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 18 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 323 352
Rank change year-on-year -54 +29 +88
Contract jobs citing Automotive 28 27 44
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.16% 0.22% 0.25%
As % of the General category 0.26% 0.32% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 19 25
10th Percentile - £250 £300
25th Percentile £513 £340 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -4.76% +9.95%
75th Percentile £647 £641 £600
90th Percentile £836 £755 £719
England median daily rate £540 £456 £500
% change year-on-year +18.36% -8.75% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - £39.04 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -29.02% +41.03%
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - £61.25
England median hourly rate £33.99 £32.35 £47.50
% change year-on-year +5.07% -31.91% +22.58%

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 10,678 8,471 11,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 59.49% 67.71% 63.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,920 5,694 7,861
10th Percentile £350 £342 £336
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.91% -1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £709 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £825
England median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 142 233
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £15.60
25th Percentile £22.29 £23.13 £18.13
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +21.43% -12.28%
75th Percentile £46.56 £51.07 £44.75
90th Percentile £67.40 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.58 £27.45 £30.12
% change year-on-year +11.40% -8.86% -6.75%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 -11 6 £550 +29.41% 20
West London - 1 £300 - 8
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 2 (7.14%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) DELMIA
1 2 (7.14%) ENOVIA
1 2 (7.14%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.71%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 2 (7.14%) Azure
2 2 (7.14%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.57%) AWS
3 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.57%) Cloud Run
3 1 (3.57%) GCP
3 1 (3.57%) Google Sheets
3 1 (3.57%) SaaS
3 1 (3.57%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) Relational Database
2 2 (7.14%) Power BI
2 2 (7.14%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Ant
1 3 (10.71%) Eclipse
1 3 (10.71%) Jenkins
1 3 (10.71%) Visual Studio Code
2 2 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 8 (28.57%) Manufacturing
2 6 (21.43%) Aerospace
2 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (14.29%) Finance
4 2 (7.14%) Aviation
4 2 (7.14%) Marketing
4 2 (7.14%) Multimedia
5 1 (3.57%) Brand Awareness
5 1 (3.57%) Front Office
5 1 (3.57%) Military
5 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (21.43%) Developer
1 6 (21.43%) Lead
2 3 (10.71%) Analyst
2 3 (10.71%) Architect
2 3 (10.71%) Project Manager
2 3 (10.71%) Salesforce Technical Leader
2 3 (10.71%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (10.71%) Technical Leader
3 2 (7.14%) Agile Delivery Lead
3 2 (7.14%) C++ Developer
3 2 (7.14%) HR Analyst
3 2 (7.14%) Project Analyst
3 2 (7.14%) Scrum Master
3 2 (7.14%) Senior
3 2 (7.14%) Transformation Analyst
4 1 (3.57%) Android Developer
4 1 (3.57%) Mobile Applications Developer
4 1 (3.57%) Mobile Developer
4 1 (3.57%) Programme Planning Manager
4 1 (3.57%) Sales Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.86%) HTML
2 4 (14.29%) REST
3 3 (10.71%) Lightning Web Components
3 3 (10.71%) SOAP
3 3 (10.71%) Visualforce
3 3 (10.71%) Web Services
4 2 (7.14%) CSS
5 1 (3.57%) CarPlay
5 1 (3.57%) PyTorch
5 1 (3.57%) Spring
5 1 (3.57%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.57%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (3.57%) Infotainment
1 1 (3.57%) Mobile App
1 1 (3.57%) Music Streaming
1 1 (3.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Android
1 1 (3.57%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (39.29%) Agile
2 6 (21.43%) Analytics
2 6 (21.43%) Validation
3 4 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 4 (14.29%) DevOps
3 4 (14.29%) Digital Engineering
3 4 (14.29%) ERP
3 4 (14.29%) Kanban
3 4 (14.29%) PLM
3 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (14.29%) Project Management
3 4 (14.29%) Scrum
3 4 (14.29%) Workflow
4 3 (10.71%) Change Management
4 3 (10.71%) Code Coverage
4 3 (10.71%) Data Analysis
4 3 (10.71%) Data Modelling
4 3 (10.71%) Data Validation
4 3 (10.71%) Migration
4 3 (10.71%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.71%) Apex Code
1 3 (10.71%) SOQL
1 3 (10.71%) SOSL
2 2 (7.14%) C++
2 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
2 2 (7.14%) Kotlin
3 1 (3.57%) Java
3 1 (3.57%) Python
3 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) Degree
1 2 (7.14%) PMI Certification
1 2 (7.14%) PMP
2 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.14%) GDPR
2 2 (7.14%) QA
3 1 (3.57%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Siemens
2 3 (10.71%) Google
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) PTC
2 3 (10.71%) Salesforce
2 3 (10.71%) Spotify
3 2 (7.14%) Qualtrics
3 2 (7.14%) SAP
4 1 (3.57%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle
4 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.57%) Splunk