CAD Contracts in the Midlands

Computer-Aided Design (CAD)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring CAD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CAD over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 119 133
Rank change year-on-year +13 +14 +66
Contract jobs citing CAD 5 14 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.26% 0.51% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.62% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 26
10th Percentile £374 £235 -
25th Percentile £447 £343 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £450 £330
Median % change year-on-year +30.56% +36.36% -34.00%
75th Percentile £722 - £350
90th Percentile £791 - £375
England median daily rate £527 £377 £350
% change year-on-year +39.79% +7.71% -23.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £15.50 -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £42.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +41.18% +30.77% -10.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing CAD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for CAD in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CAD in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for CAD in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CAD in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CAD in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CAD in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for CAD in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CAD within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
East Midlands +13 4 £588 - 34
West Midlands +2 1 - - 41
CAD
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Siemens NX
2 1 (20.00%) AutoCAD
2 1 (20.00%) Fusion 360
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Teamcenter
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (20.00%) GIS
1 1 (20.00%) QGIS
General
1 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Architect
1 1 (20.00%) AutoCAD Technician
1 1 (20.00%) CAD Technician
1 1 (20.00%) Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Geospatial Technician
1 1 (20.00%) Graphics Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Senior
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Trainer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) 3D Graphics
1 1 (20.00%) Derivative
1 1 (20.00%) Lidar
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) PLM
2 2 (40.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) 3D Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Data Management
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Functional Testing
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) ITSM
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) User Stories
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
3 1 (20.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Autodesk
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (20.00%) Siemens