Automotive Contracts in the UK excluding London

Automotive
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Automotive in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Automotive over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 181 202 264
Rank change year-on-year +21 +62 +30
Contract jobs citing Automotive 224 278 264
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.10% 1.21% 0.87%
As % of the General category 2.03% 2.14% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 203 198
10th Percentile £304 £313 £334
25th Percentile £360 £374 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% -4.04% +7.03%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £550
90th Percentile £638 £600 £625
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 23 14
10th Percentile £16.25 £16.37 £21.12
25th Percentile £28.42 £22.16 £27.31
Median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% -16.67% -13.33%
75th Percentile £48.75 £55.31 £54.25
90th Percentile £58.13 £65.00 £69.63
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £38.50 £37.75
% change year-on-year +23.38% +1.99% -16.11%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

Automotive is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,040 13,002 16,972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.33% 56.59% 55.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,311 8,868 11,688
10th Percentile £208 £230 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,650 745 1,034
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.72 £14.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £28.16 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.57% +48.21% -4.76%
75th Percentile £53.75 £60.70 £35.93
90th Percentile £67.04 £69.50 £55.81
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% -

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Automotive in the UK excluding London

Automotive
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automotive in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Automotive in the UK excluding London

Automotive
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Automotive in the UK excluding London

Automotive
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Automotive in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Automotive in the UK excluding London

