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This section looks at the demand for Rapid Application Development (RAD) skills within the Birmingham region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited RAD over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkRapid Application Development (RAD)
Location
3 months to
29 Aug 2008
Same period last year
Rank4952
Rank change on same period last yearUp+3
Matching contract IT job ads215
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.003 %0.015 %
As % of the category below0.531 %3.093 %
Daily rates quoted11
Average minimum daily rate£450£350
Average daily rate£450£400
% change on same period last year+12.50 %
Average maximum daily rate£450£450
UK excluding London average daily rate£365£406
% change on same period last year-10.14 %
Hourly rates quoted01
Average minimum hourly rate-£30.00
Average hourly rate-£32.50
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum hourly rate-£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£43.00£36.32
% change on same period last year+18.38 %
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads377485
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.502 %0.484 %
Daily rates quoted98141
Average minimum daily rate£316£347
Average daily rate£349£370
% change on same period last year-5.85 %
Average maximum daily rate£382£394
UK excluding London average daily rate£379£376
% change on same period last year+0.60 %
Hourly rates quoted1444
Average minimum hourly rate£26.07£16.44
Average hourly rate£27.78£18.01
% change on same period last year+54.26 %
Average maximum hourly rate£29.50£19.58
UK excluding London average hourly rate£30.35£30.32
% change on same period last year+0.10 %
RAD West MidlandsRAD
West Midlands

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

RAD
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing RAD across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Birmingham RAD Demand Trend

RAD
Daily Rate Trend

The 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

The 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 29 August 2008, 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.

12 (50.00 %)J2EE
12 (50.00 %)JMS
12 (50.00 %)WebSphere Studio Application Developer
12 (50.00 %)Eclipse
12 (50.00 %)Hibernate
12 (50.00 %)Scrum
12 (50.00 %)Agile Software Development
12 (50.00 %)Ant
12 (50.00 %)JUnit
12 (50.00 %)WebSphere Application Server
12 (50.00 %)EJB
12 (50.00 %)JDBC
12 (50.00 %)XML
12 (50.00 %)XSLT
12 (50.00 %)UML
12 (50.00 %)OO
12 (50.00 %)WBIMB
12 (50.00 %)WebSphere
21 (25.00 %)Pensions
21 (25.00 %)DSDM
21 (25.00 %)MS Excel
21 (25.00 %)MS Access
21 (25.00 %)ASP
21 (25.00 %)HTML
21 (25.00 %)Java
21 (25.00 %)SQL
21 (25.00 %)VB
21 (25.00 %)VBA
21 (25.00 %)Insurance
21 (25.00 %)Workflow

RAD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, 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.

Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
12 (50.00 %)EJB
12 (50.00 %)JDBC
12 (50.00 %)XML
12 (50.00 %)XSLT
12 (50.00 %)JMS
12 (50.00 %)Hibernate
12 (50.00 %)WBIMB
12 (50.00 %)WebSphere
12 (50.00 %)J2EE
21 (25.00 %)ASP
21 (25.00 %)HTML
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
12 (50.00 %)WebSphere Application Server
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
11 (25.00 %)MS Excel
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
11 (25.00 %)Intranet
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
11 (25.00 %)SQL Server
11 (25.00 %)MS Access
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
12 (50.00 %)Ant
12 (50.00 %)JUnit
12 (50.00 %)WebSphere Studio Application Developer
12 (50.00 %)Eclipse
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
11 (25.00 %)Insurance
11 (25.00 %)Pensions
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
13 (75.00 %)Developer
22 (50.00 %)Lead Developer
22 (50.00 %)J2EE Developer
31 (25.00 %)Database Developer
31 (25.00 %)Access Developer
31 (25.00 %)Analyst
31 (25.00 %)Business Analyst
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
12 (50.00 %)UML
12 (50.00 %)OO
12 (50.00 %)Scrum
12 (50.00 %)Agile Software Development
21 (25.00 %)DSDM
21 (25.00 %)Workflow
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
11 (25.00 %)Java
11 (25.00 %)SQL
11 (25.00 %)VB
11 (25.00 %)VBA
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
11 (25.00 %)Oracle
11 (25.00 %)Microsoft