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 6 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 185 152
Rank change year-on-year +91 -33 +92
Permanent jobs citing Automotive 185 21 208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.36% 0.51% 2.30%
As % of the General category 3.92% 0.82% 3.44%
Number of salaries quoted 71 12 72
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,375 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,869 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -12.50% +33.33%
75th Percentile £58,943 £67,625 £82,500
90th Percentile - £82,250 £86,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £56,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year +2.68% +14.29% -10.91%

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 4,720 2,571 6,045
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 60.09% 62.71% 66.85%
Number of salaries quoted 2,114 1,681 3,246
10th Percentile £32,000 £27,000 £28,748
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £84,056
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000

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 6 December 2024.

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 6 December 2024. 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 +9 81 £50,055 +17.78% 17
Cumbria - 69 - - 2
Manchester -7 22 £53,750 -8.90% 14
Cheshire -4 7 - - 6
Merseyside +16 6 £55,000 +11.11% 5
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 3 (1.62%) Apache
1 3 (1.62%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.08%) Confluence
3 1 (0.54%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.54%) OpenStack
Applications
1 53 (28.65%) Microsoft Office
2 52 (28.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (28.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.08%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 52 (28.11%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (5.95%) Azure
2 5 (2.70%) AWS
3 3 (1.62%) Power Platform
4 2 (1.08%) Azure AKS
4 2 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.54%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (0.54%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (0.54%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (0.54%) GCP
5 1 (0.54%) GitHub
5 1 (0.54%) OpenShift
5 1 (0.54%) SaaS
5 1 (0.54%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (0.54%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.95%) Bluetooth
2 5 (2.70%) 5G
2 5 (2.70%) GSM
2 5 (2.70%) LTE
2 5 (2.70%) UMTS
2 5 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (2.70%) Wireless
3 2 (1.08%) Ethernet
3 2 (1.08%) Network Security
4 1 (0.54%) Firewall
4 1 (0.54%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.62%) Big Data
1 3 (1.62%) Hadoop
1 3 (1.62%) Power BI
1 3 (1.62%) Tableau
2 2 (1.08%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.08%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.54%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.54%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.54%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 4 (2.16%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.62%) Git
2 3 (1.62%) Selenium
3 2 (1.08%) JIRA
3 2 (1.08%) LabVIEW
3 2 (1.08%) Visual Studio
General
1 74 (40.00%) Aerospace
2 70 (37.84%) Telecoms
3 66 (35.68%) Social Skills
4 16 (8.65%) Manufacturing
5 13 (7.03%) Electronics
6 9 (4.86%) Finance
7 7 (3.78%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.16%) Retail
10 3 (1.62%) Advertising
10 3 (1.62%) Aeronautics
10 3 (1.62%) Games
11 2 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.08%) Marketing
12 1 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 68 (36.76%) Principal Engineer
1 68 (36.76%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 65 (35.14%) Engineering Manager
3 52 (28.11%) Systems Engineering Manager
3 52 (28.11%) Systems Manager
4 33 (17.84%) Senior
5 26 (14.05%) Senior Manager
6 9 (4.86%) Software Engineer
7 5 (2.70%) Embedded Engineer
7 5 (2.70%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
7 5 (2.70%) EMC Engineer
7 5 (2.70%) EMC Test Engineer
7 5 (2.70%) Firmware Engineer
7 5 (2.70%) Test Engineer
8 4 (2.16%) Agile Delivery Manager
8 4 (2.16%) Delivery Manager
8 4 (2.16%) QA Officer
8 4 (2.16%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (1.62%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 3 (1.62%) Software Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.62%) .NET
1 3 (1.62%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (1.08%) Next.js
2 2 (1.08%) WPF
3 1 (0.54%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (0.54%) HTML
3 1 (0.54%) JSON
3 1 (0.54%) Kafka
3 1 (0.54%) LINQ
3 1 (0.54%) Node.js
3 1 (0.54%) OGRE
3 1 (0.54%) React
3 1 (0.54%) RESTful
3 1 (0.54%) Spring
3 1 (0.54%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.54%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.24%) IoT
2 5 (2.70%) Satnav
3 4 (2.16%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (1.62%) Life Science
5 2 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.54%) Acoustics
6 1 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.54%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.78%) Linux
2 1 (0.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (66.49%) Systems Engineering
2 71 (38.38%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 68 (36.76%) Architectural Design
4 52 (28.11%) PLM
5 21 (11.35%) Coaching
6 15 (8.11%) Software Engineering
7 14 (7.57%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (7.03%) Configuration Management
8 13 (7.03%) Release Management
9 12 (6.49%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (5.41%) Agile
10 10 (5.41%) Test Automation
10 10 (5.41%) Test Scripting
11 9 (4.86%) Stakeholder Management
12 7 (3.78%) Mathematics
12 7 (3.78%) Scrum
12 7 (3.78%) Validation
13 6 (3.24%) Open Source
14 5 (2.70%) Computer Science
14 5 (2.70%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 54 (29.19%) MATLAB
2 14 (7.57%) C++
3 13 (7.03%) C
4 12 (6.49%) Python
5 5 (2.70%) SQL
6 3 (1.62%) C#
6 3 (1.62%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.08%) Rust
8 1 (0.54%) Bicep
8 1 (0.54%) Java
8 1 (0.54%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.54%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.54%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 150 (81.08%) Degree
2 57 (30.81%) HND
3 52 (28.11%) HNC
4 13 (7.03%) Chartered Engineer
5 2 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.54%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.54%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.78%) QA
2 2 (1.08%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 6 (3.24%) Firmware
2 5 (2.70%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.54%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.08%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.08%) Terraform
2 1 (0.54%) Ansible
2 1 (0.54%) CloudForms
2 1 (0.54%) vRealize
Vendors
1 55 (29.73%) Microsoft
2 52 (28.11%) ANSYS
3 6 (3.24%) EMC
4 3 (1.62%) Talend
5 2 (1.08%) IBM
6 1 (0.54%) Google
6 1 (0.54%) Hitachi
6 1 (0.54%) Oracle
6 1 (0.54%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.54%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.54%) SAP
6 1 (0.54%) VMware