Automotive Jobs in the South East

Automotive
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Automotive in permanent job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Automotive over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 191 185 237
Rank change year-on-year -6 +52 +15
Permanent jobs citing Automotive 176 193 316
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.17% 1.67% 1.43%
As % of the General category 2.17% 2.74% 2.23%
Number of salaries quoted 85 86 144
10th Percentile £38,500 £38,125 £33,825
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £57,500 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% +19.79% -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £63,875
90th Percentile £81,500 - £67,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £46,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +25.00% -8.00%

All General Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,122 7,045 14,153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 53.81% 60.80% 64.14%
Number of salaries quoted 4,765 4,014 6,830
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,881 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.99% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%

Automotive
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Automotive as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Automotive in the South East

Automotive
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Automotive in the South East.

Salary trend for Automotive in the South East

Automotive
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Automotive in the South East over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Automotive in the South East

Automotive
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Automotive within the South East region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
Thames Valley +61 81 £61,000 +16.75% 64
Kent -28 41 £48,000 -12.73% 12
Berkshire +44 36 £65,000 +34.02% 19
Oxfordshire +6 34 £54,000 +6.93% 21
Hampshire -50 26 £75,000 - 11
Surrey -17 18 £62,500 +61.29% 16
Buckinghamshire +1 11 £67,500 +12.50% 24
West Sussex +9 4 £40,000 - 4
Middlesex - 2 £34,000 - 1
Automotive
England

