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 4 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 328 327
Rank change year-on-year -28 -1 -5
Contract jobs citing Automotive 277 178 213
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.61% 0.64% 0.64%
As % of the General category 1.11% 1.01% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 77 131
10th Percentile £289 £220 £300
25th Percentile £463 £340 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £570
90th Percentile £693 £650 £719
UK median daily rate £540 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +20.00% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 47 36
10th Percentile £21.33 £22.03 £21.75
25th Percentile £27.24 £27.58 £34.88
Median hourly rate £33.00 £34.98 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -24.37% +11.45%
75th Percentile £33.99 £50.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £47.25 - £63.75
UK median hourly rate £33.00 £34.98 £47.75
% change year-on-year -5.66% -26.74% +24.03%

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 24,964 17,654 19,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.31% 63.94% 57.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,922 11,267 12,408
10th Percentile £313 £280 £300
25th Percentile £418 £402 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -5.12% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £662
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,914 944 1,252
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.25 £14.06
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.35 £18.00
Median hourly rate £33.98 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +35.11% -34.02% +30.32%
75th Percentile £63.75 £50.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £70.39
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +29.22% -34.02% +27.07%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 4 August 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 -4 119 £359 -8.95% 140
West Midlands -14 102 £425 +17.24% 92
South East -35 61 £500 +11.11% 88
London -54 42 £638 +37.84% 115
East of England -7 29 £510 +19.86% 47
North of England -69 18 £550 -4.35% 107
North West -63 17 £550 -4.35% 81
East Midlands -2 15 £292 -58.29% 48
South West -38 6 £550 - 36
Yorkshire - 1 £475 - 15
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 5 (1.81%) Confluence
2 4 (1.44%) CMS
3 2 (0.72%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 14 (5.05%) Adobe Illustrator
1 14 (5.05%) Photoshop
2 11 (3.97%) Adobe After Effects
3 7 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (1.08%) CATIA
5 3 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.08%) Windchill
6 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.36%) Adobe Captivate
7 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.81%) Teamcenter
3 4 (1.44%) SAP GTS
3 4 (1.44%) SAP SD
3 4 (1.44%) SAP VC
4 3 (1.08%) ENOVIA
4 3 (1.08%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (1.08%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.72%) DELMIA
5 2 (0.72%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.36%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.36%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 14 (5.05%) Figma
2 12 (4.33%) AWS
3 10 (3.61%) Azure
4 8 (2.89%) GCP
5 7 (2.53%) SaaS
6 5 (1.81%) GitHub
6 5 (1.81%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 4 (1.44%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.08%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 2 (0.72%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (0.72%) Intacct
9 2 (0.72%) Power Automate
9 2 (0.72%) Smartsheet
9 2 (0.72%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.36%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.36%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.36%) Cloud Run
10 1 (0.36%) Google Sheets
10 1 (0.36%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.36%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.17%) Firewall
1 6 (2.17%) Network Security
1 6 (2.17%) VPN
2 4 (1.44%) DHCP
2 4 (1.44%) DNS
2 4 (1.44%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.44%) VLAN
3 2 (0.72%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.36%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.36%) FlexRay
4 1 (0.36%) LAN
4 1 (0.36%) WAN
4 1 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.36%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.81%) Metadata
1 5 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (1.81%) Relational Database
1 5 (1.81%) Tableau
2 4 (1.44%) Power BI
3 2 (0.72%) BigQuery
3 2 (0.72%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.72%) Power Query
3 2 (0.72%) PowerPivot
3 2 (0.72%) Tableau Server
4 1 (0.36%) Looker
4 1 (0.36%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 10 (3.61%) Git
1 10 (3.61%) JIRA
2 4 (1.44%) Rational DOORS
3 3 (1.08%) Ant
3 3 (1.08%) Eclipse
3 3 (1.08%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.08%) JUnit
3 3 (1.08%) SonarQube
3 3 (1.08%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (0.72%) CANoe
4 2 (0.72%) Postman
5 1 (0.36%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.36%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.36%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.36%) NUnit
5 1 (0.36%) Rational Rhapsody
5 1 (0.36%) Selenium
5 1 (0.36%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.36%) Zephyr
General
1 50 (18.05%) Manufacturing
