Automotive
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Automotive in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Automotive over the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 323 237
Rank change year-on-year +91 -86 -67
Permanent jobs citing Automotive 707 362 1,180
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.85% 0.88% 1.28%
As % of the General category 1.63% 1.25% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 424 253 699
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £53,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.28% +0.94% -11.67%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.57% +5.00% -9.09%

All General Skills
UK

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 general skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 43,386 28,966 55,869
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 51.91% 70.61% 60.45%
Number of salaries quoted 23,703 15,777 39,144
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,818 £47,500
% change year-on-year -6.53% +6.99% -9.52%

Automotive
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Automotive job vacancy trend in the UK

Automotive
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Automotive.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Automotive

Automotive
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Automotive over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Automotive in the UK

Automotive
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Automotive within the UK over the 6 months to 11 April 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 +73 667 £48,000 -9.43% 315
UK excluding London +34 594 £48,000 -8.57% 269
Midlands +41 236 £45,000 +12.50% 99
Work from Home +43 126 £45,000 -16.67% 82
South East +12 126 £45,000 -18.18% 71
West Midlands +24 118 £55,000 +33.33% 69
East Midlands +26 116 £40,000 - 30
London +69 104 £55,000 -8.33% 59
North of England -56 98 £48,000 -4.10% 42
North West -54 56 £48,000 -4.10% 20
South West -18 55 £62,500 -1.96% 32
East of England -24 45 £50,000 -7.41% 16
Yorkshire -21 42 £45,000 -14.29% 19
Scotland -2 20 £40,000 -31.07% 8
Wales - 11 £30,000 - 4
Northern Ireland - 3 - -

Automotive
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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (1.41%) Confluence
2 4 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.28%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.14%) JBoss
5 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 24 (3.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.71%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 5 (0.71%) Adobe Illustrator
3 5 (0.71%) InDesign
3 5 (0.71%) Photoshop
4 4 (0.57%) CANalyzer
5 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.28%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.14%) CATIA
6 1 (0.14%) Simulink
6 1 (0.14%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (0.71%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 28 (3.96%) Azure
1 28 (3.96%) SaaS
2 17 (2.40%) AWS
2 17 (2.40%) Power Platform
3 13 (1.84%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (1.27%) Google Analytics
5 8 (1.13%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (0.99%) Entra ID
6 7 (0.99%) IaaS
6 7 (0.99%) Power Automate
7 4 (0.57%) Miro
8 3 (0.42%) GCP
9 2 (0.28%) dbt
10 1 (0.14%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (0.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.14%) Canva
10 1 (0.14%) Figma
10 1 (0.14%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.14%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.41%) TCP/IP
2 7 (0.99%) ATM
2 7 (0.99%) Multicast
2 7 (0.99%) tcpdump
2 7 (0.99%) Wireless
2 7 (0.99%) Wireshark
3 6 (0.85%) DHCP
3 6 (0.85%) DNS
4 5 (0.71%) Network Security
4 5 (0.71%) WAN
5 4 (0.57%) Ethernet
6 3 (0.42%) LAN
6 3 (0.42%) MQTT
6 3 (0.42%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (0.28%) Bluetooth
7 2 (0.28%) GSM
7 2 (0.28%) LTE
7 2 (0.28%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.28%) VPN
8 1 (0.14%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (2.40%) Power BI
2 13 (1.84%) Power Query
3 8 (1.13%) Metadata
4 7 (0.99%) PowerPivot
5 6 (0.85%) SQL Server
6 5 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.57%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.42%) Tableau
9 2 (0.28%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (0.28%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.28%) MySQL
9 2 (0.28%) Neo4j
9 2 (0.28%) Pinecone
10 1 (0.14%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.14%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (2.55%) JIRA
2 13 (1.84%) Git
3 6 (0.85%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.57%) CANoe
4 4 (0.57%) Oracle APEX
5 3 (0.42%) Appcelerator Titanium
5 3 (0.42%) GitLab
6 2 (0.28%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.14%) Maven
7 1 (0.14%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.14%) Polyspace
7 1 (0.14%) Protractor
7 1 (0.14%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.14%) ScriptRunner
7 1 (0.14%) VectorCAST
General
1 143 (20.23%) Aerospace
2 127 (17.96%) Manufacturing
3 126 (17.82%) Marketing
4 107 (15.13%) Social Skills
5 65 (9.19%) Retail
6 61 (8.63%) Finance
7 44 (6.22%) Analytical Skills
8 40 (5.66%) Aeronautics
9 36 (5.09%) Electronics
10 19 (2.69%) Agriculture
11 16 (2.26%) Telecoms
12 14 (1.98%) Law
12 14 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 11 (1.56%) Legal
14 10 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (0.85%) Military
16 6 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (0.85%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 95 (13.44%) Business Development Manager
1 95 (13.44%) Business Manager
1 95 (13.44%) Development Manager
2 68 (9.62%) Senior
3 55 (7.78%) Software Engineer
4 53 (7.50%) Programmer
5 41 (5.80%) Systems Engineer
6 34 (4.81%) Analyst
7 26 (3.68%) Lead
8 23 (3.25%) IT Support
8 23 (3.25%) Senior Manager
9 21 (2.97%) Sales Representative
10 20 (2.83%) Support Technician
11 15 (2.12%) Junior
11 15 (2.12%) Senior Software Engineer
12 14 (1.98%) Embedded Engineer
12 14 (1.98%) Support Analyst
13 13 (1.84%) Account Manager
13 13 (1.84%) Consultant
13 13 (1.84%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.56%) Vue
2 9 (1.27%) .NET
3 6 (0.85%) .NET Core
3 6 (0.85%) PySpark
4 5 (0.71%) AngularJS
4 5 (0.71%) React
5 3 (0.42%) CSS
5 3 (0.42%) REST
5 3 (0.42%) VML
6 2 (0.28%) HTML
6 2 (0.28%) pgvector
6 2 (0.28%) RESTful
6 2 (0.28%) Streamlit
7 1 (0.14%) Django
7 1 (0.14%) HTML5
7 1 (0.14%) JSON
7 1 (0.14%) Node.js
7 1 (0.14%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.14%) Spring
7 1 (0.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 28 (3.96%) Driving Licence
2 25 (3.54%) Robotics
3 15 (2.12%) Onboarding
4 14 (1.98%) IoT
5 13 (1.84%) Algorithms
5 13 (1.84%) Embedded Systems
5 13 (1.84%) Social Media
6 11 (1.56%) Renewable Energy
6 11 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (1.13%) Management Information System
8 7 (0.99%) Cloud Native
8 7 (0.99%) FMCG
8 7 (0.99%) Life Science
9 6 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (0.71%) Graphic Design
10 5 (0.71%) Web Conferencing
11 4 (0.57%) ASIC
12 3 (0.42%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 23 (3.25%) Linux
2 12 (1.70%) Windows
3 7 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.71%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.42%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.14%) SafeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (15.98%) Analytics
2 112 (15.84%) Business Development
3 80 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (7.21%) Software Engineering
5 48 (6.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 44 (6.22%) AI
7 29 (4.10%) Customer Experience
8 28 (3.96%) B2B
9 26 (3.68%) Agile
10 25 (3.54%) CI/CD
10 25 (3.54%) Validation
11 24 (3.39%) Roadmaps
12 23 (3.25%) Business Intelligence
13 21 (2.97%) ERP
13 21 (2.97%) Mentoring
14 20 (2.83%) Decision-Making
14 20 (2.83%) Stakeholder Management
15 19 (2.69%) Logistics
15 19 (2.69%) Project Management
16 18 (2.55%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 38 (5.37%) Python
2 20 (2.83%) C++
2 20 (2.83%) SQL
3 13 (1.84%) JavaScript
4 12 (1.70%) TypeScript
5 11 (1.56%) C#
6 9 (1.27%) C
7 8 (1.13%) Java
8 5 (0.71%) Embedded C
9 4 (0.57%) Embedded C++
10 3 (0.42%) Bash
10 3 (0.42%) VBA
11 1 (0.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.14%) Groovy
11 1 (0.14%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.14%) PHP
11 1 (0.14%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.14%) R
11 1 (0.14%) Rust
11 1 (0.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (7.21%) Degree
2 14 (1.98%) Master's Degree
3 11 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (0.85%) Security Cleared
5 5 (0.71%) PhD
5 5 (0.71%) SC Cleared
6 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.28%) MCSE
7 2 (0.28%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.28%) PMP
8 1 (0.14%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.14%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.14%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.14%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.14%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.14%) OSCP
8 1 (0.14%) RHCE
8 1 (0.14%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (2.83%) QA
2 11 (1.56%) ISO 26262
3 5 (0.71%) IEC 61508
3 5 (0.71%) PMO
4 4 (0.57%) DO-254
4 4 (0.57%) HAZOP
5 3 (0.42%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.42%) SLA
6 2 (0.28%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.28%) Def Stans
6 2 (0.28%) EU AI Act
6 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.14%) ECSS
7 1 (0.14%) GDPR
7 1 (0.14%) GRC
7 1 (0.14%) IEC 61131
7 1 (0.14%) IEC 62304
7 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 1 (0.14%) NIST
7 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (2.97%) Docker
2 14 (1.98%) Firmware
3 11 (1.56%) Active Directory
4 10 (1.41%) Embedded Firmware
5 8 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (0.99%) KVM
7 1 (0.14%) Squid
7 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (2.83%) BMC PATROL
2 16 (2.26%) Kubernetes
3 12 (1.70%) Ansible
4 7 (0.99%) Puppet
5 5 (0.71%) Functional Safety
5 5 (0.71%) Terraform
6 2 (0.28%) Nagios
7 1 (0.14%) Packer
7 1 (0.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 25 (3.54%) Microsoft
2 14 (1.98%) NEC
3 10 (1.41%) Adobe
3 10 (1.41%) Google
4 8 (1.13%) Databricks
4 8 (1.13%) Salesforce
4 8 (1.13%) VMware
5 7 (0.99%) SAP
5 7 (0.99%) Siemens
6 6 (0.85%) Oracle
7 5 (0.71%) Atlassian
7 5 (0.71%) Facebook
7 5 (0.71%) Freshdesk
7 5 (0.71%) Instagram
8 4 (0.57%) Cisco
9 2 (0.28%) Epicor
9 2 (0.28%) Meraki
9 2 (0.28%) Sage
9 2 (0.28%) SolarWinds
9 2 (0.28%) TP-LINK