About Auto Trader
What is Auto Trader?
Auto Trader is the UK's largest automotive marketplace. What began as a classified-ads magazine in 1977 is now a fully digital, FTSE 250 technology business: it lists hundreds of thousands of vehicles, and provides the retailers behind them with pricing data, digital-retailing tools and advertising products.
The company is one of Manchester's largest technology employers, with engineering, product, data science and commercial teams building the marketplace and the retailer platform behind it.
Where will I work?
Manchester is home — most roles are based there on a hybrid pattern, with field-based commercial roles working remotely across the UK.
What is the Auto Trader team like?
Roughly 1,000+ people. Glassdoor reviewers rate it 4.3 for work-life balance and 4.4 for culture and values, with 85% recommending it to a friend; recurring themes are autonomy, a flat structure and genuine flexible working. Notably, Auto Trader advertises senior engineering roles as "Full or Part Time".
Work-Life Balance
Most listings state it in the same words: "You'll have 28 days holiday per year, and that's in addition to bank holidays and half-day closures on Christmas and New Year's Eve." That is 28 days' annual leave plus 8 UK bank holidays — 36 days off a year before the extra half-day closures — and a genuinely open door to part-time senior roles.
Perks and Benefits
- 28 days' holiday a year, on top of bank holidays
- Half-day closures on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve
- Share scheme — shares vesting over three years, to sell or keep
- Several senior roles advertised as full or part time
- Hybrid working from the Manchester base