CAD Contracts

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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 480 616 768
Rank change year-on-year +136 +152 -139
Contract jobs citing CAD 122 79 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.14% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.16% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 50 53
10th Percentile £235 £198 £275
25th Percentile £282 £308 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £377 £350 £490
Median % change year-on-year +7.71% -28.57% +48.48%
75th Percentile £450 £466 £538
90th Percentile £580 £550 £703
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £330 £495
% change year-on-year +36.36% -33.33% +65.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 17 10
10th Percentile £15.25 £20.10 £21.94
25th Percentile £35.00 £25.00 £22.42
Median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £31.41
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +27.36% +46.08%
75th Percentile £51.25 £48.99 £45.09
90th Percentile - £78.92 £50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £36.25 £25.82
% change year-on-year +24.14% +40.42% +20.07%

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 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +135 109 £377 +7.71% 736
UK excluding London +76 90 £450 +36.36% 688
South West +44 40 £363 - 115
Work from Home +126 32 £292 -38.63% 152
London +97 25 £377 -4.25% 69
South East +21 19 £475 -5.00% 149
Midlands +7 12 £450 +36.36% 178
West Midlands +13 11 £450 +28.57% 110
Scotland +45 9 - - 39
East of England +5 6 - - 82
North of England +27 4 - - 139
North West +13 2 - - 69
Yorkshire - 2 - - 51
East Midlands -3 1 - - 68

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 (4.92%) CMS
2 1 (0.82%) ArcGIS
2 1 (0.82%) Confluence
Applications
1 29 (23.77%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (13.11%) Acrobat
3 10 (8.20%) Adobe Illustrator
3 10 (8.20%) AutoCAD
3 10 (8.20%) Autodesk Inventor
4 6 (4.92%) Photoshop
4 6 (4.92%) PTC Creo
4 6 (4.92%) Siemens NX
5 5 (4.10%) Microsoft Excel
6 4 (3.28%) Revit
6 4 (3.28%) Simulink
6 4 (3.28%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (2.46%) Windchill
8 1 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.82%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (9.02%) Teamcenter
2 4 (3.28%) Primavera
3 1 (0.82%) SmartPlant
Cloud Services
1 3 (2.46%) Amazon S3
1 3 (2.46%) AWS
1 3 (2.46%) GCP
2 2 (1.64%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.82%) 4G
1 1 (0.82%) 5G
1 1 (0.82%) HTTP
1 1 (0.82%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.74%) Data Mining
2 3 (2.46%) DynamoDB
2 3 (2.46%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.46%) RDBMS
2 3 (2.46%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.64%) GIS
3 2 (1.64%) Power BI
3 2 (1.64%) Tableau
4 1 (0.82%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 3 (2.46%) Git
1 3 (2.46%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.82%) JIRA
General
1 65 (53.28%) Social Skills
2 26 (21.31%) Manufacturing
3 18 (14.75%) Aerospace
4 12 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.56%) Multimedia
6 7 (5.74%) Finance
7 5 (4.10%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.10%) Telecoms
8 4 (3.28%) Automotive
8 4 (3.28%) Law
8 4 (3.28%) Legal
8 4 (3.28%) Marketing
8 4 (3.28%) Police
8 4 (3.28%) Publishing
9 3 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.64%) Electronics
10 2 (1.64%) French Language
10 2 (1.64%) German Language
10 2 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (21.31%) Author
1 26 (21.31%) Technical Author
2 11 (9.02%) Architect
2 11 (9.02%) CAD Technician
3 9 (7.38%) Technical Illustrator
4 8 (6.56%) Developer
5 7 (5.74%) Data Architect
5 7 (5.74%) Senior
6 6 (4.92%) Lead
6 6 (4.92%) Project Manager
7 5 (4.10%) Consultant
8 4 (3.28%) .NET Developer
8 4 (3.28%) Administrator
9 3 (2.46%) C# .NET Developer
9 3 (2.46%) C# Developer
9 3 (2.46%) CAD Engineer
9 3 (2.46%) Coordinator
9 3 (2.46%) Programmer
9 3 (2.46%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (2.46%) Technical Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (22.95%) XML
2 12 (9.84%) SGML
3 5 (4.10%) JSON
4 4 (3.28%) .NET
4 4 (3.28%) REST
5 3 (2.46%) JSON Schema
5 3 (2.46%) KML
5 3 (2.46%) Regular Expression
5 3 (2.46%) XML Schema
6 2 (1.64%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.64%) CSS
6 2 (1.64%) HTML
7 1 (0.82%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.82%) Ajax
7 1 (0.82%) SOAP
7 1 (0.82%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 20 (16.39%) Animation
2 10 (8.20%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.10%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.28%) CMDB
4 4 (3.28%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (3.28%) Freedom of Information
4 4 (3.28%) Freedom of Information Act
4 4 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.46%) 3D Graphics
5 3 (2.46%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.64%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.64%) FMCG
7 1 (0.82%) Analogue Electronics
7 1 (0.82%) CCTV
7 1 (0.82%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.82%) Life Science
7 1 (0.82%) NHS
7 1 (0.82%) STB
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.28%) Linux
2 1 (0.82%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (16.39%) Data Management
2 19 (15.57%) 3D Modelling
3 15 (12.30%) Computer Science
4 13 (10.66%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (9.84%) Project Delivery
6 11 (9.02%) Project Management
7 8 (6.56%) Systems Engineering
8 7 (5.74%) PLM
9 6 (4.92%) Content Management
9 6 (4.92%) IT Strategy
9 6 (4.92%) Validation
10 5 (4.10%) Agile
10 5 (4.10%) Customer Service
10 5 (4.10%) Data Analysis
10 5 (4.10%) Decision-Making
10 5 (4.10%) Migration
11 4 (3.28%) Data Protection
11 4 (3.28%) ITSM
11 4 (3.28%) Process Improvement
11 4 (3.28%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (3.28%) MATLAB
2 3 (2.46%) C#
3 2 (1.64%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.82%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 39 (31.97%) Degree
2 32 (26.23%) Security Cleared
3 12 (9.84%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.92%) DV Cleared
5 6 (4.92%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.64%) ACCA
6 2 (1.64%) CIMA
7 1 (0.82%) BICSI Certification
7 1 (0.82%) BICSI RCDD
7 1 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.82%) HND
7 1 (0.82%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.84%) Def Stans
2 5 (4.10%) QA
3 4 (3.28%) GDPR
4 3 (2.46%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.64%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 3 (2.46%) Ansible
2 1 (0.82%) MOM
Vendors
1 21 (17.21%) Microsoft
2 16 (13.11%) Adobe
3 9 (7.38%) Autodesk
4 5 (4.10%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.28%) Siemens
6 3 (2.46%) Google
6 3 (2.46%) PTC
6 3 (2.46%) SAP
7 1 (0.82%) AVEVA
7 1 (0.82%) IBM
7 1 (0.82%) Openreach