The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Automotive in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Automotive over the 3 months to 17 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 City of London 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Automotive
Rank 197 208 -
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -
Contract jobs citing Automotive 4 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.064% 0.064% -
As % of the General category 0.112% 0.106% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
Average daily rate £514 £444 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.83% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £350 £345
% change year-on-year
+5.71% +1.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+15.38% +8.33%
All of the General Category
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
3572 4719 6677
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 56.74% 60.66% 67.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2739 3532 5033
Average daily rate £475 £475 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -9.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £310 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £650 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 73 89
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -11.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.80 £15.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.49 £41.90 £50.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Automotive
London

Automotive
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Automotive Daily Rate Trend

Automotive
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Automotive across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London Automotive Daily Rate Histogram

Automotive
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Automotive Hourly Rate Trend

Automotive
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 4 (36.36%) Manufacturing
2 3 (27.27%) SAP
2 3 (27.27%) Retail
2 3 (27.27%) Project Management
3 2 (18.18%) SAP SCM
3 2 (18.18%) German Language
3 2 (18.18%) SAP PP
3 2 (18.18%) Windows
4 1 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (9.091%) Banking
4 1 (9.091%) Telecoms
4 1 (9.091%) Finance
4 1 (9.091%) Aerospace
4 1 (9.091%) Validation
4 1 (9.091%) Bugzilla
4 1 (9.091%) LAMP
4 1 (9.091%) Cocoa
4 1 (9.091%) Xcode
4 1 (9.091%) Objective-C
4 1 (9.091%) Linux
4 1 (9.091%) J2ME
4 1 (9.091%) CRM
4 1 (9.091%) ClearCase
4 1 (9.091%) SharePoint
4 1 (9.091%) EDI
4 1 (9.091%) ERP
4 1 (9.091%) Microsoft
4 1 (9.091%) PMI
4 1 (9.091%) PMI Certification
4 1 (9.091%) Red Hat

Automotive
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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.

Application Development
1 1 (9.091%) HTML
1 1 (9.091%) CSS
1 1 (9.091%) J2ME
1 1 (9.091%) EDI
1 1 (9.091%) LAMP
1 1 (9.091%) Cocoa
1 1 (9.091%) jQuery
1 1 (9.091%) RESTful
1 1 (9.091%) HTML5
1 1 (9.091%) CSS3
1 1 (9.091%) Cocoa Touch
Application Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) SAP PP
1 2 (18.18%) SAP SCM
2 1 (9.091%) SAP SD
2 1 (9.091%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (9.091%) Dynamics AX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.091%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (9.091%) ClearCase
1 1 (9.091%) ClearQuest
1 1 (9.091%) Bugzilla
1 1 (9.091%) Xcode
General
1 4 (36.36%) Manufacturing
2 3 (27.27%) Retail
3 2 (18.18%) German Language
4 1 (9.091%) Avionics
4 1 (9.091%) Retail Banking
4 1 (9.091%) Banking
4 1 (9.091%) Telecoms
4 1 (9.091%) Finance
4 1 (9.091%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Functional Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) SAP Functional Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) SAP Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) SAP PP Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Project Manager
3 1 (9.091%) Programme Manager
3 1 (9.091%) SAP APO Consultant
3 1 (9.091%) PHP Developer
3 1 (9.091%) SAP QM Consultant
3 1 (9.091%) HTML Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Project Officer
3 1 (9.091%) MySQL Developer
3 1 (9.091%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Project Management Officer
3 1 (9.091%) CSS Developer
3 1 (9.091%) PHP MySQL Developer
3 1 (9.091%) iOS Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Senior iOS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) PMI
1 1 (9.091%) Blackberry
1 1 (9.091%) iPhone
1 1 (9.091%) Digital Media
1 1 (9.091%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
2 1 (9.091%) Linux
2 1 (9.091%) Android
2 1 (9.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (9.091%) Windows 7
2 1 (9.091%) Windows Phone 7
2 1 (9.091%) Apple iOS
2 1 (9.091%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Project Management
2 1 (9.091%) Validation
2 1 (9.091%) Programme Management
2 1 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (9.091%) Software Engineering
2 1 (9.091%) Revenue Management
2 1 (9.091%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (9.091%) Business Transformation
2 1 (9.091%) PRINCE2
2 1 (9.091%) CRM
2 1 (9.091%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.091%) C
1 1 (9.091%) C++
1 1 (9.091%) JavaScript
1 1 (9.091%) PHP
1 1 (9.091%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 1 (9.091%) PMI Certification
System Software
1 1 (9.091%) Cygwin
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) SAP
2 1 (9.091%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.091%) Red Hat