Automotive Contract Job Trends, Contractor Rates & Related Skills in Sunderland

Automotive
Tyne and Wear > Sunderland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Automotive in contract job vacancies in Sunderland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Automotive over the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 9 Jun 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	-	-	6
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Contract jobs citing Automotive	0	0	1
As % of all contract jobs in Sunderland	-	-	6.67%
As % of the General category	-	-	12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted	0	0	0
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	-	-	-
Tyne and Wear median daily rate	-	-	-

All General Skills
Sunderland

Automotive falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in Sunderland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills	10	3	8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sunderland	62.50%	50.00%	53.33%
Number of daily rates quoted	7	3	5
10^th Percentile	£122	£340	£292
25^th Percentile	£264	£381	£431
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£450	£450	£475
Median % change year-on-year	-	-5.26%	+22.58%
75^th Percentile	£475	£513	£588
90^th Percentile	-	£550	£678
Tyne and Wear median daily rate	£450	£450	£500
% change year-on-year	-	-10.00%	-9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted	2	0	1
Median hourly rate	£13.69	-	£13.30
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate	£54.48	£17.00	£17.50
% change year-on-year	+220.47%	-2.86%	-