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 15 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 324 329
Rank change year-on-year -12 +5 -18
Contract jobs citing Automotive 327 189 204
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.71% 0.69% 0.63%
As % of the General category 1.27% 1.07% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 79 127
10th Percentile £313 £220 £300
25th Percentile £475 £348 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £605 £561
90th Percentile £788 £654 £650
UK median daily rate £550 £450 £472
% change year-on-year +22.22% -4.66% -5.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 51 22
10th Percentile £21.33 £22.05 £24.19
25th Percentile £22.00 £28.18 £34.34
Median hourly rate £30.27 £35.60 £43.94
Median % change year-on-year -14.97% -18.98% +25.54%
75th Percentile £33.99 £50.00 £56.25
90th Percentile £46.25 - £68.75
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £35.60 £45.00
% change year-on-year -8.71% -20.89% +28.57%

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 25,770 17,637 18,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.74% 64.46% 58.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,199 11,153 11,617
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
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 2,176 1,003 989
10th Percentile £13.68 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.08 £16.17 £17.50
Median hourly rate £31.16 £25.15 £38.85
Median % change year-on-year +23.88% -35.26% +41.27%
75th Percentile £57.00 £47.31 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.13 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £37.28
% change year-on-year +19.28% -32.54% +35.56%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 0 129 £425 - 258
West Midlands -6 109 £425 +17.24% 167
South East -18 81 £500 +11.11% 269
London -70 52 £675 +36.71% 412
East of England -20 28 £537 +26.09% 147
North of England -67 28 £550 +3.48% 158
North West -43 27 £550 +3.48% 106
East Midlands -1 18 £292 -56.74% 91
South West -49 6 £550 +23.04% 92
Yorkshire - 1 £475 - 38
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 (1.83%) Confluence
2 5 (1.53%) CMS
3 2 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.61%) ThingWorx
4 1 (0.31%) Apache
4 1 (0.31%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 14 (4.28%) Adobe Illustrator
1 14 (4.28%) Photoshop
2 11 (3.36%) Adobe After Effects
3 8 (2.45%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.92%) CATIA
6 3 (0.92%) Windchill
7 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.31%) Adobe Captivate
8 1 (0.31%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.31%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.31%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 14 (4.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (2.75%) Teamcenter
3 5 (1.53%) SAP ERP
3 5 (1.53%) SAP VC
4 4 (1.22%) ENOVIA
4 4 (1.22%) SAP GTS
4 4 (1.22%) SAP SD
5 3 (0.92%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.61%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.61%) SAP QM
7 1 (0.31%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.31%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.31%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 14 (4.28%) Figma
2 13 (3.98%) AWS
3 12 (3.67%) Azure
4 8 (2.45%) SaaS
5 5 (1.53%) GCP
5 5 (1.53%) Power Platform
5 5 (1.53%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 4 (1.22%) GitHub
6 4 (1.22%) Snowflake
7 3 (0.92%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (0.92%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 2 (0.61%) Intacct
8 2 (0.61%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (0.61%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.61%) Smartsheet
9 1 (0.31%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (0.31%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.31%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.31%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.31%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.14%) VPN
2 6 (1.83%) Firewall
2 6 (1.83%) Network Security
3 4 (1.22%) DHCP
3 4 (1.22%) DNS
3 4 (1.22%) Ethernet
3 4 (1.22%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.22%) VLAN
4 2 (0.61%) FlexRay
4 2 (0.61%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.31%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.31%) LAN
5 1 (0.31%) WAN
5 1 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.31%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.14%) Tableau
2 6 (1.83%) Metadata
2 6 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.53%) Power BI
3 5 (1.53%) Relational Database
4 3 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.61%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.61%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.61%) Power Query
5 2 (0.61%) PowerPivot
5 2 (0.61%) Tableau Server
6 1 (0.31%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (0.31%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.31%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.31%) Looker
6 1 (0.31%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 9 (2.75%) Git
2 8 (2.45%) JIRA
3 5 (1.53%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (0.92%) Ant
4 3 (0.92%) Eclipse
4 3 (0.92%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.92%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.61%) CANoe
5 2 (0.61%) Postman
5 2 (0.61%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.31%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.31%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.31%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.31%) JUnit
