CAD Contracts

Computer-Aided Design (CAD)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring CAD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CAD over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 466 618 760
Rank change year-on-year +152 +142 -127
Contract jobs citing CAD 119 79 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.14% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.16% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 50 53
10th Percentile £235 £207 £275
25th Percentile £273 £308 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £377 £350 £490
Median % change year-on-year +7.71% -28.57% +52.17%
75th Percentile £450 £466 £538
90th Percentile £580 £550 £703
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £330 £495
% change year-on-year +36.36% -33.33% +65.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 17 10
10th Percentile £15.25 £20.10 £21.94
25th Percentile £35.00 £25.00 £22.42
Median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £31.41
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +27.36% +46.08%
75th Percentile £51.25 £48.99 £45.09
90th Percentile £55.00 £78.92 £50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £36.25 £25.82
% change year-on-year +24.14% +40.42% +20.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

CAD falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

CAD
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CAD in the UK

CAD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for CAD in the UK

CAD
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CAD over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CAD in the UK

CAD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for CAD in the UK

CAD
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CAD over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for CAD in the UK

CAD
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CAD within the UK over the 6 months to 12 June 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
England +123 106 £377 +7.71% 712
UK excluding London +58 87 £450 +36.36% 676
South West +33 40 £363 +3.57% 105
Work from Home +129 31 £232 -51.19% 150
London +96 25 £377 -31.45% 66
South East +17 15 - - 148
Midlands +3 13 £450 +36.36% 182
West Midlands +19 12 £450 +28.57% 106
Scotland +54 9 - - 43
East of England +8 6 - - 73
North of England +19 4 - - 136
North West +15 2 - - 66
Yorkshire - 2 - - 51
East Midlands -8 1 - - 76

CAD
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 6 (5.04%) CMS
2 1 (0.84%) ArcGIS
2 1 (0.84%) Confluence
Applications
1 29 (24.37%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (13.45%) Acrobat
3 10 (8.40%) Adobe Illustrator
3 10 (8.40%) AutoCAD
3 10 (8.40%) Autodesk Inventor
4 6 (5.04%) Photoshop
4 6 (5.04%) PTC Creo
5 5 (4.20%) Microsoft Excel
6 4 (3.36%) Revit
6 4 (3.36%) Simulink
6 4 (3.36%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (2.52%) Siemens NX
7 3 (2.52%) Windchill
8 1 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.84%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (9.24%) Teamcenter
2 4 (3.36%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 3 (2.52%) Amazon S3
1 3 (2.52%) AWS
1 3 (2.52%) GCP
2 2 (1.68%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.84%) 4G
1 1 (0.84%) 5G
1 1 (0.84%) HTTP
1 1 (0.84%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.88%) Data Mining
2 3 (2.52%) DynamoDB
2 3 (2.52%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.52%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.52%) RDBMS
2 3 (2.52%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.68%) GIS
3 2 (1.68%) Power BI
3 2 (1.68%) Tableau
4 1 (0.84%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 3 (2.52%) Git
1 3 (2.52%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.84%) JIRA
General
1 65 (54.62%) Social Skills
2 24 (20.17%) Manufacturing
3 18 (15.13%) Aerospace
4 12 (10.08%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.72%) Multimedia
6 7 (5.88%) Finance
7 5 (4.20%) Telecoms
8 4 (3.36%) Automotive
8 4 (3.36%) Law
8 4 (3.36%) Legal
8 4 (3.36%) Marketing
8 4 (3.36%) Police
8 4 (3.36%) Publishing
9 3 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.52%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.68%) Electronics
10 2 (1.68%) French Language
10 2 (1.68%) German Language
11 1 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (21.85%) Author
1 26 (21.85%) Technical Author
2 12 (10.08%) Architect
3 11 (9.24%) CAD Technician
4 9 (7.56%) Technical Illustrator
5 8 (6.72%) Developer
5 8 (6.72%) Senior
6 7 (5.88%) Data Architect
7 6 (5.04%) Lead
7 6 (5.04%) Project Manager
8 5 (4.20%) Consultant
9 4 (3.36%) .NET Developer
9 4 (3.36%) Administrator
10 3 (2.52%) C# .NET Developer
10 3 (2.52%) C# Developer
10 3 (2.52%) Programmer
10 3 (2.52%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (2.52%) Technical Writer
11 2 (1.68%) Coordinator
11 2 (1.68%) Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (23.53%) XML
2 12 (10.08%) SGML
3 5 (4.20%) JSON
4 4 (3.36%) .NET
4 4 (3.36%) REST
5 3 (2.52%) JSON Schema
5 3 (2.52%) KML
5 3 (2.52%) Regular Expression
5 3 (2.52%) XML Schema
6 2 (1.68%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.68%) CSS
6 2 (1.68%) HTML
7 1 (0.84%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.84%) Ajax
7 1 (0.84%) SOAP
7 1 (0.84%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 20 (16.81%) Animation
2 10 (8.40%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.20%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.36%) CMDB
4 4 (3.36%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (3.36%) Freedom of Information
4 4 (3.36%) Freedom of Information Act
4 4 (3.36%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.52%) 3D Graphics
5 3 (2.52%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.68%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.68%) FMCG
7 1 (0.84%) Analogue Electronics
7 1 (0.84%) CCTV
7 1 (0.84%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.84%) Life Science
7 1 (0.84%) NHS
7 1 (0.84%) STB
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.36%) Linux
2 1 (0.84%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (15.97%) Data Management
2 15 (12.61%) Computer Science
3 14 (11.76%) 3D Modelling
4 13 (10.92%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (10.08%) Project Delivery
6 11 (9.24%) Project Management
7 8 (6.72%) Systems Engineering
8 7 (5.88%) PLM
9 6 (5.04%) Content Management
9 6 (5.04%) IT Strategy
9 6 (5.04%) Validation
10 5 (4.20%) Agile
10 5 (4.20%) Customer Service
10 5 (4.20%) Data Analysis
10 5 (4.20%) Decision-Making
10 5 (4.20%) Migration
11 4 (3.36%) Ergonomics
11 4 (3.36%) ITSM
11 4 (3.36%) Physics
11 4 (3.36%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (3.36%) MATLAB
2 3 (2.52%) C#
2 3 (2.52%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.84%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 39 (32.77%) Degree
2 29 (24.37%) Security Cleared
3 13 (10.92%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (5.04%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.52%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.68%) ACCA
7 2 (1.68%) CIMA
8 1 (0.84%) BICSI Certification
8 1 (0.84%) BICSI RCDD
8 1 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.84%) HND
8 1 (0.84%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.08%) Def Stans
2 5 (4.20%) QA
3 4 (3.36%) GDPR
4 3 (2.52%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.68%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 3 (2.52%) Ansible
2 1 (0.84%) MOM
Vendors
1 20 (16.81%) Microsoft
2 16 (13.45%) Adobe
3 9 (7.56%) Autodesk
4 6 (5.04%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.52%) Google
5 3 (2.52%) PTC
5 3 (2.52%) SAP
6 1 (0.84%) AVEVA
6 1 (0.84%) IBM
6 1 (0.84%) Openreach
6 1 (0.84%) Snow