1 5 (55.56%) Retail
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Applications Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Security Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) J2EE Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Linux Server Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Server Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Serverless Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) OAuth
1 5 (55.56%) OAuth2
1 5 (55.56%) SAML
2 3 (33.33%) Spring
2 3 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 2 (22.22%) Kafka
4 1 (11.11%) CSS
4 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (11.11%) J2EE
4 1 (11.11%) JMS
4 1 (11.11%) JSON
4 1 (11.11%) Node.js
4 1 (11.11%) OpenTracing
4 1 (11.11%) React
4 1 (11.11%) REST
4 1 (11.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
2 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 5 (55.56%) Application Security
2 5 (55.56%) Cloud Security
2 5 (55.56%) Data Security
2 5 (55.56%) Defensive Programming
2 5 (55.56%) DevSecOps
2 5 (55.56%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (55.56%) Incident Response
2 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure Management
2 5 (55.56%) Penetration Testing
2 5 (55.56%) Task Automation
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) Microservices
3 2 (22.22%) Unit Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (11.11%) Data Modelling
4 1 (11.11%) Design Patterns
4 1 (11.11%) Observability
4 1 (11.11%) Pair Programming
4 1 (11.11%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) Go
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) Kotlin
3 1 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) Scala
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) AWS Certification
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) Docker
2 5 (55.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (22.22%) Grafana
3 1 (11.11%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
3 1 (11.11%) Rancher
3 1 (11.11%) Terraform
3 1 (11.11%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Dynatrace
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle
1 1 (11.11%) Splunk