Auto-Scaling Contracts

Auto-Scaling
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Auto-Scaling skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Auto-Scaling over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 570 616 732
Rank change year-on-year +46 +116 -105
Contract jobs citing Auto-Scaling 17 90 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.040% 0.16% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.046% 0.17% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 64 53
10th Percentile £435 £525 £458
25th Percentile £446 £550 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £613
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% -2.04% +11.36%
75th Percentile £509 £650 £725
90th Percentile £638 £671 £805
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £588 £485
% change year-on-year +6.38% +21.13% -11.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Auto-Scaling is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,783 51,773 79,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.20% 89.81% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,675 35,887 56,073
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,434 1,710 1,920
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.99 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.22 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Auto-Scaling in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Auto-Scaling in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Auto-Scaling over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Auto-Scaling in the UK

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Top 9 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 14 May 2024. 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
England +48 14 £475 -20.83% 8
London +32 8 £475 -20.83% 4
UK excluding London +39 5 £625 +6.38% 4
Work from Home +63 4 £550 -8.33% 3
Yorkshire +21 2 £625 +8.70%
North of England +15 2 £625 +13.64% 1
East of England +14 1 - - 1
South East +5 1 - -
Scotland - 1 £440 -

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (17.65%) nginx
1 3 (17.65%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 11 (64.71%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) Azure
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon S3
3 4 (23.53%) GCP
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon ELB
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (17.65%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (11.76%) CloudBees
5 2 (11.76%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
6 1 (5.88%) IaaS
6 1 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (23.53%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (17.65%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (11.76%) BigQuery
4 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (64.71%) Jenkins
2 7 (41.18%) Bitbucket
3 6 (35.29%) Maven
4 3 (17.65%) Cucumber
4 3 (17.65%) EasyMock
4 3 (17.65%) JUnit
4 3 (17.65%) Mockito
4 3 (17.65%) Postman
4 3 (17.65%) Selenium
4 3 (17.65%) SonarQube
4 3 (17.65%) TestNG
5 1 (5.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (5.88%) Cypress.io
5 1 (5.88%) Git
5 1 (5.88%) GitLab
5 1 (5.88%) JMeter
General
1 7 (41.18%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Financial Institution
3 2 (11.76%) Law
4 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (17.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Backend Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Development Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) DevOps Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Java Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (23.53%) REST
3 3 (17.65%) Gherkin
3 3 (17.65%) Guice
3 3 (17.65%) JAX-RS
3 3 (17.65%) Kafka
3 3 (17.65%) Mustache
3 3 (17.65%) OpenAPI
3 3 (17.65%) Spring
3 3 (17.65%) Spring Boot
3 3 (17.65%) Swagger
3 3 (17.65%) WireMock
3 3 (17.65%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) CentOS
2 1 (5.88%) Ubuntu
2 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) CI/CD
2 10 (58.82%) DevOps
3 9 (52.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (41.18%) Containerisation
5 6 (35.29%) Agile
5 6 (35.29%) Migration
6 5 (29.41%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (23.53%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (17.65%) Configuration Management
8 3 (17.65%) Continuous Deployment
8 3 (17.65%) Dependency Injection
8 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
8 3 (17.65%) Multithreading
8 3 (17.65%) MVC
8 3 (17.65%) Performance Improvement
8 3 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (17.65%) RBAC
8 3 (17.65%) Scrum
8 3 (17.65%) Service Catalogue
8 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) Python
2 3 (17.65%) Java
3 2 (11.76%) Groovy
3 2 (11.76%) SQL
4 1 (5.88%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
1 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 14 (82.35%) Docker
2 3 (17.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (94.12%) Kubernetes
2 15 (88.24%) Terraform
3 10 (58.82%) Ansible
4 3 (17.65%) Consul
4 3 (17.65%) Kustomize
4 3 (17.65%) Packer
4 3 (17.65%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) MKS
1 3 (17.65%) Red Hat
2 2 (11.76%) Google
3 1 (5.88%) Splunk