CAD Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Computer-Aided Design (CAD)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring CAD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 55 52
Rank change year-on-year +8 -3 -
Contract jobs citing CAD 2 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 0.63% 0.24% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.27% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £366 - £351
25th Percentile £372 £881 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £1,262 £363
Median % change year-on-year -69.29% +248.14% -
75th Percentile £397 £1,643 £378
90th Percentile £399 - £384
South West median daily rate £388 £894 £375
% change year-on-year -56.63% +138.27% -21.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 286 376 417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 89.38% 89.10% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 190 257
10th Percentile £244 £400 £360
25th Percentile £375 £483 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £670 £676 £675
90th Percentile £743 £750 £746
South West median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 30 52
10th Percentile £19.69 £27.45 £33.20
25th Percentile £27.07 £30.00 £48.72
Median hourly rate £34.34 £53.75 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.11% -6.52% +40.14%
75th Percentile £68.00 £71.50 £78.09
90th Percentile £71.00 £73.75 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -62.74% +12.50% -3.63%

CAD
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

CAD job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

CAD
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing CAD

CAD
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing CAD

CAD
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CAD within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 18 October 2025. 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
Gloucester - 2 £388 - 1
CAD
South West

CAD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Automation Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (100.00%) Bootstrap
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) ITSM
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) ServiceNow