Automotive
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Automotive in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Automotive over the 6 months to 27 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 240 191 261
Rank change year-on-year -49 +70 +154
Permanent jobs citing Automotive 1,254 1,916 2,661
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.23% 1.96% 1.60%
As % of the General category 2.09% 2.88% 2.47%
Number of salaries quoted 729 367 885
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,650 £35,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £44,863 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +30.43% -8.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,500 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -5.26%

All General Skills
UK

Automotive is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 60,096 66,552 107,869
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 58.83% 67.96% 64.94%
Number of salaries quoted 39,916 36,247 51,806
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,000 £42,522
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

Automotive
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Automotive as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Automotive in the UK

Automotive
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Automotive.

Salary trend for Automotive in the UK

Automotive
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Automotive over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Automotive in the UK

Automotive
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Automotive within the UK over the 6 months to 27 May 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -37 1,205 £50,750 -11.74% 1,422
UK excluding London -54 1,099 £50,000 -4.76% 1,328
Midlands -54 401 £52,500 +2.44% 392
West Midlands -40 318 £57,500 +19.67% 284
Work from Home -39 309 £55,000 - 340
North of England +114 202 £45,000 -10.00% 234
South East -69 182 £55,000 - 301
East of England +46 174 £50,000 -28.57% 206
London -19 125 £62,500 -15.25% 124
South West +35 105 £47,500 +5.56% 169
North West +55 89 £45,000 -29.41% 151
East Midlands +34 82 £42,500 -20.93% 97
Yorkshire +79 79 £46,250 +8.82% 53
North East - 34 £39,500 - 31
Scotland -85 26 £60,000 -7.69% 69
Wales -10 10 £30,000 -16.67% 35

