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 9 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 323 280
Rank change year-on-year -69 -43 +62
Contract jobs citing Automotive 215 155 291
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.64% 0.78%
As % of the General category 0.93% 0.99% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 82 129
10th Percentile £303 £257 £295
25th Percentile £475 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £469 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -6.25% +5.26%
75th Percentile £585 £607 £587
90th Percentile £673 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £533 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +12.11% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 28 101
10th Percentile £25.00 £21.18 £16.25
25th Percentile £27.30 £28.35 £30.70
Median hourly rate £33.00 £34.45 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.20% -27.48% +22.58%
75th Percentile £33.99 £50.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £68.75 - £58.75
UK median hourly rate £33.00 £34.45 £47.50
% change year-on-year -4.20% -27.48% +23.38%

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 23,088 15,652 21,315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.44% 64.22% 57.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,118 10,057 13,646
10th Percentile £313 £281 £281
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% -1.57% -3.03%
75th Percentile £630 £645 £650
90th Percentile £745 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,596 729 1,825
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.25 £12.88
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.15 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.45% -10.63% +3.14%
75th Percentile £63.75 £53.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £67.45
UK median hourly rate £31.46 £28.00 £30.06
% change year-on-year +12.36% -6.85% -5.83%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -26 93 £338 -17.68% 83
West Midlands -26 84 £338 -17.68% 59
South East -45 43 £500 +3.90% 79
East of England -13 31 £507 +48.97% 29
London -72 29 £550 +7.32% 38
North West -51 10 £600 -1.03% 32
North of England -89 10 £600 -1.03% 50
South West -21 7 £550 - 28
East Midlands -27 7 - - 24
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 6 (2.79%) Confluence
2 4 (1.86%) CMS
3 2 (0.93%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.93%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 14 (6.51%) Adobe Illustrator
1 14 (6.51%) Photoshop
2 11 (5.12%) Adobe After Effects
3 6 (2.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.93%) CATIA
4 2 (0.93%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.93%) Windchill
5 1 (0.47%) Adobe Captivate
5 1 (0.47%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 5 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.86%) SAP GTS
2 4 (1.86%) SAP SD
2 4 (1.86%) SAP VC
2 4 (1.86%) Teamcenter
3 3 (1.40%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.93%) DELMIA
4 2 (0.93%) ENOVIA
4 2 (0.93%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.93%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.47%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 14 (6.51%) Figma
2 13 (6.05%) AWS
3 9 (4.19%) Azure
4 8 (3.72%) GCP
5 6 (2.79%) SaaS
6 5 (2.33%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 4 (1.86%) GitHub
8 3 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.40%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 2 (0.93%) Lucidchart
9 2 (0.93%) Power Automate
9 2 (0.93%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.47%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.47%) Cloud Run
10 1 (0.47%) Google Sheets
10 1 (0.47%) Intacct
10 1 (0.47%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.47%) Miro
10 1 (0.47%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.47%) Firewall
1 1 (0.47%) FlexRay
1 1 (0.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (2.33%) Power BI
1 5 (2.33%) Tableau
2 4 (1.86%) Metadata
2 4 (1.86%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.40%) BigQuery
4 2 (0.93%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.93%) Power Query
4 2 (0.93%) PowerPivot
4 2 (0.93%) Text Mining
5 1 (0.47%) Looker
5 1 (0.47%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 12 (5.58%) JIRA
2 5 (2.33%) Git
2 5 (2.33%) Rational DOORS
3 3 (1.40%) Ant
3 3 (1.40%) Eclipse
3 3 (1.40%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.40%) JUnit
3 3 (1.40%) Rational Rhapsody
3 3 (1.40%) SonarQube
3 3 (1.40%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (0.93%) Zephyr
5 1 (0.47%) CANoe
5 1 (0.47%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.47%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.47%) NUnit
5 1 (0.47%) Postman
General
1 42 (19.53%) Social Skills
2 39 (18.14%) Manufacturing
3 23 (10.70%) Finance
4 19 (8.84%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (7.44%) Aerospace
6 13 (6.05%) Marketing
7 9 (4.19%) Retail
8 5 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.40%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.93%) Agriculture
