Autodesk AutoCAD
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for AutoCAD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited AutoCAD over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 626 941 1011
Rank change year-on-year +315 +70 -310
Permanent jobs citing AutoCAD 104 131 69
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.11% 0.054%
As % of the Applications category 2.43% 1.16% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 51 90 22
10th Percentile £32,435 - £28,550
25th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £29,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £35,000 £33,750
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% +3.70% -12.34%
75th Percentile £61,250 £37,500 £40,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £67,500 £43,563
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £35,000 £31,500
% change year-on-year +42.86% +11.11% -21.25%

All Software Application Skills
UK

AutoCAD is in the Software Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for software application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 4,274 11,266 10,916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.07% 9.17% 8.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2,993 6,304 6,780
10th Percentile £25,124 £26,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £46,000 £44,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.61% +4.55% +3.53%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,200 £78,750 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year -2.60% +2.67% -

AutoCAD
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AutoCAD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AutoCAD in the UK

AutoCAD
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AutoCAD.

Salary trend for AutoCAD in the UK

AutoCAD
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AutoCAD over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for AutoCAD in the UK

AutoCAD
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AutoCAD within the UK over the 6 months to 7 December 2023. 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
England +317 100 £50,000 +42.86% 428
UK excluding London +197 52 £50,000 +42.86% 377
London +287 50 £55,000 -8.33% 84
Work from Home +273 39 £50,000 -16.67% 104
South East +152 22 £51,500 +47.14% 89
Midlands +150 20 £50,000 +17.65% 76
West Midlands +138 12 - - 44
East Midlands +60 8 £50,000 +17.65% 31
North of England +148 6 £34,104 -14.74% 89
Yorkshire +108 4 £34,104 -28.20% 36
Northern Ireland +39 2 £40,000 +45.45% 2
Scotland +24 2 £65,000 - 18
North West +118 1 - - 46
North East +44 1 £42,500 +6.25% 11

AutoCAD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (8.65%) Apache
1 9 (8.65%) IIS
1 9 (8.65%) MS Exchange
1 9 (8.65%) WebSphere
Applications
1 18 (17.31%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (16.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (13.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (9.62%) PTC Creo
4 10 (9.62%) SOLIDWORKS
5 9 (8.65%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (7.69%) Revit
7 6 (5.77%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (3.85%) SketchUp
9 2 (1.92%) ArcView
9 2 (1.92%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.96%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.96%) Simulink
10 1 (0.96%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 13 (12.50%) Entra ID
2 9 (8.65%) Azure
2 9 (8.65%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (6.73%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 7 (6.73%) AWS
3 7 (6.73%) GCP
3 7 (6.73%) IaaS
3 7 (6.73%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (6.73%) PaaS
3 7 (6.73%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.81%) DNS
1 5 (4.81%) LAN
2 4 (3.85%) DHCP
2 4 (3.85%) VPN
2 4 (3.85%) Wireless
3 2 (1.92%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.96%) Network Security
4 1 (0.96%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.65%) SAP HANA
1 9 (8.65%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.73%) Power BI
3 6 (5.77%) GIS
4 2 (1.92%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 9 (8.65%) Chocolatey
1 9 (8.65%) Git
1 9 (8.65%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
1 10 (9.62%) Public Sector
1 10 (9.62%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.65%) Telecoms
3 8 (7.69%) Finance
4 7 (6.73%) Local Government
5 6 (5.77%) Games
5 6 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (5.77%) Legal
6 5 (4.81%) Automotive
6 5 (4.81%) Manufacturing
6 5 (4.81%) Retail
7 2 (1.92%) Electronics
7 2 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.96%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 25 (24.04%) Senior
2 12 (11.54%) Traffic Engineer
3 11 (10.58%) Technical Manager
4 10 (9.62%) Project Engineer
5 9 (8.65%) Automation Engineer
5 9 (8.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (6.73%) Design Engineer
6 7 (6.73%) Engineering Manager
7 6 (5.77%) Head of IT
8 5 (4.81%) Technical Engineer
9 4 (3.85%) Administrator
9 4 (3.85%) CAD Technician
9 4 (3.85%) IT Administrator
9 4 (3.85%) IT Systems Administrator
9 4 (3.85%) Senior Manager
9 4 (3.85%) Systems Administrator
9 4 (3.85%) Telecoms Engineer
10 3 (2.88%) Instrumentation Engineer
11 2 (1.92%) Electrical Engineer
11 2 (1.92%) GIS Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.54%) Unreal Engine
2 9 (8.65%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (8.65%) XML
2 9 (8.65%) YAML
3 6 (5.77%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 6 (5.77%) V-Ray
4 3 (2.88%) WML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.65%) Driving Licence
1 9 (8.65%) Enterprise Software
1 9 (8.65%) Operational Technology
1 9 (8.65%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 7 (6.73%) Public Cloud
4 6 (5.77%) Augmented Reality
4 6 (5.77%) e-Learning
4 6 (5.77%) HoloLens
4 6 (5.77%) HTC Vive
4 6 (5.77%) Oculus
4 6 (5.77%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.77%) Video Conferencing
4 6 (5.77%) Virtual Reality
5 3 (2.88%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.88%) SCADA
6 2 (1.92%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.92%) Smart City
6 2 (1.92%) Solar Energy
7 1 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (19.23%) Windows
2 13 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 11 (10.58%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (26.92%) Project Management
2 19 (18.27%) CAD
3 15 (14.42%) Mentoring
4 13 (12.50%) ERP
5 11 (10.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 11 (10.58%) IT Strategy
5 11 (10.58%) Project Delivery
6 10 (9.62%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (8.65%) Batch Scripting
7 9 (8.65%) CI/CD
7 9 (8.65%) DevOps
7 9 (8.65%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (8.65%) Infrastructure Automation
7 9 (8.65%) Migration
7 9 (8.65%) PLM
7 9 (8.65%) Server Building
7 9 (8.65%) Server Migrations
7 9 (8.65%) Software Distribution
7 9 (8.65%) Task Automation
8 8 (7.69%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (9.62%) MATLAB
1 10 (9.62%) PowerShell
2 9 (8.65%) Bash
3 4 (3.85%) C#
3 4 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (48.08%) Degree
2 20 (19.23%) HNC
3 12 (11.54%) HND
4 10 (9.62%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (8.65%) MCSA
5 9 (8.65%) MCSE
6 7 (6.73%) AWS Certification
6 7 (6.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (6.73%) Azure Certification
6 7 (6.73%) Chartered Engineer
6 7 (6.73%) DBS Check
7 6 (5.77%) Security Cleared
8 2 (1.92%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.96%) MCAD
9 1 (0.96%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.50%) QA
2 6 (5.77%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (14.42%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.96%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (8.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 9 (8.65%) Ansible
1 9 (8.65%) SCCM
1 9 (8.65%) SCOM
1 9 (8.65%) Terraform
2 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 28 (26.92%) Microsoft
2 17 (16.35%) Vectorworks
3 15 (14.42%) Adobe
4 11 (10.58%) SAP
5 10 (9.62%) PTC
6 9 (8.65%) IBM
6 9 (8.65%) MathWorks
6 9 (8.65%) Oracle
6 9 (8.65%) TOWER Software
7 8 (7.69%) Autodesk
8 7 (6.73%) Red Hat
9 5 (4.81%) VMware
10 4 (3.85%) Sage
11 2 (1.92%) NEC
11 2 (1.92%) Siemens