The first table below looks at the demand for RAD skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RAD over the 3 months to 19 June 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 East of England 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Rapid Application Development (RAD)
Rank 113 120 117
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -3
Contract jobs citing RAD 5 16 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.226% 0.530% 0.468%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.342% 0.818% 0.705%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
Average daily rate £300 £675 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-55.55% +58.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £675 £385
10% offered a daily rate of more than £370 £675 £465
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £425 £388
% change year-on-year
-11.76% +9.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Average hourly rate £30.24 - £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.24 £40.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-24.40% +33.33%
All Processes & Methodologies
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1461 1956 1845
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 66.08% 64.77% 66.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 809 928 830
Average daily rate £363 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 176 190
Average hourly rate £35.11 £32.00 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.71% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.50 £12.58 £14.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.75 £49.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
RAD
England

RAD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England RAD Daily Rate Trend

RAD
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing RAD across the East of England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

East of England RAD Daily Rate Histogram

RAD
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East of England RAD Hourly Rate Trend

RAD
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RAD within the East of England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
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Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
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IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
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England

RAD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 14 (77.78%) Java
1 14 (77.78%) JavaScript
1 14 (77.78%) JSP
1 14 (77.78%) OO
1 14 (77.78%) XHTML
2 13 (72.22%) IBM
2 13 (72.22%) XML
2 13 (72.22%) UNIX
2 13 (72.22%) Linux
2 13 (72.22%) HTML
2 13 (72.22%) J2EE
2 13 (72.22%) Ant
2 13 (72.22%) Ajax
2 13 (72.22%) WebSphere
3 12 (66.67%) Content Management
4 10 (55.56%) SQL
5 9 (50.00%) E-Commerce
6 8 (44.44%) CSS
6 8 (44.44%) Scrum
7 6 (33.33%) Retail
7 6 (33.33%) ATG
7 6 (33.33%) RDBMS
7 6 (33.33%) Log4j
7 6 (33.33%) Interwoven
7 6 (33.33%) Tridion
7 6 (33.33%) Internet
7 6 (33.33%) Finance
7 6 (33.33%) JDBC
7 6 (33.33%) DB2
7 6 (33.33%) EJB

RAD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 14 (77.78%) JSP
1 14 (77.78%) XHTML
2 13 (72.22%) XML
2 13 (72.22%) HTML
2 13 (72.22%) J2EE
2 13 (72.22%) Ajax
2 13 (72.22%) WebSphere
3 8 (44.44%) CSS
4 6 (33.33%) JDBC
4 6 (33.33%) EJB
4 6 (33.33%) JMS
4 6 (33.33%) XSLT
4 6 (33.33%) Servlets
4 6 (33.33%) Struts
4 6 (33.33%) XMLBeans
4 6 (33.33%) JSTL
5 5 (27.78%) WebCenter
6 1 (5.556%) Dojo
6 1 (5.556%) jQuery
6 1 (5.556%) MooTools
Application Platforms
1 6 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
1 6 (33.33%) MQSeries
2 4 (22.22%) CMS
3 1 (5.556%) Adobe CQ
Business Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) Internet
2 1 (5.556%) LTE
2 1 (5.556%) 4G
2 1 (5.556%) 2G
2 1 (5.556%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) RDBMS
1 6 (33.33%) DB2
2 1 (5.556%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 13 (72.22%) Ant
2 6 (33.33%) Log4j
2 6 (33.33%) JUnit
2 6 (33.33%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
2 6 (33.33%) Eclipse
2 6 (33.33%) Subversion
General
1 6 (33.33%) Retail
1 6 (33.33%) Finance
2 5 (27.78%) Games
3 4 (22.22%) Legal
4 2 (11.11%) Automotive
4 2 (11.11%) Marketing
5 1 (5.556%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.556%) Publishing
5 1 (5.556%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (77.78%) Developer
2 8 (44.44%) Java Developer
3 6 (33.33%) J2EE Developer
3 6 (33.33%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Project Manager
5 2 (11.11%) Technical Project Manager
5 2 (11.11%) Applications Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Development Manager
5 2 (11.11%) Technical Manager
5 2 (11.11%) Development Project Manager
5 2 (11.11%) Technical Development Manager
6 1 (5.556%) UI Developer
6 1 (5.556%) Front-End Developer
6 1 (5.556%) UI Programmer
6 1 (5.556%) Analyst
6 1 (5.556%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Web 2.0
2 3 (16.67%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 13 (72.22%) UNIX
1 13 (72.22%) Linux
2 6 (33.33%) HPUX
2 6 (33.33%) Solaris
3 4 (22.22%) Apple iOS
3 4 (22.22%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) OO
2 12 (66.67%) Content Management
3 9 (50.00%) E-Commerce
4 8 (44.44%) Scrum
5 6 (33.33%) UML
6 4 (22.22%) RUP
7 3 (16.67%) CRM
7 3 (16.67%) SOA
8 1 (5.556%) Business Analysis
8 1 (5.556%) Digital Marketing
8 1 (5.556%) Responsive Web Design
8 1 (5.556%) Agile Software Development
8 1 (5.556%) Data Management
8 1 (5.556%) Web Design
8 1 (5.556%) B2C
Programming Languages
1 14 (77.78%) Java
1 14 (77.78%) JavaScript
2 10 (55.56%) SQL
3 6 (33.33%) Perl
3 6 (33.33%) XPath
3 6 (33.33%) Bash shell
4 4 (22.22%) FQL
5 1 (5.556%) PHP
Vendors
1 13 (72.22%) IBM
2 6 (33.33%) ATG
2 6 (33.33%) Interwoven
2 6 (33.33%) Blue Martini
2 6 (33.33%) Elastic Path
3 5 (27.78%) Oracle
3 5 (27.78%) FatWire
4 4 (22.22%) Facebook
4 4 (22.22%) Twitter
5 1 (5.556%) Adobe
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