The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Automotive in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Automotive over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our General category for the Cambridgeshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Automotive
Rank - 63 41
Contract jobs citing Automotive 0 3 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire - 0.439% 1.761%
As % of the General category - 1.807% 6.977%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £360 £345 £350
% change year-on-year
+4.34% -1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 7
Average hourly rate - £50.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +53.84%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+13.84% +8.33%
All of the General Category
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
156 166 129
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 28.78% 24.27% 25.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 80 67
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £288 £247
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £463 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 21
Average hourly rate £37.50 £36.25 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% +11.53%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.05 £11.90 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £48.50 £47.75 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -5.66%
Automotive
East of England

Automotive
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Automotive across the Cambridgeshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Cambridgeshire Automotive Jobs Demand Trend

Automotive
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Automotive across the Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire Automotive Daily Rate Trend

Automotive
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Automotive across the Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire Automotive Hourly Rate Trend

Automotive
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing Automotive also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Automotive.

1 2 (100.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) Embedded C
2 1 (50.00%) Embedded C++
2 1 (50.00%) Firmware
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) MATLAB
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) Electronics
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Physics
2 1 (50.00%) JTAG
2 1 (50.00%) OFDM
2 1 (50.00%) MIMO
2 1 (50.00%) LTE
2 1 (50.00%) 4G
2 1 (50.00%) Change Control

Automotive
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing Automotive also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Automotive. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Wireless
1 1 (50.00%) OFDM
1 1 (50.00%) MIMO
1 1 (50.00%) LTE
1 1 (50.00%) 4G
General
1 1 (50.00%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DSP Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Firmware
1 1 (50.00%) Physics
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) Embedded C
2 1 (50.00%) Embedded C++
2 1 (50.00%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) JTAG