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 7 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 333 329
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 +4
Contract jobs citing Automotive 347 188 202
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.75% 0.67% 0.63%
As % of the General category 1.32% 1.05% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 78 127
10th Percentile £306 £209 £305
25th Percentile £438 £330 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £456 £475
Median % change year-on-year +20.55% -3.95% -5.00%
75th Percentile £663 £608 £560
90th Percentile £788 £660 £650
UK median daily rate £550 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +22.22% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 53 17
10th Percentile £21.33 £22.59 £30.63
25th Percentile £22.16 £27.21 £41.00
Median hourly rate £33.00 £37.46 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -11.91% -18.88% +31.94%
75th Percentile £45.00 £50.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £53.75 - £69.32
UK median hourly rate £33.00 £37.46 £46.18
% change year-on-year -11.91% -18.88% +31.94%

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 26,286 17,862 18,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 56.47% 63.91% 58.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,330 11,337 11,341
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% -3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,416 1,048 851
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.51 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.62 £16.29 £18.00
Median hourly rate £29.01 £25.15 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.35% -29.15% +19.33%
75th Percentile £56.00 £45.19 £61.52
90th Percentile £77.50 £70.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £27.85 £25.08 £33.52
% change year-on-year +11.07% -25.19% +21.89%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 7 October 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 0 132 £425 -5.56% 250
West Midlands -3 112 £425 +17.24% 179
South East -15 82 £475 +5.56% 269
London -48 67 £663 +34.18% 378
East of England -16 29 £503 +175.62% 118
North of England -59 26 £538 -6.52% 141
North West -32 24 £550 -4.35% 85
East Midlands -11 18 £292 -51.33% 70
South West -40 8 £550 +23.04% 83
Yorkshire - 2 £475 - 33
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 5 (1.44%) CMS
1 5 (1.44%) Confluence
2 4 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.86%) Apache
3 3 (0.86%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (4.03%) Adobe Illustrator
1 14 (4.03%) Photoshop
2 11 (3.17%) Adobe After Effects
3 8 (2.31%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.15%) CATIA
5 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.58%) Solid Edge
8 1 (0.29%) Adobe Captivate
8 1 (0.29%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.29%) Simulink
8 1 (0.29%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 20 (5.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (2.02%) Teamcenter
3 5 (1.44%) SAP CO
3 5 (1.44%) SAP ERP
3 5 (1.44%) SAP FI
3 5 (1.44%) SAP FI/CO
3 5 (1.44%) SAP VC
4 4 (1.15%) SAP GTS
4 4 (1.15%) SAP SD
5 3 (0.86%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.58%) ENOVIA
6 2 (0.58%) SAP QM
7 1 (0.29%) Infor CloudSuite
7 1 (0.29%) Infor LN
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.29%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.29%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.29%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 17 (4.90%) Azure
2 14 (4.03%) Figma
3 9 (2.59%) AWS
4 8 (2.31%) SaaS
5 6 (1.73%) GCP
5 6 (1.73%) Snowflake
6 5 (1.44%) Power Platform
6 5 (1.44%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 4 (1.15%) GitHub
8 3 (0.86%) Amazon S3
8 3 (0.86%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (0.86%) Dagster
8 3 (0.86%) dbt
8 3 (0.86%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (0.86%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (0.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 2 (0.58%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.58%) Intacct
9 2 (0.58%) Power Automate
9 2 (0.58%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.31%) Ethernet
2 7 (2.02%) VPN
3 6 (1.73%) Firewall
3 6 (1.73%) Network Security
4 4 (1.15%) DHCP
4 4 (1.15%) DNS
4 4 (1.15%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.15%) VLAN
5 3 (0.86%) Wireless
6 2 (0.58%) Profibus
6 2 (0.58%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.58%) RS-232
7 1 (0.29%) FlexRay
7 1 (0.29%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.29%) LAN
7 1 (0.29%) WAN
7 1 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.02%) Metadata
2 6 (1.73%) Tableau
3 5 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.44%) Power BI
3 5 (1.44%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.86%) Apache Iceberg
5 3 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.58%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.58%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.58%) Power Query
6 2 (0.58%) PowerPivot
7 1 (0.29%) Big Data
7 1 (0.29%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.29%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.29%) Looker
7 1 (0.29%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.29%) Tableau Desktop
7 1 (0.29%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 10 (2.88%) Git
2 7 (2.02%) JIRA
2 7 (2.02%) Rational DOORS
3 3 (0.86%) Ant
3 3 (0.86%) Eclipse
3 3 (0.86%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.86%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (0.58%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.58%) Postman
4 2 (0.58%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.29%) CANoe
5 1 (0.29%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.29%) GitLab
5 1 (0.29%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.29%) JUnit
5 1 (0.29%) NUnit
5 1 (0.29%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.29%) Selenium
5 1 (0.29%) SpecFlow
General
1 85 (24.50%) Manufacturing
2 57 (16.43%) Social Skills
3 30 (8.65%) Aerospace
4 26 (7.49%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (7.49%) Finance
5 15 (4.32%) Retail
6 7 (2.02%) Marketing
7 6 (1.73%) Legal
8 5 (1.44%) Agriculture
8 5 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.15%) Electronics
10 3 (0.86%) Aviation
10 3 (0.86%) German Language
11 2 (0.58%) Avionics
11 2 (0.58%) Digital Health
11 2 (0.58%) French Language
11 2 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.58%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 42 (12.10%) Senior
2 29 (8.36%) Analyst
3 28 (8.07%) Architect
4 26 (7.49%) Designer
4 26 (7.49%) UI Designer
5 24 (6.92%) Lead
5 24 (6.92%) Software Engineer
6 23 (6.63%) Data Engineer
6 23 (6.63%) Systems Engineer
6 23 (6.63%) Test Engineer
7 18 (5.19%) Quality Engineer
8 17 (4.90%) Senior Designer
8 17 (4.90%) Senior UI Designer
9 15 (4.32%) Project Manager
10 13 (3.75%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 13 (3.75%) Test Technician
11 12 (3.46%) Salesforce Engineer
12 11 (3.17%) Developer
12 11 (3.17%) QA Engineer
12 11 (3.17%) SAP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.59%) REST
2 8 (2.31%) SAP Fiori
2 8 (2.31%) Terraform
3 5 (1.44%) SOAP
4 4 (1.15%) 802.1X
4 4 (1.15%) Kafka
4 4 (1.15%) PySpark
4 4 (1.15%) VML
4 4 (1.15%) Web Services
5 3 (0.86%) .NET
5 3 (0.86%) HTML
5 3 (0.86%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (0.86%) React
5 3 (0.86%) Visualforce
6 2 (0.58%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.58%) Gherkin
6 2 (0.58%) OAuth
6 2 (0.58%) QML
6 2 (0.58%) Qt
6 2 (0.58%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 17 (4.90%) Animation
2 16 (4.61%) Robotics
3 12 (3.46%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (3.17%) Embedded Systems
5 6 (1.73%) Algorithms
5 6 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (1.73%) Taxonomies
6 5 (1.44%) CAN bus
6 5 (1.44%) Driving Licence
6 5 (1.44%) Private Cloud
6 5 (1.44%) Self-Driving Car
7 4 (1.15%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.15%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.15%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.15%) PKI
7 4 (1.15%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.86%) Lidar
8 3 (0.86%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.02%) Linux
2 4 (1.15%) Ubuntu
2 4 (1.15%) VMS
2 4 (1.15%) Windows
3 2 (0.58%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (0.58%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (0.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (20.75%) Validation
2 50 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (12.68%) Stakeholder Management
4 39 (11.24%) Software Engineering
5 36 (10.37%) Migration
6 33 (9.51%) Software Testing
7 32 (9.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 28 (8.07%) AI
9 26 (7.49%) User Experience
10 25 (7.20%) Agile
10 25 (7.20%) Analytics
11 23 (6.63%) Data Migration
12 17 (4.90%) CRM
12 17 (4.90%) Cybersecurity
12 17 (4.90%) Data Analysis
12 17 (4.90%) ERP
12 17 (4.90%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
12 17 (4.90%) Logistics
13 16 (4.61%) UX Design
13 16 (4.61%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 18 (5.19%) Python
2 16 (4.61%) SQL
3 9 (2.59%) C++
4 8 (2.31%) Java
5 7 (2.02%) Ada
6 5 (1.44%) C
6 5 (1.44%) SOQL
7 4 (1.15%) Bash
8 3 (0.86%) Apex Code
8 3 (0.86%) C#
8 3 (0.86%) Embedded C++
8 3 (0.86%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.86%) SOSL
8 3 (0.86%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.58%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.29%) Bicep
10 1 (0.29%) Korn
10 1 (0.29%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.29%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 42 (12.10%) Degree
2 18 (5.19%) Security Cleared
3 16 (4.61%) SC Cleared
4 6 (1.73%) Chartered Engineer
4 6 (1.73%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.15%) CCNP
5 4 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (1.15%) JNCIP
5 4 (1.15%) JNCIS
6 3 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.86%) IIBA
6 3 (0.86%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.58%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.58%) HNC
8 1 (0.29%) HND
8 1 (0.29%) PgMP
8 1 (0.29%) PMP
8 1 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.29%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.63%) Data Quality
2 16 (4.61%) QA
3 6 (1.73%) ISO 26262
4 5 (1.44%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.15%) AUTOSAR
5 4 (1.15%) MISRA
6 3 (0.86%) Automotive SPICE
6 3 (0.86%) IEC 61508
7 2 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.58%) GDPR
7 2 (0.58%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.29%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (1.15%) Docker
2 3 (0.86%) Firmware
3 2 (0.58%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (3.17%) Functional Safety
2 5 (1.44%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.15%) Ansible
3 4 (1.15%) systemd
4 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.29%) Grafana
5 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 36 (10.37%) SAP
2 23 (6.63%) Salesforce
3 21 (6.05%) Microsoft
4 14 (4.03%) Adobe
5 12 (3.46%) Siemens
6 10 (2.88%) Oracle
7 7 (2.02%) Databricks
8 5 (1.44%) Google
9 4 (1.15%) Cisco
9 4 (1.15%) Juniper
9 4 (1.15%) MikroTik
9 4 (1.15%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.86%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.58%) EMC
11 2 (0.58%) Logi
11 2 (0.58%) Logi Analytics
11 2 (0.58%) QNX
11 2 (0.58%) Sage
12 1 (0.29%) IBM
12 1 (0.29%) PTC