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 16 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 466 356 297
Rank change year-on-year -110 -59 +51
Contract jobs citing Automotive 116 132 263
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.30% 0.54% 0.70%
As % of the General category 0.53% 0.85% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 67 110
10th Percentile £315 £250 £300
25th Percentile £438 £400 £351
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% +4.71%
75th Percentile £578 £626 £585
90th Percentile £650 £675 £691
UK median daily rate £525 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +13.51% -7.50% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 25 101
10th Percentile £25.00 £23.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £27.24 £27.94 £30.70
Median hourly rate £34.38 £32.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -27.78% +7.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £42.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £69.25 £55.50 -
UK median hourly rate £34.38 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +5.77% -27.78% +11.11%

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 21,908 15,598 21,814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.80% 63.92% 58.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,766 10,146 14,117
10th Percentile £304 £300 £275
25th Percentile £408 £412 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,401 649 1,757
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.00 £17.61 £15.39
Median hourly rate £29.00 £28.75 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% +2.68% -20.00%
75th Percentile £61.18 £58.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £28.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -21.43%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 16 April 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 -44 45 £550 +34.15% 112
West Midlands -41 35 £550 +34.15% 88
London -58 21 £550 +17.33% 50
South East -60 21 £525 +13.51% 76
East of England -34 19 £475 -7.05% 35
East Midlands -27 10 £550 +26.44% 24
North West -61 8 £488 -13.33% 34
North of England -98 8 £488 -13.33% 51
South West - 2 - - 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 8 (6.90%) Confluence
2 3 (2.59%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.72%) CMS
3 2 (1.72%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 7 (6.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.31%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.72%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.72%) Windchill
4 1 (0.86%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.86%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.86%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.86%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.86%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.72%) DELMIA
1 2 (1.72%) ENOVIA
1 2 (1.72%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 8 (6.90%) AWS
2 5 (4.31%) Azure
2 5 (4.31%) GCP
3 4 (3.45%) Power Platform
4 3 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (2.59%) GitHub
5 2 (1.72%) Lucidchart
6 1 (0.86%) Alation
6 1 (0.86%) Cloud Run
6 1 (0.86%) Collibra
6 1 (0.86%) Figma
6 1 (0.86%) Google Analytics
6 1 (0.86%) Google Sheets
6 1 (0.86%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.86%) Miro
6 1 (0.86%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.86%) SaaS
6 1 (0.86%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.86%) FlexRay
1 1 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (3.45%) Power BI
3 3 (2.59%) Tableau
4 2 (1.72%) Text Mining
5 1 (0.86%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.86%) Looker
5 1 (0.86%) Metadata
5 1 (0.86%) Power Query
5 1 (0.86%) PowerPivot
5 1 (0.86%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 14 (12.07%) JIRA
2 3 (2.59%) JUnit
2 3 (2.59%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (2.59%) Rational Rhapsody
2 3 (2.59%) SonarQube
3 2 (1.72%) Git
3 2 (1.72%) Zephyr
4 1 (0.86%) CANoe
4 1 (0.86%) IntelliJ
General
1 36 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 17 (14.66%) Manufacturing
3 16 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (12.93%) Finance
5 11 (9.48%) Marketing
6 6 (5.17%) Aerospace
7 5 (4.31%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (3.45%) Retail
9 3 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.59%) Legal
9 3 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.72%) Aviation
10 2 (1.72%) Billing
10 2 (1.72%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.86%) Front Office
11 1 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.86%) Law
11 1 (0.86%) Military
