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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 334 301
Rank change year-on-year -33 -33 +35
Contract jobs citing Automotive 255 173 275
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.57% 0.65% 0.74%
As % of the General category 1.04% 1.02% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 81 135
10th Percentile £250 £220 £300
25th Percentile £405 £340 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £588
90th Percentile £655 £653 £701
UK median daily rate £525 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +13.51% -7.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 39 88
10th Percentile £22.52 £21.85 £17.22
25th Percentile £27.30 £28.30 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.00 £37.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.81% -22.11% +18.01%
75th Percentile £33.99 £50.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £60.88 - £58.75
UK median hourly rate £33.00 £37.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -10.81% -22.11% +22.58%

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 24,453 16,975 21,311
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.11% 63.88% 57.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,753 10,885 13,596
10th Percentile £313 £281 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £533
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -2.91% -3.09%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £749 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,770 855 1,767
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.29 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £16.46 £15.95
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.21 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.44% -17.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £51.22 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £73.75 £68.80
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £27.21 £31.97
% change year-on-year +17.60% -14.89% +6.57%

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 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 7 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 7 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 -10 110 £271 -36.24% 97
West Midlands -16 97 £250 -34.43% 56
South East -38 60 £500 +11.11% 58
East of England -15 31 £507 +53.85% 23
London -84 30 £550 +11.39% 54
North West -55 15 £550 -4.35% 25
North of England -83 15 £550 -4.35% 38
East Midlands -12 11 £292 -58.29% 40
South West -27 7 £550 - 23
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 9 (3.53%) Confluence
2 5 (1.96%) CMS
3 2 (0.78%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.78%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 14 (5.49%) Adobe Illustrator
1 14 (5.49%) Photoshop
2 11 (4.31%) Adobe After Effects
3 6 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.18%) CATIA
4 3 (1.18%) Windchill
5 2 (0.78%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.39%) Adobe Captivate
6 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.39%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 5 (1.96%) SAP S/4HANA
1 5 (1.96%) Teamcenter
2 4 (1.57%) SAP GTS
2 4 (1.57%) SAP SD
2 4 (1.57%) SAP VC
3 3 (1.18%) ENOVIA
3 3 (1.18%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (1.18%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.78%) DELMIA
4 2 (0.78%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.39%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.39%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 14 (5.49%) Figma
2 13 (5.10%) AWS
3 8 (3.14%) Azure
3 8 (3.14%) GCP
4 6 (2.35%) SaaS
5 5 (1.96%) GitHub
5 5 (1.96%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 4 (1.57%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.18%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 2 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.78%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (0.78%) Intacct
8 2 (0.78%) Lucidchart
8 2 (0.78%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.78%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.39%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.39%) Cloud Run
9 1 (0.39%) Google Sheets
9 1 (0.39%) Miro
9 1 (0.39%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.78%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (0.39%) Firewall
2 1 (0.39%) FlexRay
2 1 (0.39%) LAN
2 1 (0.39%) Network Security
2 1 (0.39%) VPN
2 1 (0.39%) WAN
2 1 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.96%) Metadata
1 5 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (1.96%) Tableau
2 4 (1.57%) Power BI
2 4 (1.57%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.18%) BigQuery
4 2 (0.78%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.78%) Power Query
4 2 (0.78%) PowerPivot
5 1 (0.39%) Looker
5 1 (0.39%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 16 (6.27%) JIRA
2 6 (2.35%) Git
2 6 (2.35%) Rational DOORS
3 3 (1.18%) Ant
3 3 (1.18%) Eclipse
3 3 (1.18%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.18%) JUnit
3 3 (1.18%) Rational Rhapsody
3 3 (1.18%) SonarQube
3 3 (1.18%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (0.78%) Postman
4 2 (0.78%) Zephyr
5 1 (0.39%) CANoe
5 1 (0.39%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.39%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.39%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.39%) NUnit
