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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 327 330
Rank change year-on-year -19 +3 -19
Contract jobs citing Automotive 311 188 209
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.68% 0.68% 0.63%
As % of the General category 1.23% 1.06% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 78 125
10th Percentile £309 £220 £300
25th Percentile £475 £344 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £613 £560
90th Percentile £788 £655 £650
UK median daily rate £550 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +22.22% - -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 53 31
10th Percentile £21.33 £22.01 £26.03
25th Percentile £22.49 £27.94 £36.75
Median hourly rate £31.39 £35.60 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -11.84% -22.91% +31.01%
75th Percentile £33.99 £50.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £42.50 - £68.75
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £35.60 £46.18
% change year-on-year -8.71% -22.91% +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 25,277 17,733 19,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.35% 64.31% 57.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,970 11,266 11,992
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £424 £400 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £538
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -6.88% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £651
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 987 1,075
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.50 £14.50
25th Percentile £17.45 £16.21 £18.00
Median hourly rate £31.93 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +26.94% -34.02% +38.62%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £72.70 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £31.16 £25.15 £36.50
% change year-on-year +23.88% -31.10% +32.73%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -1 129 £425 +7.94% 188
West Midlands -6 108 £425 +17.24% 114
South East -24 72 £520 +15.56% 176
London -71 44 £700 +33.33% 272
East of England -12 30 £510 +19.86% 108
North of England -67 28 £550 -4.35% 148
North West -55 27 £550 -4.35% 95
East Midlands -3 19 £292 -58.29% 74
South West -34 6 £550 - 65
Yorkshire - 1 £475 - 34
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 (1.61%) CMS
1 5 (1.61%) Confluence
2 2 (0.64%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 14 (4.50%) Adobe Illustrator
1 14 (4.50%) Photoshop
2 11 (3.54%) Adobe After Effects
3 6 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.96%) CATIA
4 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.96%) Windchill
5 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.32%) Adobe Captivate
6 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.32%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 12 (3.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (2.89%) Teamcenter
3 4 (1.29%) ENOVIA
3 4 (1.29%) SAP ERP
3 4 (1.29%) SAP GTS
3 4 (1.29%) SAP SD
3 4 (1.29%) SAP VC
4 3 (0.96%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.64%) DELMIA
5 2 (0.64%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.32%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.32%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.32%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 14 (4.50%) Figma
2 12 (3.86%) AWS
3 10 (3.22%) Azure
4 7 (2.25%) GCP
4 7 (2.25%) SaaS
5 5 (1.61%) GitHub
5 5 (1.61%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 4 (1.29%) Power Platform
7 3 (0.96%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 2 (0.64%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (0.64%) Intacct
8 2 (0.64%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (0.64%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.64%) Smartsheet
8 2 (0.64%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.32%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.32%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.32%) Google Sheets
9 1 (0.32%) Lucidchart
9 1 (0.32%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.25%) VPN
2 6 (1.93%) Firewall
2 6 (1.93%) Network Security
3 4 (1.29%) DHCP
3 4 (1.29%) DNS
3 4 (1.29%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.29%) VLAN
4 2 (0.64%) Ethernet
4 2 (0.64%) FlexRay
4 2 (0.64%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.32%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.32%) LAN
5 1 (0.32%) WAN
5 1 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.32%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.93%) Metadata
2 5 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (1.61%) Relational Database
2 5 (1.61%) Tableau
3 4 (1.29%) Power BI
4 2 (0.64%) BigQuery
4 2 (0.64%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.64%) Power Query
4 2 (0.64%) PowerPivot
4 2 (0.64%) Tableau Server
5 1 (0.32%) Looker
5 1 (0.32%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 10 (3.22%) Git
2 7 (2.25%) JIRA
3 3 (0.96%) Ant
3 3 (0.96%) Eclipse
3 3 (0.96%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.96%) JUnit
3 3 (0.96%) Rational DOORS
3 3 (0.96%) SonarQube
3 3 (0.96%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (0.64%) CANoe
4 2 (0.64%) Postman
5 1 (0.32%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.32%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.32%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.32%) NUnit
5 1 (0.32%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.32%) Selenium
5 1 (0.32%) SpecFlow
General
1 62 (19.94%) Manufacturing
2 50 (16.08%) Social Skills
3 29 (9.32%) Finance
4 25 (8.04%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (6.75%) Aerospace
6 13 (4.18%) Marketing
6 13 (4.18%) Retail
7 5 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (0.96%) German Language
9 3 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.64%) Agriculture
10 2 (0.64%) Aviation
10 2 (0.64%) Legal
10 2 (0.64%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.32%) Banking
11 1 (0.32%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.32%) Front Office
11 1 (0.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (10.93%) Senior
2 33 (10.61%) Analyst
3 29 (9.32%) Test Engineer
4 26 (8.36%) Designer
4 26 (8.36%) UI Designer
5 20 (6.43%) Software Engineer
6 19 (6.11%) Data Engineer
6 19 (6.11%) Developer
6 19 (6.11%) Lead
6 19 (6.11%) Systems Engineer
7 17 (5.47%) Quality Engineer
7 17 (5.47%) Senior Designer
7 17 (5.47%) Senior UI Designer
8 14 (4.50%) Project Manager
9 13 (4.18%) Architect
10 12 (3.86%) Salesforce Engineer
11 11 (3.54%) QA Engineer
12 10 (3.22%) Business Analyst
12 10 (3.22%) Embedded Engineer
13 9 (2.89%) Cybersecurity Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.57%) REST
2 7 (2.25%) Terraform
3 6 (1.93%) Kafka
4 5 (1.61%) SOAP
5 4 (1.29%) 802.1X
5 4 (1.29%) SAP Fiori
5 4 (1.29%) Spring
5 4 (1.29%) VML
5 4 (1.29%) Web Services
6 3 (0.96%) .NET
6 3 (0.96%) .NET Framework
6 3 (0.96%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 3 (0.96%) HTML
6 3 (0.96%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (0.96%) Spring Boot
6 3 (0.96%) Visualforce
7 2 (0.64%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.64%) NHibernate
7 2 (0.64%) Qt
7 2 (0.64%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.47%) Animation
2 12 (3.86%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (3.22%) Robotics
4 9 (2.89%) Embedded Systems
5 6 (1.93%) Algorithms
5 6 (1.93%) Driving Licence
5 6 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.61%) Taxonomies
7 4 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.29%) PKI
7 4 (1.29%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.96%) Infotainment
8 3 (0.96%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.96%) Virtual Reality
9 2 (0.64%) CAN bus
9 2 (0.64%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.64%) Life Science
9 2 (0.64%) Self-Driving Car
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.25%) Linux
2 4 (1.29%) Ubuntu
2 4 (1.29%) VMS
3 2 (0.64%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (0.64%) FreeRTOS
3 2 (0.64%) Windows
4 1 (0.32%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (16.72%) Validation
2 42 (13.50%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (11.58%) Software Engineering
4 34 (10.93%) Migration
5 31 (9.97%) Stakeholder Management
6 28 (9.00%) Analytics
6 28 (9.00%) User Experience
7 26 (8.36%) Continuous Improvement
7 26 (8.36%) Software Testing
8 25 (8.04%) Data Migration
9 24 (7.72%) Agile
10 21 (6.75%) CRM
11 20 (6.43%) AI
12 18 (5.79%) ERP
13 16 (5.14%) UX Design
14 15 (4.82%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
14 15 (4.82%) Logistics
15 14 (4.50%) Data Analysis
15 14 (4.50%) SDLC
16 13 (4.18%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (4.50%) Python
2 12 (3.86%) SQL
3 9 (2.89%) C++
3 9 (2.89%) Java
4 7 (2.25%) Ada
5 5 (1.61%) SOQL
6 4 (1.29%) Bash
7 3 (0.96%) Apex Code
7 3 (0.96%) C
7 3 (0.96%) C#
7 3 (0.96%) Embedded C++
7 3 (0.96%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.96%) SOSL
8 2 (0.64%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.64%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.32%) Korn
Qualifications
1 34 (10.93%) Degree
2 13 (4.18%) Security Cleared
3 11 (3.54%) SC Cleared
4 6 (1.93%) Chartered Engineer
5 4 (1.29%) CCNP
5 4 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (1.29%) JNCIP
5 4 (1.29%) JNCIS
6 3 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.96%) IIBA
7 2 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.64%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.64%) HNC
8 1 (0.32%) CCA
8 1 (0.32%) HND
8 1 (0.32%) ISEB
8 1 (0.32%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.32%) PMP
8 1 (0.32%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.32%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.75%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.14%) QA
3 5 (1.61%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.29%) MISRA
5 3 (0.96%) Automotive SPICE
5 3 (0.96%) IEC 61508
6 2 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.64%) GDPR
6 2 (0.64%) ISO 26262
6 2 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.32%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.32%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (0.64%) Docker
2 1 (0.32%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.32%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (2.57%) Functional Safety
2 4 (1.29%) Ansible
2 4 (1.29%) systemd
3 2 (0.64%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.32%) SCCM
Vendors
1 28 (9.00%) Salesforce
2 26 (8.36%) SAP
3 16 (5.14%) Microsoft
4 14 (4.50%) Adobe
5 12 (3.86%) Oracle
5 12 (3.86%) Siemens
6 6 (1.93%) Google
7 5 (1.61%) Siebel
8 4 (1.29%) Cisco
8 4 (1.29%) Juniper
8 4 (1.29%) MikroTik
8 4 (1.29%) MuleSoft
9 3 (0.96%) Checkmarx
9 3 (0.96%) Databricks
9 3 (0.96%) PTC
10 2 (0.64%) Logi
10 2 (0.64%) Logi Analytics
10 2 (0.64%) QNX
10 2 (0.64%) Qualtrics
10 2 (0.64%) Sage