Auto-Scaling Contracts with Work from Home Options

Auto-Scaling
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 344 418 574
Rank change year-on-year +74 +156 -114
Contract jobs citing Auto-Scaling 4 58 48
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.026% 0.23% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.030% 0.25% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 48 34
10th Percentile - £543 £461
25th Percentile £463 £550 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £543
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +10.60% -1.45%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £709
90th Percentile - - £750
UK median daily rate £475 £600 £606
% change year-on-year -20.83% -1.03% +7.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,319 22,924 40,623
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.76% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,917 16,193 29,494
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 527 541
10th Percentile £15.17 £18.67 £13.75
25th Percentile £24.63 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.25
90th Percentile £75.15 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

Auto-Scaling
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Auto-Scaling as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Auto-Scaling trend for jobs with a WFH option

Auto-Scaling
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Auto-Scaling.

Auto-Scaling daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Auto-Scaling
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Auto-Scaling over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Auto-Scaling daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Auto-Scaling
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (50.00%) nginx
1 2 (50.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) CloudBees
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
1 2 (50.00%) Google Compute Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (50.00%) EasyMock
2 2 (50.00%) JUnit
2 2 (50.00%) Maven
2 2 (50.00%) Mockito
2 2 (50.00%) Postman
2 2 (50.00%) Selenium
2 2 (50.00%) SonarQube
2 2 (50.00%) TestNG
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Backend Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (50.00%) Gherkin
1 2 (50.00%) Guice
1 2 (50.00%) JAX-RS
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
1 2 (50.00%) Mustache
1 2 (50.00%) OpenAPI
1 2 (50.00%) REST
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (50.00%) Swagger
1 2 (50.00%) WireMock
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) BDD
2 2 (50.00%) Coaching
2 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) ETL Development
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Multithreading
2 2 (50.00%) MVC
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Groovy
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Kustomize
2 2 (50.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat