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

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 236 180 272
Rank change year-on-year -56 +92 +161
Permanent jobs citing Automotive 1,203 2,211 2,276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.23% 2.11% 1.48%
As % of the General category 2.05% 3.07% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 696 392 776
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £35,125
25th Percentile £37,750 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +26.32% -5.00%
75th Percentile £62,813 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £84,999
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% -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 58,747 72,001 97,948
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.84% 68.71% 63.55%
Number of salaries quoted 39,559 38,660 51,043
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,000 £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 26 April 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 26 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -53 1,160 £50,000 -16.67% 1,237
UK excluding London -80 1,042 £50,000 -9.09% 1,165
Midlands -55 387 £55,000 - 370
West Midlands -40 309 £57,500 - 288
Work from Home -27 306 £55,000 -4.35% 273
North of England +102 189 £47,500 -17.39% 210
South East -55 177 £55,000 - 265
East of England +51 157 £50,000 -28.57% 189
London +21 131 £62,500 -11.35% 112
South West +27 103 £47,500 +5.56% 132
North West +40 84 £46,250 -43.94% 126
East Midlands +26 78 £42,500 -22.73% 82
Yorkshire +97 70 £50,000 +9.29% 60
North East - 35 £39,500 - 27
Scotland -84 21 £65,000 - 37
Wales -15 9 £30,000 -18.92% 34

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 (2.24%) Skype for Business
2 13 (1.08%) CMS
3 10 (0.83%) SharePoint
4 6 (0.50%) Confluence
5 5 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2003
6 2 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2007
6 2 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.17%) WordPress
7 1 (0.083%) Apache
7 1 (0.083%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.083%) Umbraco
Applications
1 89 (7.40%) Simulink
2 76 (6.32%) Microsoft Office
3 36 (2.99%) Stateflow
4 34 (2.83%) Microsoft Excel
5 22 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (1.08%) CANalyzer
7 12 (1.00%) Photoshop
7 12 (1.00%) Siemens NX
8 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.33%) 3ds Max
9 4 (0.33%) InDesign
9 4 (0.33%) OrCAD
10 3 (0.25%) AutoCAD
10 3 (0.25%) CATIA
11 2 (0.17%) Adobe Captivate
11 2 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.17%) Adobe Premiere
11 2 (0.17%) Fusion 360
11 2 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.083%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 13 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.42%) Dynamics GP
3 4 (0.33%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 2 (0.17%) Primavera
4 2 (0.17%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.17%) SAP GRC
4 2 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.083%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.083%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.083%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.083%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.083%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.083%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.083%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.083%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 81 (6.73%) Azure
2 69 (5.74%) Microsoft 365
3 53 (4.41%) SaaS
4 30 (2.49%) AWS
5 26 (2.16%) Power Platform
6 25 (2.08%) GitHub
7 24 (2.00%) Azure Functions
7 24 (2.00%) Serverless
8 20 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
10 14 (1.16%) Akamai
10 14 (1.16%) Amazon ECS
10 14 (1.16%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (1.16%) Amazon S3
10 14 (1.16%) Amazon SQS
10 14 (1.16%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (1.16%) AWS Fargate
10 14 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (1.16%) Cloudflare
10 14 (1.16%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 32 (2.66%) J1939
2 28 (2.33%) Cisco IOS
3 27 (2.24%) Skype
4 25 (2.08%) Telepresence
5 22 (1.83%) Ethernet
6 19 (1.58%) Wireless
7 15 (1.25%) Internet
8 14 (1.16%) Bluetooth
9 12 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
10 11 (0.91%) VLAN
11 10 (0.83%) TCP/IP
12 9 (0.75%) Firewall
13 8 (0.67%) DHCP
13 8 (0.67%) DNS
14 7 (0.58%) LAN
14 7 (0.58%) WAN
15 6 (0.50%) FlexRay
16 5 (0.42%) RS-232
16 5 (0.42%) SAN
17 4 (0.33%) GSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (2.08%) Power BI
2 20 (1.66%) SQL Server
3 13 (1.08%) Relational Database
4 9 (0.75%) Tableau
5 8 (0.67%) MySQL
6 7 (0.58%) Data Lake
6 7 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (0.50%) Data Mining
7 6 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (0.50%) Redis
8 4 (0.33%) Big Data
8 4 (0.33%) GIS
9 2 (0.17%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.17%) MS Access
9 2 (0.17%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.17%) SAP BW
10 1 (0.083%) EDMS
10 1 (0.083%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.083%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.083%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 66 (5.49%) Git
2 63 (5.24%) JIRA
3 22 (1.83%) ClearCase
3 22 (1.83%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.75%) Plastic SCM
5 16 (1.33%) Visual Studio
6 14 (1.16%) ClearQuest
7 9 (0.75%) CANoe
8 8 (0.67%) Appium
8 8 (0.67%) Subversion
8 8 (0.67%) UI Automator
9 7 (0.58%) LabVIEW
9 7 (0.58%) Rational DOORS
9 7 (0.58%) Selenium
10 4 (0.33%) Rational Rhapsody
10 4 (0.33%) Zephyr
11 3 (0.25%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.17%) GitLab
12 2 (0.17%) TestNG
12 2 (0.17%) WiX
General
1 278 (23.11%) Social Skills
2 203 (16.87%) Manufacturing
3 169 (14.05%) Aerospace
3 169 (14.05%) Electronics
4 141 (11.72%) Finance
5 77 (6.40%) Pharmaceutical
6 72 (5.99%) Retail
6 72 (5.99%) Telecoms
7 70 (5.82%) Marketing
8 69 (5.74%) Analytical Skills
9 45 (3.74%) Influencing Skills
10 42 (3.49%) Legal
11 38 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
12 31 (2.58%) Aviation
13 25 (2.08%) Publishing
14 21 (1.75%) Law
14 21 (1.75%) Public Sector
15 11 (0.91%) Military
15 11 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (0.67%) French Language
Job Titles
1 200 (16.63%) Software Engineer
2 173 (14.38%) Senior
3 141 (11.72%) Lead
4 135 (11.22%) Systems Engineer
5 114 (9.48%) Embedded Engineer
6 112 (9.31%) Developer
7 97 (8.06%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 59 (4.90%) Senior Software Engineer
9 51 (4.24%) Consultant
10 40 (3.33%) Support Engineer
11 38 (3.16%) Architect
11 38 (3.16%) Test Engineer
12 37 (3.08%) Senior Embedded Engineer
13 32 (2.66%) Programmer
14 30 (2.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 30 (2.49%) Software Developer
15 28 (2.33%) Analyst
15 28 (2.33%) Project Manager
16 27 (2.24%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
17 25 (2.08%) Hardware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (4.74%) .NET
2 25 (2.08%) AngularJS
3 23 (1.91%) HTML
4 20 (1.66%) CSS
4 20 (1.66%) React
5 13 (1.08%) Sass
6 12 (1.00%) Node.js
7 11 (0.91%) .NET Core
7 11 (0.91%) .NET Framework
8 10 (0.83%) LLVM
9 9 (0.75%) Vue
10 8 (0.67%) Kafka
11 7 (0.58%) Yocto
12 6 (0.50%) Ajax
12 6 (0.50%) LESS
12 6 (0.50%) RESTful
12 6 (0.50%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 6 (0.50%) WPF
13 5 (0.42%) iOS SDK
13 5 (0.42%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 123 (10.22%) IoT
2 90 (7.48%) Embedded Systems
3 53 (4.41%) Algorithms
4 46 (3.82%) Mobile App
5 41 (3.41%) FMCG
6 39 (3.24%) Self-Motivation
7 33 (2.74%) Client/Server
8 25 (2.08%) Video Conferencing
9 19 (1.58%) Verilog
9 19 (1.58%) VHDL
10 18 (1.50%) Blog
10 18 (1.50%) Product Ownership
10 18 (1.50%) Raspberry Pi
10 18 (1.50%) Robotics
11 17 (1.41%) FPGA
12 16 (1.33%) Device Driver
12 16 (1.33%) Management Information System
