Automotive Contract Job Trends in London

Automotive
England > London

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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 397 335 358
Rank change year-on-year -62 +23 +52
Contract jobs citing Automotive 47 38 41
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.23% 0.28% 0.25%
As % of the General category 0.38% 0.41% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 21 25
10th Percentile £513 £250 £313
25th Percentile £525 £325 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +45.95% -7.50% -9.13%
75th Percentile £788 £613 £675
90th Percentile £860 £660 £775
England median daily rate £550 £450 £460
% change year-on-year +22.22% -2.07% -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £24.77 £52.50
Median hourly rate - £26.30 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -52.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile - £27.83 £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £30.27 £35.60 £43.94
% change year-on-year -14.97% -18.98% +25.54%

All General Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 12,318 9,254 10,073
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.02% 69.13% 62.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,845 6,115 6,848
10th Percentile £350 £325 £335
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 186 127
10th Percentile £18.50 £16.17 £17.80
25th Percentile £21.93 £24.66 £24.18
Median hourly rate £28.40 £32.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.63% -10.96% +14.35%
75th Percentile £43.75 £49.75 £52.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £65.42
England median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £38.31
% change year-on-year +25.25% -34.35% +39.31%

Automotive
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Automotive relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Automotive job vacancy trend in London

Automotive
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Automotive.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Automotive

Automotive
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automotive in London over the 6 months to 6 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Automotive in London

Automotive
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Automotive.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Automotive

Automotive
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automotive within the London region over the 6 months to 6 September 2026. 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
Central London -15 5 £625 +45.35% 8
East London -2 1 - - 11
Automotive
England

Automotive
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (10.64%) CMS
2 2 (4.26%) ThingWorx
3 1 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Windchill
2 1 (2.13%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Teamcenter
2 2 (4.26%) DELMIA
2 2 (4.26%) ENOVIA
2 2 (4.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (2.13%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (2.13%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 7 (14.89%) Azure
2 4 (8.51%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 2 (4.26%) AWS
3 2 (4.26%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (2.13%) GCP
4 1 (2.13%) GitHub
4 1 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.13%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.13%) SaaS
4 1 (2.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.64%) Network Security
2 4 (8.51%) DHCP
2 4 (8.51%) DNS
2 4 (8.51%) Firewall
2 4 (8.51%) TCP/IP
2 4 (8.51%) VLAN
2 4 (8.51%) VPN
3 1 (2.13%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.64%) Metadata
2 3 (6.38%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.13%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.13%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.13%) Power BI
3 1 (2.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (10.64%) Git
2 3 (6.38%) Ant
2 3 (6.38%) Eclipse
2 3 (6.38%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.38%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (2.13%) JIRA
3 1 (2.13%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (2.13%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (27.66%) Manufacturing
2 8 (17.02%) Aerospace
2 8 (17.02%) Finance
3 7 (14.89%) Social Skills
4 6 (12.77%) Retail
5 5 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (10.64%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.26%) Marketing
7 1 (2.13%) Aviation
7 1 (2.13%) Brand Awareness
7 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.13%) Front Office
7 1 (2.13%) German Language
7 1 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (21.28%) Architect
1 10 (21.28%) Lead
2 9 (19.15%) Senior
3 5 (10.64%) Content Strategist
3 5 (10.64%) Developer
3 5 (10.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (10.64%) Robotics Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) CRM Manager
4 4 (8.51%) Customer Insight Manager
4 4 (8.51%) Insight Manager
4 4 (8.51%) Network Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) Performance Manager
4 4 (8.51%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) Senior Network Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (8.51%) Systems Architect
5 3 (6.38%) Embedded Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Salesforce Technical Leader
5 3 (6.38%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.51%) 802.1X
1 4 (8.51%) REST
1 4 (8.51%) Terraform
1 4 (8.51%) VML
2 3 (6.38%) HTML
2 3 (6.38%) Lightning Web Components
2 3 (6.38%) SOAP
2 3 (6.38%) Visualforce
2 3 (6.38%) Web Services
3 1 (2.13%) FastAPI
3 1 (2.13%) OAuth
3 1 (2.13%) OAuth2
3 1 (2.13%) PySpark
3 1 (2.13%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 10 (21.28%) Robotics
2 6 (12.77%) Algorithms
3 5 (10.64%) Taxonomies
4 4 (8.51%) Embedded Systems
4 4 (8.51%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (8.51%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (8.51%) PKI
4 4 (8.51%) Public Cloud
5 2 (4.26%) Self-Driving Car
6 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.13%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.51%) Linux
1 4 (8.51%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (40.43%) Validation
2 11 (23.40%) Analytics
3 8 (17.02%) AI
3 8 (17.02%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (14.89%) Agile
4 7 (14.89%) Migration
4 7 (14.89%) Software Engineering
5 6 (12.77%) Change Management
5 6 (12.77%) CI/CD
5 6 (12.77%) PLM
5 6 (12.77%) Software Testing
6 5 (10.64%) Actionable Insight
6 5 (10.64%) Content Strategy
6 5 (10.64%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 5 (10.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (10.64%) Observability
6 5 (10.64%) Personalization
6 5 (10.64%) Service Design
6 5 (10.64%) Strategic Thinking
6 5 (10.64%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.77%) C++
2 5 (10.64%) Python
3 4 (8.51%) Bash
3 4 (8.51%) SOQL
4 3 (6.38%) Apex Code
4 3 (6.38%) Embedded C++
4 3 (6.38%) SOSL
5 2 (4.26%) Java
5 2 (4.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (8.51%) CCNP
1 4 (8.51%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (8.51%) JNCIP
1 4 (8.51%) JNCIS
2 2 (4.26%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.13%) CISSP
3 1 (2.13%) Degree
3 1 (2.13%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.13%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.13%) PMP
3 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.64%) Accessibility
2 4 (8.51%) Data Quality
3 3 (6.38%) Automotive SPICE
4 2 (4.26%) MISRA
5 1 (2.13%) AUTOSAR
5 1 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (2.13%) ISO 26262
5 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.13%) NIST
5 1 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.13%) Docker
1 1 (2.13%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (8.51%) Ansible
1 4 (8.51%) Functional Safety
1 4 (8.51%) systemd
2 1 (2.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (19.15%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.64%) Siemens
3 4 (8.51%) Cisco
3 4 (8.51%) Juniper
3 4 (8.51%) MikroTik
3 4 (8.51%) Salesforce
4 3 (6.38%) Databricks
4 3 (6.38%) PTC
5 2 (4.26%) Logi
5 2 (4.26%) Logi Analytics
5 2 (4.26%) SAP
6 1 (2.13%) Google
6 1 (2.13%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.13%) Oracle