Auto-Scaling Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Auto-Scaling
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Auto-Scaling skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 - 108
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Auto-Scaling 7 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.28% - 0.053%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% - 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £522 - -
25th Percentile £541 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £571 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £509 £475 £513
% change year-on-year +7.11% -7.32% -14.58%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,094 1,370 1,578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.16% 88.27% 84.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,359 845 1,033
10th Percentile £290 £213 £263
25th Percentile £405 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £488
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +6.67% -2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 51 101
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.10 £16.51 £17.25
Median hourly rate £20.00 £21.59 £24.60
Median % change year-on-year -7.36% -12.24% +38.83%
75th Percentile £25.15 £33.65 £48.75
90th Percentile £35.24 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £36.00
% change year-on-year -27.63% -3.47% +2.86%

Auto-Scaling
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Auto-Scaling job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Auto-Scaling
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Auto-Scaling.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Auto-Scaling

Auto-Scaling
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 February 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
Birmingham - 5 £571 -
Coventry - 2 £520 - 1
Auto-Scaling
England

Auto-Scaling
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
3 3 (42.86%) GCP
3 3 (42.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
4 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (28.57%) Azure AKS
4 2 (28.57%) Azure API Management
4 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (28.57%) GitHub
4 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (28.57%) Serverless
4 2 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (14.29%) CloudFront
5 1 (14.29%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Jenkins
2 3 (42.86%) Git
3 2 (28.57%) CircleCI
General
1 1 (14.29%) Banking
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) GCP DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) GCP DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) GCP Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Operations Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Python Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Operations Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 2 (28.57%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
3 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 5 (71.43%) RBAC
3 5 (71.43%) Root Cause Analysis
3 5 (71.43%) Secrets Management
4 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (57.14%) Mentoring
4 4 (57.14%) Observability
5 3 (42.86%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (42.86%) Dependency Management
5 3 (42.86%) DevSecOps
5 3 (42.86%) Incident Response
5 3 (42.86%) SBOM
5 3 (42.86%) Virtual Environments
6 2 (28.57%) API Management
6 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
6 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (28.57%) High Availability
6 2 (28.57%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) AWS Certification
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
1 5 (71.43%) Prometheus
2 4 (57.14%) Terraform
3 3 (42.86%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) AVEVA