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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 322 349
Rank change year-on-year -72 +27 +103
Contract jobs citing Automotive 23 28 46
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.13% 0.22% 0.26%
As % of the General category 0.21% 0.33% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 19 25
10th Percentile - £250 £300
25th Percentile £513 £335 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £438 £525
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% -16.67% +7.42%
75th Percentile £644 £660 £600
90th Percentile £900 £755 £719
England median daily rate £525 £456 £500
% change year-on-year +15.07% -8.75% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 6
10th Percentile - £39.00 -
25th Percentile - £39.01 £52.50
Median hourly rate - £39.02 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -29.05% +41.03%
75th Percentile - £39.03 £57.50
90th Percentile - £39.04 £61.25
England median hourly rate £33.98 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +4.55% -27.78% +15.38%

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 10,722 8,500 11,241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.44% 67.56% 63.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,981 5,738 8,023
10th Percentile £348 £340 £336
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £713 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £813
England median daily rate £503 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.29% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 137 245
10th Percentile £18.37 £15.84 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.66 £18.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +19.30% -11.63%
75th Percentile £49.38 £52.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £65.02
England median hourly rate £30.50 £27.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +10.91% -8.33% -11.76%

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 2 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 2 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 -14 4 £525 -8.70% 15
West London - 1 £300 - 9
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 (8.70%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (8.70%) DELMIA
1 2 (8.70%) ENOVIA
1 2 (8.70%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.70%) Azure
1 2 (8.70%) Power Platform
1 2 (8.70%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 1 (4.35%) AWS
2 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (4.35%) Cloud Run
2 1 (4.35%) GCP
2 1 (4.35%) Google Sheets
2 1 (4.35%) SaaS
2 1 (4.35%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) Power BI
1 2 (8.70%) Relational Database
1 2 (8.70%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Ant
1 2 (8.70%) Eclipse
1 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
1 2 (8.70%) JIRA
1 2 (8.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (30.43%) Manufacturing
2 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Aerospace
3 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Finance
4 2 (8.70%) Aviation
4 2 (8.70%) Marketing
4 2 (8.70%) Multimedia
5 1 (4.35%) Front Office
5 1 (4.35%) Military
5 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Developer
2 5 (21.74%) Lead
3 2 (8.70%) Agile Delivery Lead
3 2 (8.70%) Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) C++ Developer
3 2 (8.70%) HR Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Project Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Project Manager
3 2 (8.70%) Salesforce Technical Leader
3 2 (8.70%) Scrum Master
3 2 (8.70%) Technical Leader
3 2 (8.70%) Transformation Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Android Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Data Scientist
4 1 (4.35%) Mobile Applications Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Mobile Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Programme Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Programme Planning Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Android Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) HTML
2 3 (13.04%) REST
3 2 (8.70%) CSS
3 2 (8.70%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (8.70%) SOAP
3 2 (8.70%) Visualforce
3 2 (8.70%) Web Services
4 1 (4.35%) CarPlay
4 1 (4.35%) PyTorch
4 1 (4.35%) Spring
4 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.35%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (4.35%) Infotainment
1 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
1 1 (4.35%) Music Streaming
1 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Android
1 1 (4.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Agile
2 6 (26.09%) Analytics
3 4 (17.39%) DevOps
3 4 (17.39%) Kanban
3 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (17.39%) Project Management
3 4 (17.39%) Scrum
4 3 (13.04%) Change Management
4 3 (13.04%) CI/CD
4 3 (13.04%) ERP
4 3 (13.04%) Product Management
4 3 (13.04%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 3 (13.04%) Validation
4 3 (13.04%) Workflow
5 2 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (8.70%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (8.70%) Portfolio Management
5 2 (8.70%) SAP Implementation
5 2 (8.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (8.70%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.70%) Apex Code
1 2 (8.70%) C++
1 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
1 2 (8.70%) Kotlin
1 2 (8.70%) SOQL
1 2 (8.70%) SOSL
2 1 (4.35%) Java
2 1 (4.35%) Python
2 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) PMI Certification
1 2 (8.70%) PMP
2 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.70%) GDPR
3 1 (4.35%) PMO
3 1 (4.35%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Google
1 3 (13.04%) Spotify
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) PTC
2 2 (8.70%) Qualtrics
2 2 (8.70%) Salesforce
2 2 (8.70%) SAP
2 2 (8.70%) Siemens
3 1 (4.35%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle
3 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.35%) Splunk