North West AutoCAD Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Autodesk AutoCAD skills within the North West region with a comparison to our Applications category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited AutoCAD over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Autodesk AutoCAD
Location Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Brighton Bristol Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire City of London Croydon Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Fife Flintshire Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Hampshire Hertfordshire Hitchin Horsham Ipswich Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leicestershire London Luton Manchester Middlesbrough Middlesex New Malden Newton Aycliffe Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Reading Royston Rugby Scotland Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stevenage Stroud Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	237	264
Rank change on same period last year	+27
Matching permanent IT job ads	13	16
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	0.840 %	0.848 %
Salaries quoted	13	15
Average minimum salary	£29,308	£32,067
Average salary	£31,962	£33,367
% change on same period last year	-4.21 %
Average maximum salary	£34,615	£34,667
UK excluding London average salary	£28,422	£31,100
% change on same period last year	-8.61 %
Applications North West
Matching permanent IT job ads	1548	1886
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.903 %	0.809 %
Salaries quoted	1369	1644
Average minimum salary	£27,398	£30,468
Average salary	£30,225	£32,742
% change on same period last year	-7.68 %
Average maximum salary	£33,053	£35,015
UK excluding London average salary	£33,353	£33,449
% change on same period last year	-0.28 %
AutoCAD England

AutoCAD
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing AutoCAD across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Applications category.

AutoCAD
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing AutoCAD across the North West region.

AutoCAD
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing AutoCAD across the North West region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

AutoCAD
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AutoCAD within the North West region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Manchester	+34	5	£32,400	-2.72 %
Lancashire	+4	4	£36,375	-
Cheshire	-	4	£27,000	-

AutoCAD England

AutoCAD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT jobs across the North West region citing AutoCAD also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited AutoCAD.

1 9 (37.50 %) Microsoft 2 8 (33.33 %) CAD 2 8 (33.33 %) LAN 2 8 (33.33 %) WAN 3 5 (20.83 %) Oracle 3 5 (20.83 %) MS Office 3 5 (20.83 %) Windows 3 5 (20.83 %) Sophos 3 5 (20.83 %) Microsoft Certification 3 5 (20.83 %) Windows Server 2003 3 5 (20.83 %) VPN 3 5 (20.83 %) Active Directory 3 5 (20.83 %) Data Security 3 5 (20.83 %) Electric 3 5 (20.83 %) Health

3 5 (20.83 %) Manufacturing 3 5 (20.83 %) Backup Exec 3 5 (20.83 %) Windows Vista 4 4 (16.67 %) CCTV 4 4 (16.67 %) Cisco Certification 4 4 (16.67 %) CCNP 5 3 (12.50 %) CCNA 5 3 (12.50 %) Adobe 5 3 (12.50 %) ISA Server 5 3 (12.50 %) ITIL Certification 5 3 (12.50 %) DHCP 5 3 (12.50 %) C 5 3 (12.50 %) ITIL 5 3 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 5 3 (12.50 %) UNIX

AutoCAD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT jobs across the North West region citing AutoCAD also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited AutoCAD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 3 (12.50 %) SharePoint	Applications 1 5 (20.83 %) MS Office 2 3 (12.50 %) MS Excel 2 3 (12.50 %) MS Visio 3 1 (4.167 %) CATIA
Business Applications 1 3 (12.50 %) Oracle ERP	Communications & Networking 1 8 (33.33 %) LAN 1 8 (33.33 %) WAN 2 5 (20.83 %) VPN 3 3 (12.50 %) DHCP 3 3 (12.50 %) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (12.50 %) GIS 2 2 (8.333 %) Oracle Reports	General 1 5 (20.83 %) Electric 1 5 (20.83 %) Health 1 5 (20.83 %) Manufacturing 2 3 (12.50 %) Telecoms 3 2 (8.333 %) Chemicals 3 2 (8.333 %) Pensions 4 1 (4.167 %) Construction 4 1 (4.167 %) Education 4 1 (4.167 %) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles 1 5 (20.83 %) Support Engineer 1 5 (20.83 %) IT Support Engineer 2 4 (16.67 %) Project Engineer 2 4 (16.67 %) Design Engineer 3 3 (12.50 %) Systems Engineer 4 2 (8.333 %) Engineering Manager 4 2 (8.333 %) Project Manager 4 2 (8.333 %) GIS Technician 4 2 (8.333 %) Mechanical Engineer 5 1 (4.167 %) Electrical Engineer 5 1 (4.167 %) Draughtsman 5 1 (4.167 %) CAD Designer 5 1 (4.167 %) Cisco Network Engineer 5 1 (4.167 %) Telecoms Engineer 5 1 (4.167 %) Technical Lead 5 1 (4.167 %) Cisco Engineer 5 1 (4.167 %) Technical Manager 5 1 (4.167 %) Software Engineer 5 1 (4.167 %) Network Engineer 5 1 (4.167 %) Technical Project Manager	Miscellaneous 1 4 (16.67 %) CCTV
Operating Systems 1 5 (20.83 %) Windows 1 5 (20.83 %) Windows Server 2003 1 5 (20.83 %) Windows Vista 2 3 (12.50 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (33.33 %) CAD 2 5 (20.83 %) Data Security 3 3 (12.50 %) ITIL 3 3 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 3 3 (12.50 %) ERP 3 3 (12.50 %) Systems Analysis 4 2 (8.333 %) Lean Manufacturing 4 2 (8.333 %) Data Analysis
Programming Languages 1 3 (12.50 %) C 2 1 (4.167 %) C++ 2 1 (4.167 %) VB	Qualifications 1 5 (20.83 %) Microsoft Certification 2 4 (16.67 %) CCNP 2 4 (16.67 %) Cisco Certification 3 3 (12.50 %) CCNA 3 3 (12.50 %) ITIL Certification 4 2 (8.333 %) Degree 5 1 (4.167 %) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (8.333 %) ISO9001	System Software 1 5 (20.83 %) Active Directory 1 5 (20.83 %) Backup Exec 2 3 (12.50 %) ISA Server
Vendors 1 9 (37.50 %) Microsoft 2 5 (20.83 %) Oracle 2 5 (20.83 %) Sophos 3 3 (12.50 %) VMware 3 3 (12.50 %) Adobe 4 2 (8.333 %) SolidWorks 5 1 (4.167 %) BT 5 1 (4.167 %) Cisco