CAD Contracts in England

Computer-Aided Design (CAD)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for CAD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CAD over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 433 569 707
Rank change year-on-year +136 +138 -140
Contract jobs citing CAD 110 69 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.30% 0.15% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.16% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 42 47
10th Percentile £235 £212 £275
25th Percentile £268 £308 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £377 £350 £455
Median % change year-on-year +7.71% -23.08% +36.64%
75th Percentile £450 £412 £500
90th Percentile £603 £523 £700
UK median daily rate £377 £350 £483
% change year-on-year +7.71% -27.46% +43.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 15 9
10th Percentile £15.25 £19.06 £21.88
25th Percentile £35.00 £28.38 £22.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £42.16 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.75% +13.93% +72.09%
75th Percentile £51.25 £52.00 £46.25
90th Percentile - £80.88 £50.00
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £42.16 £32.50
% change year-on-year +6.75% +29.71% +51.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

CAD is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,587 42,714 64,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.77% 89.96% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,623 29,972 45,670
10th Percentile £300 £325 £335
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.38% +8.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £767 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,317 1,513 1,726
10th Percentile £12.85 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - +50.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%

CAD
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing CAD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for CAD in England

CAD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CAD in England.

Daily rate trend for CAD in England

CAD
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CAD in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CAD in England

CAD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CAD in England.

Hourly rate trend for CAD in England

CAD
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CAD in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for CAD in England

CAD
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CAD within the England region over the 6 months to 31 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South West +43 41 £363 - 100
London +99 25 £377 -4.25% 65
South East +18 19 £475 -5.00% 154
Midlands +6 12 £450 +36.36% 179
West Midlands +15 11 £450 +28.57% 108
East of England +11 6 - - 93
North of England +28 4 - - 153
North West +19 2 - - 80
Yorkshire - 2 - - 51
East Midlands -1 1 - - 71
CAD
UK

CAD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 6 (5.45%) CMS
2 1 (0.91%) ArcGIS
2 1 (0.91%) Confluence
Applications
1 28 (25.45%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (14.55%) Acrobat
3 10 (9.09%) Adobe Illustrator
3 10 (9.09%) AutoCAD
4 7 (6.36%) Siemens NX
5 6 (5.45%) Photoshop
5 6 (5.45%) PTC Creo
6 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
7 4 (3.64%) Revit
7 4 (3.64%) Simulink
7 4 (3.64%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (2.73%) Windchill
9 1 (0.91%) Autodesk Inventor
9 1 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 1 (0.91%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (10.00%) Teamcenter
2 4 (3.64%) Primavera
3 1 (0.91%) SmartPlant
Cloud Services
1 3 (2.73%) Amazon S3
1 3 (2.73%) AWS
1 3 (2.73%) GCP
2 2 (1.82%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.91%) 4G
1 1 (0.91%) 5G
1 1 (0.91%) HTTP
1 1 (0.91%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.36%) Data Mining
2 3 (2.73%) DynamoDB
2 3 (2.73%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.73%) RDBMS
2 3 (2.73%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.82%) GIS
3 2 (1.82%) Power BI
3 2 (1.82%) Tableau
4 1 (0.91%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 3 (2.73%) Git
1 3 (2.73%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.91%) JIRA
General
1 56 (50.91%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.36%) Aerospace
3 16 (14.55%) Manufacturing
4 12 (10.91%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (7.27%) Multimedia
6 6 (5.45%) Finance
7 5 (4.55%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.64%) Law
8 4 (3.64%) Legal
8 4 (3.64%) Police
8 4 (3.64%) Publishing
8 4 (3.64%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.82%) Automotive
10 2 (1.82%) Electronics
10 2 (1.82%) French Language
10 2 (1.82%) German Language
10 2 (1.82%) Marketing
10 2 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (24.55%) Author
1 27 (24.55%) Technical Author
2 11 (10.00%) Architect
3 9 (8.18%) Technical Illustrator
4 7 (6.36%) Data Architect
4 7 (6.36%) Developer
5 6 (5.45%) Senior
6 5 (4.55%) Project Manager
7 4 (3.64%) .NET Developer
7 4 (3.64%) Administrator
7 4 (3.64%) CAD Engineer
7 4 (3.64%) Consultant
7 4 (3.64%) Lead
8 3 (2.73%) C# .NET Developer
8 3 (2.73%) C# Developer
8 3 (2.73%) Coordinator
8 3 (2.73%) Programmer
8 3 (2.73%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.73%) Technical Writer
9 2 (1.82%) Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (25.45%) XML
2 12 (10.91%) SGML
3 4 (3.64%) .NET
3 4 (3.64%) JSON
3 4 (3.64%) REST
4 3 (2.73%) JSON Schema
4 3 (2.73%) KML
4 3 (2.73%) Regular Expression
4 3 (2.73%) XML Schema
5 1 (0.91%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.91%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.91%) CSS
5 1 (0.91%) HTML
5 1 (0.91%) SOAP
5 1 (0.91%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 20 (18.18%) Animation
2 10 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.64%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (3.64%) Freedom of Information
4 4 (3.64%) Freedom of Information Act
4 4 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.73%) 3D Graphics
5 3 (2.73%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.82%) CMDB
6 2 (1.82%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.82%) FMCG
7 1 (0.91%) Analogue Electronics
7 1 (0.91%) CCTV
7 1 (0.91%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.91%) Life Science
7 1 (0.91%) STB
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.64%) Linux
2 1 (0.91%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (18.18%) Data Management
2 15 (13.64%) Computer Science
3 12 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (10.00%) 3D Modelling
4 11 (10.00%) Project Management
5 8 (7.27%) Systems Engineering
6 7 (6.36%) PLM
7 6 (5.45%) Content Management
7 6 (5.45%) IT Strategy
7 6 (5.45%) Validation
8 5 (4.55%) Agile
8 5 (4.55%) Customer Service
8 5 (4.55%) Decision-Making
8 5 (4.55%) Migration
9 4 (3.64%) Analytical Modelling
9 4 (3.64%) Design Patterns
9 4 (3.64%) Physics
9 4 (3.64%) Product Breakdown Structure
9 4 (3.64%) Systems Analysis
9 4 (3.64%) Work Breakdown Structure
Programming Languages
1 4 (3.64%) MATLAB
2 3 (2.73%) C#
3 1 (0.91%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.91%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 36 (32.73%) Degree
2 33 (30.00%) Security Cleared
3 12 (10.91%) SC Cleared
4 8 (7.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (6.36%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.64%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.82%) ACCA
7 2 (1.82%) CIMA
8 1 (0.91%) BICSI Certification
8 1 (0.91%) BICSI RCDD
8 1 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.91%) HND
8 1 (0.91%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.91%) Def Stans
2 5 (4.55%) QA
3 4 (3.64%) GDPR
4 3 (2.73%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.82%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 3 (2.73%) Ansible
2 1 (0.91%) MOM
Vendors
1 20 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 16 (14.55%) Adobe
3 5 (4.55%) Siemens
4 3 (2.73%) Google
4 3 (2.73%) PTC
4 3 (2.73%) SAP
4 3 (2.73%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.91%) AVEVA
5 1 (0.91%) IBM
5 1 (0.91%) Openreach