Automotive Contracts in the East Midlands

Automotive
England > East Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Automotive in contract job vacancies in the East Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Automotive over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 53 56
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 +15
Contract jobs citing Automotive 4 13 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.75% 1.68% 2.78%
As % of the General category 1.22% 3.36% 5.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 28
10th Percentile £343 £282 £313
25th Percentile £378 £297 £329
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £408 £350
Median % change year-on-year +6.75% +16.43% -30.00%
75th Percentile £493 £679 £475
90th Percentile £527 £992 £488
England median daily rate £463 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -7.50% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £17.50 -
England median hourly rate £32.50 £45.00 £39.00
% change year-on-year -27.78% +15.38% +13.04%

All General Skills
East Midlands

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 common skills in the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 327 387 554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 61.01% 50.06% 53.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 255 426
10th Percentile £202 £160 £213
25th Percentile £320 £230 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.63% -11.11% +4.65%
75th Percentile £519 £550 £575
90th Percentile £578 £638 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 56 41
10th Percentile £14.45 £12.20 £11.80
25th Percentile £15.68 £13.88 £15.25
Median hourly rate £23.00 £17.25 £21.67
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -20.40% +0.79%
75th Percentile £30.30 £35.00 £40.25
90th Percentile £37.00 £51.91 £51.50
England median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £33.82
% change year-on-year -8.82% -10.82% +57.30%

Automotive
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Automotive in the East Midlands

Automotive
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Automotive in the East Midlands

Automotive
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automotive in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Automotive in the East Midlands

Automotive
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Automotive in the East Midlands

Automotive
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automotive within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Northamptonshire -4 3 £320 +3.23% 11
Leicestershire +7 1 £550 - 24
Automotive
England

Automotive
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) CANalyzer
1 1 (25.00%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
1 1 (25.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (25.00%) Big Data
1 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (25.00%) HBase
1 1 (25.00%) Impala
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (25.00%) Marketing
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) IT Support
1 1 (25.00%) IT Support Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Product Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Scala Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Product Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Support Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (25.00%) B2B
2 1 (25.00%) B2C
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Ideation Sessions
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Journey Map
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C
1 1 (25.00%) C++
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) MATLAB
1 1 (25.00%) Scala
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Hitachi
1 1 (25.00%) VMware