Automotive
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (2.84%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 5 (2.84%) Confluence
2 1 (0.57%) Apache
2 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 26 (14.77%) Simulink
2 17 (9.66%) Stateflow
3 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.14%) CATIA
4 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.70%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.70%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (1.14%) SAP BPC
2 2 (1.14%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 15 (8.52%) Azure
2 8 (4.55%) GitHub
3 7 (3.98%) AWS
4 6 (3.41%) Akamai
4 6 (3.41%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (3.41%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (3.41%) Amazon S3
4 6 (3.41%) Amazon SQS
4 6 (3.41%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (3.41%) AWS Fargate
4 6 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (3.41%) Azure AKS
4 6 (3.41%) Azure Functions
4 6 (3.41%) Cloudflare
4 6 (3.41%) CloudFront
4 6 (3.41%) SaaS
4 6 (3.41%) Serverless
5 3 (1.70%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (1.70%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.55%) J1939
2 2 (1.14%) Ethernet
2 2 (1.14%) Firewall
2 2 (1.14%) Wideband
3 1 (0.57%) DNS
3 1 (0.57%) HTTP
3 1 (0.57%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.57%) Internet
3 1 (0.57%) LAN
3 1 (0.57%) Network Security
3 1 (0.57%) RS-232
3 1 (0.57%) RS-485
3 1 (0.57%) VPN
3 1 (0.57%) WAN
3 1 (0.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (1.14%) Power BI
1 2 (1.14%) SAP BW
1 2 (1.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (0.57%) Big Data
2 1 (0.57%) Data Vault
2 1 (0.57%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (10.23%) JIRA
2 8 (4.55%) ClearCase
2 8 (4.55%) Git
2 8 (4.55%) Plastic SCM
3 5 (2.84%) ClearQuest
4 3 (1.70%) TestRail
5 1 (0.57%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.57%) GitLab
5 1 (0.57%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.57%) Rational DOORS
General
1 33 (18.75%) Electronics
2 28 (15.91%) Social Skills
3 21 (11.93%) Aerospace
3 21 (11.93%) Legal
3 21 (11.93%) Retail
4 13 (7.39%) Pharmaceutical
4 13 (7.39%) Telecoms
5 11 (6.25%) Manufacturing
6 10 (5.68%) Finance
7 9 (5.11%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (4.55%) Aeronautics
9 3 (1.70%) Agriculture
10 2 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.57%) Games
11 1 (0.57%) Marketing
11 1 (0.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 49 (27.84%) Senior
2 44 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 29 (16.48%) Lead
4 23 (13.07%) Senior Software Engineer
5 20 (11.36%) Systems Engineer
6 19 (10.80%) Embedded Engineer
7 16 (9.09%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 9 (5.11%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 8 (4.55%) Data Centre Engineer
9 8 (4.55%) Testing Engineer
10 7 (3.98%) IT Support
10 7 (3.98%) Project Manager
10 7 (3.98%) Support Engineer
11 6 (3.41%) Architect
11 6 (3.41%) Data Architect
11 6 (3.41%) Hardware Engineer
11 6 (3.41%) Project Engineer
11 6 (3.41%) Technical Engineer
11 6 (3.41%) Technical Support
11 6 (3.41%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.55%) .NET
2 3 (1.70%) Gherkin
3 2 (1.14%) Middleware
4 1 (0.57%) Kafka
4 1 (0.57%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 27 (15.34%) Embedded Systems
2 20 (11.36%) Algorithms
3 17 (9.66%) Renewable Energy
4 9 (5.11%) Data Centre
5 8 (4.55%) Operational Technology
6 7 (3.98%) Device Driver
7 6 (3.41%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.14%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.57%) Acoustics
10 1 (0.57%) Analogue Electronics
10 1 (0.57%) ARM Cortex
10 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.57%) IoT
10 1 (0.57%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.57%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.70%) Windows
1 3 (1.70%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (26.70%) Software Engineering
2 34 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (11.36%) Agile
4 19 (10.80%) Asset Management
5 17 (9.66%) Project Management
5 17 (9.66%) Validation
6 14 (7.95%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (7.39%) Data Analysis
8 11 (6.25%) Data Acquisition
8 11 (6.25%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
8 11 (6.25%) Mathematics
9 10 (5.68%) DevOps
9 10 (5.68%) Software Testing
10 9 (5.11%) ERP
10 9 (5.11%) Mentoring
11 8 (4.55%) Configuration Management
11 8 (4.55%) Data Management
11 8 (4.55%) Experimental Design
11 8 (4.55%) Root Cause Analysis
11 8 (4.55%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (15.34%) MATLAB
2 26 (14.77%) Python
3 22 (12.50%) C
4 11 (6.25%) C++
5 10 (5.68%) Embedded C
5 10 (5.68%) Java
6 4 (2.27%) C#
6 4 (2.27%) SQL
7 3 (1.70%) Perl
8 1 (0.57%) Embedded C++
8 1 (0.57%) Scala
8 1 (0.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 40 (22.73%) Degree
2 11 (6.25%) NVQ Level 3
3 3 (1.70%) HND
4 2 (1.14%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.57%) CCNA
5 1 (0.57%) CCNP
5 1 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.57%) MBA
5 1 (0.57%) MCAD
5 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.57%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.82%) ISO 9001
2 11 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 17025
3 10 (5.68%) MISRA
4 8 (4.55%) Automotive SPICE
4 8 (4.55%) ISO 26262
5 5 (2.84%) AUTOSAR
6 4 (2.27%) GDPR
7 3 (1.70%) GRC
7 3 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.70%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.70%) QA
8 2 (1.14%) ITGC
8 2 (1.14%) MISRA C
9 1 (0.57%) COSHH
9 1 (0.57%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.57%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (6.82%) Firmware
2 7 (3.98%) Embedded Firmware
3 6 (3.41%) Docker
3 6 (3.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (6.25%) Functional Safety
2 6 (3.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 25 (14.20%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.55%) IBM
2 8 (4.55%) Lauterbach
3 6 (3.41%) Facebook
3 6 (3.41%) ForgeRock
3 6 (3.41%) Instagram
3 6 (3.41%) Salesforce
3 6 (3.41%) Sitecore
4 5 (2.84%) Adobe
4 5 (2.84%) MuleSoft
5 4 (2.27%) SAP
6 3 (1.70%) EMC
7 2 (1.14%) Ariba
7 2 (1.14%) Concur
7 2 (1.14%) Databricks
7 2 (1.14%) IFS
8 1 (0.57%) Aruba
8 1 (0.57%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.57%) Renesas
8 1 (0.57%) ServiceNow