SOLIDWORKS Contract Job Trends in Kent

Dassault Systèmes SOLIDWORKS
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Kent requiring SOLIDWORKS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SOLIDWORKS 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Kent 0.73% - -
As % of the Applications category 8.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £180 - -
South East median daily rate £180 - £650

All Software Application Skills
Kent

SOLIDWORKS falls under the Software Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring software application skills in Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 12 28 11
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 8.76% 18.42% 5.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 7
10th Percentile - £139 £142
25th Percentile £153 £219 £177
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £155 £281 £215
Median % change year-on-year -44.89% +30.81% +14.67%
75th Percentile £180 £502 £473
90th Percentile £312 £519 £508
South East median daily rate £463 £400 £343
% change year-on-year +15.63% +16.79% -8.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 4
10th Percentile £14.27 £47.09 £25.77
25th Percentile £15.06 £51.00 £26.56
Median hourly rate £16.36 £54.00 £32.25
Median % change year-on-year -69.70% +67.47% -41.32%
75th Percentile - £54.36 £48.81
90th Percentile - £56.27 £66.93
South East median hourly rate £15.88 £35.00 £23.24
% change year-on-year -54.64% +50.60% -8.49%

SOLIDWORKS
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

SOLIDWORKS job vacancy trend in Kent

SOLIDWORKS
Contract Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOLIDWORKS within the Kent region over the 6 months to 10 December 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
Dartford - 1 £180 -
SOLIDWORKS
South East

SOLIDWORKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) OneDrive
General
1 1 (100.00%) Games
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Unreal Engine
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft