Automotive Contracts in Manchester

Automotive
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Automotive in contract job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Automotive over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 85 112
Rank change year-on-year +12 +27 +22
Contract jobs citing Automotive 6 11 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.65% 0.73% 0.32%
As % of the General category 1.15% 1.50% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 6
10th Percentile £530 £515 £528
25th Percentile £575 £575 £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% +38.89%
75th Percentile £763 - £638
90th Percentile £830 £630 £661
North West median daily rate £563 £588 £619
% change year-on-year -4.26% -5.05% +33.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year -40.91% - -

All General Skills
Manchester

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 common skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 524 731 928
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 56.59% 48.19% 49.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 477 647
10th Percentile £250 £313 £304
25th Percentile £375 £388 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - +2.83%
75th Percentile £558 £588 £588
90th Percentile £676 £675 £659
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 62 39
10th Percentile - £12.27 £14.52
25th Percentile £13.00 £13.31 £19.63
Median hourly rate £19.77 £21.73 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.02% -13.10% +38.89%
75th Percentile £40.31 £31.50 £37.30
90th Percentile £72.75 £59.75 £45.05
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £17.72 £26.00
% change year-on-year +62.25% -31.85% +30.00%

Automotive
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Automotive as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Automotive in Manchester

Automotive
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Automotive in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Automotive in Manchester

Automotive
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automotive in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Automotive in Manchester

Automotive
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Automotive in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Automotive in Manchester

Automotive
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automotive within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Cheadle - 1 - -
Automotive
North West

Automotive
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (16.67%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
1 1 (16.67%) IaaS
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Games
3 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) CAD Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Data Migration Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Lead
1 1 (16.67%) Migration Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Programme Director
1 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Industrial Internet of Things
1 1 (16.67%) IoT
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
1 1 (16.67%) Operational Technology
1 1 (16.67%) SCADA
1 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
1 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Agile
1 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) CAD
2 1 (16.67%) Cryptography
2 1 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (16.67%) Data Extraction
2 1 (16.67%) Data Mapping
2 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Ethical Hacking
2 1 (16.67%) ETL
2 1 (16.67%) Kanban
2 1 (16.67%) Logistics
2 1 (16.67%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (16.67%) PLM
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (16.67%) Security Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (16.67%) CREST Certified
1 1 (16.67%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle