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 21 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 342 324
Rank change year-on-year -5 -18 +3
Contract jobs citing Automotive 267 172 230
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 0.63% 0.65%
As % of the General category 1.08% 0.99% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 77 129
10th Percentile £293 £220 £300
25th Percentile £425 £340 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £450 £479
Median % change year-on-year +18.33% -6.05% +0.84%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £719
UK median daily rate £533 £450 £490
% change year-on-year +18.33% -8.07% +3.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 41 56
10th Percentile £21.33 £22.00 £18.50
25th Percentile £27.16 £27.94 £33.94
Median hourly rate £33.00 £33.91 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% -28.61% +14.46%
75th Percentile £33.99 £50.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £59.13 - £61.88
UK median hourly rate £33.00 £33.91 £47.50
% change year-on-year -2.68% -28.61% +18.01%

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 24,762 17,335 20,319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.22% 63.61% 57.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,855 11,073 13,039
10th Percentile £313 £281 £300
25th Percentile £413 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £749 £760 £775
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.05% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,816 906 1,501
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.25 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.03 £16.36 £16.30
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.16 £35.71
Median % change year-on-year +29.93% -26.74% +19.03%
75th Percentile £65.00 £51.10 £57.50
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.00 £25.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.41% -27.14% +14.75%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 21 July 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 0 114 £359 -15.65% 103
West Midlands -10 100 £425 +11.48% 62
South East -40 60 £500 +11.11% 55
London -60 37 £588 +32.39% 59
East of England -7 32 £510 +19.86% 19
North West -60 15 £550 -4.35% 36
North of England -86 15 £550 -4.35% 50
East Midlands -9 12 £292 -58.29% 40
South West -31 7 £550 - 28
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 7 (2.62%) Confluence
2 4 (1.50%) CMS
3 2 (0.75%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.75%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 14 (5.24%) Adobe Illustrator
1 14 (5.24%) Photoshop
2 11 (4.12%) Adobe After Effects
3 7 (2.62%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
5 5 (1.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (1.12%) CATIA
6 3 (1.12%) Windchill
7 1 (0.37%) Adobe Captivate
7 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.37%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 5 (1.87%) SAP S/4HANA
1 5 (1.87%) Teamcenter
2 4 (1.50%) SAP GTS
2 4 (1.50%) SAP SD
2 4 (1.50%) SAP VC
3 3 (1.12%) ENOVIA
3 3 (1.12%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (1.12%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.75%) DELMIA
4 2 (0.75%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.37%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.37%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 14 (5.24%) Figma
2 13 (4.87%) AWS
3 10 (3.75%) Azure
4 9 (3.37%) GCP
5 6 (2.25%) SaaS
6 5 (1.87%) GitHub
6 5 (1.87%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 4 (1.50%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.12%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 2 (0.75%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.75%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (0.75%) Intacct
9 2 (0.75%) Power Automate
9 2 (0.75%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.37%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.37%) Cloud Run
10 1 (0.37%) Google Sheets
10 1 (0.37%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.37%) Miro
10 1 (0.37%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.50%) Firewall
1 4 (1.50%) VPN
2 3 (1.12%) Network Security
3 2 (0.75%) DHCP
3 2 (0.75%) DNS
3 2 (0.75%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (0.75%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.75%) VLAN
4 1 (0.37%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.37%) FlexRay
4 1 (0.37%) LAN
4 1 (0.37%) WAN
4 1 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.37%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.87%) Metadata
1 5 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (1.87%) Relational Database
1 5 (1.87%) Tableau
2 4 (1.50%) Power BI
3 2 (0.75%) BigQuery
3 2 (0.75%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.75%) Power Query
3 2 (0.75%) PowerPivot
3 2 (0.75%) Tableau Server
4 1 (0.37%) Looker
4 1 (0.37%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 13 (4.87%) JIRA
2 8 (3.00%) Git
3 6 (2.25%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (1.12%) Ant
4 3 (1.12%) Eclipse
4 3 (1.12%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.12%) JUnit
4 3 (1.12%) Rational Rhapsody
4 3 (1.12%) SonarQube
4 3 (1.12%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.75%) CANoe
5 2 (0.75%) Postman
6 1 (0.37%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.37%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.37%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.37%) NUnit
