Auto-Scaling Contracts

Auto-Scaling
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 485 562 621
Rank change year-on-year +77 +59 +137
Contract jobs citing Auto-Scaling 35 20 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.046% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.053% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 13 64
10th Percentile - £407 £525
25th Percentile £450 £438 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% -20.83% -1.03%
75th Percentile £540 £513 £650
90th Percentile £563 £638 £671
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £625 £588
% change year-on-year -26.00% +6.38% +21.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

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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 1 May 2025.

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 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
England +59 17 £468 -4.10% 18
Work from Home +50 13 £550 - 12
London +40 11 £515 +8.42% 12
UK excluding London +66 8 £463 -26.00% 8
North of England +20 3 £450 -28.00% 2
Scotland +15 3 £568 +28.98%
South West - 3 £450 - 2
North West - 3 £450 - 2
South East +47 2 £413 - 2

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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 1 (2.86%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.86%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 28 (80.00%) AWS
2 17 (48.57%) Amazon ELB
3 4 (11.43%) Azure
4 3 (8.57%) GCP
4 3 (8.57%) Google Compute Engine
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Storage
5 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.43%) Metadata
1 4 (11.43%) MySQL
2 2 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.86%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.86%) Apache Hive
3 1 (2.86%) Big Data
3 1 (2.86%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.86%) HBase
3 1 (2.86%) HDInsight
3 1 (2.86%) Impala
3 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.86%) Power BI
3 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Jenkins
2 3 (8.57%) GitLab
3 1 (2.86%) Git
3 1 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 4 (11.43%) Public Sector
2 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (8.57%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Finance
Job Titles
1 17 (48.57%) Architect
2 16 (45.71%) AWS Architect
3 9 (25.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (17.14%) Cloud Architect
5 5 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (8.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Java Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Lead
6 3 (8.57%) Lead Java Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Platform Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Architect
8 1 (2.86%) Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) REST
1 4 (11.43%) Spring
1 4 (11.43%) Spring Boot
2 3 (8.57%) GWT
2 3 (8.57%) JWT
2 3 (8.57%) OAuth
2 3 (8.57%) Servlets
2 3 (8.57%) Spring Security
3 1 (2.86%) .NET
3 1 (2.86%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.86%) FastAPI
3 1 (2.86%) Kafka
3 1 (2.86%) Keycloak
3 1 (2.86%) Node.js
3 1 (2.86%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 15 (42.86%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.86%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (2.86%) IoT
2 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.86%) NHS
2 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Linux
1 1 (2.86%) Unix
1 1 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (62.86%) Migration
2 18 (51.43%) Data Migration
3 16 (45.71%) DevOps
3 16 (45.71%) Disaster Recovery
3 16 (45.71%) High Availability
3 16 (45.71%) Load Balancing
4 14 (40.00%) Architectural Design
4 14 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 14 (40.00%) Use Case
5 5 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 5 (14.29%) Microservices
6 4 (11.43%) Containerisation
6 4 (11.43%) Time Management
7 3 (8.57%) API Design
7 3 (8.57%) Fintech
7 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (8.57%) OWASP
7 3 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (8.57%) Project Management
7 3 (8.57%) SFIA
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.57%) Java
2 2 (5.71%) Python
2 2 (5.71%) SQL
3 1 (2.86%) C#
3 1 (2.86%) Perl
3 1 (2.86%) Rust
Qualifications
1 25 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 22 (62.86%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.86%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 4 (11.43%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) Apache Flume
2 1 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (37.14%) Terraform
2 11 (31.43%) FortiGate
3 3 (8.57%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.86%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 4 (11.43%) Google
2 3 (8.57%) Oracle
3 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.86%) Databricks
4 1 (2.86%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.86%) StreamSets