Automotive Jobs in the UK excluding London

Automotive
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Automotive in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Automotive over the 6 months leading up to 25 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 191 113
Rank change year-on-year +93 -78 +55
Permanent jobs citing Automotive 998 1,042 1,903
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.72% 1.49% 3.06%
As % of the General category 4.23% 2.59% 4.41%
Number of salaries quoted 395 614 252
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £48,125 £36,250 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £58,943 £61,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £79,750
UK median annual salary £50,055 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.66% -12.50% +26.32%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 23,613 40,205 43,168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 64.38% 57.51% 69.37%
Number of salaries quoted 11,816 26,378 19,425
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,000 £28,704
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.38% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,757 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.57% -12.50% -

Automotive
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Automotive as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Automotive in the UK excluding London

Automotive
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Automotive in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Automotive in the UK excluding London

Automotive
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Automotive in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Automotive in the UK excluding London

Automotive
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Automotive within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
North of England +133 436 £50,055 +5.38% 197
North West +160 420 £50,055 +5.38% 116
Midlands +38 410 £40,000 -27.27% 290
West Midlands +16 286 £40,000 -30.43% 194
East Midlands +78 124 £40,000 -5.88% 91
South East +7 71 £55,000 - 218
East of England -36 42 £54,000 +8.00% 144
South West +47 33 £57,500 +21.05% 123
Yorkshire +19 12 £52,500 +5.00% 57
Scotland +111 6 £55,000 -15.38% 43
North East +17 4 £46,250 +17.09% 25
Automotive
UK

