Dassault Systèmes SOLIDWORKS
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SOLIDWORKS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SOLIDWORKS 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 655 1059 1047
Rank change year-on-year +404 -12 -299
Permanent jobs citing SOLIDWORKS 75 13 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.011% 0.026%
As % of the Applications category 1.75% 0.12% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 15 7 6
10th Percentile £29,250 £25,150 £37,188
25th Percentile £40,125 £31,250 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £37,500 £41,875
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -10.45% -14.97%
75th Percentile £76,250 £38,750 £47,313
90th Percentile £88,500 £49,750 £68,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,250 £37,500 £41,875
% change year-on-year +36.67% -10.45% -19.66%

All Software Application Skills
UK

SOLIDWORKS 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% -

SOLIDWORKS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SOLIDWORKS in the UK

SOLIDWORKS
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SOLIDWORKS in the UK

SOLIDWORKS
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for SOLIDWORKS in the UK

SOLIDWORKS
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOLIDWORKS 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 +397 74 £50,000 +33.33% 178
UK excluding London +303 74 £51,250 +36.67% 181
South East +191 59 £70,000 +86.67% 52
South West - 10 - - 22
Work from Home +244 7 £77,500 +106.67% 33
Midlands - 2 £38,750 - 33
East of England - 2 £42,500 - 30
Wales +13 1 £50,000 - 9
East Midlands - 1 £37,500 - 17
London - 1 £47,500 - 13

SOLIDWORKS
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 (12.00%) Apache
1 9 (12.00%) IIS
1 9 (12.00%) MS Exchange
1 9 (12.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (1.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (13.33%) AutoCAD
2 9 (12.00%) PTC Creo
3 6 (8.00%) Autodesk Inventor
4 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (1.33%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 9 (12.00%) Azure
1 9 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
1 9 (12.00%) Entra ID
2 7 (9.33%) AWS
2 7 (9.33%) GCP
2 7 (9.33%) IaaS
2 7 (9.33%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.00%) SAP HANA
1 9 (12.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.33%) Firebird
2 1 (1.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (12.00%) Chocolatey
1 9 (12.00%) Git
1 9 (12.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.33%) JIRA
General
1 58 (77.33%) Manufacturing
2 9 (12.00%) Public Sector
3 6 (8.00%) Social Skills
4 5 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (4.00%) Electronics
6 2 (2.67%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.67%) Finance
6 2 (2.67%) Marketing
6 2 (2.67%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.33%) Automotive
7 1 (1.33%) Local Government
7 1 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (66.67%) Analyst
2 13 (17.33%) Automation Engineer
3 10 (13.33%) Digital Analyst
4 7 (9.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (6.67%) Digital Transformation
5 5 (6.67%) IT Analyst
5 5 (6.67%) Solutions Analyst
5 5 (6.67%) Strategy Analyst
5 5 (6.67%) Technology Analyst
5 5 (6.67%) Transformation Analyst
6 3 (4.00%) Senior
7 2 (2.67%) Applications Engineer
7 2 (2.67%) Design Engineer
7 2 (2.67%) Senior Applications Engineer
7 2 (2.67%) Senior Design Engineer
8 1 (1.33%) Administrator
8 1 (1.33%) CAD Technician
8 1 (1.33%) Electrical Engineer
8 1 (1.33%) Electronics Engineer
8 1 (1.33%) Mechanical Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.00%) Elastic Stack
1 9 (12.00%) XML
1 9 (12.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.00%) Enterprise Software
1 9 (12.00%) Operational Technology
2 7 (9.33%) Public Cloud
3 6 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 6 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.33%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.33%) Robotics
4 1 (1.33%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.00%) Windows
1 9 (12.00%) Windows Server
2 7 (9.33%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (1.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (97.33%) CAD
2 50 (66.67%) Hazard Analysis
2 50 (66.67%) Validation
3 12 (16.00%) Mentoring
4 11 (14.67%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (13.33%) ERP
5 10 (13.33%) PLM
6 9 (12.00%) Batch Scripting
6 9 (12.00%) CI/CD
6 9 (12.00%) DevOps
6 9 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (12.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 9 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 9 (12.00%) Migration
6 9 (12.00%) Server Building
6 9 (12.00%) Server Migrations
6 9 (12.00%) Software Distribution
6 9 (12.00%) Task Automation
7 7 (9.33%) Software Engineering
8 6 (8.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (13.33%) MATLAB
2 9 (12.00%) Bash
2 9 (12.00%) PowerShell
3 5 (6.67%) C
3 5 (6.67%) C#
3 5 (6.67%) C++
3 5 (6.67%) Java
3 5 (6.67%) JavaScript
3 5 (6.67%) PHP
3 5 (6.67%) Python
4 1 (1.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (77.33%) Degree
2 50 (66.67%) HNC
3 11 (14.67%) Security Cleared
4 9 (12.00%) MCSA
4 9 (12.00%) MCSE
4 9 (12.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (9.33%) AWS Certification
5 7 (9.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (9.33%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.33%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.33%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.33%) ISO 9001
1 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (12.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (12.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 9 (12.00%) Ansible
1 9 (12.00%) SCCM
1 9 (12.00%) SCOM
1 9 (12.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (14.67%) SAP
2 10 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 9 (12.00%) IBM
3 9 (12.00%) MathWorks
3 9 (12.00%) Oracle
3 9 (12.00%) PTC
3 9 (12.00%) TOWER Software
4 7 (9.33%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.33%) Adobe
5 1 (1.33%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.33%) Salesforce