6 1 (0.31%) NUnit
6 1 (0.31%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.31%) Selenium
6 1 (0.31%) SpecFlow
General
1 72 (22.02%) Manufacturing
2 54 (16.51%) Social Skills
3 27 (8.26%) Finance
4 26 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (6.73%) Aerospace
6 15 (4.59%) Retail
7 10 (3.06%) Marketing
8 5 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (0.92%) German Language
9 3 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.61%) Agriculture
10 2 (0.61%) Aviation
10 2 (0.61%) French Language
10 2 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.61%) Italian Language
10 2 (0.61%) Legal
10 2 (0.61%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.31%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (11.62%) Senior
2 31 (9.48%) Analyst
3 26 (7.95%) Designer
3 26 (7.95%) Test Engineer
3 26 (7.95%) UI Designer
4 23 (7.03%) Systems Engineer
5 22 (6.73%) Software Engineer
6 21 (6.42%) Data Engineer
6 21 (6.42%) Lead
7 20 (6.12%) Architect
8 17 (5.20%) Developer
8 17 (5.20%) Quality Engineer
8 17 (5.20%) Senior Designer
8 17 (5.20%) Senior UI Designer
9 14 (4.28%) Project Manager
10 12 (3.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 12 (3.67%) Salesforce Engineer
11 11 (3.36%) QA Engineer
11 11 (3.36%) Test Technician
12 10 (3.06%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.75%) REST
2 8 (2.45%) Terraform
3 7 (2.14%) Kafka
4 5 (1.53%) SAP Fiori
4 5 (1.53%) SOAP
5 4 (1.22%) 802.1X
5 4 (1.22%) VML
5 4 (1.22%) Web Services
6 3 (0.92%) .NET
6 3 (0.92%) .NET Framework
6 3 (0.92%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 3 (0.92%) HTML
6 3 (0.92%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (0.92%) Visualforce
7 2 (0.61%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.61%) NHibernate
7 2 (0.61%) PySpark
7 2 (0.61%) Qt
7 2 (0.61%) RESTful
7 2 (0.61%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.20%) Animation
2 12 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (3.36%) Robotics
4 9 (2.75%) Embedded Systems
5 6 (1.83%) Algorithms
5 6 (1.83%) Driving Licence
5 6 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.53%) Taxonomies
7 4 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.22%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.22%) PKI
7 4 (1.22%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.92%) CAN bus
8 3 (0.92%) Cloud Native
8 3 (0.92%) Self-Driving Car
8 3 (0.92%) Virtual Reality
9 2 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.61%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.14%) Linux
2 4 (1.22%) Ubuntu
2 4 (1.22%) VMS
3 3 (0.92%) Windows
4 2 (0.61%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (0.61%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.31%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (18.96%) Validation
2 43 (13.15%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (11.62%) Software Engineering
4 35 (10.70%) Migration
5 33 (10.09%) Stakeholder Management
6 31 (9.48%) Software Testing
7 28 (8.56%) Continuous Improvement
7 28 (8.56%) User Experience
8 27 (8.26%) Analytics
9 26 (7.95%) Data Migration
10 25 (7.65%) Agile
11 24 (7.34%) CRM
12 22 (6.73%) AI
13 20 (6.12%) ERP
14 18 (5.50%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
15 17 (5.20%) Logistics
16 16 (4.89%) Cybersecurity
16 16 (4.89%) Data Analysis
16 16 (4.89%) UX Design
17 14 (4.28%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 15 (4.59%) Python
2 14 (4.28%) SQL
3 9 (2.75%) C++
4 8 (2.45%) Java
5 7 (2.14%) Ada
6 5 (1.53%) SOQL
7 4 (1.22%) Bash
7 4 (1.22%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.92%) Apex Code
8 3 (0.92%) C
8 3 (0.92%) C#
8 3 (0.92%) Embedded C++
8 3 (0.92%) SOSL
8 3 (0.92%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.61%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.31%) Korn
10 1 (0.31%) Scala
Qualifications
1 36 (11.01%) Degree
2 13 (3.98%) Security Cleared
3 11 (3.36%) SC Cleared
4 6 (1.83%) Chartered Engineer
5 4 (1.22%) CCNP
5 4 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (1.22%) JNCIP
5 4 (1.22%) JNCIS
6 3 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.92%) IIBA
7 2 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.61%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.61%) HNC
8 1 (0.31%) CCA
8 1 (0.31%) HND
8 1 (0.31%) ISEB
8 1 (0.31%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.31%) PMP
8 1 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.31%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.73%) Data Quality
2 16 (4.89%) QA
3 5 (1.53%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.22%) ISO 26262
4 4 (1.22%) MISRA
5 3 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.92%) Automotive SPICE
5 3 (0.92%) IEC 61508
6 2 (0.61%) AUTOSAR
6 2 (0.61%) GDPR
6 2 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.31%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.31%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (1.22%) Docker
2 1 (0.31%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.31%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (3.06%) Functional Safety
2 4 (1.22%) Ansible
2 4 (1.22%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.22%) systemd
3 1 (0.31%) Grafana
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.31%) SCCM
Vendors
1 29 (8.87%) SAP
2 28 (8.56%) Salesforce
3 19 (5.81%) Microsoft
4 14 (4.28%) Adobe
5 13 (3.98%) Oracle
6 12 (3.67%) Siemens
7 5 (1.53%) Databricks
7 5 (1.53%) Siebel
8 4 (1.22%) Cisco
8 4 (1.22%) Juniper
8 4 (1.22%) MikroTik
8 4 (1.22%) MuleSoft
9 3 (0.92%) Google
9 3 (0.92%) PTC
10 2 (0.61%) Logi
10 2 (0.61%) Logi Analytics
10 2 (0.61%) QNX
10 2 (0.61%) Qualtrics
10 2 (0.61%) Sage
10 2 (0.61%) ServiceNow