Computer-Aided Design (CAD)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CAD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CAD over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 458 597 763
Rank change year-on-year +139 +166 -141
Contract jobs citing CAD 127 96 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.17% 0.098%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.18% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 60 50
10th Percentile £233 £207 £273
25th Percentile £273 £308 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £377 £350 £490
Median % change year-on-year +7.71% -28.57% +42.44%
75th Percentile £494 £438 £538
90th Percentile £658 £539 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £350 £495
% change year-on-year +28.57% -29.29% +86.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 17 13
10th Percentile £15.25 £20.10 £21.51
25th Percentile £33.13 £25.00 £23.70
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +11.11% +67.44%
75th Percentile £49.69 £55.00 £41.62
90th Percentile £51.25 £78.92 £49.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £41.08 £34.25
% change year-on-year +9.55% +19.93% +59.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

CAD is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,956 52,182 79,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.29% 89.83% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,793 36,175 55,967
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,727 1,890
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

CAD
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CAD in the UK

CAD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for CAD in the UK

CAD
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CAD over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CAD in the UK

CAD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for CAD in the UK

CAD
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CAD over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for CAD in the UK

CAD
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CAD within the UK over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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
England +133 113 £377 +7.71% 739
UK excluding London +96 92 £450 +28.57% 695
South West +47 40 £363 - 106
Work from Home +134 33 £292 -16.71% 129
London +98 28 £377 +10.88% 77
South East +28 20 £475 +11.76% 169
Midlands +13 14 £450 +36.36% 183
West Midlands +22 13 £450 +28.57% 116
Scotland +51 10 £675 +280.28% 31
East of England +6 6 - - 100
North of England +25 2 - - 127
North West +22 1 - - 73
East Midlands +3 1 - - 67
Yorkshire - 1 - - 39

CAD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (4.72%) CMS
2 1 (0.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 30 (23.62%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (12.60%) Acrobat
3 10 (7.87%) Adobe Illustrator
3 10 (7.87%) AutoCAD
4 9 (7.09%) Autodesk Inventor
5 7 (5.51%) Siemens NX
6 6 (4.72%) Photoshop
6 6 (4.72%) PTC Creo
6 6 (4.72%) Revit
7 4 (3.15%) Microsoft Excel
7 4 (3.15%) Simulink
7 4 (3.15%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (2.36%) Windchill
9 1 (0.79%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 14 (11.02%) Teamcenter
2 6 (4.72%) Primavera
3 1 (0.79%) SmartPlant
Cloud Services
1 2 (1.57%) Amazon S3
1 2 (1.57%) AWS
1 2 (1.57%) GCP
1 2 (1.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.79%) HTTP
1 1 (0.79%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.09%) Data Mining
2 2 (1.57%) DynamoDB
2 2 (1.57%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.57%) Power BI
2 2 (1.57%) RDBMS
2 2 (1.57%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (1.57%) Git
1 2 (1.57%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.79%) JIRA
General
1 69 (54.33%) Social Skills
2 27 (21.26%) Manufacturing
3 17 (13.39%) Aerospace
4 13 (10.24%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.51%) Multimedia
6 6 (4.72%) Finance
7 5 (3.94%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.15%) Automotive
8 4 (3.15%) Law
8 4 (3.15%) Legal
8 4 (3.15%) Marketing
8 4 (3.15%) Police
8 4 (3.15%) Publishing
8 4 (3.15%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.57%) Electronics
10 2 (1.57%) French Language
10 2 (1.57%) German Language
10 2 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.79%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 27 (21.26%) Author
1 27 (21.26%) Technical Author
2 15 (11.81%) Architect
3 11 (8.66%) CAD Technician
4 9 (7.09%) Data Architect
4 9 (7.09%) Senior
5 8 (6.30%) Developer
5 8 (6.30%) Technical Illustrator
6 7 (5.51%) Consultant
7 6 (4.72%) Lead
8 5 (3.94%) Project Manager
8 5 (3.94%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (3.15%) Administrator
9 4 (3.15%) CAD Engineer
9 4 (3.15%) Coordinator
10 3 (2.36%) .NET Developer
10 3 (2.36%) Programmer
10 3 (2.36%) Senior Technician
10 3 (2.36%) Technical Writer
11 2 (1.57%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (22.83%) XML
2 12 (9.45%) SGML
3 5 (3.94%) JSON
4 3 (2.36%) .NET
4 3 (2.36%) JSON Schema
4 3 (2.36%) KML
4 3 (2.36%) Regular Expression
4 3 (2.36%) REST
4 3 (2.36%) XML Schema
5 2 (1.57%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.57%) CSS
5 2 (1.57%) HTML
6 1 (0.79%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.79%) Ajax
6 1 (0.79%) SOAP
6 1 (0.79%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.75%) Animation
2 10 (7.87%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.72%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (3.94%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.15%) CMDB
5 4 (3.15%) Freedom of Information
5 4 (3.15%) Freedom of Information Act
5 4 (3.15%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.36%) 3D Graphics
7 2 (1.57%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.57%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.57%) FMCG
7 2 (1.57%) Life Science
7 2 (1.57%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.79%) Analogue Electronics
8 1 (0.79%) CCTV
8 1 (0.79%) STB
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.15%) Linux
2 1 (0.79%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (16.54%) 3D Modelling
2 18 (14.17%) Computer Science
2 18 (14.17%) Data Management
3 15 (11.81%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (10.24%) Project Management
5 11 (8.66%) PLM
5 11 (8.66%) Project Delivery
6 10 (7.87%) Systems Engineering
7 7 (5.51%) IT Strategy
8 6 (4.72%) Content Management
8 6 (4.72%) Migration
8 6 (4.72%) Process Improvement
8 6 (4.72%) Product Breakdown Structure
8 6 (4.72%) Work Breakdown Structure
9 5 (3.94%) Agile
9 5 (3.94%) Customer Service
9 5 (3.94%) Data Protection
9 5 (3.94%) Roadmaps
9 5 (3.94%) Validation
10 4 (3.15%) Analytical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (3.15%) MATLAB
2 2 (1.57%) C#
2 2 (1.57%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 39 (30.71%) Degree
2 34 (26.77%) Security Cleared
3 13 (10.24%) SC Cleared
4 9 (7.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (6.30%) DV Cleared
6 6 (4.72%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.57%) ACCA
7 2 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.57%) CIMA
8 1 (0.79%) BICSI Certification
8 1 (0.79%) BICSI RCDD
8 1 (0.79%) HNC
8 1 (0.79%) HND
8 1 (0.79%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.45%) Def Stans
2 5 (3.94%) QA
3 4 (3.15%) GDPR
4 2 (1.57%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.57%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 3 (2.36%) Ansible
2 1 (0.79%) MOM
Vendors
1 22 (17.32%) Microsoft
2 16 (12.60%) Adobe
3 9 (7.09%) Autodesk
4 6 (4.72%) Siemens
5 5 (3.94%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.36%) PTC
6 3 (2.36%) SAP
7 2 (1.57%) Google
8 1 (0.79%) AVEVA
8 1 (0.79%) IBM
8 1 (0.79%) Openreach