13 15 (1.25%) Driving Licence
13 15 (1.25%) PMI
14 14 (1.16%) Infotainment
Operating Systems
1 88 (7.32%) Windows
2 71 (5.90%) Linux
3 41 (3.41%) Windows 10
4 40 (3.33%) Android
5 28 (2.33%) Apple iOS
6 25 (2.08%) Windows 7
7 23 (1.91%) Windows Server
8 15 (1.25%) FreeRTOS
9 12 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
9 12 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.67%) Embedded Linux
10 8 (0.67%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.58%) Windows Server 2003
11 7 (0.58%) Windows Server 2008
12 6 (0.50%) Unix
13 5 (0.42%) Windows 2000
13 5 (0.42%) Windows NT
13 5 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
13 5 (0.42%) Windows XP
14 3 (0.25%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (20.70%) Software Engineering
2 174 (14.46%) Problem-Solving
3 155 (12.88%) Agile
4 105 (8.73%) Mentoring
5 92 (7.65%) Project Management
6 78 (6.48%) Business Development
7 77 (6.40%) Computer Science
7 77 (6.40%) Validation
8 72 (5.99%) Logistics
9 71 (5.90%) Cybersecurity
10 60 (4.99%) Test Automation
11 58 (4.82%) Systems Engineering
12 57 (4.74%) Software Testing
13 54 (4.49%) Stakeholder Management
14 53 (4.41%) DevOps
15 51 (4.24%) Decision-Making
16 48 (3.99%) ITIL
16 48 (3.99%) Technical Leadership
17 47 (3.91%) Continuous Improvement
18 46 (3.82%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 183 (15.21%) C
2 106 (8.81%) Python
3 103 (8.56%) C++
4 88 (7.32%) MATLAB
5 69 (5.74%) C#
6 50 (4.16%) SQL
7 48 (3.99%) Embedded C
7 48 (3.99%) JavaScript
8 44 (3.66%) Java
9 40 (3.33%) SystemVerilog
10 18 (1.50%) TypeScript
11 14 (1.16%) Perl
12 12 (1.00%) Rust
13 10 (0.83%) R
14 8 (0.67%) Embedded C++
15 7 (0.58%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.50%) PHP
16 6 (0.50%) VB
17 5 (0.42%) Bash
17 5 (0.42%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 307 (25.52%) Degree
2 55 (4.57%) Master's Degree
3 40 (3.33%) HND
4 34 (2.83%) MBA
5 25 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (2.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 22 (1.83%) HNC
7 16 (1.33%) PMI Certification
7 16 (1.33%) Security Cleared
8 13 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (0.91%) NVQ Level 3
10 9 (0.75%) CISM
10 9 (0.75%) CISSP
11 8 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (0.58%) CCNA
12 7 (0.58%) MCSE
13 6 (0.50%) MCSA
13 6 (0.50%) PMP
14 5 (0.42%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (4.74%) ISO 26262
2 45 (3.74%) Automotive SPICE
3 41 (3.41%) QA
4 38 (3.16%) AUTOSAR
5 29 (2.41%) MISRA
6 20 (1.66%) ISO 9001
7 15 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 11 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.91%) SLA
9 9 (0.75%) GDPR
10 8 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.67%) NIST
11 5 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.42%) PMO
12 4 (0.33%) JTAG
13 3 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.17%) COSHH
14 2 (0.17%) Data Quality
14 2 (0.17%) ISO 14001
14 2 (0.17%) ITGC
System Software
1 50 (4.16%) Firmware
2 32 (2.66%) Docker
3 25 (2.08%) Embedded Firmware
4 16 (1.33%) Active Directory
5 14 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
7 11 (0.91%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 40 (3.33%) Functional Safety
2 25 (2.08%) Kubernetes
3 14 (1.16%) SCCM
4 12 (1.00%) Ansible
5 10 (0.83%) Progress Chef
6 9 (0.75%) Terraform
7 6 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.42%) SCOM
8 5 (0.42%) WSUS
9 3 (0.25%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.083%) Puppet
11 1 (0.083%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 120 (9.98%) Microsoft
2 37 (3.08%) Cisco
3 31 (2.58%) SAP
4 28 (2.33%) Apple
4 28 (2.33%) Cadence
4 28 (2.33%) Synopsys
5 25 (2.08%) Polycom
6 24 (2.00%) Lauterbach
7 21 (1.75%) IBM
8 17 (1.41%) VMware
9 16 (1.33%) Salesforce
10 15 (1.25%) Adobe
11 14 (1.16%) ForgeRock
11 14 (1.16%) Sitecore
12 12 (1.00%) Siemens
13 11 (0.91%) Dell
13 11 (0.91%) EMC
13 11 (0.91%) ServiceNow
14 9 (0.75%) Instagram
15 8 (0.67%) QNX