CAD Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Computer-Aided Design (CAD)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring CAD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 72 102
Rank change year-on-year +26 +30 -
Permanent jobs citing CAD 12 5 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 1.83% 0.76% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.42% 0.83% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 9 2 2
10th Percentile £35,276 - £23,000
25th Percentile £35,532 £27,500 £23,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,536 £30,000 £26,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.45% +13.21% -
75th Percentile - £32,500 £30,250
90th Percentile £52,997 - £31,600
South West median annual salary £35,532 £30,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +18.44% -33.33% +16.13%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 496 601 805
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 75.84% 91.90% 89.25%
Number of salaries quoted 347 255 495
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,750 £30,750
25th Percentile £35,536 £42,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -0.47%
75th Percentile £71,875 £67,500 £66,375
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £80,450
South West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% +6.32%

CAD
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing CAD relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

CAD job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

CAD
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing CAD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing CAD

CAD
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing CAD in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for CAD in Gloucestershire

CAD
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CAD within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tewkesbury - 2 - -
CAD
South West

CAD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 (8.33%) AutoCAD
General
1 7 (58.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (8.33%) Police
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Analyst
1 7 (58.33%) ICT Analyst
2 5 (41.67%) Service Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Data Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Data Quality Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) ICT Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Quality Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Service Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Systems Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Support
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 2 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Windows
1 5 (41.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
1 9 (75.00%) Data Protection
2 7 (58.33%) Customer Engagement
2 7 (58.33%) Customer Service
2 7 (58.33%) ITIL
2 7 (58.33%) Service Management
2 7 (58.33%) Statistics
3 6 (50.00%) Change Management
3 6 (50.00%) Records Management
4 5 (41.67%) Information Security
4 5 (41.67%) Performance Monitoring
4 5 (41.67%) Service Delivery
4 5 (41.67%) Test Scripting
5 3 (25.00%) Project Management
6 2 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
6 2 (16.67%) Data Validation
6 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
6 2 (16.67%) Logistics
6 2 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) SQL
1 2 (16.67%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (75.00%) GDPR
2 2 (16.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft