SOLIDWORKS Job Trends in the South East

Dassault Systèmes SOLIDWORKS
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring SOLIDWORKS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 272 301 209
Rank change year-on-year +29 -92 +205
Permanent jobs citing SOLIDWORKS 4 6 60
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.039% 0.065% 0.78%
As % of the Applications category 0.38% 0.67% 7.78%
Number of salaries quoted 4 5 10
10th Percentile £39,625 £40,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £44,688 £43,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -29.63% +80.00%
75th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £85,313
90th Percentile - £56,445 £90,000
England median annual salary £38,500 £62,454 £62,500
% change year-on-year -38.35% -0.07% +66.67%

All Software Application Skills
South East

SOLIDWORKS falls under the Software Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring software application skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 1,050 892 771
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 10.12% 9.61% 9.98%
Number of salaries quoted 433 379 509
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £28,000 £36,000 £28,290
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £50,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +33.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £55,000 £66,875 £54,500
90th Percentile £66,250 £85,000 £65,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £47,683 £42,500
% change year-on-year -16.11% +12.20% -8.60%

SOLIDWORKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SOLIDWORKS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

SOLIDWORKS job vacancy trend in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SOLIDWORKS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SOLIDWORKS

SOLIDWORKS
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOLIDWORKS in the South East over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for SOLIDWORKS in the South East

SOLIDWORKS
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOLIDWORKS within the South East region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Surrey +8 3 £50,000 -16.54%
Thames Valley +12 1 £37,500 -21.05%
Buckinghamshire +5 1 £37,500 -6.25%
SOLIDWORKS
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (100.00%) CATIA
1 4 (100.00%) Siemens NX
2 3 (75.00%) Windchill
3 1 (25.00%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
General
1 4 (100.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (25.00%) Advertising
2 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (25.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Applications Specialist
1 3 (75.00%) CAD Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) CAD Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CAD
2 3 (75.00%) PDM
2 3 (75.00%) PLM
3 1 (25.00%) 3D Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Bash
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (25.00%) PMI Certification