Auto-Scaling Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Auto-Scaling
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 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 141 104 -
Rank change year-on-year -37 - -
Contract jobs citing Auto-Scaling 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.11% 0.066% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.071% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 - -
South East median daily rate £358 £413 -
% change year-on-year -13.21% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,313 1,412 2,499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 84.05% 93.39% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,517 861 1,432
10th Percentile £288 £300 £213
25th Percentile £401 £409 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% -
75th Percentile £598 £625 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £505 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -0.98% +2.00% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 54 178
10th Percentile £15.91 £14.20 £14.94
25th Percentile £19.41 £20.15 £19.44
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.30 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.39% +8.94% -12.19%
75th Percentile £85.43 £62.24 £62.89
90th Percentile £95.00 £73.10 £85.37
South East median hourly rate £36.86 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +13.40% -23.53% -5.56%

Auto-Scaling
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Auto-Scaling job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Auto-Scaling
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Auto-Scaling.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Auto-Scaling

Auto-Scaling
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Auto-Scaling
South East

Auto-Scaling
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (33.33%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (33.33%) Azure AI
3 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) PyTorch
2 1 (33.33%) scikit-learn
2 1 (33.33%) TensorFlow
2 1 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) BCP
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) GitOps
2 1 (33.33%) Log Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) MLOps
2 1 (33.33%) RBAC
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bicep
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Virgin Media