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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 332 347
Rank change year-on-year -56 +15 +56
Contract jobs citing Automotive 57 35 41
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.28% 0.26% 0.25%
As % of the General category 0.46% 0.38% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 20 26
10th Percentile £525 £245 £303
25th Percentile £613 £315 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £494 £472
Median % change year-on-year +36.71% +4.61% -14.22%
75th Percentile £788 £613 £666
90th Percentile £860 £665 £763
England median daily rate £550 £463 £460
% change year-on-year +18.92% +0.65% -8.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.85 £24.77 -
Median hourly rate £45.00 £26.30 -
Median % change year-on-year +71.10% - -
75th Percentile £47.50 £27.83 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £33.00 £35.60 £46.18
% change year-on-year -7.30% -22.91% +31.94%

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 12,467 9,259 10,139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.62% 68.85% 62.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,971 6,101 6,635
10th Percentile £350 £325 £328
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 £788 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £536
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.63% -2.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 175 122
10th Percentile £16.29 £17.00 £18.01
25th Percentile £20.69 £24.56 £25.38
Median hourly rate £28.40 £31.50 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year -9.86% -10.64% +23.14%
75th Percentile £47.50 £47.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £73.68 £64.35 £65.90
England median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £37.75
% change year-on-year +19.28% -33.38% +34.82%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -16 6 £625 +45.35% 23
East London +2 4 - - 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 (8.77%) CMS
2 3 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.51%) Apache
3 2 (3.51%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 2 (3.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.75%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.75%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.75%) SAP PP
2 1 (1.75%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 8 (14.04%) Azure
2 4 (7.02%) AWS
2 4 (7.02%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 3 (5.26%) Snowflake
4 2 (3.51%) Amazon S3
4 2 (3.51%) Dagster
4 2 (3.51%) dbt
4 2 (3.51%) SaaS
4 2 (3.51%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.75%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (1.75%) GCP
5 1 (1.75%) GitHub
5 1 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.75%) Google Ads
5 1 (1.75%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.77%) Network Security
2 4 (7.02%) DHCP
2 4 (7.02%) DNS
2 4 (7.02%) Ethernet
2 4 (7.02%) Firewall
2 4 (7.02%) TCP/IP
2 4 (7.02%) VLAN
2 4 (7.02%) VPN
3 1 (1.75%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.53%) Metadata
2 3 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (5.26%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.51%) Apache Iceberg
3 2 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.75%) Big Data
4 1 (1.75%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.75%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.75%) Power BI
4 1 (1.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (8.77%) Git
2 4 (7.02%) Rational DOORS
3 3 (5.26%) Ant
3 3 (5.26%) Eclipse
3 3 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.26%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.75%) JIRA
4 1 (1.75%) SonarQube
General
1 18 (31.58%) Manufacturing
2 10 (17.54%) Social Skills
3 8 (14.04%) Finance
4 7 (12.28%) Aerospace
4 7 (12.28%) Retail
5 6 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (8.77%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.51%) French Language
7 2 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.51%) Italian Language
7 2 (3.51%) Marketing
8 1 (1.75%) Aviation
8 1 (1.75%) Brand Awareness
8 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.75%) Front Office
8 1 (1.75%) German Language
8 1 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.75%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (22.81%) Architect
2 12 (21.05%) Senior
3 11 (19.30%) Lead
4 7 (12.28%) Robotics Engineer
4 7 (12.28%) Systems Architect
5 5 (8.77%) Content Strategist
5 5 (8.77%) Developer
5 5 (8.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) CRM Manager
6 4 (7.02%) Customer Insight Manager
6 4 (7.02%) Insight Manager
6 4 (7.02%) Network Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Performance Manager
6 4 (7.02%) Senior Architect
6 4 (7.02%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Senior Network Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Senior Systems Architect
6 4 (7.02%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.26%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.77%) Terraform
2 4 (7.02%) 802.1X
2 4 (7.02%) REST
2 4 (7.02%) VML
3 3 (5.26%) HTML
3 3 (5.26%) Lightning Web Components
3 3 (5.26%) PySpark
3 3 (5.26%) SOAP
3 3 (5.26%) Visualforce
3 3 (5.26%) Web Services
4 2 (3.51%) Kafka
5 1 (1.75%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.75%) Matplotlib
5 1 (1.75%) NumPy
5 1 (1.75%) OAuth
5 1 (1.75%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.75%) Pandas
5 1 (1.75%) Plotly
5 1 (1.75%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.05%) Robotics
2 6 (10.53%) Algorithms
2 6 (10.53%) Taxonomies
3 4 (7.02%) Distributed Architecture
3 4 (7.02%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (7.02%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (7.02%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (7.02%) PKI
3 4 (7.02%) Public Cloud
3 4 (7.02%) Self-Driving Car
4 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.75%) Lidar
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.02%) Linux
1 4 (7.02%) Ubuntu
2 2 (3.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (42.11%) Validation
2 11 (19.30%) AI
2 11 (19.30%) Analytics
3 10 (17.54%) Observability
4 9 (15.79%) Software Testing
4 9 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (14.04%) Migration
6 7 (12.28%) CI/CD
6 7 (12.28%) CRM
6 7 (12.28%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
6 7 (12.28%) Machine Learning
6 7 (12.28%) Software Engineering
6 7 (12.28%) Systems Engineering
7 6 (10.53%) Change Management
8 5 (8.77%) Agile
8 5 (8.77%) Data Modelling
8 5 (8.77%) GAP Analysis
8 5 (8.77%) SEO
8 5 (8.77%) UX Design
8 5 (8.77%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.28%) Python
2 6 (10.53%) C++
3 4 (7.02%) Bash
3 4 (7.02%) SOQL
3 4 (7.02%) SQL
4 3 (5.26%) Apex Code
4 3 (5.26%) Embedded C++
4 3 (5.26%) Java
4 3 (5.26%) SOSL
5 1 (1.75%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.75%) Scala
5 1 (1.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (7.02%) CCNP
1 4 (7.02%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (7.02%) JNCIP
1 4 (7.02%) JNCIS
2 2 (3.51%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.75%) CISSP
3 1 (1.75%) Degree
3 1 (1.75%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.75%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.77%) Accessibility
1 5 (8.77%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.02%) AUTOSAR
2 4 (7.02%) ISO 26262
3 3 (5.26%) Automotive SPICE
4 2 (3.51%) MISRA
5 1 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.75%) NIST
5 1 (1.75%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.51%) Docker
2 1 (1.75%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (12.28%) Functional Safety
2 4 (7.02%) Ansible
2 4 (7.02%) systemd
3 2 (3.51%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.75%) Grafana
4 1 (1.75%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (12.28%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.77%) Databricks
3 4 (7.02%) Cisco
3 4 (7.02%) Juniper
3 4 (7.02%) MikroTik
3 4 (7.02%) Salesforce
3 4 (7.02%) Siemens
4 3 (5.26%) Oracle
4 3 (5.26%) SAP
5 2 (3.51%) Google
5 2 (3.51%) Logi
5 2 (3.51%) Logi Analytics
6 1 (1.75%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.75%) PTC