Automotive Contracts in Essex

Automotive
East of England > Essex

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Automotive in contract job vacancies in Essex. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Automotive over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 12 33
Rank change year-on-year -2 +21 +12
Contract jobs citing Automotive 5 18 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 6.33% 8.14% 1.68%
As % of the General category 10.64% 15.25% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 4
10th Percentile £236 £491 -
25th Percentile £318 £509 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £318 £538 £478
Median % change year-on-year -40.85% +12.74% -8.72%
75th Percentile £511 £568 £495
90th Percentile £519 £586 £501
East of England median daily rate £511 £375 £600
% change year-on-year +36.27% -37.50% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £88.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £28.47 £37.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year -23.57% -40.40% +11.61%

All General Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 47 118 142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 59.49% 53.39% 59.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 68 95
10th Percentile £216 £250 £188
25th Percentile £317 £300 £255
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% -7.22%
75th Percentile £475 £588 £533
90th Percentile £515 £641 £615
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £479
% change year-on-year +5.26% -0.78% +6.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 15 9
10th Percentile - £10.42 £20.79
25th Percentile £13.25 £16.50 £22.50
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.65 £44.53
Median % change year-on-year -41.09% -19.94% +107.12%
75th Percentile £30.00 £64.25 £62.50
90th Percentile £38.00 £78.50 £76.61
East of England median hourly rate £31.21 £38.12 £21.00
% change year-on-year -18.13% +81.52% +44.83%

Automotive
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Job postings citing Automotive as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Job vacancy trend for Automotive in Essex

Automotive
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Automotive in Essex.

Daily rate trend for Automotive in Essex

Automotive
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automotive in Essex over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Automotive in Essex

Automotive
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Automotive in Essex.

Hourly rate trend for Automotive in Essex

Automotive
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automotive within the Essex region over the 6 months to 2 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
Basildon +4 1 £318 - 8
Braintree - 1 £188 -
Automotive
East of England

Automotive
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) OneDrive
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (40.00%) Metadata
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Law
1 1 (20.00%) Legal
1 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Agile Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Agile Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) GCP Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Critical Thinking
2 2 (40.00%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Data Security
2 2 (40.00%) ETL
2 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (40.00%) Use Case
2 2 (40.00%) User Experience
2 2 (40.00%) User Stories
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (20.00%) Data Privacy
3 1 (20.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Change
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Java
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Google