Automotive
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automotive within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
Midlands +8 72 £508 +6.84% 365
South East -33 60 £449 -5.53% 255
West Midlands +15 59 £518 -1.43% 268
East of England +35 43 £375 -37.84% 155
North of England +47 33 £600 +37.54% 185
North West +35 24 £600 +26.32% 119
South West -9 14 £400 - 149
East Midlands -4 13 £408 +16.43% 96
North East +21 7 - - 17
Scotland +46 2 £375 - 62
Yorkshire +9 2 £265 -35.76% 50
Wales +20 1 - - 29
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 7 (3.13%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.23%) Confluence
3 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.89%) Apache
5 1 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.45%) CMS
Applications
1 24 (10.71%) Simulink
2 21 (9.38%) Stateflow
3 6 (2.68%) CANalyzer
4 5 (2.23%) TargetLink
5 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (1.79%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
7 2 (0.89%) Maya
7 2 (0.89%) NUKE
7 2 (0.89%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.45%) CATIA
8 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.79%) SAP WM
2 2 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.45%) DELMIA
3 1 (0.45%) iTrent
3 1 (0.45%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.45%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 8 (3.57%) AWS
1 8 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (3.13%) Azure
3 4 (1.79%) OneDrive
3 4 (1.79%) Power Automate
3 4 (1.79%) Power Platform
4 3 (1.34%) PaaS
4 3 (1.34%) Snowflake
5 2 (0.89%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (0.89%) Entra ID
5 2 (0.89%) GCP
5 2 (0.89%) GitHub
5 2 (0.89%) Serverless
5 2 (0.89%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (0.45%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.45%) IaaS
6 1 (0.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.02%) Ethernet
2 5 (2.23%) J1939
3 4 (1.79%) Firewall
3 4 (1.79%) FlexRay
3 4 (1.79%) Internet
4 3 (1.34%) Intranet
4 3 (1.34%) LAN
4 3 (1.34%) RTSP
4 3 (1.34%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.34%) WAN
5 2 (0.89%) DHCP
5 2 (0.89%) SSL
5 2 (0.89%) VLAN
5 2 (0.89%) VPN
5 2 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.45%) 2G
6 1 (0.45%) 5G
6 1 (0.45%) HTTP
6 1 (0.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.79%) Power BI
1 4 (1.79%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.89%) Data Vault
2 2 (0.89%) Metadata
2 2 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.89%) Power Query
3 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.45%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.45%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (0.45%) BusinessObjects XI
3 1 (0.45%) Looker
3 1 (0.45%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (5.36%) JIRA
2 9 (4.02%) Git
3 8 (3.57%) Bitbucket
4 6 (2.68%) CANoe
5 5 (2.23%) Subversion
6 3 (1.34%) TestRail
7 2 (0.89%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.89%) JMeter
7 2 (0.89%) Selenium
8 1 (0.45%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.45%) ClearCase
8 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 50 (22.32%) Manufacturing
2 34 (15.18%) Social Skills
3 29 (12.95%) Electronics
4 19 (8.48%) Aerospace
5 17 (7.59%) Legal
6 13 (5.80%) Finance
7 12 (5.36%) Retail
8 7 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.79%) German Language
9 4 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.79%) Military
10 3 (1.34%) Marketing
10 3 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.89%) French Language
11 2 (0.89%) Games
11 2 (0.89%) Portuguese Language
11 2 (0.89%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.89%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 36 (16.07%) Software Engineer
2 25 (11.16%) Embedded Engineer
3 22 (9.82%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 20 (8.93%) Analyst
5 15 (6.70%) Systems Engineer
6 14 (6.25%) Architect
6 14 (6.25%) Project Manager
6 14 (6.25%) Senior
7 11 (4.91%) Solutions Architect
8 10 (4.46%) Developer
8 10 (4.46%) Lead
9 9 (4.02%) Test Engineer
10 8 (3.57%) Author
10 8 (3.57%) Integration Engineer
10 8 (3.57%) Technical Author
11 7 (3.13%) Principal Engineer
11 7 (3.13%) Programmer
12 6 (2.68%) Administrator
12 6 (2.68%) Control Systems Engineer
12 6 (2.68%) Database Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.23%) .NET
2 4 (1.79%) .NET Core
2 4 (1.79%) AngularJS
2 4 (1.79%) Kafka
3 3 (1.34%) Blazor
3 3 (1.34%) CSS
3 3 (1.34%) HTML
3 3 (1.34%) Middleware
3 3 (1.34%) OpenGL
3 3 (1.34%) WebRTC
4 2 (0.89%) React
4 2 (0.89%) RESTful
4 2 (0.89%) TensorFlow
4 2 (0.89%) Unreal Engine
4 2 (0.89%) V-Ray
5 1 (0.45%) Java EE
5 1 (0.45%) REST
5 1 (0.45%) SAML
5 1 (0.45%) SAP ALE
5 1 (0.45%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.16%) Algorithms
2 10 (4.46%) Infotainment
2 10 (4.46%) Management Information System
3 6 (2.68%) Life Science
3 6 (2.68%) Renewable Energy
4 5 (2.23%) CAN bus
5 4 (1.79%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.79%) Operational Technology
5 4 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.34%) CUDA
6 3 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.34%) PKI
6 3 (1.34%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.34%) SCADA
7 2 (0.89%) Driving Licence
7 2 (0.89%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.89%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.45%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.91%) Windows
2 9 (4.02%) Linux
3 5 (2.23%) Unix
4 3 (1.34%) VMS
4 3 (1.34%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.89%) Android
5 2 (0.89%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.45%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.45%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (22.77%) Software Engineering
2 44 (19.64%) Agile
3 30 (13.39%) Validation
4 28 (12.50%) Project Management
4 28 (12.50%) Test Automation
5 20 (8.93%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
6 19 (8.48%) Computer Science
7 18 (8.04%) Cybersecurity
7 18 (8.04%) Verification and Validation
8 13 (5.80%) Customer Service
8 13 (5.80%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (4.91%) Quality Management
9 11 (4.91%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (4.46%) End-to-End Testing
11 9 (4.02%) ITIL
11 9 (4.02%) Software Testing
12 8 (3.57%) Functional Testing
12 8 (3.57%) Logistics
12 8 (3.57%) SDLC
13 7 (3.13%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 25 (11.16%) C
2 24 (10.71%) MATLAB
3 16 (7.14%) Embedded C
4 15 (6.70%) SQL
5 11 (4.91%) C++
6 6 (2.68%) Java
7 5 (2.23%) Embedded C++
7 5 (2.23%) Python
8 4 (1.79%) C#
8 4 (1.79%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.79%) VBA
9 3 (1.34%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.89%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.89%) VB
11 1 (0.45%) ABAP
11 1 (0.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 32 (14.29%) Degree
2 11 (4.91%) Master's Degree
3 6 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.79%) HNC
5 3 (1.34%) ISTQB
5 3 (1.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (0.89%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.89%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.89%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.45%) CISA
7 1 (0.45%) CISSP
7 1 (0.45%) HND
7 1 (0.45%) MCSE
7 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.45%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.25%) AUTOSAR
2 11 (4.91%) QA
3 6 (2.68%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.23%) ISO 26262
4 5 (2.23%) MISRA
4 5 (2.23%) MISRA C
5 2 (0.89%) GDPR
5 2 (0.89%) GRC
5 2 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.89%) PMO
5 2 (0.89%) SLA
6 1 (0.45%) COBIT
6 1 (0.45%) ITGC
System Software
1 8 (3.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (4.46%) Functional Safety
2 2 (0.89%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.89%) RSA Archer
2 2 (0.89%) Terraform
3 1 (0.45%) HP Fortify
3 1 (0.45%) Nmap
3 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (8.93%) Microsoft
2 18 (8.04%) SAP
3 7 (3.13%) Informatica
4 3 (1.34%) Apple
4 3 (1.34%) MathWorks
4 3 (1.34%) NVIDIA
5 2 (0.89%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (0.89%) IBM
5 2 (0.89%) MuleSoft
5 2 (0.89%) Oracle
5 2 (0.89%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.45%) Adobe
6 1 (0.45%) BT
6 1 (0.45%) Cisco
6 1 (0.45%) Google
6 1 (0.45%) NetApp
6 1 (0.45%) QNX
6 1 (0.45%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.45%) Siemens
6 1 (0.45%) VMware
1,132 Automotive jobs in the UK excluding London