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 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 120 183 139
Rank change year-on-year +63 -44 -2
Permanent jobs citing Automotive 1,020 1,120 1,517
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.57% 1.50% 2.65%
As % of the General category 3.79% 2.67% 3.89%
Number of salaries quoted 390 658 240
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £37,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -1.96% +13.33%
75th Percentile £58,943 £61,000 £67,813
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £50,055 £52,250 £58,750
% change year-on-year -4.20% -11.06% +27.72%

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 26,890 41,891 38,984
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 67.76% 55.94% 68.01%
Number of salaries quoted 12,017 26,910 18,141
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,908 £62,200 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -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 31 May 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 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
Midlands +41 434 £40,000 -23.81% 196
North of England +111 421 £50,055 +11.23% 84
North West +143 411 £50,055 +11.23% 46
West Midlands +20 297 £43,750 -20.45% 148
East Midlands +66 137 £36,500 -14.12% 48
South East -13 80 £46,374 -15.68% 179
East of England -60 42 £50,000 - 67
South West +41 32 £57,500 +21.05% 84
Yorkshire -16 8 £57,560 +27.91% 25
Northern Ireland - 7 - - 1
Scotland +97 4 £57,500 -2.13% 21
North East +18 2 £90,000 +127.85% 14
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 27 (2.65%) SharePoint
2 9 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.59%) Confluence
4 3 (0.29%) Apache
4 3 (0.29%) CMS
4 3 (0.29%) WordPress
5 2 (0.20%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.20%) nginx
Applications
1 209 (20.49%) Simulink
2 196 (19.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 193 (18.92%) Microsoft Office
4 176 (17.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.39%) AutoCAD
5 4 (0.39%) Photoshop
6 3 (0.29%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.29%) Sketch
7 1 (0.098%) 3ds Max
7 1 (0.098%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.098%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.098%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.098%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.098%) Blender
7 1 (0.098%) CANalyzer
7 1 (0.098%) CATIA
7 1 (0.098%) InDesign
7 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.098%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 206 (20.20%) Teamcenter
2 7 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.29%) Sage 50
5 1 (0.098%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.098%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.098%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 41 (4.02%) Azure
2 33 (3.24%) Power Platform
3 28 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
4 25 (2.45%) AWS
5 20 (1.96%) SaaS
6 15 (1.47%) PowerApps
7 11 (1.08%) Google Workspace
8 9 (0.88%) Entra ID
9 7 (0.69%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (0.69%) GitHub
9 7 (0.69%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (0.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (0.59%) Figma
10 6 (0.59%) Snowflake
11 5 (0.49%) GCP
11 5 (0.49%) Google Analytics
11 5 (0.49%) MailChimp
12 3 (0.29%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (0.29%) Datadog
12 3 (0.29%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.86%) Firewall
2 15 (1.47%) DHCP
2 15 (1.47%) DNS
3 12 (1.18%) TCP/IP
4 11 (1.08%) BGP
4 11 (1.08%) OSPF
4 11 (1.08%) VLAN
4 11 (1.08%) WLAN
5 10 (0.98%) WAN
6 8 (0.78%) Internet
6 8 (0.78%) Remote Desktop
7 7 (0.69%) LAN
8 6 (0.59%) VoIP
8 6 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (0.49%) Wireless
10 4 (0.39%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.29%) Bluetooth
12 2 (0.20%) Ethernet
12 2 (0.20%) Intranet
12 2 (0.20%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (2.35%) Power BI
2 9 (0.88%) Tableau
3 8 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (0.69%) SAP HANA
5 6 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (0.59%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 5 (0.49%) MySQL
6 5 (0.49%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.39%) Big Data
7 4 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.29%) Redis
9 2 (0.20%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.20%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.20%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.20%) SQLite
10 1 (0.098%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (1.27%) JIRA
2 10 (0.98%) Git
3 8 (0.78%) GitLab
4 2 (0.20%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.098%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.098%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.098%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.098%) JUnit
5 1 (0.098%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.098%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.098%) NUnit
General
1 530 (51.96%) Aerospace
2 273 (26.76%) Telecoms
3 263 (25.78%) Social Skills
4 72 (7.06%) Aeronautics
5 48 (4.71%) Manufacturing
6 44 (4.31%) Retail
7 34 (3.33%) Electronics
8 32 (3.14%) Finance
9 29 (2.84%) Analytical Skills
10 24 (2.35%) Marketing
11 11 (1.08%) Legal
12 10 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (0.88%) Law
13 9 (0.88%) Publishing
14 7 (0.69%) Banking
14 7 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.59%) Advertising
15 6 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
17 4 (0.39%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 532 (52.16%) Systems Engineer
2 285 (27.94%) Principal Engineer
3 283 (27.75%) Principal Systems Engineer
4 261 (25.59%) Senior
5 225 (22.06%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 118 (11.57%) Software Engineer
7 100 (9.80%) Development Engineer
8 99 (9.71%) Software Development Engineer
9 64 (6.27%) Principal Software Engineer
10 57 (5.59%) Integration Engineer
10 57 (5.59%) Systems Integration Engineer
11 48 (4.71%) Senior Software Engineer
12 36 (3.53%) Senior Development Engineer
12 36 (3.53%) Senior Integration Engineer
12 36 (3.53%) Senior Software Development Engineer
13 27 (2.65%) Developer
14 22 (2.16%) Analyst
15 21 (2.06%) Technical Support
16 20 (1.96%) IT Support
17 18 (1.76%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.35%) .NET
2 11 (1.08%) .NET Core
2 11 (1.08%) HTML
3 10 (0.98%) CSS
4 7 (0.69%) Entity Framework
4 7 (0.69%) React
5 6 (0.59%) RESTful
6 5 (0.49%) AngularJS
6 5 (0.49%) Vue
7 4 (0.39%) .NET Framework
7 4 (0.39%) ASP.NET
7 4 (0.39%) Laravel
7 4 (0.39%) REST
8 3 (0.29%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (0.29%) CSS3
8 3 (0.29%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.29%) HTML5
8 3 (0.29%) LINQ
8 3 (0.29%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (0.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (1.76%) Management Information System
1 18 (1.76%) Renewable Energy
2 17 (1.67%) Product Ownership
3 13 (1.27%) Mobile App
3 13 (1.27%) Social Media
4 12 (1.18%) FMCG
5 11 (1.08%) Algorithms
5 11 (1.08%) Smartphone
6 10 (0.98%) IoT
7 6 (0.59%) Digital Signage
7 6 (0.59%) Life Science
8 5 (0.49%) Embedded Systems
9 4 (0.39%) Animation
9 4 (0.39%) Driving Licence
9 4 (0.39%) Motion Graphics
9 4 (0.39%) Operational Technology
9 4 (0.39%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.29%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.29%) Infotainment
10 3 (0.29%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 45 (4.41%) Windows
2 26 (2.55%) Linux
3 24 (2.35%) Windows Server
4 14 (1.37%) Windows 10
4 14 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
5 11 (1.08%) Mac OS X
5 11 (1.08%) Ubuntu
5 11 (1.08%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (0.59%) Android
7 5 (0.49%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.29%) Unix
9 2 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.098%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.098%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 775 (75.98%) Systems Engineering
2 256 (25.10%) Agile
3 213 (20.88%) Validation
4 207 (20.29%) Software Testing
5 206 (20.20%) PLM
6 185 (18.14%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
7 131 (12.84%) Software Engineering
8 124 (12.16%) Architectural Design
9 99 (9.71%) Project Planning
10 83 (8.14%) Requirements Management
11 74 (7.25%) Coaching
12 72 (7.06%) Physics
13 68 (6.67%) Mathematics
14 59 (5.78%) Problem-Solving
15 35 (3.43%) Continuous Improvement
16 31 (3.04%) Analytics
16 31 (3.04%) Computer Science
17 29 (2.84%) Decision-Making
18 27 (2.65%) Mentoring
19 25 (2.45%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 415 (40.69%) MATLAB
2 44 (4.31%) SQL
3 27 (2.65%) C#
4 26 (2.55%) PowerShell
5 19 (1.86%) Python
6 18 (1.76%) C
7 12 (1.18%) Embedded C
8 8 (0.78%) C++
9 7 (0.69%) JavaScript
9 7 (0.69%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.49%) PHP
11 5 (0.49%) VB
12 4 (0.39%) Java
12 4 (0.39%) VBA
13 3 (0.29%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.29%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.098%) Ada
14 1 (0.098%) Embedded C++
14 1 (0.098%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 615 (60.29%) Degree
2 567 (55.59%) BPSS Clearance
3 282 (27.65%) HND
4 217 (21.27%) HNC
5 19 (1.86%) Master's Degree
6 17 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (1.37%) MCSE
9 10 (0.98%) PhD
10 8 (0.78%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.49%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.39%) CCNA
12 4 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.29%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.29%) Network+ Certification
13 3 (0.29%) Security Cleared
14 2 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.20%) CISSP
14 2 (0.20%) SC Cleared
14 2 (0.20%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (0.69%) ISO 26262
1 7 (0.69%) QA
2 6 (0.59%) Automotive SPICE
2 6 (0.59%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.29%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.29%) AUTOSAR
3 3 (0.29%) PMO
4 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.20%) NIST
4 2 (0.20%) SLA
5 1 (0.098%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.098%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.098%) GDPR
5 1 (0.098%) GRC
5 1 (0.098%) ISO 14001
5 1 (0.098%) ISO 9000
5 1 (0.098%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.098%) JTAG
5 1 (0.098%) MISRA C
5 1 (0.098%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (2.65%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.27%) Docker
3 5 (0.49%) Firmware
3 5 (0.49%) Terminal Services
4 3 (0.29%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.29%) LXC
5 1 (0.098%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (1.18%) Kubernetes
1 12 (1.18%) Terraform
2 8 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (0.49%) Functional Safety
4 3 (0.29%) SCCM
5 1 (0.098%) Ansible
5 1 (0.098%) Kibana
5 1 (0.098%) Nessus
5 1 (0.098%) OpenVAS
5 1 (0.098%) QRadar
Vendors
1 245 (24.02%) Microsoft
2 207 (20.29%) ANSYS
3 23 (2.25%) Cisco
4 19 (1.86%) Google
5 18 (1.76%) Fortinet
6 11 (1.08%) Apple
6 11 (1.08%) Dell
6 11 (1.08%) Ubiquiti
7 10 (0.98%) IBM
8 8 (0.78%) Databricks
8 8 (0.78%) SAP
9 7 (0.69%) Oracle
10 6 (0.59%) VMware
11 4 (0.39%) Adobe
11 4 (0.39%) Logitech
12 3 (0.29%) Freshdesk
12 3 (0.29%) Hitachi
12 3 (0.29%) Okta
12 3 (0.29%) Sage
12 3 (0.29%) YouTube