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 22 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 483 336 307
Rank change year-on-year -147 -29 +42
Contract jobs citing Automotive 107 139 259
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.29% 0.56% 0.69%
As % of the General category 0.50% 0.89% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 72 115
10th Percentile £250 £251 £300
25th Percentile £406 £340 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £456 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.07% -8.75% +4.44%
75th Percentile £581 £590 £581
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% +3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 22 94
10th Percentile £24.80 £21.75 £16.25
25th Percentile £26.98 £27.24 £30.70
Median hourly rate £35.75 £31.64 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.99% -29.69% -8.16%
75th Percentile £68.75 £41.64 £57.50
90th Percentile £69.99 £52.50 -
UK median hourly rate £35.75 £32.50 £46.25
% change year-on-year +10.00% -29.73% -3.65%

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 general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 21,546 15,659 22,064
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 57.45% 63.48% 58.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,618 10,132 14,382
10th Percentile £300 £300 £270
25th Percentile £406 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,352 591 1,665
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.69 £19.79 £15.17
Median hourly rate £25.15 £31.35 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.76% +20.56% -25.71%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £25.75
% change year-on-year -16.67% +16.50% -26.43%

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 22 March 2026.

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 22 March 2026.

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 22 March 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands -42 41 £550 +34.15% 103
West Midlands -58 28 £550 +34.15% 73
East of England -22 18 £475 +39.71% 19
London -56 18 £600 +37.14% 50
South East -65 18 £513 +1.49% 72
East Midlands -26 13 £550 +10.00% 30
North West -48 10 £525 +28.05% 22
North of England -99 10 £525 +28.05% 45
South West - 2 - - 32
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 14 (13.08%) Confluence
2 7 (6.54%) SharePoint
3 6 (5.61%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (5.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.74%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.93%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.93%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.93%) Simulink
3 1 (0.93%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Primavera
2 1 (0.93%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (3.74%) AWS
1 4 (3.74%) Azure
1 4 (3.74%) GCP
2 3 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (2.80%) Google Workspace
2 3 (2.80%) Power Platform
3 2 (1.87%) GitHub
3 2 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.93%) Alation
4 1 (0.93%) Cloud Run
4 1 (0.93%) Collibra
4 1 (0.93%) Google Analytics
4 1 (0.93%) Google Sheets
4 1 (0.93%) Lucidchart
4 1 (0.93%) Miro
4 1 (0.93%) SaaS
4 1 (0.93%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.74%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.93%) Firewall
2 1 (0.93%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.80%) Power BI
2 2 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.87%) Tableau
2 2 (1.87%) Text Mining
3 1 (0.93%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.93%) Looker
3 1 (0.93%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 16 (14.95%) JIRA
2 4 (3.74%) Rational DOORS
3 3 (2.80%) Rational Rhapsody
4 2 (1.87%) Git
4 2 (1.87%) JUnit
4 2 (1.87%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.87%) Zephyr
5 1 (0.93%) Polyspace
General
1 42 (39.25%) Social Skills
2 16 (14.95%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (14.02%) Finance
4 14 (13.08%) Manufacturing
5 10 (9.35%) Marketing
6 8 (7.48%) Aerospace
7 7 (6.54%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (5.61%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (4.67%) Retail
10 4 (3.74%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (2.80%) Legal
11 3 (2.80%) Publishing
12 2 (1.87%) Billing
12 2 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.87%) Multimedia
13 1 (0.93%) Aviation
13 1 (0.93%) Law
13 1 (0.93%) Military
13 1 (0.93%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (14.02%) Test Engineer
2 14 (13.08%) Analyst
2 14 (13.08%) Project Manager
3 10 (9.35%) Developer
4 9 (8.41%) Senior
5 6 (5.61%) HR Analyst
6 5 (4.67%) Project Analyst
6 5 (4.67%) Senior Manager
6 5 (4.67%) Senior Project Manager
6 5 (4.67%) Test Technician
6 5 (4.67%) Transformation Analyst
7 4 (3.74%) Business Analyst
7 4 (3.74%) Embedded Engineer
7 4 (3.74%) Performance Engineer
7 4 (3.74%) Performance Test Engineer
7 4 (3.74%) Scrum Master
8 3 (2.80%) Content Editor
8 3 (2.80%) Coordinator
8 3 (2.80%) Data Scientist
8 3 (2.80%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.67%) HTML
2 4 (3.74%) Spring
2 4 (3.74%) Spring Boot
3 3 (2.80%) Kafka
4 2 (1.87%) CSS
4 2 (1.87%) REST
5 1 (0.93%) CarPlay
5 1 (0.93%) JSON
5 1 (0.93%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.93%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.93%) RESTful
5 1 (0.93%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.41%) Infotainment
2 6 (5.61%) Operational Technology
2 6 (5.61%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.61%) Robotics
3 4 (3.74%) IoT
3 4 (3.74%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.74%) Mobile App
3 4 (3.74%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.87%) Digital Media
4 2 (1.87%) Learning Management System
4 2 (1.87%) SCADA
5 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.93%) e-Learning
5 1 (0.93%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 1 (0.93%) Music Streaming
5 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.93%) PMI
5 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.87%) Linux
2 1 (0.93%) Android
2 1 (0.93%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.93%) FreeRTOS
2 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.93%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (27.10%) Agile
2 18 (16.82%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (14.95%) Project Management
4 15 (14.02%) Stakeholder Management
5 13 (12.15%) AI
5 13 (12.15%) Validation
6 12 (11.21%) Analytics
6 12 (11.21%) CRM
7 11 (10.28%) Change Management
7 11 (10.28%) Customer Experience
8 9 (8.41%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (8.41%) Logistics
9 8 (7.48%) Scrum
9 8 (7.48%) Software Engineering
9 8 (7.48%) User Acceptance Testing
10 7 (6.54%) Customer Service
10 7 (6.54%) DevOps
10 7 (6.54%) Migration
10 7 (6.54%) Project Governance
10 7 (6.54%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 8 (7.48%) C++
2 5 (4.67%) C
2 5 (4.67%) SQL
3 4 (3.74%) Ada
3 4 (3.74%) Java
3 4 (3.74%) Python
4 2 (1.87%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.87%) Kotlin
5 1 (0.93%) Go
5 1 (0.93%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 8 (7.48%) Degree
1 8 (7.48%) PMI Certification
2 7 (6.54%) PMP
3 5 (4.67%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.74%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.80%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.87%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (0.93%) ACCA
7 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.93%) CIMA
7 1 (0.93%) ISEB
7 1 (0.93%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.93%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.54%) QA
2 4 (3.74%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.80%) Def Stans
3 3 (2.80%) GDPR
4 1 (0.93%) AUTOSAR
4 1 (0.93%) ISO 26262
4 1 (0.93%) MISRA
4 1 (0.93%) MISRA C
4 1 (0.93%) PMO
4 1 (0.93%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.74%) HP ALM
2 2 (1.87%) Grafana
3 1 (0.93%) Functional Safety
3 1 (0.93%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.93%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.93%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (8.41%) Google
2 8 (7.48%) Salesforce
3 5 (4.67%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.74%) HP
4 4 (3.74%) SAP
5 3 (2.80%) Spotify
6 2 (1.87%) Checkmarx
6 2 (1.87%) Oracle
6 2 (1.87%) Qualtrics
6 2 (1.87%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.87%) Siebel
7 1 (0.93%) Anaplan
7 1 (0.93%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.93%) Cisco
7 1 (0.93%) Informatica
7 1 (0.93%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.93%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.93%) Remedy
7 1 (0.93%) Siemens
7 1 (0.93%) Splunk