AutoCAD Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Autodesk AutoCAD
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring AutoCAD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AutoCAD 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.10% - -
As % of the Applications category 2.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
North West median daily rate £400 - £405
% change year-on-year - - +22.73%

All Software Application Skills
Manchester

AutoCAD 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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 94 75 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 4.78% 7.33% 4.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 35 28
10th Percentile £194 £280 £175
25th Percentile £313 £313 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £447 £400
Median % change year-on-year -10.51% +11.75% +53.85%
75th Percentile £496 £475 £499
90th Percentile £598 £535 £540
North West median daily rate £419 £447 £438
% change year-on-year -6.32% +2.17% +41.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 21 10
10th Percentile £18.00 - £27.03
25th Percentile £21.08 £19.07 £39.38
Median hourly rate £29.00 £22.32 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.96% -59.43% +210.38%
75th Percentile £48.75 £26.43 £87.50
90th Percentile £178.75 £35.50 £100.00
North West median hourly rate £25.00 £22.63 £16.06
% change year-on-year +10.47% +40.91% -21.96%

AutoCAD
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

AutoCAD job vacancy trend in Manchester

AutoCAD
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing AutoCAD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing AutoCAD

AutoCAD
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing AutoCAD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing AutoCAD

AutoCAD
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AutoCAD within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 20 August 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
Bury - 1 - - 1
AutoCAD
North West

AutoCAD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (50.00%) MicroStation
1 1 (50.00%) Navisworks
1 1 (50.00%) ProjectWise
1 1 (50.00%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Integrated Workplace Management System
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) CAD
1 1 (50.00%) CAFM
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (50.00%) Data Extraction
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Twin
1 1 (50.00%) Facilities Management
1 1 (50.00%) Information Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Information Management
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Workflow
1 1 (50.00%) Workflow Development
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Chartered Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO 19650
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Autodesk
2 1 (50.00%) TOWER Software