Auto-Scaling Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Auto-Scaling
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Auto-Scaling skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 396 352 401
Rank change year-on-year -44 +49 +57
Contract jobs citing Auto-Scaling 14 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.077% 0.013% 0.036%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.090% 0.015% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 5
10th Percentile £490 - £490
25th Percentile £509 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% -20.83% -0.33%
75th Percentile £538 - £688
90th Percentile £601 - £706
UK median daily rate £523 £515 £500
% change year-on-year +1.46% +3.00% -19.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,586 12,981 17,421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 86.14% 86.78% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,531 7,626 11,240
10th Percentile £220 £235 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,760 774 1,221
10th Percentile £14.37 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.04 £32.39 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.87% -27.21% +39.06%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.01 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £72.32 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.85
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.88% +25.29%

Auto-Scaling
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Auto-Scaling job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Auto-Scaling
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Auto-Scaling.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Auto-Scaling

Auto-Scaling
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Auto-Scaling in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Auto-Scaling in the UK excluding London

Auto-Scaling
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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
North of England -38 5 £521 +9.74%
Scotland - 4 - -
Yorkshire - 4 £518 -
Midlands - 3 £520 -
West Midlands - 3 £520 -
South East -16 2 - - 2
North West -32 1 £638 +34.21%
Auto-Scaling
UK

Auto-Scaling
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 14 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (64.29%) Azure
2 9 (64.29%) Serverless
3 7 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 7 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 7 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 6 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (35.71%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (35.71%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (35.71%) GitHub
6 4 (28.57%) AWS Fargate
6 4 (28.57%) Route 53
7 3 (21.43%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (21.43%) Amazon EventBridge
7 3 (21.43%) AWS Direct Connect
7 3 (21.43%) CloudFront
7 3 (21.43%) Datadog
7 3 (21.43%) Entra ID
7 3 (21.43%) Snowflake
8 2 (14.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) DNS
1 3 (21.43%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (21.43%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (21.43%) DynamoDB
2 3 (21.43%) Relational Database
3 1 (7.14%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) CircleCI
2 2 (14.29%) GitLab
3 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 3 (21.43%) Banking
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Architect
3 3 (21.43%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Database Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Digital Architect
3 3 (21.43%) Digital Solutions Architect
3 3 (21.43%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Operations Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior
4 2 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Operations Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) GCP DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) Lambda Expressions
2 2 (14.29%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Cloud Native
2 3 (21.43%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (14.29%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (7.14%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Amazon Linux
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 8 (57.14%) Containerisation
3 7 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
4 6 (42.86%) Data Governance
4 6 (42.86%) Mentoring
4 6 (42.86%) Observability
5 5 (35.71%) Cost Optimisation
5 5 (35.71%) Design Patterns
5 5 (35.71%) High Availability
5 5 (35.71%) Migration
6 4 (28.57%) DevOps
6 4 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (21.43%) AI
7 3 (21.43%) Architectural Patterns
7 3 (21.43%) Data Protection
7 3 (21.43%) Load Balancing
7 3 (21.43%) Machine Learning
7 3 (21.43%) Microservices
7 3 (21.43%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) Bash
2 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) AWS Certification
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Certification
4 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (64.29%) Terraform
2 5 (35.71%) Kubernetes
2 5 (35.71%) Prometheus
3 3 (21.43%) Ansible
3 3 (21.43%) Grafana
3 3 (21.43%) Packer
4 1 (7.14%) Argo
4 1 (7.14%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Splunk
2 3 (21.43%) Greenplum
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.14%) Google