Automotive SPICE Contracts

Automotive SPICE (ASPICE)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Automotive SPICE skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Automotive SPICE over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 596 701 843
Rank change year-on-year +105 +142 -165
Contract jobs citing Automotive SPICE 4 12 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.020% 0.015%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.064% 0.15% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 12
10th Percentile - - £466
25th Percentile - £575 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% -
75th Percentile - £625 £555
90th Percentile - - £574
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £550

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

Automotive SPICE is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 6,250 7,982 11,778
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.34% 13.37% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,951 5,482 8,057
10th Percentile £295 £275 £290
25th Percentile £402 £409 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £619
90th Percentile £750 £738 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 383 225 301
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.21 £11.75
25th Percentile £13.18 £18.70 £16.50
Median hourly rate £21.00 £37.50 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.00% +33.93% +33.02%
75th Percentile £45.00 £62.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.38 £77.50 £67.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.00 £36.25 £21.05
% change year-on-year -50.34% +72.21% -

Automotive SPICE
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Automotive SPICE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Automotive SPICE in the UK

Automotive SPICE
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Automotive SPICE.

Daily rate trend for Automotive SPICE in the UK

Automotive SPICE
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Automotive SPICE.

Hourly rate trend for Automotive SPICE in the UK

Automotive SPICE
Top 1 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automotive SPICE within the UK over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Work from Home - 4 - -

Automotive SPICE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

General
1 4 (100.00%) Automotive
1 4 (100.00%) Electronics
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 4 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (100.00%) Project Management
1 4 (100.00%) Validation
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 2 (50.00%) Application Security
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (50.00%) Dynamic Code Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Product Requirements
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Source Code Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Static Code Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) AUTOSAR
2 2 (50.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (50.00%) GDPR