Self-Driving Car Contracts

Self-Driving Car (Autonomous Vehicle, Driverless Car)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Self-Driving Car in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Self-Driving Car over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 524 578 670
Rank change year-on-year +54 +92 +161
Contract jobs citing Self-Driving Car 2 5 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.012% 0.059%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.020% 0.038% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 12
10th Percentile - £435 £96
25th Percentile £525 £450 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £429
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +16.62% -40.86%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £450
90th Percentile - - £495
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £500 £425
% change year-on-year +10.00% +17.65% -

All Generic Skills
UK

Self-Driving Car 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 9,948 13,193 19,787
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.95% 30.39% 33.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,351 8,470 13,586
10th Percentile £300 £263 £306
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £651 £659 £680
90th Percentile £775 £793 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 401 911 639
10th Percentile £16.67 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.00 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.05 £30.16 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +6.27% +34.13% -18.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £82.50 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.78 £28.38 £22.00
% change year-on-year +8.48% +28.98% +10.00%

Self-Driving Car
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Self-Driving Car as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Self-Driving Car in the UK

Self-Driving Car
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Self-Driving Car.

Daily rate trend for Self-Driving Car in the UK

Self-Driving Car
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Self-Driving Car.

Hourly rate trend for Self-Driving Car in the UK

Self-Driving Car
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Self-Driving Car within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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 +65 2 £550 +10.00% 47
UK excluding London +58 2 £550 +10.00% 39
South East +37 2 £550 - 9

Self-Driving Car
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:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Automotive
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Embedded Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Logistics
1 2 (100.00%) Network Design