Automotive Job Trends in Birmingham

Automotive
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Automotive in permanent job vacancies in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Automotive over the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 114 99
Rank change year-on-year +33 -15 +41
Permanent jobs citing Automotive 22 15 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.26% 0.83% 0.74%
As % of the General category 2.48% 1.23% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 21 10 8
10th Percentile £55,000 £35,875 £33,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £38,750 £37,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £45,000 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% +3.45% -42.00%
75th Percentile - £60,000 £50,563
90th Percentile - £61,625 £60,800
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £43,750 £56,000
% change year-on-year +37.14% -21.88% +11.94%

All General Skills
Birmingham

Automotive falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring general skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 886 1,216 776
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 50.66% 67.29% 57.40%
Number of salaries quoted 597 505 654
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +7.48% -2.73%
75th Percentile £71,298 £72,500 £65,853
90th Percentile £84,375 £85,000 £80,049
West Midlands median annual salary £48,500 £52,500 £49,516
% change year-on-year -7.62% +6.03% -5.68%

Automotive
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Automotive relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Automotive job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Automotive
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Automotive.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Automotive

Automotive
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (36.36%) Azure
2 6 (27.27%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 3 (13.64%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (13.64%) Delta Lake
2 3 (13.64%) Parquet
3 2 (9.09%) Power BI
General
1 11 (50.00%) Aerospace
1 11 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 5 (22.73%) Retail
3 3 (13.64%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Data Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Azure Data Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Python Data Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Python Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Senior
2 3 (13.64%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Business Development Manager
3 2 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Lead
3 2 (9.09%) Business Manager
3 2 (9.09%) Development Manager
3 2 (9.09%) Lead
3 2 (9.09%) Power BI Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Backend Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Software Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) PySpark
2 1 (4.55%) .NET
2 1 (4.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (50.00%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (27.27%) Data Engineering
1 6 (27.27%) ETL
2 5 (22.73%) Visualisation
3 3 (13.64%) Change Data Capture
3 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
3 3 (13.64%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (13.64%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (9.09%) Business Development
4 2 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (4.55%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) Python
2 3 (13.64%) SQL
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Databricks
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft