CAN bus Contracts

CAN bus
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term CAN bus in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CAN bus 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 518 577 711
Rank change year-on-year +59 +134 +144
Contract jobs citing CAN bus 2 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.011% 0.012%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.020% 0.038% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £65
25th Percentile - - £239
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £433
75th Percentile - - £656
90th Percentile - - £693
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £245
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.48 £46.25 -
Median hourly rate £39.32 £47.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.22% - -
75th Percentile £42.16 £48.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.32 £47.50 -
% change year-on-year -17.22% - -

All Generic Skills
UK

CAN bus falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9,944 13,250 19,897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.97% 30.42% 33.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,345 8,502 13,668
10th Percentile £300 £263 £308
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £660 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 912 640
10th Percentile £16.46 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.00 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.99 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.08 £28.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year +10.02% +28.41% +9.64%

CAN bus
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CAN bus as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CAN bus in the UK

CAN bus
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CAN bus.

Daily rate trend for CAN bus in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CAN bus.

Hourly rate trend for CAN bus in the UK

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Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CAN bus within the UK 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
England +54 2 - - 41
UK excluding London +59 1 - - 40
East of England - 1 - - 14
London - 1 - - 9

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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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) CANalyzer
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) J1939
1 1 (50.00%) RS-232
1 1 (50.00%) SpaceWire
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Data Collection
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) Embedded C
2 1 (50.00%) Embedded C++
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Tcl
2 1 (50.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree