Automotive SPICE Contract Job Trends

Automotive SPICE (ASPICE)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Automotive SPICE skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 669 551 558
Rank change year-on-year -118 +7 +91
Contract jobs citing Automotive SPICE 3 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.006% 0.003% 0.008%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.032% 0.018% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile - - £358
25th Percentile £713 - £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - £360
Median % change year-on-year - - -29.76%
75th Percentile £806 - £374
90th Percentile £848 - £382
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £360
% change year-on-year - - -22.16%

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 9,483 5,529 5,097
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.54% 17.03% 13.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,020 3,538 3,102
10th Percentile £325 £295 £288
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £509
Median % change year-on-year - -1.82% -3.00%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £627
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £480
% change year-on-year +3.16% -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 595 257 261
10th Percentile £13.86 £13.60 £12.24
25th Percentile £17.00 £16.92 £14.99
Median hourly rate £33.98 £30.00 £26.68
Median % change year-on-year +13.27% +12.44% -23.77%
75th Percentile £68.75 £62.24 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.98 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.07 £27.54 £25.60
% change year-on-year +31.00% +7.56% -25.80%

Automotive SPICE
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Automotive SPICE relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Automotive SPICE job vacancy trend in the UK

Automotive SPICE
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Automotive SPICE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Automotive SPICE

Automotive SPICE
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automotive SPICE over the 6 months to 8 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Automotive SPICE in the UK

Automotive SPICE
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Automotive SPICE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Automotive SPICE

Automotive SPICE
Top 2 Contract Job 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 8 September 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
England -120 3 £725 - 16
London - 3 £725 - 1

Automotive SPICE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

General
1 3 (100.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Robotics Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 3 (100.00%) Motion Planning
1 3 (100.00%) SDLC
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
1 3 (100.00%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C++
1 3 (100.00%) Embedded C++
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Functional Safety