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Drawings drafted, checked and issued to standard.

Also called: Draftsperson, CAD Designer, AutoCAD Drafter

From £4.50 an hour£4.50-20.50/hr

  • Construction
  • Architecture & engineering
  • Real estate
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  • Works your hours
  • Nigeria hub, on London time or an hour ahead
  • Month to month
What your CAD Drafter gets doneSample day
  • Produces plans, elevations, sections and construction detailsDrawing production
  • Prepares shop drawings and fabrication detailsSpecialist drafting
  • Manages layers, blocks, xrefs, text and dimension stylesStandards and file management
  • Self-checks every drawing before issueChecking and coordinationDoing
In your tools
  • AutoCAD
  • Autodesk Civil 3D
  • Autodesk Revit
  • SketchUp Pro
  • Adobe Acrobat Pro
  • Autodesk Docs

Pick the level. See the price.

£8an hourFull time, 38 hours a week, all-in

Level 2 of 4, also called mid-level.Recommended
Even a local mid-level admin costs£16/hr
A tested Intermediate CAD Drafter£8/hr
At least 50% lessBasis: a Seat's hourly price against the hourly wage of a comparable local hire at the same level. Employer National Insurance, pension and on-costs would add to the local cost.

Produces complete drawing sets from a brief and markups with light review and builds details.

  • Full permit or construction drawing set
  • Shop drawings with cut lists
  • MEP layouts on architectural backgrounds

3-5 years drafting on live projects, with at least one specialist area.

How the Intermediate level works

Per hour, all-in: recruiting, testing and management. Prices exclude VAT.

What you hand to your CAD Drafter

Tasks

  • Drawing production

    • Produces plans, elevations, sections and construction details
    • Sets up sheets, viewports, title blocks, scales and annotation styles
    • Draws existing-condition and as-built drawings
    • Converts hand sketches, PDFs and legacy drawings

  • Specialist drafting

    • Prepares shop drawings and fabrication details
    • Drafts electrical, plumbing and drainage
    • Prepares civil and site drawings from survey points and engineer markups
    • Prepares real estate marketing floor plans with area schedules

  • Standards and file management

    • Manages layers, blocks, xrefs, text and dimension styles
    • Builds and maintains templates, block libraries and dynamic blocks
    • Structures xref hierarchies and folders
    • Keeps drawing registers, transmittals and revision logs accurate

  • Checking and coordination

    • Self-checks every drawing before issue
    • Raises written queries on conflicts, missing dimensions
    • Applies reviewer markups, keeps track of what has and has not been actioned
    • Coordinates with architects, engineers, builders and fabricators

  • Output and handover

    • Plots and publishes PDF, DWG and DXF sets
    • Archives superseded issues and leave file structures ready for handover

Tested before you meet them

  1. Draw-from-markup testAll levels1.5 hrs
  2. Drawing check and error findingAll levels30 min
  3. Template, xref and plotting set-upIntern to Expert45 min
  4. Shop drawing and fabrication detail sampleIntermediate and up1.5 hrs
  5. As-built from measurements or scan dataIntern to Expert60 min
  6. Query writing and revision handlingAll levels25 min

One score on every profileSample shown

91%

Three checks before your shortlist

  • Skills tested: A skills test for the role, marked by a senior
  • English and comms: written English tested, spoken English checked on a call
  • ID, work history and references: photo ID, past roles and two referees

From booked call to day one

  1. Step 1: Book a demo

    Tell us the role, your hours and your tools.

  2. Step 2: Meet your shortlist

    Their level and hourly price, tested before you meet.

  3. Step 3: Pick your person

    Month to month. We handle the contract, the equipment and the onboarding, and make sure it all runs.

  4. Step 4: They start work

    In your tools, within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview.

Questions answered

An Intern CAD Drafter is £4.50 an hour, Intermediate £8, Expert £12.50 and Specialist £20.50, full time (38 hours a week). That is all-in: recruiting, testing and management, month to month. Prices exclude VAT.

Drawing production, specialist drafting, standards and file management and checking and coordination, run to your priorities. You choose what they own first.

Six practical tests, marked by a senior, including draw-from-markup test, drawing check and error finding and template, xref and plotting set-up. You see the score before you meet.

Tell us and we replace them free, with a new shortlist of tested people to meet. Seats are month to month with 30 days' notice.

More questions

Within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview. First you meet your shortlist, interview the people you like and pick your person.

Yes. Your CAD Drafter works your business hours in your time zone and joins your Teams or Slack like anyone else. The hub matched to United Kingdom clients is in Nigeria, on London time or an hour ahead.

Yes, where it helps. Your CAD Drafter works in the AI tools you already use. They use AI for first drafts and routine work, check every output, and follow your AI policy. You can ask for no AI on any task.

An Intermediate CAD Drafter produces complete drawing sets from a brief and markups with light review and builds details. An Expert CAD Drafter owns drawing quality and delivery for a project. We usually recommend Intermediate.

It stays under your rules: your admin settings and AI policy apply. Our talent rules ban client data in personal or free AI accounts, and passwords, card numbers, health details and ID numbers never go into any AI tool.

You direct the work day to day. We handle recruiting, equipment and quality checks.

Yes. Every CAD Drafter is tested live in the tools on your job description, such as AutoCAD and Autodesk Civil 3D, before you meet them.

In week one: grant access to project storage with current drawing sets, xrefs and archives; hands over the CAD standard, templates, block library; and hands over the drawing register, revision log and transmittal process. You agree the first priorities with them on day one.

Yes. It's also called Draftsperson, CAD Designer and AutoCAD Drafter. Same tasks, tests and prices, whatever the name.

Their written English, with a scored test, and their spoken English, on a call with us. We also check their ID, work history and references.

Yes. You meet your shortlist on a short call and pick the person you want. Nobody joins without your yes.

In our talent hubs in the Philippines, Vietnam, Kenya, Nigeria, Brazil and Colombia, and we hire from 60+ countries. Wherever they are, they work your hours.

Pay only for the hours they work. All your Seats are on one bill, and Studio plans are billed monthly.

It can, at most once a year. Your person's hourly rate may rise by up to 5% a year, from the first anniversary of the Seat's start, with 60 days' notice and the right to end the Seat before it applies.

Only when you and your person both agree to it in advance. Otherwise they work the hours you set, and you pay for the hours they log.

You aren't charged for hours your person doesn't work, apart from paid leave. After their third month, your person earns 8 hours of paid leave a month. Paid leave hours are charged at their usual rate.

Your person logs their hours each day in the Get Hands client app, where you can see them. Your next invoice is adjusted to those hours.

Yes, with no minimum hours. From 20 to 37 hours a week, the hourly rate is 10% higher than full-time. Under 20 hours, it's 20% higher.

Yes. Tell us the roles on a call and we shortlist tested people for each.

Yes. You give them access in your own systems, and you can change or remove it at any time.

They get their own login in each of your systems, never a shared one. Any password that has to be shared goes through your own password manager, never email, chat, code or prompts.

A tested shortlist within 72 hours of your call, or your first week is free. That's part of The Right Hands Guarantee.

Yes. Call us on +61 3 4421 6491, or choose Talk now on the booking form for a Microsoft Teams link straight away, any time.

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Meet the people who fit your work.

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