Automotive Contracts in Northamptonshire

Automotive
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Automotive in contract job vacancies in Northamptonshire. 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 23 19 20
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Automotive 3 6 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 2.05% 3.06% 7.05%
As % of the General category 3.33% 5.77% 12.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 17
10th Percentile - £279 £313
25th Percentile - £289 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £310 £350
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -11.43% -30.00%
75th Percentile - £410 £475
90th Percentile - £467 £488
East Midlands median daily rate £435 £408 £350
% change year-on-year +6.75% +16.43% -30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
East Midlands median hourly rate - £17.50 -

All General Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 90 104 140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 61.64% 53.06% 58.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 76 112
10th Percentile £240 £213 £213
25th Percentile £356 £356 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £445 £375
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +18.67% -16.67%
75th Percentile £480 £541 £488
90th Percentile £537 £621 £550
East Midlands median daily rate £443 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +10.63% -11.11% +4.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 14 11
10th Percentile - - £18.13
25th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £27.00
Median hourly rate £14.50 £38.00 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.84% -25.49% +50.00%
75th Percentile £15.25 £51.50 £51.50
90th Percentile - £56.58 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £23.00 £17.25 £21.67
% change year-on-year +33.33% -20.40% +0.79%

Automotive
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Automotive in Northamptonshire

Automotive
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate trend for Automotive in Northamptonshire

Automotive
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Automotive in Northamptonshire

Automotive
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automotive within the Northamptonshire 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
Northampton -6 2 - - 6
Automotive
East Midlands

Automotive
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) CANalyzer
1 1 (33.33%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
1 1 (33.33%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Hive
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
1 1 (33.33%) HBase
1 1 (33.33%) Impala
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Embedded Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Scala Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Support Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Digital Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) ETL
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 1 (33.33%) Multithreading
1 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
1 1 (33.33%) Project Management
1 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C
1 1 (33.33%) C++
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) MATLAB
1 1 (33.33%) Scala
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Hitachi
1 1 (33.33%) VMware