Automotive Jobs

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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 236 200 258
Rank change year-on-year -36 +58 +164
Permanent jobs citing Automotive 1,290 1,762 2,772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.23% 1.86% 1.64%
As % of the General category 2.11% 2.75% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 744 366 922
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £44,794 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,750 £60,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.75% +30.43% -8.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -1.96% +13.33% -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 61,146 64,155 110,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 58.10% 67.68% 65.14%
Number of salaries quoted 40,306 35,663 51,819
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,725 £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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -25 1,233 £50,000 -13.04% 1,247
UK excluding London -45 1,140 £50,000 -1.96% 1,126
Midlands -56 408 £50,000 - 337
West Midlands -35 323 £55,000 +14.46% 245
Work from Home -42 312 £55,000 - 281
North of England +116 211 £45,000 -9.55% 206
South East -81 189 £55,000 - 240
East of England +43 180 £50,000 -28.57% 166
London -7 120 £61,500 -18.00% 125
South West +34 109 £50,000 +11.11% 154
North West +38 96 £45,000 -20.00% 142
East Midlands +39 84 £42,500 -19.05% 91
Yorkshire +73 82 £45,000 +5.88% 50
North East - 33 £39,500 - 15
Scotland -83 32 £60,000 -7.69% 52
Wales -8 12 £30,000 -14.29% 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 27 (2.09%) Skype for Business
2 12 (0.93%) CMS
3 10 (0.78%) SharePoint
4 8 (0.62%) Confluence
5 5 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.39%) 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 (0.078%) Apache
7 1 (0.078%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.078%) Liferay
7 1 (0.078%) nginx
7 1 (0.078%) Umbraco
Applications
1 85 (6.59%) Simulink
2 73 (5.66%) Microsoft Office
3 36 (2.79%) Stateflow
4 33 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
5 22 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (0.93%) Photoshop
6 12 (0.93%) Siemens NX
7 11 (0.85%) CANalyzer
8 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.31%) 3ds Max
9 4 (0.31%) InDesign
9 4 (0.31%) OrCAD
10 3 (0.23%) AutoCAD
10 3 (0.23%) 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 (0.078%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.39%) Dynamics GP
3 4 (0.31%) 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 (0.078%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.078%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.078%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.078%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 90 (6.98%) Azure
2 73 (5.66%) Microsoft 365
3 55 (4.26%) SaaS
4 40 (3.10%) AWS
5 28 (2.17%) GitHub
5 28 (2.17%) Power Platform
6 26 (2.02%) Azure Functions
6 26 (2.02%) Serverless
7 19 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
9 17 (1.32%) Azure AKS
10 16 (1.24%) Akamai
10 16 (1.24%) Amazon ECS
10 16 (1.24%) Amazon EKS
10 16 (1.24%) Amazon S3
10 16 (1.24%) Amazon SQS
10 16 (1.24%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (1.24%) AWS Fargate
10 16 (1.24%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (1.24%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 29 (2.25%) J1939
2 28 (2.17%) Cisco IOS
3 27 (2.09%) Skype
4 25 (1.94%) Telepresence
5 23 (1.78%) Wireless
6 21 (1.63%) Internet
7 17 (1.32%) Ethernet
8 13 (1.01%) Bluetooth
8 13 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (0.85%) Firewall
9 11 (0.85%) VLAN
10 9 (0.70%) DNS
