Auto-Scaling Contract Job Trends in the South East

Auto-Scaling
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Auto-Scaling skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 153 205
Rank change year-on-year -47 +52 0
Contract jobs citing Auto-Scaling 7 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.13% 0.068% 0.018%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.074% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £352 - -
25th Percentile £354 £406 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £413 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.21% - -
75th Percentile £384 £419 -
90th Percentile £400 - -
England median daily rate £504 £468 £500
% change year-on-year +7.75% -6.50% -16.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,466 2,704 4,871
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.64% 92.04% 86.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,911 1,742 2,880
10th Percentile £281 £253 £213
25th Percentile £409 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.98% +2.00% -0.45%
75th Percentile £610 £613 £615
90th Percentile £700 £675 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 396 155 409
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £19.21 £18.20
Median hourly rate £36.86 £32.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.40% -23.53% -5.56%
75th Percentile £80.00 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.86
England median hourly rate £35.55 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +9.38% -1.52% -12.00%

Auto-Scaling
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Auto-Scaling job vacancy trend in the South East

Auto-Scaling
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Auto-Scaling.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Auto-Scaling

Auto-Scaling
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 26 March 2026. 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
Berkshire -35 3 £410 - 4
Thames Valley -37 3 £410 - 5
Hampshire -28 2 £354 -14.18%
Surrey - 2 - -
Auto-Scaling
England

Auto-Scaling
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Apache Pulsar
2 1 (14.29%) ArcGIS
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (57.14%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 3 (42.86%) Azure AKS
3 3 (42.86%) Entra ID
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
4 2 (28.57%) Apigee
4 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (28.57%) AWS Fargate
4 2 (28.57%) AWS KMS
4 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (28.57%) CloudFront
4 2 (28.57%) Datadog
4 2 (28.57%) GCP
4 2 (28.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (28.57%) Kong
4 2 (28.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) SSL
2 1 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 1 (14.29%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Digital Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Digital Solutions Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Project Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Delivery Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Delivery Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) JSON
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
1 2 (28.57%) OAuth
1 2 (28.57%) OAuth2
1 2 (28.57%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (14.29%) PyTorch
2 1 (14.29%) scikit-learn
2 1 (14.29%) TensorFlow
2 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Native
2 3 (42.86%) Onboarding
3 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (14.29%) Chip and PIN
4 1 (14.29%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) EMV
4 1 (14.29%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Containerisation
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Cost Optimisation
2 4 (57.14%) High Availability
2 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (57.14%) Microservices
2 4 (57.14%) Observability
2 4 (57.14%) Validation
3 3 (42.86%) Data Protection
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Architecture Governance
4 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Low Latency
4 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
4 2 (28.57%) Migration
4 2 (28.57%) Network Load Balancing
4 2 (28.57%) Performance Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Bicep
2 2 (28.57%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) AWS Certification
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
3 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
3 1 (14.29%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) GDPR
1 2 (28.57%) PCI DSS
2 1 (14.29%) ISO 20022
2 1 (14.29%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Prometheus
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Grafana
2 2 (28.57%) Istio
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) linkerd
3 1 (14.29%) Ansible
3 1 (14.29%) Progress Chef
3 1 (14.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Splunk
2 1 (14.29%) Virgin Media