5 1 (0.39%) Selenium
5 1 (0.39%) SpecFlow
General
1 49 (19.22%) Social Skills
2 46 (18.04%) Manufacturing
3 24 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (9.41%) Finance
4 16 (6.27%) Aerospace
5 12 (4.71%) Marketing
6 11 (4.31%) Retail
7 6 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.18%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.78%) Agriculture
11 2 (0.78%) Aviation
11 2 (0.78%) Legal
12 1 (0.39%) Front Office
12 1 (0.39%) Law
12 1 (0.39%) Military
12 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (12.55%) Analyst
2 29 (11.37%) Test Engineer
3 26 (10.20%) Designer
3 26 (10.20%) Senior
3 26 (10.20%) UI Designer
4 18 (7.06%) Developer
5 17 (6.67%) Senior Designer
5 17 (6.67%) Senior UI Designer
6 16 (6.27%) Lead
7 15 (5.88%) Data Engineer
7 15 (5.88%) Software Engineer
8 13 (5.10%) Quality Engineer
9 12 (4.71%) Salesforce Engineer
9 12 (4.71%) Systems Engineer
10 11 (4.31%) QA Engineer
11 10 (3.92%) Business Analyst
11 10 (3.92%) Embedded Engineer
12 9 (3.53%) Project Manager
13 8 (3.14%) Architect
14 7 (2.75%) Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.53%) REST
2 7 (2.75%) Kafka
3 6 (2.35%) Spring
4 5 (1.96%) Spring Boot
5 4 (1.57%) SAP Fiori
5 4 (1.57%) SOAP
5 4 (1.57%) VML
6 3 (1.18%) .NET
6 3 (1.18%) .NET Framework
6 3 (1.18%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 3 (1.18%) HTML
6 3 (1.18%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (1.18%) RESTful
6 3 (1.18%) Visualforce
6 3 (1.18%) Web Services
7 2 (0.78%) Entity Framework
7 2 (0.78%) QML
7 2 (0.78%) Qt
7 2 (0.78%) React
7 2 (0.78%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.67%) Animation
2 9 (3.53%) Infotainment
2 9 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (1.57%) Driving Licence
4 4 (1.57%) Embedded Systems
4 4 (1.57%) Taxonomies
5 3 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.18%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.18%) Virtual Reality
6 2 (0.78%) Cloud Native
6 2 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.78%) Digital Media
6 2 (0.78%) Learning Management System
6 2 (0.78%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.39%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.39%) FMCG
7 1 (0.39%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.39%) PMI
7 1 (0.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.57%) VMS
2 3 (1.18%) Linux
3 2 (0.78%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (0.78%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (14.90%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (12.16%) Agile
2 31 (12.16%) Validation
3 29 (11.37%) Analytics
4 27 (10.59%) Software Engineering
4 27 (10.59%) User Experience
5 25 (9.80%) Migration
6 22 (8.63%) Stakeholder Management
7 20 (7.84%) Data Migration
7 20 (7.84%) Software Testing
8 18 (7.06%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (6.67%) CRM
10 15 (5.88%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
10 15 (5.88%) UX Design
11 13 (5.10%) CI/CD
11 13 (5.10%) Logistics
11 13 (5.10%) Project Management
11 13 (5.10%) Scrum
11 13 (5.10%) Test Automation
11 13 (5.10%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 14 (5.49%) SQL
2 11 (4.31%) Ada
3 9 (3.53%) Python
4 8 (3.14%) Java
5 7 (2.75%) C
5 7 (2.75%) C++
6 5 (1.96%) SOQL
7 3 (1.18%) Apex Code
7 3 (1.18%) C#
7 3 (1.18%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.18%) SOSL
8 2 (0.78%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.78%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.39%) Go
9 1 (0.39%) Korn
9 1 (0.39%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 32 (12.55%) Degree
2 11 (4.31%) Security Cleared
3 8 (3.14%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.35%) Chartered Engineer
5 5 (1.96%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.57%) PMP
7 3 (1.18%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.78%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.78%) ISEB
8 2 (0.78%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.39%) CCA
9 1 (0.39%) HNC
9 1 (0.39%) HND
9 1 (0.39%) IIBA
9 1 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.39%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.39%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.45%) QA
2 12 (4.71%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.57%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.18%) Def Stans
4 3 (1.18%) IEC 61508
5 2 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.78%) GDPR
5 2 (0.78%) ISO 26262
5 2 (0.78%) MISRA
6 1 (0.39%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (1.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.96%) Functional Safety
2 4 (1.57%) HP ALM
2 4 (1.57%) Terraform
3 3 (1.18%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.78%) Grafana
5 1 (0.39%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (11.37%) Salesforce
2 18 (7.06%) SAP
3 14 (5.49%) Adobe
4 13 (5.10%) Microsoft
5 12 (4.71%) Oracle
6 8 (3.14%) Google
6 8 (3.14%) Siemens
7 5 (1.96%) Siebel
8 4 (1.57%) HP
8 4 (1.57%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.18%) Checkmarx
9 3 (1.18%) Databricks
9 3 (1.18%) PTC
9 3 (1.18%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.18%) Spotify
10 2 (0.78%) Logi
10 2 (0.78%) Logi Analytics
10 2 (0.78%) QNX
10 2 (0.78%) Qualtrics
10 2 (0.78%) Sage