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 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 315 333 321
Rank change year-on-year +18 -12 +99
Contract jobs citing Automotive 191 206 301
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.69% 0.63% 0.71%
As % of the General category 1.07% 1.08% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 127 192
10th Percentile £219 £300 £356
25th Percentile £338 £360 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -1.19%
75th Percentile £603 £561 £575
90th Percentile £653 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 22 28
10th Percentile £22.05 £24.19 £15.21
25th Percentile £28.18 £34.34 £22.03
Median hourly rate £35.60 £43.94 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.98% +25.54% +6.06%
75th Percentile £50.00 £56.25 £43.19
90th Percentile - £68.75 £60.75
UK median hourly rate £35.60 £45.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.89% +28.57% +6.06%

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 17,881 19,030 25,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 64.40% 58.21% 59.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,322 11,616 17,339
10th Percentile £275 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £415 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £779
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,012 979 988
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.17 £17.44 £16.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.68% +40.00% +10.93%
75th Percentile £47.50 £61.30 £58.59
90th Percentile £71.48 £71.50 £70.84
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -30.14% +30.91% +12.24%

Automotive
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Automotive as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Automotive 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -16 67 £425 -2.30% 184
West Midlands -7 58 £363 -14.71% 123
London +23 36 £494 +1.28% 85
South East +14 34 £450 +20.00% 138
North of England -18 25 £532 -11.42% 113
North West -21 25 £532 -11.42% 71
East of England +9 20 £340 +0.74% 63
East Midlands -6 8 £675 +97.08% 57
South West +22 6 £447 +11.75% 59
Automotive
UK