Automotive
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 27 (2.15%) Skype for Business
2 12 (0.96%) CMS
3 10 (0.80%) SharePoint
4 8 (0.64%) Confluence
5 5 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.16%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2003
6 2 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2007
6 2 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.16%) WordPress
7 1 (0.080%) Apache
7 1 (0.080%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.080%) Liferay
7 1 (0.080%) nginx
7 1 (0.080%) Umbraco
Applications
1 87 (6.94%) Simulink
2 73 (5.82%) Microsoft Office
3 36 (2.87%) Stateflow
4 32 (2.55%) Microsoft Excel
5 22 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (1.04%) CANalyzer
7 12 (0.96%) Photoshop
7 12 (0.96%) Siemens NX
8 5 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.32%) 3ds Max
9 4 (0.32%) InDesign
9 4 (0.32%) OrCAD
10 3 (0.24%) AutoCAD
10 3 (0.24%) CATIA
11 2 (0.16%) Adobe Captivate
11 2 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.16%) Adobe Premiere
11 2 (0.16%) Fusion 360
11 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.080%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.40%) Dynamics GP
3 4 (0.32%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 2 (0.16%) Primavera
4 2 (0.16%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.16%) SAP GRC
4 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.080%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.080%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.080%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.080%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 87 (6.94%) Azure
2 72 (5.74%) Microsoft 365
3 55 (4.39%) SaaS
4 35 (2.79%) AWS
5 27 (2.15%) GitHub
5 27 (2.15%) Power Platform
6 26 (2.07%) Azure Functions
6 26 (2.07%) Serverless
7 19 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
9 17 (1.36%) Azure AKS
10 16 (1.28%) Akamai
10 16 (1.28%) Amazon ECS
10 16 (1.28%) Amazon EKS
10 16 (1.28%) Amazon S3
10 16 (1.28%) Amazon SQS
10 16 (1.28%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (1.28%) AWS Fargate
10 16 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (1.28%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 30 (2.39%) J1939
2 28 (2.23%) Cisco IOS
3 27 (2.15%) Skype
4 25 (1.99%) Telepresence
5 23 (1.83%) Wireless
6 20 (1.59%) Ethernet
6 20 (1.59%) Internet
7 14 (1.12%) Bluetooth
8 13 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (0.88%) Firewall
9 11 (0.88%) VLAN
10 9 (0.72%) DNS
11 8 (0.64%) DHCP
11 8 (0.64%) TCP/IP
12 7 (0.56%) LAN
12 7 (0.56%) WAN
13 5 (0.40%) FlexRay
13 5 (0.40%) RS-232
13 5 (0.40%) SAN
14 4 (0.32%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (2.07%) Power BI
2 19 (1.52%) SQL Server
3 13 (1.04%) Relational Database
4 9 (0.72%) MySQL
4 9 (0.72%) Tableau
5 7 (0.56%) Data Lake
5 7 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (0.48%) Data Mining
6 6 (0.48%) Redis
7 4 (0.32%) Big Data
7 4 (0.32%) GIS
8 2 (0.16%) MS Access
8 2 (0.16%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.16%) SAP BW
9 1 (0.080%) EDMS
9 1 (0.080%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.080%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.080%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.080%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 70 (5.58%) Git
2 64 (5.10%) JIRA
3 23 (1.83%) Jenkins
4 22 (1.75%) ClearCase
5 21 (1.67%) Plastic SCM
6 16 (1.28%) Visual Studio
7 14 (1.12%) ClearQuest
8 9 (0.72%) CANoe
9 8 (0.64%) Appium
9 8 (0.64%) Subversion
9 8 (0.64%) UI Automator
10 7 (0.56%) LabVIEW
10 7 (0.56%) Rational DOORS
10 7 (0.56%) Selenium
11 4 (0.32%) GitLab
11 4 (0.32%) Rational Rhapsody
11 4 (0.32%) Zephyr
12 3 (0.24%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.16%) Protractor
13 2 (0.16%) TestNG
General
1 275 (21.93%) Social Skills
2 204 (16.27%) Manufacturing
3 175 (13.96%) Aerospace
4 169 (13.48%) Electronics
5 136 (10.85%) Finance
6 77 (6.14%) Pharmaceutical
7 73 (5.82%) Analytical Skills
8 70 (5.58%) Marketing
9 68 (5.42%) Retail
10 64 (5.10%) Telecoms
11 46 (3.67%) Influencing Skills
12 44 (3.51%) Legal
13 40 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
14 36 (2.87%) Aviation
15 21 (1.67%) Law
15 21 (1.67%) Publishing
16 17 (1.36%) Public Sector
17 12 (0.96%) Military
17 12 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
18 11 (0.88%) Aeronautics
Job Titles
1 210 (16.75%) Software Engineer
2 179 (14.27%) Senior
3 151 (12.04%) Lead
4 140 (11.16%) Systems Engineer
5 117 (9.33%) Developer
6 111 (8.85%) Embedded Engineer
7 97 (7.74%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 64 (5.10%) Senior Software Engineer
9 44 (3.51%) Consultant
10 40 (3.19%) Support Engineer
11 38 (3.03%) Test Engineer
12 37 (2.95%) Architect
12 37 (2.95%) Programmer
13 34 (2.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 33 (2.63%) Analyst
14 33 (2.63%) Senior Embedded Engineer
15 28 (2.23%) Software Developer
16 27 (2.15%) Hardware Engineer
16 27 (2.15%) Project Manager
