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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 468 335 299
Rank change year-on-year -133 -36 +48
Contract jobs citing Automotive 126 138 258
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.32% 0.56% 0.69%
As % of the General category 0.57% 0.88% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 71 104
10th Percentile £351 £250 £300
25th Percentile £469 £400 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £584 £613 £586
90th Percentile £650 £675 £709
UK median daily rate £538 £469 £500
% change year-on-year +14.67% -6.25% +4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 25 103
10th Percentile £25.00 £23.25 £16.53
25th Percentile £27.24 £27.94 £30.70
Median hourly rate £33.98 £32.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -27.78% +7.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £39.04 £57.50
90th Percentile £69.25 £55.50 -
UK median hourly rate £33.98 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +4.55% -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 22,000 15,674 21,731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.62% 63.96% 58.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,802 10,204 14,046
10th Percentile £304 £300 £275
25th Percentile £408 £411 £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 1,419 653 1,762
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.00 £17.61 £15.39
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.75 £28.71
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +0.14% -15.56%
75th Percentile £61.18 £58.75 £51.12
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £27.72 £28.60 £28.42
% change year-on-year -3.08% +0.63% -18.80%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 50 £550 +34.15% 117
West Midlands -45 40 £550 +34.15% 80
East of England -27 23 £493 -3.62% 32
London -55 22 £575 +22.67% 51
South East -61 22 £513 +9.33% 81
East Midlands -24 10 £550 +26.44% 37
North West -72 7 £650 +15.56% 33
North of England -91 7 £650 +15.56% 52
South West - 2 - - 29
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 (5.56%) Confluence
2 3 (2.38%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.59%) CMS
3 2 (1.59%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 7 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.97%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.59%) Adobe After Effects
3 2 (1.59%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (1.59%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.59%) Photoshop
3 2 (1.59%) Windchill
4 1 (0.79%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.79%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.59%) DELMIA
1 2 (1.59%) ENOVIA
1 2 (1.59%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 8 (6.35%) AWS
2 5 (3.97%) Azure
2 5 (3.97%) GCP
3 4 (3.17%) Power Platform
4 3 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (2.38%) GitHub
5 2 (1.59%) Figma
5 2 (1.59%) Lucidchart
5 2 (1.59%) SaaS
6 1 (0.79%) Cloud Run
6 1 (0.79%) Google Analytics
6 1 (0.79%) Google Sheets
6 1 (0.79%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.79%) Miro
6 1 (0.79%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.79%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.79%) FlexRay
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (3.17%) Power BI
3 3 (2.38%) Tableau
4 2 (1.59%) Text Mining
5 1 (0.79%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.79%) Looker
5 1 (0.79%) Power Query
5 1 (0.79%) PowerPivot
5 1 (0.79%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 13 (10.32%) JIRA
2 4 (3.17%) Rational DOORS
3 3 (2.38%) JUnit
3 3 (2.38%) Rational Rhapsody
3 3 (2.38%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.59%) Git
4 2 (1.59%) Zephyr
5 1 (0.79%) CANoe
5 1 (0.79%) IntelliJ
General
1 35 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 19 (15.08%) Manufacturing
3 15 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (11.90%) Finance
4 11 (8.73%) Marketing
5 7 (5.56%) Aerospace
6 5 (3.97%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.17%) Legal
7 4 (3.17%) Retail
8 3 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.59%) Aviation
9 2 (1.59%) Billing
9 2 (1.59%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.79%) Banking
10 1 (0.79%) Front Office
10 1 (0.79%) Law
10 1 (0.79%) Military
10 1 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 20 (15.87%) Test Engineer
2 17 (13.49%) Analyst
3 14 (11.11%) Developer
4 13 (10.32%) Senior
5 9 (7.14%) Project Manager
6 6 (4.76%) HR Analyst
6 6 (4.76%) Project Analyst
6 6 (4.76%) Transformation Analyst
7 5 (3.97%) Business Analyst
7 5 (3.97%) Designer
7 5 (3.97%) Embedded Engineer
7 5 (3.97%) Lead
7 5 (3.97%) Salesforce Developer
7 5 (3.97%) Test Technician
7 5 (3.97%) UI Designer
7 5 (3.97%) User Experience Researcher
8 4 (3.17%) Performance Test Engineer
8 4 (3.17%) Scrum Master
8 4 (3.17%) Senior Designer
8 4 (3.17%) Senior UI Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.76%) Kafka
2 5 (3.97%) Spring
2 5 (3.97%) Spring Boot
3 3 (2.38%) REST
4 2 (1.59%) CSS
4 2 (1.59%) HTML
5 1 (0.79%) .NET
5 1 (0.79%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.79%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.79%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.79%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 1 (0.79%) CarPlay
5 1 (0.79%) Entity Framework
5 1 (0.79%) JSON
5 1 (0.79%) NHibernate
5 1 (0.79%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.79%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.79%) React
5 1 (0.79%) RESTful
5 1 (0.79%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.94%) Infotainment
2 7 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.17%) Animation
4 4 (3.17%) IoT
5 3 (2.38%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.38%) Operational Technology
5 3 (2.38%) Robotics
6 2 (1.59%) Digital Media
6 2 (1.59%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.59%) Learning Management System
6 2 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.59%) Virtual Reality
7 1 (0.79%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.79%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.79%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.79%) Music Streaming
7 1 (0.79%) PMI
7 1 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.79%) Android
1 1 (0.79%) Apple iOS
1 1 (0.79%) Linux
1 1 (0.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (22.22%) Agile
2 17 (13.49%) Analytics
3 16 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (12.70%) Validation
4 15 (11.90%) Project Management
5 14 (11.11%) CRM
6 11 (8.73%) Software Engineering
6 11 (8.73%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (8.73%) User Experience
7 10 (7.94%) User Acceptance Testing
8 9 (7.14%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
8 9 (7.14%) Migration
8 9 (7.14%) Scrum
8 9 (7.14%) UX Research
9 8 (6.35%) Change Management
9 8 (6.35%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (6.35%) DevOps
9 8 (6.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 7 (5.56%) Kanban
10 7 (5.56%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (5.56%) C++
1 7 (5.56%) SQL
2 5 (3.97%) Java
3 4 (3.17%) Ada
3 4 (3.17%) C
3 4 (3.17%) Python
4 3 (2.38%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.59%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.79%) C#
6 1 (0.79%) Go
6 1 (0.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (7.14%) Degree
2 6 (4.76%) PMI Certification
3 5 (3.97%) PMP
4 4 (3.17%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.38%) ISTQB
5 3 (2.38%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.59%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (0.79%) ACCA
7 1 (0.79%) CCA
7 1 (0.79%) CIMA
7 1 (0.79%) ISEB
7 1 (0.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.79%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.14%) QA
2 4 (3.17%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.38%) Def Stans
4 2 (1.59%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.59%) GDPR
5 1 (0.79%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (1.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.17%) HP ALM
2 2 (1.59%) Functional Safety
2 2 (1.59%) Grafana
2 2 (1.59%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.59%) Terraform
3 1 (0.79%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.35%) Salesforce
3 7 (5.56%) Google
4 6 (4.76%) Oracle
5 5 (3.97%) Siebel
6 4 (3.17%) HP
6 4 (3.17%) Qualtrics
6 4 (3.17%) SAP
7 3 (2.38%) Checkmarx
7 3 (2.38%) Siemens
7 3 (2.38%) Spotify
8 2 (1.59%) Adobe
8 2 (1.59%) PTC
8 2 (1.59%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.79%) Anaplan
9 1 (0.79%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.79%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.79%) PagerDuty
9 1 (0.79%) Progress
9 1 (0.79%) Splunk