CAD Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Computer-Aided Design (CAD)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring CAD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 67 76
Rank change year-on-year -2 +9 +25
Contract jobs citing CAD 5 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.62% 0.27% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.31% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £171 - £319
25th Percentile £347 - £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 - £351
75th Percentile £500 - £366
90th Percentile £523 - £372
South West median daily rate £423 £525 £376
% change year-on-year -19.52% +39.63% +7.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
Median hourly rate £30.00 £90.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.67% +100.00% -
South West median hourly rate £37.00 £90.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -58.89% +157.14% -22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

CAD falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 692 652 897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 86.39% 86.59% 86.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 357 354 561
10th Percentile £257 £225 £308
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £650
90th Percentile £741 £750 £710
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 90 119
10th Percentile £15.12 £46.35 £33.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £60.75 £56.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +0.77% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.25 £80.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -61.31% +8.33% -7.69%

CAD
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CAD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

CAD job vacancy trend in Bristol

CAD
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing CAD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing CAD

CAD
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CAD in Bristol over the 6 months to 3 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CAD in Bristol

CAD
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing CAD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing CAD

CAD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) NASTRAN
1 1 (20.00%) PTC Creo
1 1 (20.00%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Aerospace
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Mechanical Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Technical Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Senior
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Mechanical Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow Architect
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Stress Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) REST
1 2 (40.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (20.00%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) ITSM
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (60.00%) Service Management
1 3 (60.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) PLM
2 2 (40.00%) Process Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Finite Element Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Operations Management
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Stress Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Tcl
2 1 (20.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) PTC