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 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 308 - 387
Rank change year-on-year - - +181
Contract jobs citing Auto-Scaling 11 0 67
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.11% - 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% - 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 65
10th Percentile £406 - £550
25th Percentile £472 - £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.60%
75th Percentile £563 - £650
90th Percentile £581 - -
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £600
% change year-on-year -5.26% -20.83% -4.00%

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 9,410 11,795 20,536
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.80% 87.25% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,340 7,953 14,463
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% -2.33% -0.46%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 279 432 494
10th Percentile £12.62 £16.63 £17.50
25th Percentile £18.77 £30.16 £25.75
Median hourly rate £34.00 £43.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.93% -14.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £71.66 £75.00 £78.93
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -5.88% +60.38%

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
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Auto-Scaling over the 6 months to 27 July 2025.

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:

Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) GCP
2 3 (27.27%) Google Compute Engine
3 2 (18.18%) AWS
3 2 (18.18%) GitHub
3 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon Macie
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (9.09%) AWS KMS
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (9.09%) Serverless
4 1 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) DNS
2 1 (9.09%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) Network Security
2 1 (9.09%) SSL
2 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
2 1 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Metadata
1 3 (27.27%) MySQL
2 2 (18.18%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
3 1 (9.09%) Delta Lake
3 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) GitLab
1 5 (45.45%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) Git
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Lead
2 3 (27.27%) Java Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Lead Java Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Database Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Optimisation Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) GWT
1 3 (27.27%) JWT
1 3 (27.27%) OAuth
1 3 (27.27%) REST
1 3 (27.27%) Servlets
1 3 (27.27%) Spring
1 3 (27.27%) Spring Boot
1 3 (27.27%) Spring Security
2 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (9.09%) Mainframe
1 1 (9.09%) NHS
1 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
1 1 (9.09%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) DevOps
2 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 5 (45.45%) Containerisation
2 5 (45.45%) Migration
3 4 (36.36%) Cloud Security
4 3 (27.27%) API Design
4 3 (27.27%) Data Migration
4 3 (27.27%) Fintech
4 3 (27.27%) Microservices
4 3 (27.27%) OWASP
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) Time Management
5 2 (18.18%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (18.18%) Change Control
5 2 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
5 2 (18.18%) Observability
5 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
5 2 (18.18%) Resource Management
5 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) SQL
3 1 (9.09%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
3 1 (9.09%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.09%) NIST
1 1 (9.09%) QA
1 1 (9.09%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (27.27%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
3 1 (9.09%) Ansible
3 1 (9.09%) Argo
3 1 (9.09%) Grafana
3 1 (9.09%) Kustomize
3 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
3 1 (9.09%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Google
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Databricks
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
2 1 (9.09%) Splunk