AutoCAD Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Autodesk AutoCAD
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland 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 133 - 114
Rank change year-on-year - - +41
Contract jobs citing AutoCAD 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.045% - 0.053%
As % of the Applications category 0.66% - 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
UK median daily rate £419 £350 £345
% change year-on-year +19.64% +1.45% +4.55%

All Software Application Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 152 156 224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 6.84% 9.57% 11.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 86 130
10th Percentile £150 £193 £150
25th Percentile £254 £283 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £400 £256
Median % change year-on-year -12.39% +55.90% -31.67%
75th Percentile £444 £488 £438
90th Percentile £575 £531 £538
UK median daily rate £438 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +2.94% +6.25% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 12 14
10th Percentile £13.00 - £12.30
25th Percentile £13.50 £16.02 £12.58
Median hourly rate £15.81 £16.98 £16.25
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +4.51% -8.30%
75th Percentile £17.00 £19.97 £18.49
90th Percentile £36.18 £21.07 £36.71
UK median hourly rate £21.61 £22.87 £17.80
% change year-on-year -5.51% +28.48% -22.02%

AutoCAD
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

AutoCAD job vacancy trend in Scotland

AutoCAD
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing AutoCAD

AutoCAD
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing AutoCAD

AutoCAD
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AutoCAD within the Scotland 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
Glasgow - 1 £400 - 3
AutoCAD
UK

AutoCAD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (100.00%) Navisworks
1 1 (100.00%) ProjectWise
1 1 (100.00%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Integrated Workplace Management System
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Building Information Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CAFM
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Extraction
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Twin
1 1 (100.00%) Facilities Management
1 1 (100.00%) Information Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Information Management
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow Development
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 19650
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Autodesk
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft