Automotive Jobs in the West Midlands

Automotive
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Automotive in permanent job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 55 11 7
Rank change year-on-year -44 -4 +191
Permanent jobs citing Automotive 265 654 1,473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.79% 12.88% 16.87%
As % of the General category 6.81% 17.40% 24.83%
Number of salaries quoted 108 62 688
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,250 -
25th Percentile £44,375 £44,388 £35,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,525 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.34% +5.49% +2.22%
75th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £49,500
90th Percentile £76,625 £65,000 £68,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £46,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +25.00% -8.00%

All General Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 3,893 3,759 5,932
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 55.65% 74.05% 67.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2,254 2,205 3,443
10th Percentile £26,000 £30,000 £30,945
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,624
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £66,250 £63,546
90th Percentile £76,107 £78,350 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%

Automotive
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Automotive as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Automotive in the West Midlands

Automotive
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Automotive in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Automotive in the West Midlands

Automotive
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Automotive in the West Midlands

Automotive
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Automotive within the West Midlands 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
Warwickshire -19 120 £45,000 -6.35% 25
Birmingham +27 52 £50,000 +14.94% 18
Worcestershire -5 24 £56,250 -6.25% 16
Staffordshire -7 19 £43,750 -6.42% 15
Coventry +23 14 £52,500 +9.26% 14
Solihull -2 8 £45,000 - 6
Wolverhampton +1 3 £60,000 - 5
Automotive
England

Automotive
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (0.75%) CMS
1 2 (0.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 19 (7.17%) Simulink
2 11 (4.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (3.77%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.75%) CANalyzer
4 2 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.75%) Stateflow
5 1 (0.38%) CATIA
5 1 (0.38%) Maya
5 1 (0.38%) NUKE
5 1 (0.38%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.38%) SAP Business One
1 1 (0.38%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 21 (7.92%) Azure
2 11 (4.15%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (2.26%) Google Workspace
4 5 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (1.89%) Power Platform
4 5 (1.89%) SaaS
5 3 (1.13%) AWS
6 1 (0.38%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (0.38%) Asana
6 1 (0.38%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.38%) Cloud Run
6 1 (0.38%) GCP
6 1 (0.38%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.38%) Serverless
6 1 (0.38%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.28%) Wi-Fi
2 13 (4.91%) Ethernet
3 9 (3.40%) LAN
3 9 (3.40%) WAN
4 8 (3.02%) FlexRay
5 7 (2.64%) J1939
6 6 (2.26%) BGP
6 6 (2.26%) Bluetooth
6 6 (2.26%) DHCP
6 6 (2.26%) DNS
6 6 (2.26%) Firewall
6 6 (2.26%) OSPF
6 6 (2.26%) TCP/IP
6 6 (2.26%) VLAN
6 6 (2.26%) WLAN
7 4 (1.51%) Wireless
8 1 (0.38%) 802.11
8 1 (0.38%) DAB
8 1 (0.38%) MQTT
8 1 (0.38%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.66%) MySQL
2 9 (3.40%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (2.26%) Redis
3 6 (2.26%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.51%) Power BI
5 2 (0.75%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.75%) Tableau
6 1 (0.38%) Big Data
6 1 (0.38%) Data Hub
6 1 (0.38%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.38%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.38%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.38%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.38%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.38%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 12 (4.53%) Git
2 11 (4.15%) JIRA
3 8 (3.02%) Visual Studio
4 5 (1.89%) LabVIEW
5 4 (1.51%) CANoe
6 3 (1.13%) GitLab
7 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 40 (15.09%) Electronics
2 30 (11.32%) Manufacturing
3 29 (10.94%) Social Skills
4 17 (6.42%) Retail
5 12 (4.53%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (1.89%) Aerospace
6 5 (1.89%) Finance
7 4 (1.51%) Legal
7 4 (1.51%) Marketing
8 3 (1.13%) Aeronautics
8 3 (1.13%) Aviation
9 2 (0.75%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.38%) Cyber-Physical System
10 1 (0.38%) German Language
10 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.38%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (22.64%) Systems Engineer
2 47 (17.74%) Lead
3 27 (10.19%) Senior
3 27 (10.19%) Software Engineer
4 23 (8.68%) Developer
5 22 (8.30%) Quality Engineer
6 17 (6.42%) Hardware Engineer
7 11 (4.15%) Embedded Engineer
8 10 (3.77%) Test Engineer
9 9 (3.40%) Analyst
9 9 (3.40%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 9 (3.40%) IT Support
10 8 (3.02%) C++ Team Leader
10 8 (3.02%) Development Engineer
10 8 (3.02%) Software Team Leader
10 8 (3.02%) Team Leader
11 7 (2.64%) IT Engineer
11 7 (2.64%) Programmer
11 7 (2.64%) Technical Support
12 6 (2.26%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (7.92%) HTML
2 13 (4.91%) .NET
3 11 (4.15%) CSS
4 10 (3.77%) .NET Framework
5 8 (3.02%) AngularJS
6 7 (2.64%) RESTful
7 6 (2.26%) Kafka
7 6 (2.26%) Node.js
7 6 (2.26%) WinForms
7 6 (2.26%) WPF
8 2 (0.75%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.75%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (0.75%) HTML5
8 2 (0.75%) React
9 1 (0.38%) POSIX
9 1 (0.38%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.38%) REST
9 1 (0.38%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 1 (0.38%) Web Services
9 1 (0.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.53%) Embedded Systems
1 12 (4.53%) Infotainment
2 10 (3.77%) Product Ownership
3 9 (3.40%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (3.02%) Algorithms
4 8 (3.02%) Smartphone
5 7 (2.64%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.89%) IoT
7 4 (1.51%) Driving Licence
7 4 (1.51%) Industry 4.0
8 2 (0.75%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.75%) Robotics
8 2 (0.75%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.38%) Augmented Reality
9 1 (0.38%) CAN bus
9 1 (0.38%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.38%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.38%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.38%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 26 (9.81%) Linux
2 21 (7.92%) Windows
3 15 (5.66%) Windows Server
3 15 (5.66%) Windows Server 2019
4 8 (3.02%) Embedded Linux
5 6 (2.26%) Mac OS X
5 6 (2.26%) Ubuntu
5 6 (2.26%) Windows 10
5 6 (2.26%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.75%) Android
7 1 (0.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (13.96%) Agile
2 31 (11.70%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (10.94%) Software Engineering
4 27 (10.19%) Validation
5 26 (9.81%) Systems Engineering
6 25 (9.43%) Computer Science
7 22 (8.30%) Cybersecurity
8 20 (7.55%) Mentoring
9 17 (6.42%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
10 15 (5.66%) Test Automation
11 14 (5.28%) Software Testing
12 13 (4.91%) Project Management
13 11 (4.15%) Project Delivery
14 10 (3.77%) User Experience
14 10 (3.77%) Web Development
15 9 (3.40%) Artificial Intelligence
15 9 (3.40%) DevOps
15 9 (3.40%) Roadmaps
15 9 (3.40%) Ticket Management
16 8 (3.02%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 27 (10.19%) C#
2 21 (7.92%) SQL
3 20 (7.55%) MATLAB
4 18 (6.79%) Python
5 17 (6.42%) C++
6 13 (4.91%) JavaScript
7 10 (3.77%) C
8 9 (3.40%) PHP
9 8 (3.02%) TypeScript
10 7 (2.64%) Embedded C
11 6 (2.26%) Embedded C++
11 6 (2.26%) PowerShell
12 5 (1.89%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.51%) Java
14 2 (0.75%) VB
15 1 (0.38%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.38%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.38%) Tcl
15 1 (0.38%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 53 (20.00%) Degree
2 7 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.26%) HNC
3 6 (2.26%) HND
3 6 (2.26%) MCSE
3 6 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (1.51%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.75%) CISM
5 2 (0.75%) CISSP
6 1 (0.38%) CEH
6 1 (0.38%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (0.38%) ECSA
6 1 (0.38%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.79%) AUTOSAR
1 18 (6.79%) ISO 26262
2 14 (5.28%) Automotive SPICE
3 3 (1.13%) JTAG
4 2 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (0.75%) GRC
4 2 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.75%) NIST
4 2 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.38%) COSHH
5 1 (0.38%) ISO 14001
5 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 1 (0.38%) MISRA
5 1 (0.38%) QA
System Software
1 11 (4.15%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.02%) Embedded Firmware
2 8 (3.02%) Firmware
3 7 (2.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (3.02%) Functional Safety
2 7 (2.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (3.40%) Microsoft
1 9 (3.40%) VMware
2 6 (2.26%) Apple
2 6 (2.26%) Cisco
2 6 (2.26%) Dell
2 6 (2.26%) Fortinet
2 6 (2.26%) Google
2 6 (2.26%) Ubiquiti
3 4 (1.51%) SAP
4 3 (1.13%) Lauterbach
5 1 (0.38%) MathWorks
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle
5 1 (0.38%) Perforce
5 1 (0.38%) QNX
5 1 (0.38%) Salesforce