Automotive
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 20 (2.00%) SharePoint
2 11 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.40%) Confluence
4 3 (0.30%) Apache
4 3 (0.30%) CMS
4 3 (0.30%) WordPress
5 2 (0.20%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.20%) nginx
6 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 205 (20.54%) Simulink
2 179 (17.94%) Microsoft Office
3 175 (17.54%) Microsoft Excel
4 154 (15.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.40%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.30%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.30%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.30%) Sketch
7 2 (0.20%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.10%) 3ds Max
8 1 (0.10%) Blender
8 1 (0.10%) CANalyzer
8 1 (0.10%) CATIA
8 1 (0.10%) Maple
8 1 (0.10%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.10%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 186 (18.64%) Teamcenter
2 3 (0.30%) Sage 50
3 1 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 47 (4.71%) Azure
2 31 (3.11%) Power Platform
3 26 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (2.30%) AWS
5 16 (1.60%) Google Workspace
6 13 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (1.30%) PowerApps
7 11 (1.10%) GitHub
8 10 (1.00%) SaaS
9 9 (0.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 9 (0.90%) Entra ID
10 7 (0.70%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (0.60%) Figma
12 5 (0.50%) Snowflake
13 4 (0.40%) GCP
13 4 (0.40%) Google Analytics
13 4 (0.40%) MailChimp
14 3 (0.30%) Azure Machine Learning
14 3 (0.30%) Cloud Computing
14 3 (0.30%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.01%) Firewall
2 23 (2.30%) DHCP
2 23 (2.30%) DNS
3 18 (1.80%) TCP/IP
4 16 (1.60%) BGP
4 16 (1.60%) OSPF
4 16 (1.60%) VLAN
4 16 (1.60%) WLAN
5 12 (1.20%) WAN
6 9 (0.90%) LAN
7 8 (0.80%) Remote Desktop
8 7 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (0.60%) Internet
9 6 (0.60%) VoIP
10 5 (0.50%) Bluetooth
11 4 (0.40%) Network Security
11 4 (0.40%) SD-WAN
11 4 (0.40%) VPN
11 4 (0.40%) Wireless
12 3 (0.30%) J1939
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (2.40%) Power BI
2 10 (1.00%) NoSQL
3 9 (0.90%) SQL Server
4 8 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (0.80%) Tableau
5 6 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (0.60%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 5 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (0.50%) MySQL
6 5 (0.50%) Redis
6 5 (0.50%) SQLite
7 4 (0.40%) Big Data
8 2 (0.20%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.20%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.10%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.10%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (1.50%) Git
2 10 (1.00%) JIRA
3 7 (0.70%) GitLab
3 7 (0.70%) Visual Studio
4 4 (0.40%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (0.30%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.20%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.10%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.10%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.10%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.10%) NUnit
7 1 (0.10%) Subversion
7 1 (0.10%) Vite
7 1 (0.10%) webpack
General
1 482 (48.30%) Aerospace
2 287 (28.76%) Telecoms
3 229 (22.95%) Social Skills
4 62 (6.21%) Aeronautics
5 59 (5.91%) Manufacturing
6 46 (4.61%) Retail
7 35 (3.51%) Finance
8 32 (3.21%) Electronics
9 16 (1.60%) Analytical Skills
10 12 (1.20%) Legal
11 11 (1.10%) Marketing
12 9 (0.90%) Law
13 8 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (0.70%) Advertising
14 7 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.50%) Public Sector
16 5 (0.50%) Publishing
17 4 (0.40%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 483 (48.40%) Systems Engineer
2 299 (29.96%) Principal Engineer
3 297 (29.76%) Principal Systems Engineer
4 256 (25.65%) Senior
5 208 (20.84%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 120 (12.02%) Software Engineer
7 92 (9.22%) Development Engineer
8 90 (9.02%) Software Development Engineer
9 58 (5.81%) Integration Engineer
10 57 (5.71%) Systems Integration Engineer
11 55 (5.51%) Principal Software Engineer
12 54 (5.41%) Senior Software Engineer
13 36 (3.61%) Developer
13 36 (3.61%) Senior Development Engineer
13 36 (3.61%) Senior Integration Engineer
13 36 (3.61%) Senior Software Development Engineer
14 17 (1.70%) Embedded Engineer
15 16 (1.60%) IT Engineer
15 16 (1.60%) IT Support
15 16 (1.60%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (3.31%) .NET
2 20 (2.00%) HTML
3 16 (1.60%) CSS
4 14 (1.40%) .NET Core
5 13 (1.30%) ASP.NET
5 13 (1.30%) Entity Framework
6 10 (1.00%) .NET Framework
7 9 (0.90%) AngularJS
7 9 (0.90%) RESTful
8 8 (0.80%) LINQ
9 7 (0.70%) React
10 6 (0.60%) WPF
11 5 (0.50%) ASP.NET Core
11 5 (0.50%) CSS3
11 5 (0.50%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (0.50%) HTML5
11 5 (0.50%) MassTransit
11 5 (0.50%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (0.50%) Web Services
12 4 (0.40%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 18 (1.80%) Management Information System
2 16 (1.60%) Smartphone
3 14 (1.40%) Renewable Energy
4 13 (1.30%) Algorithms
5 12 (1.20%) Mobile App
5 12 (1.20%) Product Ownership
6 11 (1.10%) IoT
7 10 (1.00%) Embedded Systems
8 8 (0.80%) FMCG
9 6 (0.60%) Digital Signage
9 6 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (0.50%) Driving Licence
10 5 (0.50%) Life Science
10 5 (0.50%) Social Media
11 4 (0.40%) Onboarding
11 4 (0.40%) Operational Technology
12 3 (0.30%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.30%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (0.30%) Motion Graphics
12 3 (0.30%) Self-Driving Car
Operating Systems
1 47 (4.71%) Windows
2 31 (3.11%) Linux
2 31 (3.11%) Windows Server
3 19 (1.90%) Windows 10
3 19 (1.90%) Windows Server 2019
4 17 (1.70%) Ubuntu
5 16 (1.60%) Mac OS X
5 16 (1.60%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (0.50%) Android
6 5 (0.50%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.30%) Unix
8 2 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.10%) CentOS
9 1 (0.10%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 755 (75.65%) Systems Engineering
2 244 (24.45%) Agile
3 210 (21.04%) Validation
4 207 (20.74%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
5 202 (20.24%) Software Testing
6 186 (18.64%) PLM
7 153 (15.33%) Architectural Design
8 148 (14.83%) Software Engineering
9 90 (9.02%) Project Planning
10 83 (8.32%) Requirements Management
11 63 (6.31%) Coaching
11 63 (6.31%) Physics
12 61 (6.11%) Mathematics
13 53 (5.31%) Problem-Solving
14 34 (3.41%) Computer Science
15 28 (2.81%) Continuous Improvement
16 26 (2.61%) CI/CD
16 26 (2.61%) Stakeholder Management
17 25 (2.51%) Analytics
18 24 (2.40%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 392 (39.28%) MATLAB
2 46 (4.61%) SQL
3 38 (3.81%) C#
4 31 (3.11%) PowerShell
5 28 (2.81%) C
6 24 (2.40%) Python
7 17 (1.70%) Embedded C
8 16 (1.60%) JavaScript
9 14 (1.40%) C++
10 6 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (0.60%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.50%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.40%) PHP
12 4 (0.40%) VB.NET
13 3 (0.30%) Bicep
13 3 (0.30%) Java
14 2 (0.20%) Ruby
14 2 (0.20%) Rust
15 1 (0.10%) Dart
15 1 (0.10%) R
Qualifications
1 596 (59.72%) Degree
2 519 (52.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 261 (26.15%) HND
4 203 (20.34%) HNC
5 24 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 19 (1.90%) MCSE
8 10 (1.00%) Master's Degree
9 8 (0.80%) PhD
10 7 (0.70%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.30%) CCNA
11 3 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.30%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (0.20%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.20%) CISSP
12 2 (0.20%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.20%) PMP
12 2 (0.20%) SC Cleared
12 2 (0.20%) Security Cleared
12 2 (0.20%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (1.10%) Automotive SPICE
1 11 (1.10%) ISO 26262
1 11 (1.10%) QA
2 9 (0.90%) Data Quality
3 6 (0.60%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.60%) AUTOSAR
4 3 (0.30%) HAZOP
4 3 (0.30%) PMO
5 2 (0.20%) ISO 9000
5 2 (0.20%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.20%) MISRA
5 2 (0.20%) MISRA C
5 2 (0.20%) NIST
6 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.10%) GRC
6 1 (0.10%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.10%) JTAG
6 1 (0.10%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.10%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (3.41%) Active Directory
2 15 (1.50%) Docker
3 6 (0.60%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.50%) Firmware
4 5 (0.50%) Terminal Services
5 3 (0.30%) LXC
5 3 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (1.00%) Kubernetes
1 10 (1.00%) Terraform
2 6 (0.60%) Functional Safety
3 4 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.30%) SCCM
5 1 (0.10%) Nessus
5 1 (0.10%) OpenVAS
5 1 (0.10%) QRadar
Vendors
1 226 (22.65%) Microsoft
2 187 (18.74%) ANSYS
3 28 (2.81%) Cisco
4 24 (2.40%) Google
5 23 (2.30%) Fortinet
6 16 (1.60%) Apple
6 16 (1.60%) Dell
6 16 (1.60%) Ubiquiti
7 9 (0.90%) VMware
8 8 (0.80%) Databricks
9 5 (0.50%) Hitachi
9 5 (0.50%) IBM
9 5 (0.50%) Oracle
10 4 (0.40%) EMC
11 3 (0.30%) Adobe
11 3 (0.30%) Aruba
11 3 (0.30%) Kaseya
11 3 (0.30%) Sage
11 3 (0.30%) SonicWALL
11 3 (0.30%) WatchGuard