11 1 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 19 (16.38%) Test Engineer
2 16 (13.79%) Analyst
3 14 (12.07%) Developer
4 10 (8.62%) Senior
5 9 (7.76%) Project Manager
6 6 (5.17%) HR Analyst
6 6 (5.17%) Project Analyst
6 6 (5.17%) Transformation Analyst
7 5 (4.31%) Business Analyst
7 5 (4.31%) Lead
7 5 (4.31%) Salesforce Developer
7 5 (4.31%) Test Technician
8 4 (3.45%) Embedded Engineer
8 4 (3.45%) Performance Engineer
8 4 (3.45%) Performance Test Engineer
8 4 (3.45%) Scrum Master
8 4 (3.45%) Senior Manager
8 4 (3.45%) Senior Project Manager
8 4 (3.45%) User Experience Researcher
9 3 (2.59%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.17%) Kafka
2 5 (4.31%) Spring
2 5 (4.31%) Spring Boot
3 3 (2.59%) REST
4 2 (1.72%) CSS
4 2 (1.72%) HTML
5 1 (0.86%) .NET
5 1 (0.86%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.86%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.86%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.86%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 1 (0.86%) CarPlay
5 1 (0.86%) Entity Framework
5 1 (0.86%) JSON
5 1 (0.86%) NHibernate
5 1 (0.86%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.86%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.86%) React
5 1 (0.86%) RESTful
5 1 (0.86%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.62%) Infotainment
2 7 (6.03%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (5.17%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.45%) IoT
5 3 (2.59%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.59%) Operational Technology
5 3 (2.59%) Robotics
6 2 (1.72%) Animation
6 2 (1.72%) Digital Media
6 2 (1.72%) Learning Management System
6 2 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.86%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.86%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.86%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.86%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.86%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 1 (0.86%) Music Streaming
7 1 (0.86%) PMI
7 1 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.86%) Android
1 1 (0.86%) Apple iOS
1 1 (0.86%) Linux
1 1 (0.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (24.14%) Agile
2 18 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (13.79%) Analytics
4 15 (12.93%) Project Management
4 15 (12.93%) Validation
5 14 (12.07%) CRM
6 10 (8.62%) Software Engineering
6 10 (8.62%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (7.76%) Change Management
7 9 (7.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (7.76%) Migration
7 9 (7.76%) Scrum
8 8 (6.90%) AI
8 8 (6.90%) DevOps
8 8 (6.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 8 (6.90%) User Acceptance Testing
8 8 (6.90%) User Experience
9 7 (6.03%) Customer Experience
9 7 (6.03%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
9 7 (6.03%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 7 (6.03%) C++
2 6 (5.17%) SQL
3 5 (4.31%) Java
4 4 (3.45%) Ada
4 4 (3.45%) C
4 4 (3.45%) Python
5 3 (2.59%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.72%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.86%) C#
7 1 (0.86%) Go
7 1 (0.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (6.90%) Degree
2 6 (5.17%) PMI Certification
3 5 (4.31%) PMP
4 4 (3.45%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.59%) ISTQB
5 3 (2.59%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.72%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (0.86%) ACCA
7 1 (0.86%) CCA
7 1 (0.86%) CIMA
7 1 (0.86%) ISEB
7 1 (0.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.86%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.17%) QA
2 4 (3.45%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.59%) Def Stans
3 3 (2.59%) GDPR
4 1 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.86%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (1.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.45%) HP ALM
2 2 (1.72%) Functional Safety
2 2 (1.72%) Grafana
2 2 (1.72%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.72%) Terraform
3 1 (0.86%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (7.76%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.90%) Salesforce
3 7 (6.03%) Google
4 6 (5.17%) Oracle
5 5 (4.31%) Siebel
6 4 (3.45%) HP
6 4 (3.45%) SAP
7 3 (2.59%) Checkmarx
7 3 (2.59%) Qualtrics
7 3 (2.59%) Siemens
7 3 (2.59%) Spotify
8 2 (1.72%) PTC
8 2 (1.72%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.86%) Adobe
9 1 (0.86%) Anaplan
9 1 (0.86%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.86%) Informatica
9 1 (0.86%) PagerDuty
9 1 (0.86%) Progress
9 1 (0.86%) Splunk
340 Automotive jobs in England