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 20 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 339 350
Rank change year-on-year -60 +11 +65
Contract jobs citing Automotive 55 36 40
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.27% 0.27% 0.25%
As % of the General category 0.44% 0.39% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 20 25
10th Percentile £513 £245 £313
25th Percentile £525 £315 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £494 £492
Median % change year-on-year +36.71% +0.46% -10.72%
75th Percentile £788 £613 £675
90th Percentile £855 £665 £775
England median daily rate £550 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +22.22% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £24.77 -
Median hourly rate £14.85 £26.30 -
Median % change year-on-year -43.54% - -
75th Percentile £31.18 £27.83 -
90th Percentile £40.97 - -
England median hourly rate £32.75 £36.53 £43.94
% change year-on-year -10.35% -16.86% +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 12,456 9,304 10,126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.53% 69.13% 62.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,960 6,127 6,711
10th Percentile £350 £325 £330
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 £675 £700
90th Percentile £788 £790 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 184 120
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £17.95
25th Percentile £21.04 £24.61 £24.88
Median hourly rate £28.40 £32.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.95% -7.86% +22.81%
75th Percentile £45.16 £49.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.03 £65.00 £65.13
England median hourly rate £30.90 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +22.86% -34.02% +27.07%

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 20 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Automotive in London over the 6 months to 20 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Automotive in London

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 20 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 -20 6 £625 +45.35% 16
East London -1 2 - - 10
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 (9.09%) CMS
2 2 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.64%) ThingWorx
3 1 (1.82%) Apache
3 1 (1.82%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.82%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Windchill
2 1 (1.82%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Teamcenter
2 2 (3.64%) DELMIA
2 2 (3.64%) ENOVIA
2 2 (3.64%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.82%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (1.82%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.82%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 8 (14.55%) Azure
2 4 (7.27%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 3 (5.45%) AWS
4 2 (3.64%) SaaS
4 2 (3.64%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 2 (3.64%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.82%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (1.82%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (1.82%) Dagster
5 1 (1.82%) dbt
5 1 (1.82%) GCP
5 1 (1.82%) GitHub
5 1 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.82%) Google Ads
5 1 (1.82%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.09%) Network Security
2 4 (7.27%) DHCP
2 4 (7.27%) DNS
2 4 (7.27%) Firewall
2 4 (7.27%) TCP/IP
2 4 (7.27%) VLAN
2 4 (7.27%) VPN
3 3 (5.45%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.91%) Metadata
2 3 (5.45%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.64%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.82%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (1.82%) Big Data
4 1 (1.82%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.82%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.82%) Power BI
4 1 (1.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (9.09%) Git
2 3 (5.45%) Ant
2 3 (5.45%) Eclipse
2 3 (5.45%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.45%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (5.45%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (1.82%) JIRA
3 1 (1.82%) SonarQube
General
1 17 (30.91%) Manufacturing
2 10 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 9 (16.36%) Aerospace
4 8 (14.55%) Finance
5 7 (12.73%) Retail
6 6 (10.91%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (3.64%) French Language
8 2 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.64%) Italian Language
8 2 (3.64%) Marketing
9 1 (1.82%) Aviation
9 1 (1.82%) Brand Awareness
9 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.82%) Front Office
9 1 (1.82%) German Language
9 1 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.82%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (23.64%) Architect
2 11 (20.00%) Lead
2 11 (20.00%) Senior
3 6 (10.91%) Robotics Engineer
3 6 (10.91%) Systems Architect
4 5 (9.09%) Content Strategist
4 5 (9.09%) Developer
4 5 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (7.27%) CRM Manager
5 4 (7.27%) Customer Insight Manager
5 4 (7.27%) Insight Manager
5 4 (7.27%) Network Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) Performance Manager
5 4 (7.27%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) Senior Network Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Senior Architect
6 3 (5.45%) Senior Systems Architect
6 3 (5.45%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.09%) Terraform
2 4 (7.27%) 802.1X
2 4 (7.27%) REST
2 4 (7.27%) VML
3 3 (5.45%) HTML
3 3 (5.45%) Lightning Web Components
3 3 (5.45%) SOAP
3 3 (5.45%) Visualforce
3 3 (5.45%) Web Services
4 2 (3.64%) PySpark
5 1 (1.82%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.82%) Kafka
5 1 (1.82%) Matplotlib
5 1 (1.82%) NumPy
5 1 (1.82%) OAuth
5 1 (1.82%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.82%) Pandas
5 1 (1.82%) Plotly
5 1 (1.82%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.00%) Robotics
2 6 (10.91%) Algorithms
2 6 (10.91%) Taxonomies
3 4 (7.27%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (7.27%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (7.27%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (7.27%) PKI
3 4 (7.27%) Public Cloud
4 3 (5.45%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (5.45%) Self-Driving Car
5 1 (1.82%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.27%) Linux
1 4 (7.27%) Ubuntu
2 1 (1.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (41.82%) Validation
2 11 (20.00%) Analytics
3 10 (18.18%) AI
3 10 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (14.55%) Migration
4 8 (14.55%) Observability
4 8 (14.55%) Software Testing
5 7 (12.73%) Agile
5 7 (12.73%) CI/CD
5 7 (12.73%) CRM
5 7 (12.73%) Software Engineering
6 6 (10.91%) Change Management
6 6 (10.91%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
6 6 (10.91%) Machine Learning
6 6 (10.91%) PLM
6 6 (10.91%) Systems Engineering
7 5 (9.09%) Content Strategy
7 5 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (9.09%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.91%) C++
1 6 (10.91%) Python
2 4 (7.27%) Bash
2 4 (7.27%) SOQL
3 3 (5.45%) Apex Code
3 3 (5.45%) Embedded C++
3 3 (5.45%) Java
3 3 (5.45%) SOSL
3 3 (5.45%) SQL
4 1 (1.82%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.82%) Scala
4 1 (1.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (7.27%) CCNP
1 4 (7.27%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (7.27%) JNCIP
1 4 (7.27%) JNCIS
2 2 (3.64%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.82%) CISSP
3 1 (1.82%) Degree
3 1 (1.82%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.82%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.82%) PMP
3 1 (1.82%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.09%) Accessibility
1 5 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.45%) Automotive SPICE
2 3 (5.45%) AUTOSAR
2 3 (5.45%) ISO 26262
3 2 (3.64%) MISRA
4 1 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.82%) NIST
4 1 (1.82%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.64%) Docker
2 1 (1.82%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (10.91%) Functional Safety
2 4 (7.27%) Ansible
2 4 (7.27%) systemd
3 2 (3.64%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.82%) Grafana
4 1 (1.82%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (16.36%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.09%) Siemens
3 4 (7.27%) Cisco
3 4 (7.27%) Databricks
3 4 (7.27%) Juniper
3 4 (7.27%) MikroTik
3 4 (7.27%) Salesforce
4 3 (5.45%) PTC
4 3 (5.45%) SAP
5 2 (3.64%) Google
5 2 (3.64%) Logi
5 2 (3.64%) Logi Analytics
5 2 (3.64%) Oracle
6 1 (1.82%) MuleSoft