The first table below looks at the demand for RAD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RAD over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Birmingham region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Rapid Application Development (RAD)
Rank - - 43
Contract jobs citing RAD 0 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham - - 0.400%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - 0.694%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £264
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £348 £350
% change year-on-year
+7.91% -0.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.48 - £30.00
All Processes & Methodologies
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
296 374 288
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 67.58% 61.01% 57.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 203 181
Average daily rate £350 £330 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% -5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £227 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £471 £525 £490
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 20 10
Average hourly rate £32.50 £15.00 £14.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+116.66% +5.26%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.00 £10.99
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £119.80 £34.40 £127.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
RAD
West Midlands

RAD
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing RAD across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Birmingham RAD Jobs Demand Trend

RAD
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing RAD across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham RAD Daily Rate Trend

RAD
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing RAD across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham RAD Hourly Rate Trend

RAD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing RAD also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited RAD.

1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (66.67%) UML
1 4 (66.67%) OO
1 4 (66.67%) SSADM
1 4 (66.67%) DSDM
1 4 (66.67%) Workflow
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
1 4 (66.67%) Systems Analysis
1 4 (66.67%) Business Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Spring MVC
2 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
2 1 (16.67%) iPad
2 1 (16.67%) User Stories
2 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
2 1 (16.67%) Scrum
2 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (16.67%) Spring
2 1 (16.67%) Maven
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) CRM
2 1 (16.67%) MS Visio
2 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) J2EE
2 1 (16.67%) Struts
2 1 (16.67%) Project Management
2 1 (16.67%) GAP Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Back Office

RAD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing RAD also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited RAD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (16.67%) HTML
1 1 (16.67%) J2EE
1 1 (16.67%) Struts
1 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
1 1 (16.67%) Spring
1 1 (16.67%) Spring MVC
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Visio
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Maven
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Analyst
1 5 (83.33%) Business Analyst
2 4 (66.67%) Business Systems Analyst
2 4 (66.67%) Systems Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) iPad
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) UML
1 4 (66.67%) OO
1 4 (66.67%) SSADM
1 4 (66.67%) DSDM
1 4 (66.67%) Workflow
1 4 (66.67%) Systems Analysis
1 4 (66.67%) Business Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
2 1 (16.67%) User Stories
2 1 (16.67%) Scrum
2 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) CRM
2 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
2 1 (16.67%) Project Management
2 1 (16.67%) GAP Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft