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 23 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 382 336 345
Rank change year-on-year -46 +9 +48
Contract jobs citing Automotive 164 189 248
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 0.60% 0.63%
As % of the General category 0.85% 1.01% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 105 152
10th Percentile £200 £262 £328
25th Percentile £328 £358 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -12.62% +3.00%
75th Percentile £606 £550 £581
90th Percentile £660 £650 £643
UK median daily rate £463 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +2.78% -14.29% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 22 23
10th Percentile £22.61 £27.20 £25.60
25th Percentile £27.21 £30.76 £33.38
Median hourly rate £37.46 £36.27 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.28% +2.17% -21.11%
75th Percentile £50.00 £46.18 £43.38
90th Percentile - £52.50 £60.50
UK median hourly rate £37.46 £39.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year -3.95% +8.33% -20.00%

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 common skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 19,313 18,728 23,514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 63.53% 59.60% 59.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,225 11,239 16,017
10th Percentile £275 £300 £293
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £630 £650 £670
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,271 707 1,039
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.10 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £18.00 £17.25
Median hourly rate £24.61 £31.62 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.17% -2.71% +26.41%
75th Percentile £46.00 £59.98 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £72.50 £70.78
UK median hourly rate £24.21 £28.00 £31.76
% change year-on-year -13.55% -11.84% +27.04%

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 23 November 2025.

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 23 November 2025.

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 23 November 2025. 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 -35 56 £550 +15.79% 91
West Midlands -23 41 £450 +12.50% 49
London +5 31 £538 +28.36% 23
South East -10 30 £475 +14.73% 93
East of England -3 26 £190 -38.71% 36
East Midlands -3 15 £550 +10.00% 35
North West -36 13 £325 -39.53% 20
North of England -50 13 £325 -39.53% 26
South West +2 6 £447 +19.20% 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 13 (7.93%) Confluence
2 10 (6.10%) SharePoint
3 7 (4.27%) CMS
4 1 (0.61%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.61%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (7.32%) Maya
1 12 (7.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.88%) NUKE
3 6 (3.66%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (3.05%) FrameMaker
4 5 (3.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (2.44%) Adobe Captivate
6 3 (1.83%) Simulink
7 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.61%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.61%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.61%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.61%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.61%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 5 (3.05%) Endur
1 5 (3.05%) Primavera
2 2 (1.22%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.61%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.61%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 9 (5.49%) AWS
2 6 (3.66%) Power Platform
3 5 (3.05%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (3.05%) SaaS
4 4 (2.44%) Azure
5 3 (1.83%) Figma
5 3 (1.83%) GCP
5 3 (1.83%) Google Workspace
5 3 (1.83%) OpenShift
6 2 (1.22%) Power Automate
6 2 (1.22%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.61%) Alation
7 1 (0.61%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.61%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.61%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.61%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.61%) Collibra
7 1 (0.61%) Firebase
7 1 (0.61%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.66%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.22%) Firewall
3 1 (0.61%) LAN
3 1 (0.61%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.61%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.05%) Tableau
2 4 (2.44%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.83%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.22%) Power BI
5 1 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.61%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.61%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.61%) Looker
5 1 (0.61%) Metadata
5 1 (0.61%) MySQL
5 1 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.61%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (7.32%) JIRA
2 4 (2.44%) Git
2 4 (2.44%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.44%) REST Assured
3 3 (1.83%) Bitbucket
3 3 (1.83%) Cucumber
3 3 (1.83%) JUnit
3 3 (1.83%) Mockito
3 3 (1.83%) Selenium
4 2 (1.22%) CANoe
5 1 (0.61%) Appium
5 1 (0.61%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.61%) Babel
5 1 (0.61%) ESLint
5 1 (0.61%) GitLab
5 1 (0.61%) Polyspace
5 1 (0.61%) Postman
5 1 (0.61%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.61%) TestRail
5 1 (0.61%) webpack
General
1 71 (43.29%) Social Skills
2 29 (17.68%) Finance
3 28 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (14.63%) Aerospace
5 18 (10.98%) Manufacturing
6 12 (7.32%) Games
7 11 (6.71%) Marketing
8 10 (6.10%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (6.10%) Retail
8 10 (6.10%) Telecoms
9 8 (4.88%) Publishing
10 6 (3.66%) Back Office
10 6 (3.66%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (3.66%) Legal
11 5 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (1.22%) Billing
13 2 (1.22%) German Language
13 2 (1.22%) Military
13 2 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (15.24%) Senior
2 19 (11.59%) Project Manager
3 18 (10.98%) Analyst
4 14 (8.54%) Lead
5 13 (7.93%) Test Technician
6 11 (6.71%) Business Analyst
7 10 (6.10%) Developer
8 8 (4.88%) Architect
9 6 (3.66%) Author
9 6 (3.66%) Software Engineer
9 6 (3.66%) Support Engineer
9 6 (3.66%) Technical Author
10 5 (3.05%) Data Analyst
10 5 (3.05%) Senior Manager
10 5 (3.05%) Senior Project Manager
10 5 (3.05%) Technical Engineer
10 5 (3.05%) Technical Support
10 5 (3.05%) Technical Support Engineer
11 4 (2.44%) Product Manager
11 4 (2.44%) Sales Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.37%) HTML
2 14 (8.54%) CSS
3 12 (7.32%) Django
4 7 (4.27%) React
4 7 (4.27%) REST
5 6 (3.66%) RESTful
6 5 (3.05%) SGML
6 5 (3.05%) XML
7 4 (2.44%) JSON
7 4 (2.44%) Swagger
7 4 (2.44%) Unreal Engine
7 4 (2.44%) V-Ray
8 3 (1.83%) .NET
8 3 (1.83%) Next.js
8 3 (1.83%) SOAP
8 3 (1.83%) Spring
8 3 (1.83%) Spring Boot
8 3 (1.83%) WireMock
9 2 (1.22%) CSS3
9 2 (1.22%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.32%) Animation
2 11 (6.71%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (6.10%) Mobile App
3 10 (6.10%) Product Ownership
4 9 (5.49%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.66%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.66%) Operational Technology
5 6 (3.66%) Robotics
6 4 (2.44%) Embedded Systems
6 4 (2.44%) IoT
6 4 (2.44%) Virtual Reality
6 4 (2.44%) Web Conferencing
7 3 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.83%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.83%) Grid Computing
7 3 (1.83%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.22%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.22%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.22%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.66%) Windows
2 1 (0.61%) Android
2 1 (0.61%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.61%) FreeRTOS
2 1 (0.61%) Linux
2 1 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.61%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (20.12%) Agile
2 29 (17.68%) Stakeholder Management
3 25 (15.24%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (12.80%) AI
5 17 (10.37%) Validation
6 16 (9.76%) Logistics
6 16 (9.76%) Project Management
7 14 (8.54%) User Experience
8 13 (7.93%) Analytical Thinking
9 12 (7.32%) CI/CD
10 11 (6.71%) Customer Experience
10 11 (6.71%) Project Delivery
10 11 (6.71%) Time Management
11 10 (6.10%) Customer Service
11 10 (6.10%) Project Governance
11 10 (6.10%) Roadmaps
11 10 (6.10%) UX Design
12 9 (5.49%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (5.49%) Software Engineering
12 9 (5.49%) Telematics
Programming Languages
1 22 (13.41%) SQL
2 21 (12.80%) Java
3 14 (8.54%) Python
4 13 (7.93%) C++
5 8 (4.88%) Tcl
6 6 (3.66%) C#
7 4 (2.44%) Ada
8 2 (1.22%) C
8 2 (1.22%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.22%) MATLAB
8 2 (1.22%) VBA
9 1 (0.61%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.61%) PHP
9 1 (0.61%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.61%) R
9 1 (0.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 30 (18.29%) Degree
2 6 (3.66%) PMI Certification
2 6 (3.66%) PMP
3 5 (3.05%) HNC
3 5 (3.05%) HND
4 2 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.22%) CISM
4 2 (1.22%) CISSP
4 2 (1.22%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.22%) MBA
4 2 (1.22%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.61%) ACCA
5 1 (0.61%) CIMA
5 1 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (0.61%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.27%) QA
2 4 (2.44%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.83%) GDPR
4 2 (1.22%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.22%) AUTOSAR
4 2 (1.22%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.22%) PERC
4 2 (1.22%) SLA
5 1 (0.61%) ISO 26262
5 1 (0.61%) MISRA
5 1 (0.61%) MISRA C
5 1 (0.61%) PMBOK
5 1 (0.61%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (1.83%) Docker
2 1 (0.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.83%) Ansible
1 3 (1.83%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.83%) Terraform
2 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.61%) Functional Safety
3 1 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.61%) SCCM
Vendors
1 25 (15.24%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.32%) SAP
3 10 (6.10%) Salesforce
4 8 (4.88%) Hitachi
5 6 (3.66%) Adobe
5 6 (3.66%) Google
6 5 (3.05%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.44%) Autodesk
8 3 (1.83%) Remedy
9 2 (1.22%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.22%) ION Trading
9 2 (1.22%) OpenLink
9 2 (1.22%) Oracle
10 1 (0.61%) Apple
10 1 (0.61%) Aruba
10 1 (0.61%) Cisco
10 1 (0.61%) Informatica
10 1 (0.61%) QNX
10 1 (0.61%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.61%) Siemens