Computer-Aided Design (CAD)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CAD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CAD over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 482 622 761
Rank change year-on-year +140 +139 -146
Contract jobs citing CAD 116 97 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.16% 0.099%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.18% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 58 51
10th Percentile £233 £205 £277
25th Percentile £273 £308 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £376 £348 £490
Median % change year-on-year +8.20% -29.08% +41.21%
75th Percentile £450 £412 £538
90th Percentile £658 £525 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £350 £495
% change year-on-year +28.57% -29.29% +86.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 19 14
10th Percentile £15.25 £23.63 £22.51
25th Percentile £32.05 £25.00 £24.60
Median hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -9.72% +60.00%
75th Percentile £45.00 £52.00 £41.22
90th Percentile £51.25 £76.96 £48.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £41.08 £36.00
% change year-on-year +9.55% +14.10% +67.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

CAD is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

CAD
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CAD in the UK

CAD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for CAD in the UK

CAD
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CAD over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CAD in the UK

CAD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for CAD in the UK

CAD
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CAD over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for CAD in the UK

CAD
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CAD within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +157 113 £377 +7.57% 704
UK excluding London +82 83 £450 +28.57% 671
South West +53 40 £363 - 105
Work from Home +137 31 £292 -16.71% 134
London +109 27 £377 +16.00% 65
South East +34 19 £475 +11.76% 166
Midlands +4 15 £450 +36.36% 145
West Midlands +27 13 £450 +28.57% 85
East of England +19 6 - - 103
North of England +32 2 - - 141
East Midlands +2 2 £376 +16.59% 60
Scotland +30 1 £675 +280.28% 28
North West +14 1 - - 86
Yorkshire - 1 - - 46

CAD
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (5.17%) CMS
2 1 (0.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 30 (25.86%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (13.79%) Acrobat
3 10 (8.62%) Adobe Illustrator
4 9 (7.76%) AutoCAD
4 9 (7.76%) Siemens NX
5 6 (5.17%) Photoshop
5 6 (5.17%) PTC Creo
5 6 (5.17%) Revit
6 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
6 4 (3.45%) Simulink
6 4 (3.45%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (2.59%) Windchill
8 2 (1.72%) CATIA
9 1 (0.86%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 14 (12.07%) Teamcenter
2 6 (5.17%) Primavera
3 1 (0.86%) SmartPlant
Cloud Services
1 2 (1.72%) Amazon S3
1 2 (1.72%) AWS
1 2 (1.72%) GCP
1 2 (1.72%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.86%) HTTP
1 1 (0.86%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.62%) Data Mining
2 2 (1.72%) DynamoDB
2 2 (1.72%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.72%) Power BI
2 2 (1.72%) RDBMS
2 2 (1.72%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (1.72%) Git
1 2 (1.72%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.86%) JIRA
General
1 59 (50.86%) Social Skills
2 20 (17.24%) Manufacturing
3 19 (16.38%) Aerospace
4 14 (12.07%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.03%) Multimedia
6 6 (5.17%) Finance
7 4 (3.45%) Automotive
7 4 (3.45%) Law
7 4 (3.45%) Legal
7 4 (3.45%) Marketing
7 4 (3.45%) Police
7 4 (3.45%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.45%) Publishing
8 3 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.59%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.72%) Electronics
9 2 (1.72%) French Language
9 2 (1.72%) German Language
9 2 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.86%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 27 (23.28%) Author
1 27 (23.28%) Technical Author
2 16 (13.79%) Architect
3 10 (8.62%) Data Architect
4 8 (6.90%) Technical Illustrator
5 7 (6.03%) Senior
6 6 (5.17%) Consultant
6 6 (5.17%) Developer
6 6 (5.17%) Lead
7 5 (4.31%) CAD Engineer
7 5 (4.31%) Project Manager
7 5 (4.31%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (3.45%) Administrator
9 3 (2.59%) Coordinator
9 3 (2.59%) Programmer
9 3 (2.59%) Senior Technician
9 3 (2.59%) Technical Writer
10 2 (1.72%) Applications Engineer
10 2 (1.72%) C# .NET Developer
10 2 (1.72%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (24.14%) XML
2 12 (10.34%) SGML
3 4 (3.45%) JSON
4 3 (2.59%) JSON Schema
4 3 (2.59%) KML
4 3 (2.59%) Regular Expression
4 3 (2.59%) REST
4 3 (2.59%) XML Schema
5 2 (1.72%) .NET
6 1 (0.86%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.86%) CSS
6 1 (0.86%) HTML
6 1 (0.86%) SOAP
6 1 (0.86%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 20 (17.24%) Animation
2 9 (7.76%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.17%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (4.31%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.45%) Freedom of Information
5 4 (3.45%) Freedom of Information Act
5 4 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.59%) 3D Graphics
7 2 (1.72%) CMDB
7 2 (1.72%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.72%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.72%) FMCG
7 2 (1.72%) Life Science
7 2 (1.72%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.86%) Analogue Electronics
8 1 (0.86%) CCTV
8 1 (0.86%) STB
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.45%) Linux
2 1 (0.86%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (15.52%) Computer Science
2 17 (14.66%) Data Management
3 15 (12.93%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (10.34%) 3D Modelling
4 12 (10.34%) Project Management
5 11 (9.48%) PLM
6 10 (8.62%) Systems Engineering
7 7 (6.03%) IT Strategy
8 6 (5.17%) Content Management
8 6 (5.17%) Migration
8 6 (5.17%) Process Improvement
8 6 (5.17%) Product Breakdown Structure
8 6 (5.17%) Work Breakdown Structure
9 5 (4.31%) Agile
9 5 (4.31%) Customer Service
9 5 (4.31%) Data Protection
9 5 (4.31%) Validation
10 4 (3.45%) Analytical Modelling
10 4 (3.45%) Roadmaps
10 4 (3.45%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (3.45%) MATLAB
2 2 (1.72%) C#
3 1 (0.86%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 41 (35.34%) Degree
2 33 (28.45%) Security Cleared
3 13 (11.21%) SC Cleared
4 9 (7.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (6.90%) DV Cleared
6 6 (5.17%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.72%) ACCA
7 2 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.72%) CIMA
8 1 (0.86%) BICSI Certification
8 1 (0.86%) BICSI RCDD
8 1 (0.86%) HNC
8 1 (0.86%) HND
8 1 (0.86%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.34%) Def Stans
2 4 (3.45%) GDPR
2 4 (3.45%) QA
3 2 (1.72%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.72%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 3 (2.59%) Ansible
Vendors
1 23 (19.83%) Microsoft
2 16 (13.79%) Adobe
3 8 (6.90%) Siemens
4 3 (2.59%) PTC
4 3 (2.59%) SAP
4 3 (2.59%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.72%) Google
6 1 (0.86%) Openreach