Auto-Scaling Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Auto-Scaling
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 291 341 418
Rank change year-on-year +50 +77 +166
Contract jobs citing Auto-Scaling 13 4 59
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.13% 0.026% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.030% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 48
10th Percentile £534 - £543
25th Percentile £538 £463 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +10.60%
75th Percentile £563 £638 £650
90th Percentile £576 - -
UK median daily rate £460 £475 £600
% change year-on-year -3.16% -20.83% -1.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Auto-Scaling
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Auto-Scaling as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Auto-Scaling trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Auto-Scaling.

Auto-Scaling daily rate 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:

Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) GCP
2 3 (23.08%) Google Compute Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Metadata
1 3 (23.08%) MySQL
2 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) GitLab
1 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (15.38%) Finance
1 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Java Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Lead
2 3 (23.08%) Lead Java Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) GWT
1 3 (23.08%) JWT
1 3 (23.08%) OAuth
1 3 (23.08%) REST
1 3 (23.08%) Servlets
1 3 (23.08%) Spring
1 3 (23.08%) Spring Boot
1 3 (23.08%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) DevOps
2 5 (38.46%) Migration
3 3 (23.08%) API Design
3 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
3 3 (23.08%) Cloud Security
3 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
3 3 (23.08%) Data Migration
3 3 (23.08%) Fintech
3 3 (23.08%) Microservices
3 3 (23.08%) OWASP
3 3 (23.08%) Time Management
4 2 (15.38%) Change Control
4 2 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (15.38%) Customer Service
4 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (15.38%) Project Delivery
4 2 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (15.38%) SFIA
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Java
2 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) SC Cleared
1 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (69.23%) Terraform
2 7 (53.85%) FortiGate
3 3 (23.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Google
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) Fortinet
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft