Automotive SPICE Contracts

Automotive SPICE (ASPICE)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Automotive SPICE skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Automotive SPICE over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 519 594 700
Rank change year-on-year +75 +106 +140
Contract jobs citing Automotive SPICE 1 4 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% 0.009% 0.020%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.022% 0.064% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.00%
75th Percentile - - £625
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

Automotive SPICE falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 4,572 6,225 7,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.58% 14.31% 13.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,919 3,939 5,462
10th Percentile £265 £297 £275
25th Percentile £400 £405 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
75th Percentile £624 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 384 224
10th Percentile £18.18 £10.95 £13.29
25th Percentile £22.33 £13.18 £18.65
Median hourly rate £34.75 £20.80 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year +67.05% -42.61% +29.46%
75th Percentile £65.00 £45.00 £62.00
90th Percentile £83.03 £67.38 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.30 £18.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +157.22% -48.57% +66.27%

Automotive SPICE
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Automotive SPICE in the UK

Automotive SPICE
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Automotive SPICE in the UK

Automotive SPICE
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Automotive SPICE in the UK

Automotive SPICE
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automotive SPICE within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
Work from Home +44 1 - - 8
UK excluding London - 1 - - 15
Midlands - 1 - - 7
West Midlands - 1 - - 7
England - 1 - - 21

Automotive SPICE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (100.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Automotive
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum Master
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Product Backlog
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Review
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Planning
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 26262