Auto-Scaling Contracts

Auto-Scaling
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 569 595 746
Rank change year-on-year +26 +151 -100
Contract jobs citing Auto-Scaling 10 89 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.16% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.027% 0.18% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 71 54
10th Percentile £439 - £458
25th Percentile £440 £550 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% -4.00% +13.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £725
90th Percentile - - £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £600 £485
% change year-on-year +4.17% +23.71% -11.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,816 50,571 79,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.44% 89.70% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,638 35,025 55,934
10th Percentile £300 £325 £348
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,533 1,671 1,865
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Auto-Scaling as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Auto-Scaling in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Auto-Scaling.

Daily rate trend for Auto-Scaling in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Auto-Scaling over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Auto-Scaling in the UK

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Top 9 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. 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
England +23 9 £550 -8.33% 10
UK excluding London +21 5 £625 +4.17% 4
Work from Home +52 3 £625 +4.17% 5
London +34 3 £475 -20.83% 7
North of England +24 2 £625 +13.64% 1
Yorkshire - 2 £625 -
East of England +7 1 - -
South East -13 1 - -
Scotland - 1 £440 -

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (10.00%) nginx
1 1 (10.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (20.00%) CloudBees
3 2 (20.00%) GCP
3 2 (20.00%) Google Compute Engine
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (10.00%) PaaS
4 1 (10.00%) SaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Serverless
4 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (20.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (20.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (10.00%) EasyMock
3 1 (10.00%) Git
3 1 (10.00%) GitLab
3 1 (10.00%) JMeter
3 1 (10.00%) JUnit
3 1 (10.00%) Maven
3 1 (10.00%) Mockito
3 1 (10.00%) Postman
3 1 (10.00%) Selenium
3 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (10.00%) TestNG
General
1 7 (70.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Financial Institution
3 2 (20.00%) Law
4 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Performance Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Performance Test Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) YAML
2 2 (20.00%) REST
3 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (10.00%) Gherkin
3 1 (10.00%) Guice
3 1 (10.00%) JAX-RS
3 1 (10.00%) Kafka
3 1 (10.00%) Mustache
3 1 (10.00%) OpenAPI
3 1 (10.00%) Spring
3 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (10.00%) Swagger
3 1 (10.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) CentOS
2 1 (10.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (60.00%) Agile
2 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (60.00%) Migration
3 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 5 (50.00%) DevOps
4 4 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (30.00%) Configuration Management
5 3 (30.00%) Continuous Deployment
5 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (30.00%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (30.00%) RBAC
5 3 (30.00%) Scrum
6 2 (20.00%) Coaching
6 2 (20.00%) Data Engineering
6 2 (20.00%) ETL
6 2 (20.00%) ETL Development
6 2 (20.00%) SDLC
6 2 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) Groovy
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) Docker
2 3 (30.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (90.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (80.00%) Ansible
2 8 (80.00%) Terraform
3 1 (10.00%) Kustomize
3 1 (10.00%) Packer
3 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (10.00%) Splunk