CAD Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Computer-Aided Design (CAD)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring CAD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing CAD 6 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.78% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% - -
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £39,425 - -
25th Percentile £43,813 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - -
75th Percentile £48,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median annual salary £47,500 £35,000 -
% change year-on-year +35.71% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 641 751 322
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 83.68% 86.03% 93.06%
Number of salaries quoted 452 365 271
10th Percentile £25,212 £30,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £28,875 £36,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £60,750 £65,603 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,750 £77,500
North East median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -

CAD
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

CAD job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

CAD
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing CAD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing CAD

CAD
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CAD within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 3 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
Gateshead - 3 £47,500 - 1
Newcastle upon Tyne - 1 £41,000 -
CAD
North East

CAD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 3 (50.00%) Revit
1 3 (50.00%) Siemens NX
2 2 (33.33%) Navisworks
Business Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
General
1 2 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Administrator
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Manager
3 1 (16.67%) CAD Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Itk
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
1 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Change Management
1 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) PLM
1 3 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Building Information Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (50.00%) Python
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
1 3 (50.00%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) HNC
1 3 (50.00%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
1 2 (33.33%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Siemens
1 3 (50.00%) VMware