CAD Contracts

Computer-Aided Design (CAD)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 456 604 752
Rank change year-on-year +148 +148 -119
Contract jobs citing CAD 123 80 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.14% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.16% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 51 55
10th Percentile £235 £200 £276
25th Percentile £282 £308 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £377 £350 £490
Median % change year-on-year +7.71% -28.57% +48.48%
75th Percentile £450 £456 £588
90th Percentile £580 £550 £702
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £330 £500
% change year-on-year +36.36% -34.00% +66.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 15 11
10th Percentile £15.25 £19.06 £22.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £28.38 £22.85
Median hourly rate £45.00 £42.16 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.75% +29.71% +51.16%
75th Percentile £51.25 £52.00 £43.94
90th Percentile - £80.88 £50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £41.08 £29.16
% change year-on-year +9.55% +40.88% +35.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,816 50,571 79,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.44% 89.70% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,638 35,025 55,934
10th Percentile £300 £325 £348
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,533 1,671 1,865
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +138 110 £377 +7.71% 694
UK excluding London +84 91 £450 +36.36% 648
South West +43 41 £363 - 91
Work from Home +124 33 £292 -32.20% 129
London +112 25 £377 -4.25% 72
South East +17 19 £475 -5.00% 143
Midlands +10 12 £450 +36.36% 176
West Midlands +15 11 £450 +28.57% 105
Scotland +46 9 - - 33
East of England +11 6 - - 74
North of England +31 4 - - 141
North West +16 2 - - 71
Yorkshire - 2 - - 49
East Midlands -5 1 - - 71

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 (4.88%) CMS
2 1 (0.81%) ArcGIS
2 1 (0.81%) Confluence
Applications
1 30 (24.39%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (13.01%) Acrobat
3 10 (8.13%) Adobe Illustrator
3 10 (8.13%) AutoCAD
3 10 (8.13%) Autodesk Inventor
4 7 (5.69%) Siemens NX
5 6 (4.88%) Photoshop
5 6 (4.88%) PTC Creo
6 5 (4.07%) Microsoft Excel
7 4 (3.25%) Revit
7 4 (3.25%) Simulink
7 4 (3.25%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (2.44%) Windchill
9 1 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 1 (0.81%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (8.94%) Teamcenter
2 4 (3.25%) Primavera
3 1 (0.81%) SmartPlant
Cloud Services
1 3 (2.44%) Amazon S3
1 3 (2.44%) AWS
1 3 (2.44%) GCP
2 2 (1.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.81%) 4G
1 1 (0.81%) 5G
1 1 (0.81%) HTTP
1 1 (0.81%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.69%) Data Mining
2 3 (2.44%) DynamoDB
2 3 (2.44%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.44%) RDBMS
2 3 (2.44%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.63%) GIS
3 2 (1.63%) Power BI
3 2 (1.63%) Tableau
4 1 (0.81%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 3 (2.44%) Git
1 3 (2.44%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.81%) JIRA
General
1 66 (53.66%) Social Skills
2 27 (21.95%) Manufacturing
3 18 (14.63%) Aerospace
4 12 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.50%) Multimedia
6 6 (4.88%) Finance
7 5 (4.07%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.07%) Telecoms
8 4 (3.25%) Automotive
8 4 (3.25%) Law
8 4 (3.25%) Legal
8 4 (3.25%) Marketing
8 4 (3.25%) Police
8 4 (3.25%) Publishing
9 3 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.63%) Electronics
10 2 (1.63%) French Language
10 2 (1.63%) German Language
10 2 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (21.95%) Author
1 27 (21.95%) Technical Author
2 11 (8.94%) Architect
2 11 (8.94%) CAD Technician
3 9 (7.32%) Technical Illustrator
4 8 (6.50%) Developer
5 7 (5.69%) Data Architect
5 7 (5.69%) Senior
6 6 (4.88%) Lead
7 5 (4.07%) Consultant
7 5 (4.07%) Project Manager
8 4 (3.25%) .NET Developer
8 4 (3.25%) Administrator
8 4 (3.25%) CAD Engineer
9 3 (2.44%) C# .NET Developer
9 3 (2.44%) C# Developer
9 3 (2.44%) Coordinator
9 3 (2.44%) Programmer
9 3 (2.44%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (2.44%) Technical Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (23.58%) XML
2 12 (9.76%) SGML
3 5 (4.07%) JSON
4 4 (3.25%) .NET
4 4 (3.25%) REST
5 3 (2.44%) JSON Schema
5 3 (2.44%) KML
5 3 (2.44%) Regular Expression
5 3 (2.44%) XML Schema
6 2 (1.63%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.63%) CSS
6 2 (1.63%) HTML
7 1 (0.81%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.81%) Ajax
7 1 (0.81%) SOAP
7 1 (0.81%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 20 (16.26%) Animation
2 10 (8.13%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.07%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.25%) CMDB
4 4 (3.25%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (3.25%) Freedom of Information
4 4 (3.25%) Freedom of Information Act
4 4 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.44%) 3D Graphics
5 3 (2.44%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.63%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.63%) FMCG
7 1 (0.81%) Analogue Electronics
7 1 (0.81%) CCTV
7 1 (0.81%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.81%) Life Science
7 1 (0.81%) STB
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.25%) Linux
2 1 (0.81%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (16.26%) 3D Modelling
1 20 (16.26%) Data Management
2 15 (12.20%) Computer Science
3 13 (10.57%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (9.76%) Project Delivery
5 11 (8.94%) Project Management
6 8 (6.50%) Systems Engineering
7 7 (5.69%) PLM
8 6 (4.88%) Content Management
8 6 (4.88%) IT Strategy
8 6 (4.88%) Validation
9 5 (4.07%) Agile
9 5 (4.07%) Customer Service
9 5 (4.07%) Data Analysis
9 5 (4.07%) Decision-Making
9 5 (4.07%) Migration
10 4 (3.25%) Ergonomics
10 4 (3.25%) Physics
10 4 (3.25%) Service Management
10 4 (3.25%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (3.25%) MATLAB
2 3 (2.44%) C#
3 2 (1.63%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.81%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 38 (30.89%) Degree
2 33 (26.83%) Security Cleared
3 12 (9.76%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.69%) DV Cleared
6 6 (4.88%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.63%) ACCA
7 2 (1.63%) CIMA
8 1 (0.81%) BICSI Certification
8 1 (0.81%) BICSI RCDD
8 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.81%) HND
8 1 (0.81%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.76%) Def Stans
2 5 (4.07%) QA
3 4 (3.25%) GDPR
4 3 (2.44%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.63%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 3 (2.44%) Ansible
2 1 (0.81%) MOM
Vendors
1 22 (17.89%) Microsoft
2 16 (13.01%) Adobe
3 9 (7.32%) Autodesk
4 5 (4.07%) ServiceNow
4 5 (4.07%) Siemens
5 3 (2.44%) Google
5 3 (2.44%) PTC
5 3 (2.44%) SAP
6 1 (0.81%) AVEVA
6 1 (0.81%) IBM
6 1 (0.81%) Openreach