17 26 (2.07%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (4.94%) .NET
2 30 (2.39%) HTML
3 24 (1.91%) CSS
4 23 (1.83%) AngularJS
5 20 (1.59%) React
6 13 (1.04%) .NET Framework
6 13 (1.04%) Sass
7 12 (0.96%) Node.js
8 10 (0.80%) LLVM
9 9 (0.72%) Kafka
10 8 (0.64%) Ajax
10 8 (0.64%) RESTful
10 8 (0.64%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 7 (0.56%) .NET Core
11 7 (0.56%) Vue
11 7 (0.56%) Yocto
12 6 (0.48%) ASP.NET
12 6 (0.48%) LESS
12 6 (0.48%) WPF
13 5 (0.40%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 129 (10.29%) IoT
2 89 (7.10%) Embedded Systems
3 52 (4.15%) Algorithms
4 50 (3.99%) Mobile App
5 39 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
6 35 (2.79%) FMCG
7 33 (2.63%) Client/Server
8 25 (1.99%) Video Conferencing
9 19 (1.52%) Product Ownership
9 19 (1.52%) Robotics
9 19 (1.52%) Verilog
9 19 (1.52%) VHDL
10 18 (1.44%) Blog
10 18 (1.44%) Raspberry Pi
10 18 (1.44%) Renewable Energy
11 17 (1.36%) FPGA
12 16 (1.28%) Device Driver
12 16 (1.28%) Infotainment
13 15 (1.20%) Operational Technology
14 14 (1.12%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 95 (7.58%) Windows
2 86 (6.86%) Linux
3 41 (3.27%) Windows 10
4 38 (3.03%) Android
5 29 (2.31%) Apple iOS
5 29 (2.31%) Windows Server
6 25 (1.99%) Windows 7
7 15 (1.20%) FreeRTOS
7 15 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
8 12 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
9 9 (0.72%) Embedded Linux
10 8 (0.64%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.56%) Windows Server 2003
11 7 (0.56%) Windows Server 2008
12 6 (0.48%) Unix
13 5 (0.40%) Windows 2000
13 5 (0.40%) Windows NT
13 5 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
13 5 (0.40%) Windows XP
14 3 (0.24%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (20.73%) Software Engineering
2 183 (14.59%) Problem-Solving
3 152 (12.12%) Agile
4 105 (8.37%) Mentoring
5 93 (7.42%) Project Management
6 79 (6.30%) Computer Science
7 78 (6.22%) Business Development
8 77 (6.14%) Validation
9 75 (5.98%) Cybersecurity
10 68 (5.42%) Logistics
11 61 (4.86%) Test Automation
12 59 (4.70%) DevOps
12 59 (4.70%) Systems Engineering
13 54 (4.31%) Software Testing
14 52 (4.15%) Continuous Improvement
14 52 (4.15%) Decision-Making
15 51 (4.07%) Customer Service
16 49 (3.91%) Stakeholder Management
17 48 (3.83%) ITIL
17 48 (3.83%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 178 (14.19%) C
2 109 (8.69%) C++
3 106 (8.45%) Python
4 90 (7.18%) MATLAB
5 71 (5.66%) C#
6 52 (4.15%) JavaScript
6 52 (4.15%) SQL
7 50 (3.99%) Embedded C
7 50 (3.99%) Java
8 40 (3.19%) SystemVerilog
9 18 (1.44%) TypeScript
10 14 (1.12%) Perl
11 12 (0.96%) Rust
12 9 (0.72%) Embedded C++
13 8 (0.64%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.56%) PHP
14 7 (0.56%) R
15 6 (0.48%) Bash
16 5 (0.40%) PowerShell
16 5 (0.40%) VB
Qualifications
1 307 (24.48%) Degree
2 52 (4.15%) Master's Degree
3 40 (3.19%) HND
4 31 (2.47%) MBA
5 26 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (1.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 22 (1.75%) HNC
8 14 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (1.12%) PMI Certification
8 14 (1.12%) Security Cleared
9 12 (0.96%) NVQ Level 3
10 9 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (0.72%) CISM
10 9 (0.72%) CISSP
11 8 (0.64%) CCNA
11 8 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (0.56%) MCSE
13 6 (0.48%) MCSA
13 6 (0.48%) PMP
14 5 (0.40%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (4.39%) ISO 26262
2 43 (3.43%) QA
3 41 (3.27%) Automotive SPICE
4 35 (2.79%) AUTOSAR
5 27 (2.15%) MISRA
6 21 (1.67%) ISO 9001
7 16 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 11 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.88%) SLA
9 9 (0.72%) GDPR
10 8 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.64%) NIST
11 5 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.40%) PMO
12 4 (0.32%) JTAG
13 3 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.16%) COSHH
14 2 (0.16%) Data Quality
14 2 (0.16%) ISO 14001
14 2 (0.16%) ITGC
System Software
1 50 (3.99%) Firmware
2 34 (2.71%) Docker
3 26 (2.07%) Embedded Firmware
4 16 (1.28%) Active Directory
4 16 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
6 11 (0.88%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 40 (3.19%) Functional Safety
2 29 (2.31%) Kubernetes
3 16 (1.28%) Ansible
4 14 (1.12%) SCCM
5 10 (0.80%) Progress Chef
6 8 (0.64%) Terraform
7 6 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.40%) SCOM
8 5 (0.40%) WSUS
9 3 (0.24%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.16%) Puppet
11 1 (0.080%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 120 (9.57%) Microsoft
2 38 (3.03%) Cisco
3 28 (2.23%) Cadence
3 28 (2.23%) Synopsys
4 27 (2.15%) SAP
5 26 (2.07%) Apple
6 25 (1.99%) Polycom
7 24 (1.91%) Lauterbach
8 21 (1.67%) IBM
9 20 (1.59%) VMware
10 16 (1.28%) ForgeRock
10 16 (1.28%) Sitecore
11 15 (1.20%) Adobe
12 13 (1.04%) Salesforce
13 12 (0.96%) EMC
13 12 (0.96%) Siemens
14 11 (0.88%) Dell
14 11 (0.88%) ServiceNow
15 9 (0.72%) Instagram
16 8 (0.64%) QNX