CAD Jobs in the East Midlands

Computer-Aided Design (CAD)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring CAD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited CAD over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 121 157
Rank change year-on-year -19 +36 +42
Permanent jobs citing CAD 22 66 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.80% 1.47% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 1.85% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 5 57 8
10th Percentile - £30,000 £34,125
25th Percentile £23,690 £31,250 £39,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £40,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% -15.79% +18.75%
75th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £35,100 £51,500 £63,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £45,000 £36,250
% change year-on-year +33.33% +24.14% -19.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

CAD falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,553 3,575 2,683
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 92.47% 79.43% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 978 2,512 1,260
10th Percentile £25,625 £25,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £44,050 £50,249
Median % change year-on-year +2.16% -12.34% +5.79%
75th Percentile £58,750 £56,213 £65,000
90th Percentile £68,593 £68,750 £76,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

CAD
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for CAD in the East Midlands

CAD
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CAD in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for CAD in the East Midlands

CAD
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CAD within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northamptonshire -16 15 - - 5
Nottinghamshire +9 4 £32,500 -18.75% 2
Lincolnshire - 2 £24,720 - 5
Leicestershire +15 1 £34,000 +13.33% 9
CAD
England

CAD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East 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:

Applications
1 5 (22.73%) AutoCAD
2 2 (9.09%) SketchUp
2 2 (9.09%) SOLIDWORKS
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (4.55%) Revit
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) LTE
1 1 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (4.55%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Git
1 1 (4.55%) Subversion
General
1 16 (72.73%) Manufacturing
2 13 (59.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 3 (13.64%) Aerospace
5 2 (9.09%) Aeronautics
5 2 (9.09%) Automotive
5 2 (9.09%) Law
5 2 (9.09%) Legal
5 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.55%) Electronics
6 1 (4.55%) Finance
6 1 (4.55%) Marketing
6 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (63.64%) Senior
2 5 (22.73%) CAD Technician
3 2 (9.09%) Performance Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Embedded Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Programmer
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) CCTV
1 2 (9.09%) Home Automation
1 2 (9.09%) Smart Home
2 1 (4.55%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (4.55%) IoT
2 1 (4.55%) Raspberry Pi
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) Design for Manufacturing
1 13 (59.09%) Mentoring
2 3 (13.64%) Decision-Making
2 3 (13.64%) Time Management
3 2 (9.09%) CAE
3 2 (9.09%) Computational Fluid Dynamics
3 2 (9.09%) Customer Service
3 2 (9.09%) Data Collection
3 2 (9.09%) Fluid Mechanics
3 2 (9.09%) Performance Engineering
3 2 (9.09%) Physics
3 2 (9.09%) Test Planning
4 1 (4.55%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (4.55%) Configuration Management
4 1 (4.55%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (4.55%) Programme Management
4 1 (4.55%) Project Management
4 1 (4.55%) Project Planning
4 1 (4.55%) Validation
4 1 (4.55%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (72.73%) Degree
2 2 (9.09%) Master's Degree
2 2 (9.09%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (63.64%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (4.55%) Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (4.55%) SAP