Automotive Contracts

Automotive
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Automotive in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Automotive over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 302 374 484
Rank change year-on-year +72 +110 -34
Contract jobs citing Automotive 292 368 418
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.69% 0.64% 0.48%
As % of the General category 1.18% 1.10% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 245 313
10th Percentile £292 £313 £325
25th Percentile £350 £388 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £569
90th Percentile £719 £638 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £495
% change year-on-year - -4.04% +7.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 30 17
10th Percentile £16.81 £20.42 £21.23
25th Percentile £30.70 £22.16 £26.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £38.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.38% +16.67% -26.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £64.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £39.00
% change year-on-year +38.46% -16.67% -13.33%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 24,707 33,460 49,314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.06% 58.60% 56.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,592 23,193 34,217
10th Percentile £275 £313 £320
25th Percentile £413 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,917 1,020 1,414
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.46 £17.99 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £33.60 £22.45
Median % change year-on-year -10.72% +49.68% -0.22%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.43
90th Percentile £66.25 £72.55 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.25 £29.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -2.59% +52.63% -4.76%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Automotive.

Daily rate trend for Automotive in the UK

Automotive
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automotive over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Automotive in the UK

Automotive
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Automotive.

Hourly rate trend for Automotive in the UK

Automotive
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Automotive over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Automotive in the UK

Automotive
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automotive within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +44 265 £490 +3.05% 1,180
UK excluding London +6 218 £475 - 1,125
Work from Home +89 121 £400 -20.00% 272
Midlands +9 72 £508 +6.84% 360
South East -38 60 £474 -0.26% 266
West Midlands +13 59 £518 -1.43% 269
London +107 46 £513 +7.33% 106
East of England +35 41 £375 -37.84% 155
North of England +34 29 £575 +27.78% 189
North West +30 20 £588 -5.05% 123
South West +8 14 £400 - 137
East Midlands -1 13 £408 +16.43% 90
North East +18 7 - - 15
Scotland +48 2 £375 - 57
Yorkshire +15 2 £265 -37.65% 52
Wales +22 1 - - 28

