Automotive SPICE Job Trends

Automotive SPICE (ASPICE)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Automotive SPICE skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 773 677 788
Rank change year-on-year -96 +111 -62
Permanent jobs citing Automotive SPICE 16 10 24
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.015% 0.020% 0.029%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.14% 0.13% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 12 8 13
10th Percentile £63,875 - £61,500
25th Percentile £76,250 £61,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.00% -3.85% +13.54%
75th Percentile £87,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile - - £85,850
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +24.00% -3.85% +18.18%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

Automotive SPICE falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 11,510 7,758 10,897
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.75% 15.46% 13.16%
Number of salaries quoted 7,181 4,363 6,551
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -7.65%
75th Percentile £76,000 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,592
% change year-on-year - +5.06% -6.57%

Automotive SPICE
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Automotive SPICE relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Automotive SPICE job vacancy trend in the UK

Automotive SPICE
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Automotive SPICE.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Automotive SPICE

Automotive SPICE
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Automotive SPICE over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Automotive SPICE in the UK

Automotive SPICE
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Automotive SPICE within the UK over the 6 months to 17 August 2026. 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
England -59 15 £77,500 +24.00% 17
UK excluding London -88 15 £77,500 +24.00% 18
East of England - 8 £77,500 - 5
South West - 4 £85,000 -
West Midlands -19 3 £65,000 +4.00% 7
Midlands -28 3 £65,000 +4.00% 7
Work from Home -45 1 £65,000 - 2

Automotive SPICE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Simulink
General
1 8 (50.00%) Advertising
2 6 (37.50%) Automotive
3 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (18.75%) Electronics
5 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Embedded Engineer
1 6 (37.50%) Lead
2 5 (31.25%) Engineering Manager
2 5 (31.25%) Operations Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Junior
3 2 (12.50%) Software Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Algorithms
2 3 (18.75%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (6.25%) CAN bus
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
2 8 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 8 (50.00%) Validation
3 7 (43.75%) Embedded Software Development
4 6 (37.50%) SDLC
5 5 (31.25%) Actionable Insight
5 5 (31.25%) Agile
5 5 (31.25%) Capacity Planning
5 5 (31.25%) CMMI
5 5 (31.25%) Computer Science
5 5 (31.25%) Line Management
5 5 (31.25%) Operations Management
5 5 (31.25%) People Management
5 5 (31.25%) PRINCE2
5 5 (31.25%) Project Delivery
5 5 (31.25%) Project Management
5 5 (31.25%) QMS
5 5 (31.25%) Quality Management
5 5 (31.25%) Strategic Planning
6 3 (18.75%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) C
2 3 (18.75%) C++
2 3 (18.75%) Embedded C
2 3 (18.75%) Embedded C++
2 3 (18.75%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (75.00%) ISO 26262
2 6 (37.50%) MISRA
2 6 (37.50%) MISRA C
3 5 (31.25%) ISO 9001
3 5 (31.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft