Automotive Jobs

Automotive
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Automotive in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Automotive over the 6 months to 5 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 231 199 254
Rank change year-on-year -32 +55 +161
Permanent jobs citing Automotive 1,304 1,750 2,810
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.22% 1.87% 1.65%
As % of the General category 2.12% 2.77% 2.53%
Number of salaries quoted 753 356 933
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £44,725 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +25.00% -8.00%
75th Percentile £62,250 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -1.96% +13.33% -5.26%

All General Skills
UK

Automotive is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 61,643 63,246 110,983
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 57.90% 67.72% 65.20%
Number of salaries quoted 40,366 35,139 51,945
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,350 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,874 £42,526
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

Automotive
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Automotive as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Automotive in the UK

Automotive
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Automotive.

Salary trend for Automotive in the UK

Automotive
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Automotive over the 6 months to 5 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Automotive in the UK

Automotive
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Automotive within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -32 1,245 £50,000 -13.04% 1,196
UK excluding London -38 1,154 £50,000 -1.96% 1,096
Midlands -60 410 £50,000 +1.99% 334
West Midlands -41 324 £55,000 +14.46% 245
Work from Home -44 312 £55,000 - 280
North of England +105 211 £45,000 -9.09% 191
South East -79 191 £55,000 - 223
East of England +38 189 £50,000 -28.57% 144
London -18 120 £61,500 -18.00% 103
South West +23 108 £50,000 +11.11% 166
North West +51 96 £45,000 -14.29% 124
East Midlands +35 85 £42,500 -19.05% 88
Yorkshire +76 82 £45,000 +5.88% 51
Scotland -84 34 £60,000 -7.69% 56
North East - 33 £39,500 - 17
Wales -9 12 £30,000 -14.29% 30

