Auto-Scaling Job Trends in the South East

Auto-Scaling
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Auto-Scaling skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 286 276 394
Rank change year-on-year -10 +118 -27
Permanent jobs citing Auto-Scaling 8 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.056% 0.013% 0.006%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.078% 0.014% 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 - -
75th Percentile £83,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £85,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +41.67% - -29.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

Auto-Scaling falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,282 7,050 14,766
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.42% 90.22% 82.06%
Number of salaries quoted 7,210 3,376 10,247
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £39,656 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%

Auto-Scaling
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Auto-Scaling relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Auto-Scaling job vacancy trend in the South East

Auto-Scaling
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Auto-Scaling.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Auto-Scaling

Auto-Scaling
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Auto-Scaling within the South East region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +17 6 £82,500 -
Berkshire +16 6 £82,500 -
Surrey - 2 - - 2
Auto-Scaling
England

Auto-Scaling
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (75.00%) Amazon EC2
1 6 (75.00%) Amazon EKS
1 6 (75.00%) Amazon S3
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
1 6 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
1 6 (75.00%) Serverless
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure AKS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure API Management
2 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (25.00%) Datadog
2 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Git
1 6 (75.00%) GitLab
1 6 (75.00%) Jenkins
1 6 (75.00%) SonarQube
2 5 (62.50%) Cucumber
2 5 (62.50%) JIRA
3 4 (50.00%) Artifactory
4 2 (25.00%) MSI
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Senior DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Developer
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Java Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) YAML
2 5 (62.50%) JSON
2 5 (62.50%) REST
3 4 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (25.00%) ADO
5 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
5 1 (12.50%) React
5 1 (12.50%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 8 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (75.00%) Deployment Automation
2 6 (75.00%) Microservices
3 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 5 (62.50%) Security Hardening
4 4 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (50.00%) Issue Tracking
4 4 (50.00%) Secrets Management
5 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
5 3 (37.50%) Observability
6 2 (25.00%) API Management
6 2 (25.00%) DevSecOps
6 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven
6 2 (25.00%) GitOps
6 2 (25.00%) Log Analytics
6 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (75.00%) Groovy
3 5 (62.50%) Java
4 4 (50.00%) Perl
5 2 (25.00%) Bash
5 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 8 (100.00%) Terraform
2 6 (75.00%) Ansible
3 4 (50.00%) Packer
4 2 (25.00%) Argo
4 2 (25.00%) Grafana
4 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) AppDynamics
2 4 (50.00%) IBM
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (12.50%) Atlassian