11 8 (0.62%) DHCP
11 8 (0.62%) LAN
11 8 (0.62%) TCP/IP
11 8 (0.62%) WAN
12 5 (0.39%) FlexRay
12 5 (0.39%) RS-232
12 5 (0.39%) SAN
13 4 (0.31%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (2.09%) Power BI
2 19 (1.47%) SQL Server
3 12 (0.93%) Relational Database
4 10 (0.78%) MySQL
4 10 (0.78%) Tableau
5 7 (0.54%) Data Lake
5 7 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (0.47%) Data Mining
6 6 (0.47%) Redis
7 4 (0.31%) Big Data
7 4 (0.31%) GIS
8 2 (0.16%) MS Access
8 2 (0.16%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.16%) SAP BW
9 1 (0.078%) EDMS
9 1 (0.078%) Flink
9 1 (0.078%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.078%) Qlik Sense
9 1 (0.078%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 71 (5.50%) Git
2 64 (4.96%) JIRA
3 23 (1.78%) Jenkins
4 22 (1.71%) ClearCase
5 21 (1.63%) Plastic SCM
6 16 (1.24%) Visual Studio
7 14 (1.09%) ClearQuest
8 8 (0.62%) Appium
8 8 (0.62%) CANoe
8 8 (0.62%) Subversion
8 8 (0.62%) UI Automator
9 7 (0.54%) LabVIEW
9 7 (0.54%) Rational DOORS
10 6 (0.47%) Selenium
11 5 (0.39%) GitLab
12 4 (0.31%) Rational Rhapsody
12 4 (0.31%) Zephyr
13 3 (0.23%) Cypress.io
14 2 (0.16%) Eclipse
14 2 (0.16%) TestNG
General
1 276 (21.40%) Social Skills
2 204 (15.81%) Manufacturing
3 178 (13.80%) Aerospace
4 173 (13.41%) Electronics
5 133 (10.31%) Finance
6 78 (6.05%) Analytical Skills
7 77 (5.97%) Pharmaceutical
8 71 (5.50%) Marketing
9 64 (4.96%) Telecoms
10 63 (4.88%) Retail
11 46 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
11 46 (3.57%) Legal
12 40 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
13 36 (2.79%) Aviation
14 20 (1.55%) Publishing
15 19 (1.47%) Law
16 17 (1.32%) Public Sector
17 12 (0.93%) Aeronautics
17 12 (0.93%) Military
17 12 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 229 (17.75%) Software Engineer
2 183 (14.19%) Senior
3 155 (12.02%) Lead
4 146 (11.32%) Systems Engineer
5 119 (9.22%) Developer
6 113 (8.76%) Embedded Engineer
7 101 (7.83%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 65 (5.04%) Senior Software Engineer
9 40 (3.10%) Support Engineer
10 39 (3.02%) Programmer
11 38 (2.95%) Consultant
11 38 (2.95%) Test Engineer
12 35 (2.71%) Analyst
12 35 (2.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 34 (2.64%) Architect
14 30 (2.33%) Senior Embedded Engineer
15 29 (2.25%) Project Manager
16 28 (2.17%) C++ Software Engineer
16 28 (2.17%) Hardware Engineer
17 27 (2.09%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (4.81%) .NET
2 31 (2.40%) HTML
3 24 (1.86%) CSS
4 23 (1.78%) AngularJS
5 21 (1.63%) React
6 13 (1.01%) .NET Framework
6 13 (1.01%) Node.js
6 13 (1.01%) Sass
7 10 (0.78%) Kafka
7 10 (0.78%) LLVM
8 8 (0.62%) Ajax
8 8 (0.62%) RESTful
8 8 (0.62%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 8 (0.62%) Vue
9 7 (0.54%) .NET Core
9 7 (0.54%) WPF
9 7 (0.54%) Yocto
10 6 (0.47%) ASP.NET
10 6 (0.47%) LESS
10 6 (0.47%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 130 (10.08%) IoT
2 89 (6.90%) Embedded Systems
3 52 (4.03%) Algorithms
4 50 (3.88%) Mobile App
5 39 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
6 33 (2.56%) Client/Server
7 28 (2.17%) FMCG
8 25 (1.94%) Video Conferencing
9 23 (1.78%) Robotics
10 20 (1.55%) Renewable Energy
11 19 (1.47%) Product Ownership
11 19 (1.47%) Verilog
11 19 (1.47%) VHDL
12 18 (1.40%) Blog
12 18 (1.40%) Raspberry Pi
13 17 (1.32%) Device Driver
13 17 (1.32%) FPGA
14 16 (1.24%) Infotainment
15 15 (1.16%) Operational Technology
16 14 (1.09%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 100 (7.75%) Windows
2 92 (7.13%) Linux
3 41 (3.18%) Windows 10
4 38 (2.95%) Android
5 32 (2.48%) Windows Server
6 29 (2.25%) Apple iOS
7 25 (1.94%) Windows 7
8 16 (1.24%) Windows Server 2019
9 15 (1.16%) FreeRTOS
10 12 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
11 10 (0.78%) Embedded Linux
12 8 (0.62%) Mac OS
13 7 (0.54%) Windows Server 2003
13 7 (0.54%) Windows Server 2008
14 6 (0.47%) Unix
15 5 (0.39%) Windows 2000
15 5 (0.39%) Windows NT
15 5 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
15 5 (0.39%) Windows XP
16 3 (0.23%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 278 (21.55%) Software Engineering
2 184 (14.26%) Problem-Solving
3 150 (11.63%) Agile
4 107 (8.29%) Mentoring
5 97 (7.52%) Project Management
6 83 (6.43%) Computer Science
7 78 (6.05%) Business Development
7 78 (6.05%) Validation
8 74 (5.74%) Cybersecurity
9 68 (5.27%) Logistics
10 62 (4.81%) Systems Engineering
11 60 (4.65%) DevOps
11 60 (4.65%) Test Automation
12 54 (4.19%) Continuous Improvement
12 54 (4.19%) Decision-Making
12 54 (4.19%) Software Testing
13 51 (3.95%) Customer Service
14 48 (3.72%) ITIL
14 48 (3.72%) Roadmaps
14 48 (3.72%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 174 (13.49%) C
2 113 (8.76%) C++
3 109 (8.45%) Python
4 90 (6.98%) MATLAB
5 72 (5.58%) C#
6 53 (4.11%) JavaScript
6 53 (4.11%) SQL
7 51 (3.95%) Embedded C
8 50 (3.88%) Java
9 40 (3.10%) SystemVerilog
10 19 (1.47%) TypeScript
11 14 (1.09%) Perl
12 13 (1.01%) Rust
13 9 (0.70%) Embedded C++
13 9 (0.70%) PHP
14 8 (0.62%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.47%) Bash
15 6 (0.47%) R
16 5 (0.39%) PowerShell
16 5 (0.39%) VB
Qualifications
1 309 (23.95%) Degree
2 54 (4.19%) Master's Degree
3 40 (3.10%) HND
4 31 (2.40%) MBA
5 27 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (1.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 22 (1.71%) HNC
8 14 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (1.09%) Security Cleared
9 12 (0.93%) NVQ Level 3
10 9 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (0.70%) CISM
10 9 (0.70%) CISSP
11 8 (0.62%) CCNA
11 8 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
11 8 (0.62%) PMI Certification
12 7 (0.54%) MCSE
13 6 (0.47%) MCSA
13 6 (0.47%) PMP
14 5 (0.39%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (3.95%) ISO 26262
2 43 (3.33%) QA
3 40 (3.10%) Automotive SPICE
4 35 (2.71%) AUTOSAR
5 26 (2.02%) MISRA
6 21 (1.63%) ISO 9001
7 16 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 11 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.85%) SLA
9 9 (0.70%) GDPR
10 8 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.62%) NIST
11 5 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.39%) PMO
12 4 (0.31%) JTAG
13 3 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.16%) Accessibility
14 2 (0.16%) Data Quality
14 2 (0.16%) ISO 14001
14 2 (0.16%) ITGC
System Software
1 50 (3.88%) Firmware
2 37 (2.87%) Docker
3 27 (2.09%) Embedded Firmware
4 16 (1.24%) Active Directory
4 16 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
6 11 (0.85%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 40 (3.10%) Functional Safety
2 31 (2.40%) Kubernetes
3 18 (1.40%) Ansible
4 14 (1.09%) SCCM
5 11 (0.85%) Progress Chef
6 9 (0.70%) Terraform
7 6 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.39%) SCOM
8 5 (0.39%) WSUS
9 3 (0.23%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.23%) Puppet
10 2 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.078%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 120 (9.30%) Microsoft
2 38 (2.95%) Cisco
3 28 (2.17%) Cadence
3 28 (2.17%) Synopsys
4 27 (2.09%) SAP
5 26 (2.02%) Apple
6 25 (1.94%) Polycom
7 24 (1.86%) Lauterbach
8 21 (1.63%) IBM
8 21 (1.63%) VMware
9 16 (1.24%) ForgeRock
9 16 (1.24%) Sitecore
10 15 (1.16%) Adobe
11 13 (1.01%) Salesforce
12 12 (0.93%) EMC
12 12 (0.93%) Siemens
13 11 (0.85%) Dell
13 11 (0.85%) ServiceNow
14 9 (0.70%) Instagram
14 9 (0.70%) QNX