2 46 (16.61%) Social Skills
3 29 (10.47%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (9.39%) Finance
5 18 (6.50%) Aerospace
6 13 (4.69%) Marketing
7 11 (3.97%) Retail
8 6 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.08%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.72%) Agriculture
11 2 (0.72%) Aviation
11 2 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.72%) Legal
12 1 (0.36%) Banking
12 1 (0.36%) Front Office
12 1 (0.36%) Military
12 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (11.91%) Analyst
2 32 (11.55%) Senior
3 29 (10.47%) Test Engineer
4 26 (9.39%) Designer
4 26 (9.39%) UI Designer
5 20 (7.22%) Developer
6 19 (6.86%) Data Engineer
7 17 (6.14%) Quality Engineer
7 17 (6.14%) Senior Designer
7 17 (6.14%) Senior UI Designer
8 16 (5.78%) Software Engineer
9 15 (5.42%) Lead
9 15 (5.42%) Systems Engineer
10 12 (4.33%) Project Manager
10 12 (4.33%) Salesforce Engineer
11 11 (3.97%) QA Engineer
12 10 (3.61%) Business Analyst
13 9 (3.25%) Architect
13 9 (3.25%) Embedded Engineer
14 8 (2.89%) Software Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.25%) REST
2 6 (2.17%) Kafka
3 5 (1.81%) SOAP
3 5 (1.81%) Spring
4 4 (1.44%) 802.1X
4 4 (1.44%) SAP Fiori
4 4 (1.44%) Spring Boot
4 4 (1.44%) VML
4 4 (1.44%) Web Services
5 3 (1.08%) .NET
5 3 (1.08%) .NET Framework
5 3 (1.08%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 3 (1.08%) HTML
5 3 (1.08%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (1.08%) Visualforce
6 2 (0.72%) ASP.NET
6 2 (0.72%) NHibernate
6 2 (0.72%) OAuth
6 2 (0.72%) Qt
6 2 (0.72%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.14%) Animation
2 10 (3.61%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (2.53%) Embedded Systems
4 6 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.81%) Robotics
6 4 (1.44%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.44%) Infotainment
6 4 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (1.44%) PKI
6 4 (1.44%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.44%) Taxonomies
7 3 (1.08%) Virtual Reality
8 2 (0.72%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.72%) Digital Media
8 2 (0.72%) Life Science
8 2 (0.72%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.36%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.53%) Linux
2 4 (1.44%) Ubuntu
2 4 (1.44%) VMS
3 2 (0.72%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (0.72%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (0.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (14.08%) Validation
2 37 (13.36%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (10.83%) Agile
3 30 (10.83%) Migration
4 28 (10.11%) Analytics
4 28 (10.11%) Software Engineering
5 27 (9.75%) User Experience
6 23 (8.30%) Software Testing
7 22 (7.94%) Data Migration
7 22 (7.94%) Stakeholder Management
8 21 (7.58%) CRM
9 19 (6.86%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (5.78%) AI
11 15 (5.42%) ERP
11 15 (5.42%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
11 15 (5.42%) UX Design
12 14 (5.05%) Project Management
13 13 (4.69%) CI/CD
13 13 (4.69%) Test Automation
14 12 (4.33%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 14 (5.05%) Python
2 13 (4.69%) SQL
3 10 (3.61%) Java
4 8 (2.89%) Ada
5 5 (1.81%) C++
5 5 (1.81%) SOQL
6 4 (1.44%) Bash
6 4 (1.44%) C
7 3 (1.08%) Apex Code
7 3 (1.08%) C#
7 3 (1.08%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.08%) SOSL
8 2 (0.72%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.72%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.36%) Embedded C++
9 1 (0.36%) Korn
9 1 (0.36%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 33 (11.91%) Degree
2 12 (4.33%) Security Cleared
3 9 (3.25%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.17%) Chartered Engineer
5 4 (1.44%) CCNP
5 4 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (1.44%) JNCIP
5 4 (1.44%) JNCIS
6 3 (1.08%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.08%) PMP
7 2 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.72%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.72%) IIBA
8 1 (0.36%) CCA
8 1 (0.36%) CISSP
8 1 (0.36%) HNC
8 1 (0.36%) ISEB
8 1 (0.36%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.36%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.50%) Data Quality
2 17 (6.14%) QA
3 4 (1.44%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.08%) IEC 61508
5 2 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.72%) GDPR
5 2 (0.72%) ISO 26262
5 2 (0.72%) MISRA
6 1 (0.36%) Automotive SPICE
6 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.36%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.36%) NIST
6 1 (0.36%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (0.72%) Docker
2 1 (0.36%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (2.53%) Terraform
2 6 (2.17%) Functional Safety
3 4 (1.44%) Ansible
3 4 (1.44%) systemd
4 2 (0.72%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.72%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.36%) Grafana
Vendors
1 29 (10.47%) Salesforce
2 19 (6.86%) SAP
3 16 (5.78%) Microsoft
4 14 (5.05%) Adobe
5 12 (4.33%) Oracle
6 8 (2.89%) Siemens
7 7 (2.53%) Google
8 5 (1.81%) Siebel
9 4 (1.44%) Cisco
9 4 (1.44%) Juniper
9 4 (1.44%) MikroTik
9 4 (1.44%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.08%) Checkmarx
10 3 (1.08%) Databricks
10 3 (1.08%) PTC
10 3 (1.08%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.08%) Spotify
11 2 (0.72%) HP
11 2 (0.72%) Qualtrics
11 2 (0.72%) Sage