Auto-Scaling Contracts

Auto-Scaling
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Auto-Scaling skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Auto-Scaling over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 559 623 768
Rank change year-on-year +64 +145 -153
Contract jobs citing Auto-Scaling 19 93 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.16% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.051% 0.18% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 64 52
10th Percentile £406 £525 £457
25th Percentile £431 £550 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £606
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% -1.03% +7.73%
75th Percentile £503 £650 £726
90th Percentile £625 £671 £809
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £588 £485
% change year-on-year +6.38% +21.13% -17.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Auto-Scaling 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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,480 53,073 80,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.37% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,166 36,804 56,457
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,447 1,751 1,910
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Auto-Scaling as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Auto-Scaling in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Auto-Scaling.

Daily rate trend for Auto-Scaling in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Auto-Scaling over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Auto-Scaling in the UK

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Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Auto-Scaling within the UK over the 6 months to 6 May 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
England +39 14 £475 -20.83% 8
London +59 8 £475 -20.83% 4
UK excluding London +32 5 £625 +6.38% 4
Work from Home +76 4 £550 -8.33% 3
Yorkshire +21 2 £625 +8.70%
North of England +16 2 £625 +13.64%
East of England +9 1 - - 3
South East +5 1 - -
Scotland - 1 £440 -

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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 3 (15.79%) nginx
1 3 (15.79%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 13 (68.42%) AWS
2 7 (36.84%) Azure
3 6 (31.58%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (31.58%) Amazon S3
4 5 (26.32%) Amazon ELB
5 4 (21.05%) GCP
6 3 (15.79%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 3 (15.79%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 3 (15.79%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (15.79%) AWS Fargate
6 3 (15.79%) Serverless
7 2 (10.53%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (10.53%) CloudBees
7 2 (10.53%) Google Compute Engine
8 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (5.26%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (21.05%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (15.79%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (10.53%) BigQuery
4 2 (10.53%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (57.89%) Jenkins
2 7 (36.84%) Bitbucket
3 6 (31.58%) Maven
4 3 (15.79%) Cucumber
4 3 (15.79%) EasyMock
4 3 (15.79%) GitLab
4 3 (15.79%) JUnit
4 3 (15.79%) Mockito
4 3 (15.79%) Postman
4 3 (15.79%) Selenium
4 3 (15.79%) SonarQube
4 3 (15.79%) TestNG
5 2 (10.53%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (5.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (5.26%) Cypress.io
6 1 (5.26%) Git
6 1 (5.26%) JMeter
General
1 7 (36.84%) Finance
2 3 (15.79%) Financial Institution
2 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Law
4 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (15.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Architect
4 2 (10.53%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Backend Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Development Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) DevOps Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Java Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Lead
4 2 (10.53%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (21.05%) REST
3 3 (15.79%) Gherkin
3 3 (15.79%) Guice
3 3 (15.79%) JAX-RS
3 3 (15.79%) Kafka
3 3 (15.79%) Mustache
3 3 (15.79%) OpenAPI
3 3 (15.79%) Spring
3 3 (15.79%) Spring Boot
3 3 (15.79%) Swagger
3 3 (15.79%) WireMock
3 3 (15.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
2 1 (5.26%) CentOS
2 1 (5.26%) Ubuntu
2 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) CI/CD
2 12 (63.16%) DevOps
3 11 (57.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (47.37%) Containerisation
5 8 (42.11%) Agile
6 6 (31.58%) Migration
7 5 (26.32%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (26.32%) Scrum
8 4 (21.05%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (15.79%) Configuration Management
9 3 (15.79%) Continuous Deployment
9 3 (15.79%) Dependency Injection
9 3 (15.79%) Mentoring
9 3 (15.79%) Multithreading
9 3 (15.79%) MVC
9 3 (15.79%) Performance Improvement
9 3 (15.79%) Platform Engineering
9 3 (15.79%) RBAC
9 3 (15.79%) Service Catalogue
9 3 (15.79%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) Python
2 3 (15.79%) Java
3 2 (10.53%) Groovy
3 2 (10.53%) SQL
4 1 (5.26%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
1 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 14 (73.68%) Docker
2 3 (15.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (89.47%) Terraform
2 16 (84.21%) Kubernetes
3 10 (52.63%) Ansible
4 3 (15.79%) Consul
4 3 (15.79%) Kustomize
4 3 (15.79%) Packer
4 3 (15.79%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) MKS
1 3 (15.79%) Red Hat
2 2 (10.53%) Google
3 1 (5.26%) Splunk