Automotive
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 27 (2.07%) Skype for Business
2 12 (0.92%) CMS
3 10 (0.77%) SharePoint
4 8 (0.61%) Confluence
5 5 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.15%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2003
6 2 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2007
6 2 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.15%) WordPress
7 1 (0.077%) Apache
7 1 (0.077%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.077%) Liferay
7 1 (0.077%) nginx
7 1 (0.077%) Umbraco
Applications
1 85 (6.52%) Simulink
2 73 (5.60%) Microsoft Office
3 36 (2.76%) Stateflow
4 33 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
5 22 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (0.92%) Photoshop
6 12 (0.92%) Siemens NX
7 11 (0.84%) CANalyzer
8 5 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.31%) 3ds Max
9 4 (0.31%) InDesign
9 4 (0.31%) OrCAD
10 3 (0.23%) AutoCAD
10 3 (0.23%) CATIA
11 2 (0.15%) Adobe Captivate
11 2 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.15%) Adobe Premiere
11 2 (0.15%) Fusion 360
11 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.077%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.38%) Dynamics GP
3 4 (0.31%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 2 (0.15%) Primavera
4 2 (0.15%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.15%) SAP GRC
4 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.077%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.077%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.077%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.077%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 90 (6.90%) Azure
2 73 (5.60%) Microsoft 365
3 54 (4.14%) SaaS
4 41 (3.14%) AWS
5 28 (2.15%) Power Platform
6 26 (1.99%) Azure Functions
6 26 (1.99%) GitHub
6 26 (1.99%) Serverless
7 19 (1.46%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
9 17 (1.30%) Azure AKS
10 16 (1.23%) Akamai
10 16 (1.23%) Amazon ECS
10 16 (1.23%) Amazon EKS
10 16 (1.23%) Amazon SQS
10 16 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (1.23%) AWS Fargate
10 16 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (1.23%) Cloudflare
10 16 (1.23%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 29 (2.22%) J1939
2 28 (2.15%) Cisco IOS
3 27 (2.07%) Skype
4 25 (1.92%) Telepresence
5 23 (1.76%) Wireless
6 21 (1.61%) Internet
7 17 (1.30%) Ethernet
8 13 (1.00%) Bluetooth
8 13 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (0.84%) Firewall
9 11 (0.84%) VLAN
10 9 (0.69%) DNS
11 8 (0.61%) DHCP
11 8 (0.61%) LAN
11 8 (0.61%) TCP/IP
11 8 (0.61%) WAN
12 5 (0.38%) FlexRay
12 5 (0.38%) RS-232
12 5 (0.38%) SAN
13 4 (0.31%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (2.07%) Power BI
2 19 (1.46%) SQL Server
3 12 (0.92%) Relational Database
4 10 (0.77%) MySQL
4 10 (0.77%) Tableau
5 7 (0.54%) Data Lake
5 7 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (0.46%) Data Mining
6 6 (0.46%) Redis
7 4 (0.31%) Big Data
7 4 (0.31%) GIS
8 2 (0.15%) MS Access
8 2 (0.15%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.15%) SAP BW
9 1 (0.077%) EDMS
9 1 (0.077%) Flink
9 1 (0.077%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.077%) Qlik Sense
9 1 (0.077%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 70 (5.37%) Git
2 63 (4.83%) JIRA
3 23 (1.76%) Jenkins
4 22 (1.69%) ClearCase
5 21 (1.61%) Plastic SCM
6 16 (1.23%) Visual Studio
7 14 (1.07%) ClearQuest
8 8 (0.61%) Appium
8 8 (0.61%) CANoe
8 8 (0.61%) Subversion
8 8 (0.61%) UI Automator
9 7 (0.54%) LabVIEW
9 7 (0.54%) Rational DOORS
10 6 (0.46%) Selenium
11 4 (0.31%) GitLab
11 4 (0.31%) Rational Rhapsody
11 4 (0.31%) Zephyr
12 3 (0.23%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.15%) Eclipse
13 2 (0.15%) TestNG
General
1 274 (21.01%) Social Skills
2 206 (15.80%) Manufacturing
3 179 (13.73%) Aerospace
4 177 (13.57%) Electronics
5 132 (10.12%) Finance
6 79 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
7 77 (5.90%) Pharmaceutical
8 71 (5.44%) Marketing
9 64 (4.91%) Telecoms
10 62 (4.75%) Retail
11 46 (3.53%) Influencing Skills
11 46 (3.53%) Legal
12 39 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
13 37 (2.84%) Aviation
14 20 (1.53%) Publishing
15 19 (1.46%) Law
16 17 (1.30%) Public Sector
17 12 (0.92%) Aeronautics
17 12 (0.92%) Military
17 12 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 233 (17.87%) Software Engineer
2 185 (14.19%) Senior
3 157 (12.04%) Lead
4 150 (11.50%) Systems Engineer
5 120 (9.20%) Developer
6 116 (8.90%) Embedded Engineer
7 104 (7.98%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 65 (4.98%) Senior Software Engineer
9 40 (3.07%) Programmer
9 40 (3.07%) Support Engineer
10 39 (2.99%) Test Engineer
11 37 (2.84%) Consultant
12 36 (2.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 34 (2.61%) Analyst
13 34 (2.61%) Architect
14 30 (2.30%) C++ Software Engineer
14 30 (2.30%) Senior Embedded Engineer
15 29 (2.22%) Project Manager
16 28 (2.15%) Hardware Engineer
16 28 (2.15%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (4.75%) .NET
