Automotive Jobs in Kent

Automotive
South East > Kent

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Automotive in permanent job vacancies in Kent. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Automotive over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 60 20
Rank change year-on-year -5 -40 +25
Permanent jobs citing Automotive 6 45 117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 0.72% 2.97% 10.58%
As % of the General category 1.19% 5.56% 15.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 6
10th Percentile £39,825 - £37,500
25th Percentile £43,313 £52,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,750 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% - +46.67%
75th Percentile £64,313 £57,500 -
90th Percentile £66,675 - -
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +15.79%

All General Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 505 810 771
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 60.33% 53.54% 69.71%
Number of salaries quoted 233 557 292
10th Percentile £24,707 £25,400 £29,750
25th Percentile £30,500 £31,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £45,000 £47,375
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -5.01% +5.28%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £60,313
90th Percentile £70,492 £75,000 £70,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Automotive
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Automotive in Kent

Automotive
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for Automotive in Kent

Automotive
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Automotive in Kent over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Automotive in Kent

Automotive
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 (16.67%) AutoCAD
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (33.33%) Route 53
2 2 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DHCP
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) LAN
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
1 1 (16.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
General
1 2 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) IT Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior IT Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Development Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365 Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) IT Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) IT Systems Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Development Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Software Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Software Quality Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Information Security
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Project Management
4 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Coaching
4 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
4 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (16.67%) ERP
4 1 (16.67%) FMEA
4 1 (16.67%) IT Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2
4 1 (16.67%) Resource Allocation
4 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) APMP
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Automotive SPICE
1 1 (16.67%) ISO 26262
1 1 (16.67%) PMO
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (16.67%) Functional Safety
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) VMware