Automotive Contracts in the North West

Automotive
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Automotive in contract job vacancies advertised in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Automotive over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 148 172
Rank change year-on-year +17 +24 -34
Contract jobs citing Automotive 10 9 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.36% 0.28% 0.25%
As % of the General category 0.67% 0.54% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 4
10th Percentile £484 £375 £412
25th Percentile £497 £459 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £619 £463
Median % change year-on-year -13.13% +33.78% -
75th Percentile £572 £638 £556
90th Percentile £581 £651 £680
England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £22.13 - -
25th Percentile £30.75 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £45.00 £39.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% -20.00%

All General Skills
North West

Automotive is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,490 1,659 1,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 53.64% 51.39% 49.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 923 1,140 1,396
10th Percentile £300 £304 £213
25th Percentile £400 £410 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +7.64% +9.04%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £569
90th Percentile £687 £675 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -2.27% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 86 117
10th Percentile £12.47 £14.70 £11.98
25th Percentile £14.50 £18.63 £15.00
Median hourly rate £17.72 £25.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.51% +27.50% -10.11%
75th Percentile £35.23 £37.30 £44.03
90th Percentile £49.10 £52.56 £56.50
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.81 £21.50
% change year-on-year -13.82% +61.91% -4.44%

Automotive
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Automotive as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Automotive in the North West

Automotive
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Automotive in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Automotive in the North West

Automotive
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Automotive in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Automotive in the North West

Automotive
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Automotive in the North West over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Automotive in the North West

Automotive
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automotive within the North West region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
Manchester +18 7 £500 -20.00% 50
Cheshire +5 2 £575 +173.81% 34
Merseyside - 1 - - 14
Automotive
England

Automotive
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (10.00%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Simulink
1 4 (40.00%) Stateflow
2 1 (10.00%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) DELMIA
1 1 (10.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 4 (40.00%) Legal
2 3 (30.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Incident Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Incident Manager
3 1 (10.00%) ITSM Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Middleware Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) PLC Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Support Team Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Kafka
1 1 (10.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (10.00%) Cyberattack
2 1 (10.00%) Life Science
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) VMS
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
1 4 (40.00%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
1 4 (40.00%) Software Engineering
1 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (40.00%) Validation
1 4 (40.00%) Verification and Validation
2 1 (10.00%) Analytics
2 1 (10.00%) Availability Management
2 1 (10.00%) Batch Processing
2 1 (10.00%) Content Management
2 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (10.00%) Data Encryption
2 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (10.00%) Key Management
2 1 (10.00%) PLM
2 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (10.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (10.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) MATLAB
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Allen-Bradley
2 1 (10.00%) F5
2 1 (10.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) Rockwell
2 1 (10.00%) Siemens