2 31 (2.38%) HTML
3 24 (1.84%) CSS
4 23 (1.76%) AngularJS
5 22 (1.69%) React
6 13 (1.00%) .NET Framework
6 13 (1.00%) Node.js
6 13 (1.00%) Sass
7 10 (0.77%) Kafka
7 10 (0.77%) LLVM
8 9 (0.69%) Vue
9 8 (0.61%) Ajax
9 8 (0.61%) RESTful
9 8 (0.61%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 7 (0.54%) .NET Core
10 7 (0.54%) WPF
10 7 (0.54%) Yocto
11 6 (0.46%) ASP.NET
11 6 (0.46%) LESS
11 6 (0.46%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 130 (9.97%) IoT
2 91 (6.98%) Embedded Systems
3 52 (3.99%) Algorithms
4 50 (3.83%) Mobile App
5 39 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
6 33 (2.53%) Client/Server
7 27 (2.07%) FMCG
8 26 (1.99%) Robotics
9 25 (1.92%) Video Conferencing
10 20 (1.53%) Renewable Energy
11 19 (1.46%) Verilog
11 19 (1.46%) VHDL
12 18 (1.38%) Blog
12 18 (1.38%) Product Ownership
12 18 (1.38%) Raspberry Pi
13 17 (1.30%) Device Driver
13 17 (1.30%) FPGA
14 16 (1.23%) Infotainment
14 16 (1.23%) Operational Technology
15 14 (1.07%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 100 (7.67%) Windows
2 92 (7.06%) Linux
3 41 (3.14%) Windows 10
4 38 (2.91%) Android
5 32 (2.45%) Windows Server
6 29 (2.22%) Apple iOS
7 25 (1.92%) Windows 7
8 16 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
9 15 (1.15%) FreeRTOS
10 12 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
11 10 (0.77%) Embedded Linux
12 8 (0.61%) Mac OS
13 7 (0.54%) Windows Server 2003
13 7 (0.54%) Windows Server 2008
14 6 (0.46%) Unix
15 5 (0.38%) Windows 2000
15 5 (0.38%) Windows NT
15 5 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
15 5 (0.38%) Windows XP
16 3 (0.23%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 282 (21.63%) Software Engineering
2 184 (14.11%) Problem-Solving
3 149 (11.43%) Agile
4 108 (8.28%) Mentoring
5 97 (7.44%) Project Management
6 82 (6.29%) Computer Science
7 78 (5.98%) Business Development
7 78 (5.98%) Validation
8 74 (5.67%) Cybersecurity
9 68 (5.21%) Logistics
10 65 (4.98%) Systems Engineering
11 61 (4.68%) Test Automation
12 59 (4.52%) DevOps
13 54 (4.14%) Continuous Improvement
13 54 (4.14%) Decision-Making
13 54 (4.14%) Software Testing
14 51 (3.91%) Customer Service
15 48 (3.68%) ITIL
15 48 (3.68%) Technical Leadership
16 47 (3.60%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 175 (13.42%) C
2 118 (9.05%) C++
3 109 (8.36%) Python
4 93 (7.13%) MATLAB
5 72 (5.52%) C#
6 53 (4.06%) JavaScript
6 53 (4.06%) SQL
7 51 (3.91%) Embedded C
8 50 (3.83%) Java
9 40 (3.07%) SystemVerilog
10 20 (1.53%) TypeScript
11 14 (1.07%) Perl
12 13 (1.00%) Rust
13 10 (0.77%) PHP
14 9 (0.69%) Embedded C++
15 8 (0.61%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.46%) Bash
16 6 (0.46%) R
17 5 (0.38%) Ada
17 5 (0.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 309 (23.70%) Degree
2 53 (4.06%) Master's Degree
3 40 (3.07%) HND
4 31 (2.38%) MBA
5 26 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (1.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 22 (1.69%) HNC
8 14 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (1.07%) Security Cleared
9 12 (0.92%) NVQ Level 3
10 9 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (0.69%) CISM
10 9 (0.69%) CISSP
11 8 (0.61%) CCNA
11 8 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (0.54%) MCSE
12 7 (0.54%) PMI Certification
13 6 (0.46%) MCSA
13 6 (0.46%) PMP
14 5 (0.38%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (3.99%) ISO 26262
2 42 (3.22%) QA
3 41 (3.14%) Automotive SPICE
4 35 (2.68%) AUTOSAR
5 26 (1.99%) MISRA
6 21 (1.61%) ISO 9001
7 16 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 11 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.84%) SLA
9 9 (0.69%) GDPR
10 8 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.61%) NIST
11 5 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.38%) PMO
12 4 (0.31%) JTAG
13 3 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.15%) Accessibility
14 2 (0.15%) COSHH
14 2 (0.15%) Data Quality
14 2 (0.15%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 51 (3.91%) Firmware
2 37 (2.84%) Docker
3 27 (2.07%) Embedded Firmware
4 16 (1.23%) Active Directory
4 16 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
6 11 (0.84%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 40 (3.07%) Functional Safety
2 31 (2.38%) Kubernetes
3 18 (1.38%) Ansible
4 14 (1.07%) SCCM
5 11 (0.84%) Progress Chef
6 9 (0.69%) Terraform
7 6 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.38%) SCOM
8 5 (0.38%) WSUS
9 3 (0.23%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.23%) Puppet
10 2 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.077%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 120 (9.20%) Microsoft
2 38 (2.91%) Cisco
3 28 (2.15%) Cadence
3 28 (2.15%) Synopsys
4 27 (2.07%) SAP
5 26 (1.99%) Apple
6 25 (1.92%) Polycom
7 24 (1.84%) Lauterbach
8 21 (1.61%) IBM
8 21 (1.61%) VMware
9 16 (1.23%) ForgeRock
9 16 (1.23%) Sitecore
10 15 (1.15%) Adobe
11 13 (1.00%) Salesforce
12 12 (0.92%) EMC
12 12 (0.92%) Siemens
13 11 (0.84%) Dell
13 11 (0.84%) ServiceNow
14 9 (0.69%) Instagram
14 9 (0.69%) QNX