6 1 (0.37%) Selenium
6 1 (0.37%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.37%) Zephyr
General
1 49 (18.35%) Social Skills
2 46 (17.23%) Manufacturing
3 26 (9.74%) Finance
4 25 (9.36%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (5.99%) Aerospace
6 12 (4.49%) Marketing
7 11 (4.12%) Retail
8 6 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.12%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.75%) Agriculture
12 2 (0.75%) Aviation
12 2 (0.75%) Legal
13 1 (0.37%) Banking
13 1 (0.37%) Front Office
13 1 (0.37%) Military
13 1 (0.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (11.61%) Analyst
2 30 (11.24%) Senior
2 30 (11.24%) Test Engineer
3 26 (9.74%) Designer
3 26 (9.74%) UI Designer
4 20 (7.49%) Developer
5 17 (6.37%) Data Engineer
5 17 (6.37%) Senior Designer
5 17 (6.37%) Senior UI Designer
6 16 (5.99%) Software Engineer
7 15 (5.62%) Lead
7 15 (5.62%) Quality Engineer
8 13 (4.87%) Systems Engineer
9 12 (4.49%) Salesforce Engineer
10 11 (4.12%) QA Engineer
11 10 (3.75%) Embedded Engineer
12 9 (3.37%) Business Analyst
12 9 (3.37%) Project Manager
13 8 (3.00%) Architect
14 7 (2.62%) Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.37%) REST
2 7 (2.62%) Kafka
3 6 (2.25%) Spring
4 5 (1.87%) Spring Boot
5 4 (1.50%) SAP Fiori
5 4 (1.50%) SOAP
5 4 (1.50%) VML
6 3 (1.12%) .NET
6 3 (1.12%) .NET Framework
6 3 (1.12%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 3 (1.12%) HTML
6 3 (1.12%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (1.12%) RESTful
6 3 (1.12%) Visualforce
6 3 (1.12%) Web Services
7 2 (0.75%) Entity Framework
7 2 (0.75%) OAuth
7 2 (0.75%) QML
7 2 (0.75%) Qt
7 2 (0.75%) React
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.37%) Animation
2 10 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (3.37%) Infotainment
4 6 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.50%) Driving Licence
5 4 (1.50%) Embedded Systems
5 4 (1.50%) Taxonomies
6 3 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.12%) Virtual Reality
7 2 (0.75%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.75%) Digital Media
7 2 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.75%) Learning Management System
7 2 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.75%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.75%) PKI
7 2 (0.75%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.75%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.75%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.87%) Linux
2 4 (1.50%) VMS
3 2 (0.75%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (0.75%) FreeRTOS
3 2 (0.75%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.37%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (13.48%) Validation
3 32 (11.99%) Agile
4 29 (10.86%) Software Engineering
5 28 (10.49%) Analytics
6 27 (10.11%) User Experience
7 26 (9.74%) Migration
8 21 (7.87%) Software Testing
9 20 (7.49%) CRM
9 20 (7.49%) Data Migration
9 20 (7.49%) Stakeholder Management
10 18 (6.74%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (5.62%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
11 15 (5.62%) UX Design
12 14 (5.24%) CI/CD
12 14 (5.24%) Test Automation
12 14 (5.24%) Verification and Validation
13 12 (4.49%) ERP
13 12 (4.49%) Scrum
13 12 (4.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 13 (4.87%) SQL
2 11 (4.12%) Ada
2 11 (4.12%) Java
2 11 (4.12%) Python
3 7 (2.62%) C
3 7 (2.62%) C++
4 5 (1.87%) SOQL
5 3 (1.12%) Apex Code
5 3 (1.12%) C#
5 3 (1.12%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.12%) SOSL
6 2 (0.75%) Bash
6 2 (0.75%) PL/SQL
6 2 (0.75%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.37%) Go
7 1 (0.37%) Korn
7 1 (0.37%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 32 (11.99%) Degree
2 12 (4.49%) Security Cleared
3 9 (3.37%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.25%) Chartered Engineer
5 4 (1.50%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.12%) PMP
7 2 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.75%) CCNP
7 2 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.75%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.75%) ISEB
7 2 (0.75%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.75%) JNCIP
7 2 (0.75%) JNCIS
8 1 (0.37%) CCA
8 1 (0.37%) IIBA
8 1 (0.37%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.37%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.74%) QA
2 14 (5.24%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.50%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.12%) Def Stans
4 3 (1.12%) IEC 61508
5 2 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.75%) GDPR
5 2 (0.75%) ISO 26262
5 2 (0.75%) MISRA
6 1 (0.37%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (1.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.25%) Terraform
2 5 (1.87%) Functional Safety
3 3 (1.12%) HP ALM
3 3 (1.12%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.75%) Ansible
4 2 (0.75%) Grafana
4 2 (0.75%) systemd
5 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (10.86%) Salesforce
2 18 (6.74%) SAP
3 15 (5.62%) Microsoft
4 14 (5.24%) Adobe
5 12 (4.49%) Oracle
6 8 (3.00%) Siemens
7 7 (2.62%) Google
8 5 (1.87%) Siebel
9 4 (1.50%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.12%) Checkmarx
10 3 (1.12%) Databricks
10 3 (1.12%) HP
10 3 (1.12%) PTC
10 3 (1.12%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.12%) Spotify
11 2 (0.75%) Cisco
11 2 (0.75%) Juniper
11 2 (0.75%) QNX
11 2 (0.75%) Qualtrics
11 2 (0.75%) Sage