Automotive Contract Job Trends in England

Automotive
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Automotive in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Automotive over the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 375 333 336
Rank change year-on-year -42 +3 +43
Contract jobs citing Automotive 166 180 247
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 0.58% 0.63%
As % of the General category 0.86% 0.98% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 102 151
10th Percentile £200 £291 £350
25th Percentile £330 £358 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £460 £515
Median % change year-on-year +11.53% -10.78% +3.00%
75th Percentile £623 £550 £583
90th Percentile £681 £673 £644
UK median daily rate £488 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 18 23
10th Percentile £22.80 £29.26 £25.60
25th Percentile £27.21 £31.25 £33.38
Median hourly rate £40.46 £41.94 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% +18.14% -23.66%
75th Percentile £50.00 £49.05 £43.38
90th Percentile - £57.00 £60.50
UK median hourly rate £40.46 £42.88 £36.00
% change year-on-year -5.64% +19.11% -22.58%

All General Skills
England

Automotive falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 19,401 18,445 23,273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 63.66% 59.39% 59.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,294 11,086 15,855
10th Percentile £275 £300 £294
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £627 £650 £670
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,275 685 1,021
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.10 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.50 £17.25
Median hourly rate £24.61 £31.97 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year -23.02% -1.08% +25.71%
75th Percentile £45.46 £59.95 £59.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £71.25 £70.50
UK median hourly rate £24.09 £29.00 £31.71
% change year-on-year -16.93% -8.55% +26.84%

Automotive
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Automotive relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Automotive job vacancy trend in England

Automotive
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Automotive.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Automotive

Automotive
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automotive in England over the 6 months to 20 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Automotive in England

Automotive
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Automotive.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Automotive

Automotive
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Automotive in England over the 6 months to 20 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Automotive in England

Automotive
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automotive within the England region over the 6 months to 20 November 2025. 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
Midlands -27 57 £550 +22.22% 117
West Midlands -35 42 £450 +12.50% 70
London -18 32 £525 +20.00% 90
South East -11 29 £543 +27.65% 114
East of England -7 25 £180 -41.94% 47
East Midlands -9 15 £550 +25.71% 40
North West -35 15 £525 -2.33% 33
North of England -59 15 £525 -2.33% 39
South West +2 6 £447 +19.20% 33
Automotive
UK