Automotive
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (5.76%) Confluence
2 6 (3.14%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.05%) CMS
4 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.52%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (10.99%) Maya
2 15 (7.85%) NUKE
3 10 (5.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (5.24%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (3.14%) Adobe Captivate
5 5 (2.62%) FrameMaker
5 5 (2.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (2.09%) Simulink
7 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (1.05%) MS Visio
7 2 (1.05%) Stateflow
8 1 (0.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.52%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.52%) CANalyzer
8 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.52%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 6 (3.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.62%) Endur
3 3 (1.57%) Primavera
4 2 (1.05%) SAP MM
4 2 (1.05%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.52%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.52%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.52%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.52%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.52%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.52%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.52%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 10 (5.24%) AWS
2 6 (3.14%) Azure
2 6 (3.14%) Power Platform
3 4 (2.09%) GCP
3 4 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (2.09%) SaaS
4 3 (1.57%) Figma
4 3 (1.57%) OpenShift
5 2 (1.05%) Power Automate
5 2 (1.05%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.52%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.52%) Azure Functions
6 1 (0.52%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (0.52%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (0.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (0.52%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.52%) Firebase
6 1 (0.52%) iPaaS
6 1 (0.52%) Serverless
6 1 (0.52%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.57%) FlexRay
2 2 (1.05%) Ethernet
2 2 (1.05%) Firewall
2 2 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.52%) DHCP
3 1 (0.52%) DNS
3 1 (0.52%) Internet
3 1 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.52%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.52%) VPN
3 1 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.62%) Tableau
2 4 (2.09%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.57%) BigQuery
3 3 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.05%) Power BI
4 2 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.52%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.52%) MySQL
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.52%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.52%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.52%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (0.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (8.38%) JIRA
2 6 (3.14%) Git
3 5 (2.62%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.09%) REST Assured
4 4 (2.09%) Selenium
5 3 (1.57%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.57%) CANoe
5 3 (1.57%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.57%) JUnit
5 3 (1.57%) Mockito
6 2 (1.05%) Appium
6 2 (1.05%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.52%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.52%) Babel
7 1 (0.52%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.52%) GitLab
7 1 (0.52%) LSMW
7 1 (0.52%) Postman
7 1 (0.52%) TestRail
7 1 (0.52%) webpack
General
1 67 (35.08%) Social Skills
2 38 (19.90%) Finance
3 37 (19.37%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (12.57%) Manufacturing
5 22 (11.52%) Aerospace
6 19 (9.95%) Games
7 14 (7.33%) Marketing
8 10 (5.24%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (5.24%) Retail
8 10 (5.24%) Telecoms
9 9 (4.71%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (3.14%) Back Office
10 6 (3.14%) German Language
10 6 (3.14%) Legal
11 5 (2.62%) Publishing
12 4 (2.09%) Advertising
12 4 (2.09%) Electronics
12 4 (2.09%) Law
12 4 (2.09%) Military
13 3 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (14.14%) Senior
2 25 (13.09%) Analyst
3 18 (9.42%) Architect
4 17 (8.90%) Business Analyst
5 16 (8.38%) Lead
6 15 (7.85%) Developer
7 12 (6.28%) Project Manager
8 9 (4.71%) Test Technician
9 8 (4.19%) Consultant
10 7 (3.66%) Software Engineer
10 7 (3.66%) Support Engineer
11 6 (3.14%) SAP Consultant
12 5 (2.62%) Applications Support
12 5 (2.62%) Author
12 5 (2.62%) IT Support
12 5 (2.62%) Technical Author
13 4 (2.09%) Designer
13 4 (2.09%) Lead Developer
13 4 (2.09%) Software Architect
13 4 (2.09%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (11.52%) CSS
1 22 (11.52%) HTML
2 19 (9.95%) Django
3 9 (4.71%) React
3 9 (4.71%) REST
4 7 (3.66%) RESTful
5 6 (3.14%) Unreal Engine
5 6 (3.14%) V-Ray
6 5 (2.62%) JSON
6 5 (2.62%) SGML
6 5 (2.62%) XML
7 4 (2.09%) Next.js
7 4 (2.09%) Swagger
8 3 (1.57%) .NET
8 3 (1.57%) CSS3
8 3 (1.57%) HTML5
8 3 (1.57%) Node.js
8 3 (1.57%) Spring
8 3 (1.57%) Spring Boot
8 3 (1.57%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.99%) Animation
2 9 (4.71%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (4.19%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (4.19%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.66%) Mobile App
5 6 (3.14%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.14%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.14%) Virtual Reality
6 4 (2.09%) Infotainment
7 3 (1.57%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.57%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.57%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.57%) Embedded Systems
7 3 (1.57%) Grid Computing
7 3 (1.57%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.05%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.05%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.28%) Windows
2 3 (1.57%) Android
3 2 (1.05%) Linux
4 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.52%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (18.85%) Agile
2 27 (14.14%) Stakeholder Management
3 25 (13.09%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (9.42%) Project Management
5 16 (8.38%) User Experience
6 14 (7.33%) Analytical Thinking
6 14 (7.33%) Artificial Intelligence
7 13 (6.81%) CI/CD
8 12 (6.28%) ITIL
8 12 (6.28%) Logistics
8 12 (6.28%) UX Design
9 11 (5.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (5.76%) Cybersecurity
9 11 (5.76%) Software Engineering
9 11 (5.76%) Visualisation
10 10 (5.24%) Change Management
10 10 (5.24%) Digital Engineering
10 10 (5.24%) Validation
11 9 (4.71%) Migration
11 9 (4.71%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 33 (17.28%) SQL
2 29 (15.18%) Java
3 24 (12.57%) Python
4 21 (10.99%) C++
5 13 (6.81%) Tcl
6 6 (3.14%) C#
7 4 (2.09%) Ada
7 4 (2.09%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.57%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.05%) MATLAB
9 2 (1.05%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.05%) VBA
9 2 (1.05%) VBScript
10 1 (0.52%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.52%) C
10 1 (0.52%) Korn
10 1 (0.52%) PHP
10 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.52%) R
Qualifications
1 40 (20.94%) Degree
2 5 (2.62%) HNC
2 5 (2.62%) HND
2 5 (2.62%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.09%) IIBA
3 4 (2.09%) ISEB
3 4 (2.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 4 (2.09%) PMI Certification
3 4 (2.09%) PMP
4 3 (1.57%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.57%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.05%) CISM
5 2 (1.05%) CISSP
5 2 (1.05%) MBA
6 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.52%) CISMP
6 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.14%) QA
2 4 (2.09%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.09%) AUTOSAR
2 4 (2.09%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.09%) GDPR
2 4 (2.09%) SLA
3 3 (1.57%) PMBOK
4 2 (1.05%) COSHH
4 2 (1.05%) ISO 14001
4 2 (1.05%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.05%) PERC
5 1 (0.52%) Automotive SPICE
5 1 (0.52%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.52%) ISO 26262
5 1 (0.52%) NCSC
5 1 (0.52%) NIST
5 1 (0.52%) PMO
5 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (1.57%) Docker
2 1 (0.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.57%) Ansible
1 3 (1.57%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.57%) SCCM
1 3 (1.57%) Terraform
2 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 34 (17.80%) Microsoft
2 21 (10.99%) SAP
3 13 (6.81%) Salesforce
4 11 (5.76%) Adobe
5 10 (5.24%) Hitachi
6 7 (3.66%) ServiceNow
7 6 (3.14%) Autodesk
8 5 (2.62%) Atlassian
8 5 (2.62%) Google
9 4 (2.09%) Oracle
10 2 (1.05%) Databricks
10 2 (1.05%) ION Trading
10 2 (1.05%) OpenLink
10 2 (1.05%) Remedy
11 1 (0.52%) Cognos
11 1 (0.52%) Informatica
11 1 (0.52%) Netlify
11 1 (0.52%) NVIDIA
11 1 (0.52%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.52%) QNX