Auto-Scaling Contracts with Work from Home Options

Auto-Scaling
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 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 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 341 410 570
Rank change year-on-year +69 +160 -104
Contract jobs citing Auto-Scaling 3 53 46
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.22% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.023% 0.24% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 48 34
10th Percentile £493 £543 £462
25th Percentile £538 £550 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £584
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +2.78% +3.73%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £709
90th Percentile - - £750
UK median daily rate £475 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -20.83% -4.00% +13.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,871 21,938 40,174
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.92% 89.66% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,680 15,535 29,175
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £634
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 510 537
10th Percentile £14.66 £18.63 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.44 £27.48 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.27 £71.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £37.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year -2.58% +44.08% +7.00%

Auto-Scaling
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Auto-Scaling as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Auto-Scaling trend for jobs with a WFH option

Auto-Scaling
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 Auto-Scaling.

Auto-Scaling daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Auto-Scaling
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Auto-Scaling over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Auto-Scaling daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Auto-Scaling
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 (33.33%) nginx
1 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) CloudBees
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
1 2 (66.67%) Google Compute Engine
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) BigQuery
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) EasyMock
2 1 (33.33%) JUnit
2 1 (33.33%) Maven
2 1 (33.33%) Mockito
2 1 (33.33%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
2 1 (33.33%) TestNG
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
1 2 (66.67%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
1 1 (33.33%) Guice
1 1 (33.33%) JAX-RS
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) Mustache
1 1 (33.33%) OpenAPI
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
1 1 (33.33%) Swagger
1 1 (33.33%) WireMock
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) Coaching
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) ETL Development
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
3 1 (33.33%) Multithreading
3 1 (33.33%) MVC
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Groovy
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Kustomize
2 1 (33.33%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat