AutoCAD Contract Job Trends in the North West

Autodesk AutoCAD
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West 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 166 - 124
Rank change year-on-year - - +18
Contract jobs citing AutoCAD 4 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.10% - 0.17%
As % of the Applications category 1.76% - 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £405
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.73%
England median daily rate £438 £350 £325
% change year-on-year +25.00% +7.69% -1.52%

All Software Application Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 227 192 165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 5.87% 8.68% 6.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 105 71
10th Percentile £214 £300 £175
25th Percentile £335 £363 £298
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £447 £438
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% +2.17% +41.13%
75th Percentile £549 £488 £525
90th Percentile £700 £550 £610
England median daily rate £450 £425 £403
% change year-on-year +5.88% +5.46% -5.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 36 59
10th Percentile £16.10 £15.13 -
25th Percentile £17.63 £19.07 £10.95
Median hourly rate £25.00 £22.63 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +10.47% +40.91% -21.96%
75th Percentile £41.61 £35.50 £22.03
90th Percentile £178.75 £63.40 £57.50
England median hourly rate £22.68 £24.31 £16.23
% change year-on-year -6.71% +49.78% -30.16%

AutoCAD
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

AutoCAD job vacancy trend in the North West

AutoCAD
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing AutoCAD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing AutoCAD

AutoCAD
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing AutoCAD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing AutoCAD

AutoCAD
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AutoCAD within the North West 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
Manchester - 2 £400 - 16
Lancashire - 2 £400 - 6
AutoCAD
England

AutoCAD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (75.00%) Navisworks
1 3 (75.00%) ProjectWise
1 3 (75.00%) Revit
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (25.00%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Integrated Workplace Management System
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Information Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Asset Management
1 3 (75.00%) Building Information Modelling
1 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) CAFM
1 3 (75.00%) Data Extraction
1 3 (75.00%) Digital Twin
1 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (75.00%) Validation
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Facilities Management
2 2 (50.00%) Information Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Information Management
2 2 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Workflow
2 2 (50.00%) Workflow Development
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (25.00%) Chartered Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) ISO 19650
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) Autodesk
3 1 (25.00%) TOWER Software