11 2 (0.93%) Aviation
11 2 (0.93%) Legal
12 1 (0.47%) Banking
12 1 (0.47%) Front Office
12 1 (0.47%) Law
12 1 (0.47%) Military
Job Titles
1 28 (13.02%) Analyst
2 27 (12.56%) Test Engineer
3 26 (12.09%) Designer
3 26 (12.09%) UI Designer
4 23 (10.70%) Senior
5 18 (8.37%) Developer
6 17 (7.91%) Senior Designer
6 17 (7.91%) Senior UI Designer
7 14 (6.51%) Software Engineer
8 13 (6.05%) Lead
9 10 (4.65%) Embedded Engineer
10 8 (3.72%) QA Engineer
10 8 (3.72%) Quality Engineer
11 7 (3.26%) Architect
11 7 (3.26%) Business Analyst
11 7 (3.26%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 7 (3.26%) Salesforce Developer
11 7 (3.26%) Systems Engineer
12 6 (2.79%) Business Manager
12 6 (2.79%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.72%) REST
2 7 (3.26%) Kafka
3 6 (2.79%) Spring
4 5 (2.33%) HTML
4 5 (2.33%) Spring Boot
5 4 (1.86%) SAP Fiori
6 3 (1.40%) .NET
6 3 (1.40%) .NET Framework
6 3 (1.40%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 3 (1.40%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (1.40%) RESTful
6 3 (1.40%) SOAP
6 3 (1.40%) Visualforce
6 3 (1.40%) VML
6 3 (1.40%) Web Services
7 2 (0.93%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.93%) CSS
7 2 (0.93%) JSON
7 2 (0.93%) QML
7 2 (0.93%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.91%) Animation
2 9 (4.19%) Infotainment
2 9 (4.19%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (1.86%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.40%) Taxonomies
5 3 (1.40%) Virtual Reality
6 2 (0.93%) Cloud Native
6 2 (0.93%) Digital Media
6 2 (0.93%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (0.93%) Learning Management System
6 2 (0.93%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.47%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.47%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.47%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.47%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 1 (0.47%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.47%) PMI
7 1 (0.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.86%) VMS
2 3 (1.40%) Linux
3 2 (0.93%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (0.93%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (0.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (14.88%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (13.49%) Agile
3 28 (13.02%) Analytics
3 28 (13.02%) User Experience
4 25 (11.63%) Software Engineering
5 23 (10.70%) Validation
6 21 (9.77%) Migration
7 16 (7.44%) CRM
7 16 (7.44%) Data Migration
8 15 (6.98%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
9 14 (6.51%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (6.51%) Software Testing
9 14 (6.51%) Stakeholder Management
9 14 (6.51%) UX Design
10 13 (6.05%) CI/CD
11 12 (5.58%) Scrum
11 12 (5.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 11 (5.12%) Project Management
12 11 (5.12%) UX Research
13 10 (4.65%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 14 (6.51%) SQL
2 10 (4.65%) Ada
3 8 (3.72%) Java
4 7 (3.26%) C++
5 6 (2.79%) C
6 5 (2.33%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.33%) Python
6 5 (2.33%) SOQL
7 3 (1.40%) Apex Code
7 3 (1.40%) SOSL
8 2 (0.93%) C#
8 2 (0.93%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.93%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.47%) Go
9 1 (0.47%) Korn
9 1 (0.47%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 30 (13.95%) Degree
2 8 (3.72%) Security Cleared
3 6 (2.79%) Chartered Engineer
4 5 (2.33%) PMI Certification
4 5 (2.33%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.86%) PMP
6 3 (1.40%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.93%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.93%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.47%) CCA
8 1 (0.47%) ISEB
8 1 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.47%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.51%) QA
2 10 (4.65%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.40%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.40%) Def Stans
3 3 (1.40%) GDPR
3 3 (1.40%) IEC 61508
4 2 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (0.93%) ISO 26262
4 2 (0.93%) MISRA
5 1 (0.47%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (1.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (2.33%) Functional Safety
2 4 (1.86%) HP ALM
2 4 (1.86%) Terraform
3 3 (1.40%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.93%) Grafana
5 1 (0.47%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (8.37%) Salesforce
2 14 (6.51%) Adobe
2 14 (6.51%) SAP
3 11 (5.12%) Microsoft
4 10 (4.65%) Oracle
5 8 (3.72%) Google
5 8 (3.72%) Siemens
6 5 (2.33%) Siebel
7 4 (1.86%) HP
7 4 (1.86%) Qualtrics
8 3 (1.40%) Checkmarx
8 3 (1.40%) PTC
8 3 (1.40%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.40%) Spotify
9 2 (0.93%) Databricks
9 2 (0.93%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.93%) QNX
10 1 (0.47%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.47%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.47%) Sage