Automotive
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (7.83%) Confluence
2 10 (6.02%) SharePoint
3 7 (4.22%) CMS
4 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.60%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (8.43%) Maya
2 12 (7.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (5.42%) NUKE
4 7 (4.22%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (3.01%) Adobe Captivate
5 5 (3.01%) FrameMaker
5 5 (3.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (1.81%) Simulink
7 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.60%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.60%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.60%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.60%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 5 (3.01%) Endur
1 5 (3.01%) Primavera
2 2 (1.20%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.60%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.60%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 9 (5.42%) AWS
2 6 (3.61%) Power Platform
3 5 (3.01%) SaaS
4 4 (2.41%) Azure
4 4 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (1.81%) Figma
5 3 (1.81%) GCP
5 3 (1.81%) Google Workspace
5 3 (1.81%) OpenShift
6 2 (1.20%) Power Automate
6 2 (1.20%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.60%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.60%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.60%) Azure Functions
7 1 (0.60%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.60%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.60%) Collibra
7 1 (0.60%) Firebase
7 1 (0.60%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.61%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (1.81%) Firewall
3 2 (1.20%) FlexRay
4 1 (0.60%) LAN
4 1 (0.60%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.60%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.01%) Tableau
2 4 (2.41%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.81%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.20%) Power BI
5 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.60%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.60%) Looker
5 1 (0.60%) Metadata
5 1 (0.60%) MySQL
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.60%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (7.23%) JIRA
2 4 (2.41%) Git
2 4 (2.41%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.41%) REST Assured
3 3 (1.81%) Bitbucket
3 3 (1.81%) Cucumber
3 3 (1.81%) JUnit
3 3 (1.81%) Mockito
3 3 (1.81%) Rational DOORS
3 3 (1.81%) Selenium
4 2 (1.20%) CANoe
5 1 (0.60%) Appium
5 1 (0.60%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.60%) Babel
5 1 (0.60%) ESLint
5 1 (0.60%) GitLab
5 1 (0.60%) Polyspace
5 1 (0.60%) Postman
5 1 (0.60%) TestRail
5 1 (0.60%) webpack
General
1 71 (42.77%) Social Skills
2 30 (18.07%) Finance
3 29 (17.47%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (15.06%) Aerospace
5 18 (10.84%) Manufacturing
6 14 (8.43%) Games
7 11 (6.63%) Marketing
8 10 (6.02%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (6.02%) Retail
8 10 (6.02%) Telecoms
9 8 (4.82%) Publishing
10 6 (3.61%) Back Office
10 6 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (2.41%) German Language
12 4 (2.41%) Legal
13 3 (1.81%) Advertising
13 3 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (1.20%) Law
Job Titles
1 25 (15.06%) Senior
2 19 (11.45%) Project Manager
3 18 (10.84%) Analyst
4 15 (9.04%) Lead
5 13 (7.83%) Test Technician
6 11 (6.63%) Business Analyst
7 10 (6.02%) Architect
7 10 (6.02%) Developer
8 6 (3.61%) Author
8 6 (3.61%) Software Engineer
8 6 (3.61%) Support Engineer
8 6 (3.61%) Technical Author
9 5 (3.01%) Data Analyst
9 5 (3.01%) Senior Manager
9 5 (3.01%) Senior Project Manager
9 5 (3.01%) Technical Engineer
9 5 (3.01%) Technical Support
9 5 (3.01%) Technical Support Engineer
10 4 (2.41%) E-Commerce Manager
10 4 (2.41%) Sales Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (11.45%) HTML
2 16 (9.64%) CSS
3 14 (8.43%) Django
4 7 (4.22%) React
4 7 (4.22%) REST
5 6 (3.61%) RESTful
6 5 (3.01%) SGML
6 5 (3.01%) Unreal Engine
6 5 (3.01%) V-Ray
6 5 (3.01%) XML
7 4 (2.41%) JSON
7 4 (2.41%) Swagger
8 3 (1.81%) .NET
8 3 (1.81%) Next.js
8 3 (1.81%) SOAP
8 3 (1.81%) Spring
8 3 (1.81%) Spring Boot
8 3 (1.81%) WireMock
9 2 (1.20%) HTML5
9 2 (1.20%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.43%) Animation
2 11 (6.63%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (6.02%) Mobile App
4 9 (5.42%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (4.82%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.61%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.61%) Operational Technology
6 6 (3.61%) Robotics
7 5 (3.01%) Virtual Reality
8 4 (2.41%) Embedded Systems
8 4 (2.41%) Web Conferencing
9 3 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.81%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.81%) Grid Computing
9 3 (1.81%) Mainframe
10 2 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (1.20%) Driving Licence
10 2 (1.20%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (1.20%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.82%) Windows
2 2 (1.20%) Android
2 2 (1.20%) Linux
3 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.60%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.60%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (18.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 30 (18.07%) Agile
3 24 (14.46%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (13.25%) AI
5 16 (9.64%) Logistics
5 16 (9.64%) Project Management
6 15 (9.04%) Analytical Thinking
6 15 (9.04%) Validation
7 14 (8.43%) User Experience
8 12 (7.23%) CI/CD
9 11 (6.63%) Customer Experience
9 11 (6.63%) Project Delivery
9 11 (6.63%) Time Management
10 10 (6.02%) Customer Service
10 10 (6.02%) Project Governance
10 10 (6.02%) UX Design
11 9 (5.42%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (5.42%) Software Engineering
11 9 (5.42%) Telematics
11 9 (5.42%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 25 (15.06%) SQL
2 23 (13.86%) Java
3 15 (9.04%) C++
3 15 (9.04%) Python
4 9 (5.42%) Tcl
5 6 (3.61%) C#
6 4 (2.41%) Ada
7 2 (1.20%) C
7 2 (1.20%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.20%) MATLAB
7 2 (1.20%) VBA
8 1 (0.60%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.60%) PHP
8 1 (0.60%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.60%) R
8 1 (0.60%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 30 (18.07%) Degree
2 6 (3.61%) PMI Certification
2 6 (3.61%) PMP
3 5 (3.01%) HNC
3 5 (3.01%) HND
4 2 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.20%) CISM
4 2 (1.20%) CISSP
4 2 (1.20%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.20%) MBA
4 2 (1.20%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.60%) ACCA
5 1 (0.60%) CIMA
5 1 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (0.60%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.22%) QA
2 4 (2.41%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.41%) GDPR
3 3 (1.81%) AUTOSAR
4 2 (1.20%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.20%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.20%) PERC
4 2 (1.20%) SLA
5 1 (0.60%) ISO 26262
5 1 (0.60%) MISRA
5 1 (0.60%) MISRA C
5 1 (0.60%) PMBOK
5 1 (0.60%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (1.81%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.81%) Ansible
1 3 (1.81%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.81%) Terraform
2 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.60%) Functional Safety
3 1 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.60%) SCCM
Vendors
1 25 (15.06%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.23%) SAP
3 10 (6.02%) Salesforce
4 8 (4.82%) Hitachi
5 7 (4.22%) Adobe
6 6 (3.61%) Google
7 5 (3.01%) Autodesk
7 5 (3.01%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.81%) Oracle
8 3 (1.81%) Remedy
9 2 (1.20%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.20%) ION Trading
9 2 (1.20%) OpenLink
9 2 (1.20%) QNX
10 1 (0.60%) Apple
10 1 (0.60%) Cisco
10 1 (0.60%) Informatica
10 1 (0.60%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.60%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.60%) Siemens