Auto-Scaling Contract Job Trends in England

Auto-Scaling
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Auto-Scaling skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 525 502 539
Rank change year-on-year -23 +37 +102
Contract jobs citing Auto-Scaling 19 9 26
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.061% 0.031% 0.069%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.069% 0.035% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 20
10th Percentile £486 £478 £459
25th Percentile £509 £483 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -16.00%
75th Percentile £575 £567 £650
90th Percentile £639 £647 £719
UK median daily rate £523 £515 £513
% change year-on-year +1.46% +0.49% -17.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Auto-Scaling 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 in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27,657 25,687 33,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.93% 88.34% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,611 15,867 22,695
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £406 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £531
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.13% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,806 869 1,403
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.09
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%
75th Percentile £53.94 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.40 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.79
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.79% +25.12%

Auto-Scaling
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Auto-Scaling relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Auto-Scaling job vacancy trend in England

Auto-Scaling
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Auto-Scaling.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Auto-Scaling

Auto-Scaling
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Auto-Scaling in England over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Auto-Scaling in England

Auto-Scaling
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 15 December 2025. 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
London -17 9 £550 -9.47% 3
North of England -38 5 £521 +9.74%
Yorkshire - 4 £518 -
Midlands - 3 £520 -
West Midlands - 3 £520 -
South East -4 2 - - 2
North West -23 1 £638 +34.21%
Auto-Scaling
UK

Auto-Scaling
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 13 (68.42%) Azure
2 11 (57.89%) AWS
3 8 (42.11%) GitHub
4 7 (36.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (36.84%) Amazon S3
4 7 (36.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 6 (31.58%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (31.58%) Serverless
6 5 (26.32%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (26.32%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (26.32%) Azure AKS
7 4 (21.05%) AWS Fargate
7 4 (21.05%) Entra ID
7 4 (21.05%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (21.05%) Route 53
8 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (15.79%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (15.79%) CloudFront
8 3 (15.79%) Datadog
8 3 (15.79%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) DNS
1 4 (21.05%) Firewall
2 1 (5.26%) DNSSEC
2 1 (5.26%) HTTPS
2 1 (5.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (21.05%) Relational Database
2 3 (15.79%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (15.79%) DynamoDB
3 2 (10.53%) Data Lake
3 2 (10.53%) Delta Lake
4 1 (5.26%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (5.26%) Power BI
4 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Jenkins
2 4 (21.05%) GitLab
3 2 (10.53%) CircleCI
3 2 (10.53%) Git
3 2 (10.53%) Maven
3 2 (10.53%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (21.05%) Banking
1 4 (21.05%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Billing
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) DevOps Engineer
1 6 (31.58%) Senior
2 4 (21.05%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Senior DevOps
2 4 (21.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Architect
3 3 (15.79%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Digital Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Digital Solutions Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Data Modeller
4 2 (10.53%) Operations Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Optimisation Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Operations Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Finance Modeller
5 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) Lambda Expressions
2 2 (10.53%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (5.26%) .NET
3 1 (5.26%) ARM Templates
3 1 (5.26%) Django
3 1 (5.26%) Flutter
3 1 (5.26%) JSON
3 1 (5.26%) JSON Schema
3 1 (5.26%) OAuth
3 1 (5.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.53%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (10.53%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (10.53%) Mainframe
2 2 (10.53%) Video\Live Streaming
3 1 (5.26%) NHS
3 1 (5.26%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Amazon Linux
1 3 (15.79%) Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) CI/CD
2 9 (47.37%) Observability
3 8 (42.11%) Containerisation
4 7 (36.84%) DevOps
4 7 (36.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (31.58%) Cost Optimisation
5 6 (31.58%) Mentoring
5 6 (31.58%) Migration
6 5 (26.32%) Design Patterns
6 5 (26.32%) RBAC
6 5 (26.32%) Roadmaps
7 4 (21.05%) Data Governance
7 4 (21.05%) High Availability
7 4 (21.05%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (21.05%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (15.79%) Dependency Management
8 3 (15.79%) Load Balancing
8 3 (15.79%) Microservices
8 3 (15.79%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (15.79%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) Python
2 3 (15.79%) Bash
3 2 (10.53%) Bicep
4 1 (5.26%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 5 (26.32%) AWS Certification
2 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
3 3 (15.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Azure Certification
4 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) GDPR
2 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 9 (47.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) Kubernetes
2 7 (36.84%) Terraform
3 5 (26.32%) Prometheus
4 3 (15.79%) Grafana
4 3 (15.79%) Packer
5 1 (5.26%) Argo
5 1 (5.26%) Karpenter
5 1 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Splunk
2 2 (10.53%) Databricks
2 2 (10.53%) Google
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft