CAD Jobs in the West Midlands

Computer-Aided Design (CAD)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 186 169 155
Rank change year-on-year -17 -14 +14
Permanent jobs citing CAD 6 81 118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.14% 1.10% 1.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 1.33% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 3 37 6
10th Percentile - £29,300 £26,250
25th Percentile £50,300 £30,000 £27,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,300 £45,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.44% +28.57% -20.45%
75th Percentile £60,650 £55,000 £37,500
90th Percentile £63,260 £64,750 £53,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £45,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% +28.57% -22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,940 6,110 6,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.25% 82.77% 96.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,638 4,547 3,160
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,375 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

CAD
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing CAD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for CAD in the West Midlands

CAD
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CAD in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for CAD in the West Midlands

CAD
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CAD within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Birmingham +23 3 £53,300 -11.17% 16
Warwickshire -30 1 - - 14
Walsall - 1 - -
CAD
England

CAD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (50.00%) ProjectWise
2 1 (16.67%) AutoCAD
2 1 (16.67%) Revit
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) GIS
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Information Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Digital Innovation Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Innovation Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) MIDP
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
2 1 (16.67%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Digital Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) 3D Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) 3D Animation
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 1 (16.67%) Design for Manufacturing
3 1 (16.67%) Information Management
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Mobile Application Development
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (16.67%) QA