Automotive Contracts in the South East

Automotive
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Automotive in contract job vacancies advertised in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Automotive over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 140 124 148
Rank change year-on-year -16 +24 -28
Contract jobs citing Automotive 60 104 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.09% 1.78% 1.51%
As % of the General category 2.13% 3.05% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 79 94
10th Percentile £210 £260 £231
25th Percentile £351 £437 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +2.63% +1.88%
75th Percentile £534 £550 £529
90th Percentile £563 £585 £592
England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +7.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 13 4
10th Percentile £21.22 - -
25th Percentile £26.03 £22.16 £12.50
Median hourly rate £43.25 £22.75 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +90.11% +26.39% -25.00%
75th Percentile £48.75 £50.00 £22.18
90th Percentile - £72.13 £24.31
England median hourly rate £45.00 £39.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year +15.38% +13.04% -23.33%

All General Skills
South East

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 advertised in the South East with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,814 3,408 4,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 50.93% 58.47% 54.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,539 2,321 2,793
10th Percentile £205 £245 £213
25th Percentile £355 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +9.29%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £588
90th Percentile £688 £721 £660
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 166 220
10th Percentile £12.91 £18.50 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.67 £25.00 £14.45
Median hourly rate £45.00 £47.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +137.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.59 £32.56
90th Percentile £70.29 £73.11 £48.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.31 £21.30
% change year-on-year -12.56% +61.08% -5.33%

Automotive
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Automotive as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Automotive in the South East

Automotive
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Automotive in the South East

Automotive
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automotive in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Automotive in the South East

Automotive
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Automotive in the South East

Automotive
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Automotive in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Automotive in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automotive within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Thames Valley -23 34 £475 - 124
Buckinghamshire -3 16 £475 - 45
Berkshire -6 15 £425 -22.73% 30
Hampshire +7 12 - - 38
West Sussex 0 7 £193 +30.98% 11
Oxfordshire +3 3 £538 +115.00% 51
Surrey -4 3 £325 -35.96% 18
Sussex - 3 - -
Automotive
England

Automotive
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (6.67%) Confluence
2 3 (5.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.33%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (6.67%) SAP WM
2 2 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.67%) iTrent
3 1 (1.67%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 4 (6.67%) Azure
2 3 (5.00%) AWS
3 2 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (3.33%) PaaS
4 1 (1.67%) GitHub
4 1 (1.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.00%) LAN
1 3 (5.00%) WAN
2 2 (3.33%) DHCP
2 2 (3.33%) Firewall
2 2 (3.33%) J1939
2 2 (3.33%) SSL
2 2 (3.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.33%) VLAN
2 2 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.67%) HTTP
3 1 (1.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (3.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.67%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (1.67%) BusinessObjects XI
2 1 (1.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (8.33%) JIRA
2 2 (3.33%) Bitbucket
2 2 (3.33%) Git
2 2 (3.33%) JMeter
2 2 (3.33%) Selenium
2 2 (3.33%) TestRail
General
1 18 (30.00%) Manufacturing
1 18 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (20.00%) Electronics
3 7 (11.67%) Finance
3 7 (11.67%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (8.33%) Retail
5 4 (6.67%) Legal
6 3 (5.00%) German Language
7 2 (3.33%) Aerospace
7 2 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.33%) French Language
7 2 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.33%) Marketing
7 2 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.33%) Portuguese Language
7 2 (3.33%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 10 (16.67%) Analyst
2 8 (13.33%) Embedded Engineer
2 8 (13.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 8 (13.33%) Software Engineer
3 5 (8.33%) Business Analyst
3 5 (8.33%) Project Manager
4 4 (6.67%) Author
4 4 (6.67%) Junior
4 4 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
4 4 (6.67%) Technical Author
5 3 (5.00%) Digital Analyst
5 3 (5.00%) Digital Business Analyst
5 3 (5.00%) IT Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Security Engineer
6 2 (3.33%) IT Project Manager
6 2 (3.33%) IT Support
6 2 (3.33%) IT Support Engineer
6 2 (3.33%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (3.33%) SCADA Engineer
6 2 (3.33%) Systems Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (5.00%) Kafka
2 2 (3.33%) .NET
2 2 (3.33%) .NET Core
2 2 (3.33%) RESTful
3 1 (1.67%) BAPI
3 1 (1.67%) REST
3 1 (1.67%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.33%) Life Science
1 5 (8.33%) Operational Technology
1 5 (8.33%) Renewable Energy
2 4 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.00%) Public Cloud
3 3 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.33%) CAN bus
4 2 (3.33%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.33%) PKI
4 2 (3.33%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.33%) SCADA
4 2 (3.33%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.67%) Windows
2 5 (8.33%) Unix
3 4 (6.67%) Linux
4 2 (3.33%) Android
4 2 (3.33%) Apple iOS
4 2 (3.33%) VMS
4 2 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (33.33%) Agile
2 18 (30.00%) Project Management
3 12 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 9 (15.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 9 (15.00%) ITIL
5 6 (10.00%) Logistics
6 5 (8.33%) Change Management
6 5 (8.33%) Customer Service
6 5 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (6.67%) Requirements Gathering
7 4 (6.67%) Test Automation
8 3 (5.00%) Energy Management
8 3 (5.00%) Incident Management
8 3 (5.00%) Project Planning
8 3 (5.00%) Scrum
8 3 (5.00%) Security Monitoring
8 3 (5.00%) Technical Leadership
9 2 (3.33%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (13.33%) C
1 8 (13.33%) Embedded C
2 3 (5.00%) SQL
3 2 (3.33%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.67%) ABAP
4 1 (1.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (15.00%) Degree
2 5 (8.33%) Master's Degree
3 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.33%) HNC
3 2 (3.33%) ISTQB
3 2 (3.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (1.67%) CISA
4 1 (1.67%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.33%) QA
2 2 (3.33%) AUTOSAR
2 2 (3.33%) GDPR
3 1 (1.67%) COBIT
3 1 (1.67%) ITGC
3 1 (1.67%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (3.33%) Functional Safety
1 2 (3.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.33%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 12 (20.00%) SAP
2 6 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.00%) Apple
4 2 (3.33%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (3.33%) Oracle
4 2 (3.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.67%) BT
5 1 (1.67%) IBM