East Midlands RAD Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Rapid Application Development (RAD) skills within the East Midlands 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.

Rapid Application Development (RAD)
Location Ashby-de-la-Zouch Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Cornwall Coventry Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Gateshead Glasgow Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire Horsham Kent Leamington Spa Leeds Leicestershire London M4 Corridor Manchester Midlands Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Norwich Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sevenoaks Somerset South East South Wales South West Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Ives Stockport Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	87	95
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	5	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.511 %	0.206 %
Daily rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum daily rate	£286	-
Average daily rate	£302	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£319	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£406
% change on same period last year	-10.14 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£43.00	£36.32
% change on same period last year	+18.38 %
Processes & Methodologies East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	979	971
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.305 %	0.969 %
Daily rates quoted	358	221
Average minimum daily rate	£384	£360
Average daily rate	£408	£381
% change on same period last year	+6.94 %
Average maximum daily rate	£432	£403
UK excluding London average daily rate	£379	£376
% change on same period last year	+0.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	66	108
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.73	£25.82
Average hourly rate	£30.32	£27.56
% change on same period last year	+10.01 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.90	£29.29
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.35	£30.32
% change on same period last year	+0.10 %
RAD England

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 East Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

RAD
Daily Rate Trend

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

RAD
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing RAD across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

RAD
Hourly Rate Trend

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

RAD
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RAD within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Leicestershire	+4	3	£275	-
Derbyshire	-	1	£357	-

RAD England

RAD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 6 (37.50 %) IBM 1 6 (37.50 %) Chemistry 1 6 (37.50 %) Biology 2 5 (31.25 %) MS Excel 2 5 (31.25 %) MS Access 3 3 (18.75 %) BODI 3 3 (18.75 %) Kalido 3 3 (18.75 %) Data Management 3 3 (18.75 %) WebSphere 3 3 (18.75 %) BusinessObjects 3 3 (18.75 %) Datawarehouse 3 3 (18.75 %) Data Modelling 3 3 (18.75 %) ETL 3 3 (18.75 %) Java 3 3 (18.75 %) SQL

3 3 (18.75 %) .NET 3 3 (18.75 %) Business Objects 4 2 (12.50 %) IIS 4 2 (12.50 %) PL/SQL 4 2 (12.50 %) Oracle 4 2 (12.50 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 2 (12.50 %) WebServices 4 2 (12.50 %) UNIX 4 2 (12.50 %) Windows 4 2 (12.50 %) AIX 4 2 (12.50 %) HPUX 4 2 (12.50 %) UML 4 2 (12.50 %) SSADM 4 2 (12.50 %) DSDM 4 2 (12.50 %) LAN

RAD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 3 (18.75 %) .NET 1 3 (18.75 %) WebSphere 2 2 (12.50 %) JSR 168 2 2 (12.50 %) WebServices 3 1 (6.250 %) XML 3 1 (6.250 %) JavaBeans 3 1 (6.250 %) WBIMB 3 1 (6.250 %) J2EE 3 1 (6.250 %) EJB 3 1 (6.250 %) JSP 3 1 (6.250 %) JSTL	Application Platforms 1 2 (12.50 %) WebSphere Application Server 1 2 (12.50 %) IIS
Applications 1 5 (31.25 %) MS Excel 2 1 (6.250 %) MS Project	Communications & Networking 1 2 (12.50 %) LAN 1 2 (12.50 %) WAN 1 2 (12.50 %) SAN 1 2 (12.50 %) MPLS 1 2 (12.50 %) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (31.25 %) MS Access 2 3 (18.75 %) Datawarehouse 2 3 (18.75 %) ETL 2 3 (18.75 %) BusinessObjects 2 3 (18.75 %) BODI 3 2 (12.50 %) DataStage	General 1 1 (6.250 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 4 (25.00 %) Trainer 1 4 (25.00 %) Developer 2 3 (18.75 %) Business Objects Developer 2 3 (18.75 %) ETL Developer 3 2 (12.50 %) Architect 3 2 (12.50 %) Solutions Architect 4 1 (6.250 %) Analyst 4 1 (6.250 %) Project Manager 4 1 (6.250 %) Business Analyst 4 1 (6.250 %) WebSphere Developer 4 1 (6.250 %) DataStage Developer	Miscellaneous 1 6 (37.50 %) Chemistry 1 6 (37.50 %) Biology 2 1 (6.250 %) Management Information System
Operating Systems 1 2 (12.50 %) UNIX 1 2 (12.50 %) Windows 1 2 (12.50 %) AIX 1 2 (12.50 %) HPUX	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (18.75 %) Data Modelling 1 3 (18.75 %) Data Management 2 2 (12.50 %) Yourdon 2 2 (12.50 %) UML 2 2 (12.50 %) SSADM 2 2 (12.50 %) DSDM 3 1 (6.250 %) Stakeholder Management 3 1 (6.250 %) PRINCE2
Programming Languages 1 3 (18.75 %) Java 1 3 (18.75 %) SQL 2 2 (12.50 %) PL/SQL	System Software 1 2 (12.50 %) Oracle RAC
Vendors 1 6 (37.50 %) IBM 2 3 (18.75 %) Business Objects 2 3 (18.75 %) Kalido 3 2 (12.50 %) Oracle 3 2 (12.50 %) Sun