CAD Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Computer-Aided Design (CAD)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring CAD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CAD 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.63% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £539 - -
25th Percentile £559 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 - -
75th Percentile £604 - -
90th Percentile £608 - -
South East median daily rate £513 - £475
% change year-on-year - - +11.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 624 223 409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 78.59% 92.92% 83.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 161 288
10th Percentile £309 £286 £243
25th Percentile £413 £400 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% +5.37% -
75th Percentile £598 £588 £578
90th Percentile £640 £643 £691
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 23 31
10th Percentile £15.05 - £15.85
25th Percentile £15.91 - £18.50
Median hourly rate £16.35 £14.20 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.14% -43.20% +150.00%
75th Percentile £19.09 £39.13 £30.00
90th Percentile £36.00 £62.50 £48.75
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £28.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +78.57% -41.05% -5.00%

CAD
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

CAD job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

CAD
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing CAD

CAD
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing CAD

CAD
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CAD within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 25 April 2026. 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
Milton Keynes - 5 £595 - 1
CAD
South East

CAD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) GCP
1 3 (60.00%) Google App Engine
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) ServiceNow Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) REST
1 5 (100.00%) SOAP
2 3 (60.00%) OAuth
3 2 (40.00%) JSON
3 2 (40.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) ITSM
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) Service Management
2 3 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Workflow
2 3 (60.00%) Workflow Development
3 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (40.00%) User Experience
3 2 (40.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (20.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) ServiceNow