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 7 (2.40%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.71%) Confluence
3 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.68%) Apache
5 1 (0.34%) CMS
Applications
1 30 (10.27%) Simulink
2 27 (9.25%) Stateflow
3 10 (3.42%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (2.05%) CANalyzer
4 6 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (2.05%) Sketch
5 5 (1.71%) InVision
5 5 (1.71%) TargetLink
6 4 (1.37%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 2 (0.68%) CATIA
8 2 (0.68%) Maya
8 2 (0.68%) NUKE
8 2 (0.68%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (2.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.37%) SAP WM
3 2 (0.68%) SAP EWM
3 2 (0.68%) SAP MM
3 2 (0.68%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.34%) DELMIA
4 1 (0.34%) iTrent
4 1 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.34%) SAP APO
4 1 (0.34%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.34%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.34%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 16 (5.48%) AWS
2 9 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (2.74%) Azure
4 5 (1.71%) Figma
5 4 (1.37%) OneDrive
5 4 (1.37%) Power Automate
6 3 (1.03%) Adobe Analytics
6 3 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.03%) GCP
6 3 (1.03%) PaaS
6 3 (1.03%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.03%) Serverless
6 3 (1.03%) Snowflake
7 2 (0.68%) GitHub
7 2 (0.68%) SaaS
7 2 (0.68%) Smartsheet
7 2 (0.68%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (0.34%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.34%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.34%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.08%) Ethernet
2 7 (2.40%) Firewall
3 5 (1.71%) J1939
3 5 (1.71%) VPN
4 4 (1.37%) FlexRay
4 4 (1.37%) Internet
4 4 (1.37%) LAN
4 4 (1.37%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.37%) WAN
5 3 (1.03%) Intranet
5 3 (1.03%) RTSP
6 2 (0.68%) DHCP
6 2 (0.68%) SSL
6 2 (0.68%) VLAN
6 2 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.34%) 2G
7 1 (0.34%) HTTP
7 1 (0.34%) Network Security
7 1 (0.34%) Wireless
7 1 (0.34%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.37%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.03%) Power BI
3 2 (0.68%) Data Vault
3 2 (0.68%) Metadata
3 2 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.34%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.34%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.34%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.34%) BusinessObjects XI
4 1 (0.34%) Looker
4 1 (0.34%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.34%) Power Query
4 1 (0.34%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (4.11%) JIRA
2 9 (3.08%) Git
3 8 (2.74%) Bitbucket
4 6 (2.05%) CANoe
5 5 (1.71%) Subversion
6 3 (1.03%) TestRail
7 2 (0.68%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.68%) JMeter
7 2 (0.68%) Selenium
8 1 (0.34%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.34%) ClearCase
8 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio
General
1 59 (20.21%) Manufacturing
2 52 (17.81%) Social Skills
3 33 (11.30%) Electronics
4 25 (8.56%) Legal
5 22 (7.53%) Aerospace
6 21 (7.19%) Finance
7 18 (6.16%) Retail
8 12 (4.11%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (3.77%) Marketing
10 9 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
11 7 (2.40%) Advertising
12 4 (1.37%) German Language
12 4 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.37%) Military
13 3 (1.03%) Law
13 3 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.68%) Games
14 2 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.68%) Portuguese Language
14 2 (0.68%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 44 (15.07%) Software Engineer
2 26 (8.90%) Analyst
3 25 (8.56%) Embedded Engineer
4 22 (7.53%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 21 (7.19%) Lead
5 21 (7.19%) Systems Engineer
6 20 (6.85%) Developer
6 20 (6.85%) Senior
7 19 (6.51%) Consultant
8 16 (5.48%) Project Manager
9 14 (4.79%) Architect
10 12 (4.11%) SAP Consultant
11 10 (3.42%) Business Analyst
11 10 (3.42%) Security Engineer
12 9 (3.08%) Test Engineer
13 8 (2.74%) Author
13 8 (2.74%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 8 (2.74%) Integration Engineer
13 8 (2.74%) Solutions Architect
13 8 (2.74%) Technical Author
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.77%) React
2 7 (2.40%) CSS
3 6 (2.05%) .NET
4 5 (1.71%) .NET Core
4 5 (1.71%) HTML
5 4 (1.37%) AngularJS
5 4 (1.37%) Kafka
5 4 (1.37%) Node.js
6 3 (1.03%) Blazor
6 3 (1.03%) Middleware
6 3 (1.03%) OpenGL
6 3 (1.03%) WebRTC
7 2 (0.68%) ATL
7 2 (0.68%) Framer.js
7 2 (0.68%) Redux
7 2 (0.68%) REST
7 2 (0.68%) RESTful
7 2 (0.68%) TensorFlow
7 2 (0.68%) Unreal Engine
7 2 (0.68%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 31 (10.62%) Algorithms
2 11 (3.77%) Infotainment
3 10 (3.42%) Management Information System
4 9 (3.08%) Life Science
5 8 (2.74%) Renewable Energy
6 6 (2.05%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.71%) CAN bus
7 5 (1.71%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (1.37%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.03%) CUDA
9 3 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.03%) PKI
9 3 (1.03%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.03%) SCADA
10 2 (0.68%) Animation
10 2 (0.68%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.68%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.68%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.42%) Windows
2 9 (3.08%) Linux
3 5 (1.71%) Unix
4 3 (1.03%) VMS
5 2 (0.68%) Android
5 2 (0.68%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.68%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.34%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (22.26%) Agile
2 61 (20.89%) Software Engineering
3 41 (14.04%) Project Management
3 41 (14.04%) Validation
4 34 (11.64%) Test Automation
5 30 (10.27%) Computer Science
6 26 (8.90%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
7 25 (8.56%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (8.22%) Cybersecurity
8 24 (8.22%) Verification and Validation
9 14 (4.79%) Customer Service
9 14 (4.79%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (4.11%) Software Testing
11 11 (3.77%) Change Management
11 11 (3.77%) Quality Management
12 10 (3.42%) End-to-End Testing
12 10 (3.42%) Logistics
12 10 (3.42%) Product Strategy
12 10 (3.42%) Scrum
13 9 (3.08%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 30 (10.27%) MATLAB
2 25 (8.56%) C
3 16 (5.48%) Embedded C
4 14 (4.79%) SQL
5 13 (4.45%) C++
6 10 (3.42%) Java
7 9 (3.08%) JavaScript
8 8 (2.74%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.40%) Python
10 5 (1.71%) Embedded C++
11 4 (1.37%) C#
11 4 (1.37%) VBA
12 3 (1.03%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.68%) VB
14 1 (0.34%) ABAP
14 1 (0.34%) Bash
14 1 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 38 (13.01%) Degree
2 16 (5.48%) Master's Degree
3 6 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.37%) HNC
5 3 (1.03%) ISTQB
5 3 (1.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 3 (1.03%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.03%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.68%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.68%) PMP
7 1 (0.34%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.34%) CISA
7 1 (0.34%) CISSP
7 1 (0.34%) HND
7 1 (0.34%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.16%) AUTOSAR
2 10 (3.42%) QA
3 6 (2.05%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.05%) ISO 26262
4 5 (1.71%) MISRA
4 5 (1.71%) MISRA C
5 4 (1.37%) Automotive SPICE
5 4 (1.37%) GDPR
5 4 (1.37%) SLA
6 2 (0.68%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.68%) GRC
6 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.68%) PMO
7 1 (0.34%) COBIT
7 1 (0.34%) ITGC
System Software
1 7 (2.40%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (3.77%) Functional Safety
2 2 (0.68%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.68%) RSA Archer
2 2 (0.68%) Terraform
3 1 (0.34%) HP Fortify
3 1 (0.34%) Nmap
3 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (11.64%) SAP
2 27 (9.25%) Microsoft
3 8 (2.74%) Informatica
4 6 (2.05%) Apple
5 4 (1.37%) Ariba
6 3 (1.03%) Adobe
6 3 (1.03%) MathWorks
6 3 (1.03%) NVIDIA
6 3 (1.03%) QNX
7 2 (0.68%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (0.68%) Google
7 2 (0.68%) IBM
7 2 (0.68%) Oracle
7 2 (0.68%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.68%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.68%) Workday
8 1 (0.34%) Allen-Bradley
8 1 (0.34%) MobileIron
8 1 (0.34%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.34%) Rockwell