Automotive Jobs in the North West

Automotive
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Automotive in permanent job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Automotive over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 198 254
Rank change year-on-year +143 +56 -93
Permanent jobs citing Automotive 411 93 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 5.24% 0.89% 0.53%
As % of the General category 7.45% 1.71% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 219 71 24
10th Percentile - £29,000 £40,625
25th Percentile £48,869 £32,500 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £45,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +11.23% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £51,240 £57,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £58,943 £66,250 -
England median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.11% -13.04% +25.00%

All General Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 5,517 5,454 5,027
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 70.31% 52.42% 66.86%
Number of salaries quoted 2,412 3,990 2,368
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,000 £27,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.38% -9.52% +3.02%
75th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,772 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,565 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.84% -12.50% -

Automotive
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Automotive as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Automotive in the North West

Automotive
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Automotive in the North West.

Salary trend for Automotive in the North West

Automotive
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Automotive in the North West over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Automotive in the North West

Automotive
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Automotive within the North West region over the 6 months to 31 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Lancashire +25 257 £50,055 +11.23% 16
Cumbria - 120 - - 3
Manchester +17 19 £75,000 +50.00% 16
Cheshire +13 12 £42,500 +41.67% 19
Merseyside +35 3 £55,000 +10.00% 3
Automotive
England

Automotive
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 8 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.73%) CMS
2 3 (0.73%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.73%) WordPress
3 2 (0.49%) Apache
3 2 (0.49%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.49%) nginx
Applications
1 161 (39.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 161 (39.17%) Microsoft Office
2 157 (38.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 187 (45.50%) Teamcenter
2 3 (0.73%) Sage 50
3 1 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 19 (4.62%) Azure
2 12 (2.92%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (1.46%) AWS
4 5 (1.22%) Entra ID
4 5 (1.22%) Power Platform
5 3 (0.73%) Google Analytics
5 3 (0.73%) MailChimp
6 2 (0.49%) SaaS
7 1 (0.24%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (0.24%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (0.24%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.24%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.24%) GitHub
7 1 (0.24%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.24%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.24%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.24%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.22%) Internet
1 5 (1.22%) LAN
1 5 (1.22%) Remote Desktop
1 5 (1.22%) WAN
2 4 (0.97%) Firewall
3 3 (0.73%) DHCP
3 3 (0.73%) DNS
3 3 (0.73%) VoIP
4 2 (0.49%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.24%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.24%) FlexRay
5 1 (0.24%) MQTT
5 1 (0.24%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (0.97%) Big Data
1 4 (0.97%) Power BI
2 2 (0.49%) Hadoop
2 2 (0.49%) Tableau
3 1 (0.24%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
1 1 (0.24%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.24%) JIRA
General
1 259 (63.02%) Aerospace
2 167 (40.63%) Social Skills
3 120 (29.20%) Telecoms
4 65 (15.82%) Aeronautics
5 14 (3.41%) Manufacturing
6 10 (2.43%) Finance
7 7 (1.70%) Retail
8 5 (1.22%) Advertising
9 3 (0.73%) Marketing
10 2 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.49%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.24%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 292 (71.05%) Systems Engineer
2 120 (29.20%) Principal Engineer
2 120 (29.20%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 112 (27.25%) Senior
4 110 (26.76%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 51 (12.41%) Integration Engineer
5 51 (12.41%) Systems Integration Engineer
6 30 (7.30%) Senior Integration Engineer
7 7 (1.70%) Agile Delivery Manager
7 7 (1.70%) Delivery Manager
7 7 (1.70%) Developer
7 7 (1.70%) IT Support
8 5 (1.22%) 3rd Line Support
8 5 (1.22%) 3rd Line Technical Support
8 5 (1.22%) Technical Support
9 4 (0.97%) 1st Line Support
9 4 (0.97%) Business Manager
10 3 (0.73%) Infrastructure Specialist
10 3 (0.73%) IT Support Specialist
10 3 (0.73%) Web Marketing Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.97%) .NET
2 2 (0.49%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (0.24%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (0.24%) Blazor
3 1 (0.24%) CSS
3 1 (0.24%) Flutter
3 1 (0.24%) HTML
3 1 (0.24%) jQuery
3 1 (0.24%) Kafka
3 1 (0.24%) Laravel
3 1 (0.24%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (0.97%) Public Cloud
2 3 (0.73%) Blog
2 3 (0.73%) Life Science
2 3 (0.73%) Motion Graphics
2 3 (0.73%) Social Media
3 2 (0.49%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (0.49%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.24%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.24%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.24%) Infotainment
4 1 (0.24%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.24%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.92%) Windows
2 8 (1.95%) Windows Server
3 4 (0.97%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 372 (90.51%) Systems Engineering
2 187 (45.50%) PLM
3 185 (45.01%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 121 (29.44%) Architectural Design
5 68 (16.55%) Coaching
6 67 (16.30%) Mathematics
7 65 (15.82%) Physics
8 51 (12.41%) Requirements Management
9 13 (3.16%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (3.16%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (2.43%) Agile
11 9 (2.19%) Analytics
12 8 (1.95%) Cybersecurity
13 7 (1.70%) Scrum
14 6 (1.46%) Computer Science
15 5 (1.22%) Change Management
15 5 (1.22%) CI/CD
15 5 (1.22%) ITIL
16 4 (0.97%) Continuous Improvement
16 4 (0.97%) Customer-Centricity
Programming Languages
1 187 (45.50%) MATLAB
2 5 (1.22%) Python
3 4 (0.97%) PowerShell
3 4 (0.97%) VB
3 4 (0.97%) VBA
4 3 (0.73%) SQL
5 2 (0.49%) Java
5 2 (0.49%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.24%) Bicep
6 1 (0.24%) C#
6 1 (0.24%) PHP
Qualifications
1 378 (91.97%) Degree
2 252 (61.31%) BPSS Clearance
2 252 (61.31%) HND
3 187 (45.50%) HNC
4 4 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (0.97%) DBS Check
5 3 (0.73%) CCNA
5 3 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (0.73%) MCSE
5 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (0.73%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (0.49%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.49%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
7 1 (0.24%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.24%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.24%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (2.43%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.22%) Terminal Services
3 3 (0.73%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.49%) Terraform
Vendors
1 187 (45.50%) ANSYS
2 172 (41.85%) Microsoft
3 8 (1.95%) Cisco
4 5 (1.22%) VMware
5 4 (0.97%) Logitech
6 3 (0.73%) Acronis
6 3 (0.73%) Fortinet
6 3 (0.73%) Google
6 3 (0.73%) Hitachi
6 3 (0.73%) Kaseya
6 3 (0.73%) Meraki
6 3 (0.73%) Sage
6 3 (0.73%) SonicWALL
6 3 (0.73%) WatchGuard
7 2 (0.49%) IBM
7 2 (0.49%) Talend
8 1 (0.24%) Sparx