Auto-Scaling Contracts in Scotland

Auto-Scaling
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Auto-Scaling skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Auto-Scaling over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 128 -
Rank change year-on-year +15 - -
Contract jobs citing Auto-Scaling 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.18% 0.045% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.051% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £559 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £440 -
Median % change year-on-year +28.98% - -
75th Percentile £576 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £460 £475 £600
% change year-on-year -3.16% -20.83% -1.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Auto-Scaling in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Auto-Scaling in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Edinburgh - 3 £568 -
Auto-Scaling
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Security
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) FortiGate
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Fortinet