Automotive Jobs 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 1 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 100 124
Rank change year-on-year +44 +24 +20
Permanent jobs citing Automotive 56 48 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 4.12% 1.61% 0.55%
As % of the General category 6.33% 3.15% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 6 29 6
10th Percentile £51,250 £40,000 -
25th Percentile £55,000 £42,500 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £61,750
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -19.03% -5.00%
75th Percentile £75,938 £87,500 £86,563
90th Percentile £76,250 £91,250 £93,125
West Midlands median annual salary £43,750 £55,000 £48,050
% change year-on-year -20.45% +14.46% +6.78%

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 common skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 884 1,524 1,209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 65.05% 51.23% 66.72%
Number of salaries quoted 440 1,204 909
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,650 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% -0.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £84,964 £80,450
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% +10.53%

Automotive
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Automotive in Birmingham

Automotive
Salary Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Automotive in Birmingham.

Salary trend for Automotive in Birmingham

Automotive
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Automotive in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Automotive in Birmingham

Automotive
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 3 (5.36%) Confluence
Applications
1 23 (41.07%) Simulink
2 3 (5.36%) Adobe XD
2 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.36%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.71%) Azure
1 6 (10.71%) Figma
2 5 (8.93%) AWS
2 5 (8.93%) Power Platform
3 3 (5.36%) Datadog
4 2 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (3.57%) GCP
4 2 (3.57%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.93%) Power BI
2 3 (5.36%) MySQL
3 2 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (3.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (10.71%) GitLab
2 3 (5.36%) JIRA
General
1 23 (41.07%) Aerospace
2 16 (28.57%) Telecoms
3 7 (12.50%) Finance
3 7 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 3 (5.36%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (5.36%) Retail
5 1 (1.79%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 22 (39.29%) Systems Engineer
2 17 (30.36%) Principal Engineer
2 17 (30.36%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 14 (25.00%) Senior
4 13 (23.21%) Software Engineer
5 11 (19.64%) Development Engineer
5 11 (19.64%) Software Development Engineer
6 10 (17.86%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 7 (12.50%) Principal Software Engineer
8 6 (10.71%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (8.93%) Developer
9 5 (8.93%) Product Manager
10 4 (7.14%) Senior Development Engineer
10 4 (7.14%) Senior Software Development Engineer
11 3 (5.36%) Analyst
11 3 (5.36%) Full-Stack Developer
11 3 (5.36%) Junior
11 3 (5.36%) Junior UI/UX Designer
11 3 (5.36%) Junior UX Designer
11 3 (5.36%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.93%) .NET
1 5 (8.93%) .NET Core
1 5 (8.93%) AngularJS
2 3 (5.36%) CSS
2 3 (5.36%) Entity Framework
2 3 (5.36%) HTML
3 2 (3.57%) OpenMP
3 2 (3.57%) React
3 2 (3.57%) RESTful
3 2 (3.57%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.07%) Mobile App
2 3 (5.36%) Animation
2 3 (5.36%) Data Structures
2 3 (5.36%) Video Editing
3 2 (3.57%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.57%) CUDA
3 2 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.57%) IoT
3 2 (3.57%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.57%) SIMD
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.36%) Android
1 3 (5.36%) Apple iOS
1 3 (5.36%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (69.64%) Systems Engineering
2 30 (53.57%) Agile
3 23 (41.07%) Software Testing
3 23 (41.07%) Validation
4 14 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 10 (17.86%) Project Planning
6 6 (10.71%) User Experience
6 6 (10.71%) Wireframes
7 5 (8.93%) CI/CD
7 5 (8.93%) Machine Learning
7 5 (8.93%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (8.93%) Product Management
7 5 (8.93%) Scrum
8 4 (7.14%) Containerisation
9 3 (5.36%) Design Thinking
9 3 (5.36%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (5.36%) Product Roadmap
9 3 (5.36%) Product Strategy
9 3 (5.36%) Roadmaps
9 3 (5.36%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 23 (41.07%) MATLAB
2 5 (8.93%) C#
3 4 (7.14%) SQL
4 3 (5.36%) TypeScript
5 2 (3.57%) C++
5 2 (3.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 32 (57.14%) BPSS Clearance
2 16 (28.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.71%) QA
System Software
1 7 (12.50%) Docker
2 3 (5.36%) LXC
Systems Management
1 4 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.36%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (5.36%) Adobe
2 2 (3.57%) Databricks