CAD Jobs in Kent

Computer-Aided Design (CAD)
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 - 87
Rank change year-on-year - - +30
Permanent jobs citing CAD 6 0 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 0.74% - 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% - 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile £45,625 - £26,250
25th Percentile £46,563 - £27,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 - £33,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -18.79%
75th Percentile £54,688 - £37,625
90th Percentile £54,875 - £45,000
South East median annual salary £53,750 £47,000 £31,000
% change year-on-year +14.36% +51.61% -31.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 687 1,224 1,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 84.29% 81.65% 95.81%
Number of salaries quoted 320 892 525
10th Percentile £25,250 £25,500 £27,600
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -8.60% +3.33%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,000
South East median annual salary £56,837 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.67% -9.09% -

CAD
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for CAD in Kent

CAD
Salary Trend in Kent

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CAD in Kent.

Salary trend for CAD in Kent

CAD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (16.67%) AutoCAD
2 1 (16.67%) OrCAD
2 1 (16.67%) Revit
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Ethernet
General
1 4 (66.67%) Electronics
1 4 (66.67%) Presentation Skills
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Senior
2 4 (66.67%) Hardware Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) Senior Hardware Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Embedded Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Firmware Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Analogue Electronics
1 5 (83.33%) FPGA
1 5 (83.33%) VHDL
2 4 (66.67%) Life Science
3 1 (16.67%) Home Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Smart Home
3 1 (16.67%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (16.67%) FreeRTOS
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Architectural Design
1 4 (66.67%) Prototyping
1 4 (66.67%) Schematic Capture
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Digital Signal Processing
2 1 (16.67%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Kernel Development
2 1 (16.67%) Mathematics
2 1 (16.67%) Signal Processing
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Statistics
2 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) C
1 5 (83.33%) C++
2 4 (66.67%) C#
2 4 (66.67%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) Python
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Firmware
2 1 (16.67%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) EMC
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft