Essex RAD Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Rapid Application Development (RAD) skills within the Essex 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Rapid Application Development (RAD)
Location Ashby-de-la-Zouch Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Cornwall Coventry Croydon Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire Horsham Ipswich Leamington Spa Leeds Leicestershire London Loughborough Manchester Midlands Milton Keynes Norfolk North Wales North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Ives Stockport Suffolk Surrey Thames Valley UK Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Windsor Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	55	48
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	1	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	0.267 %	3.261 %
Daily rates quoted	1	4
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£285
Average daily rate	£425	£294
% change on same period last year	+44.37 %
Average maximum daily rate	£450	£304
UK excluding London average daily rate	£382	£379
% change on same period last year	+0.87 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£30.00
Average hourly rate	-	£30.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£31.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£42.67	£32.26
% change on same period last year	+32.25 %
Processes & Methodologies Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	375	368
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.500 %	0.372 %
Daily rates quoted	149	129
Average minimum daily rate	£387	£389
Average daily rate	£404	£412
% change on same period last year	-2.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£421	£436
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	43	69
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.36	£33.11
Average hourly rate	£35.78	£33.52
% change on same period last year	+6.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.20	£33.92
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
RAD East of 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 Essex 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 Essex region.

RAD
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing RAD across the Essex 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 Essex region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Southend-on-Sea	-	1	£425	-

RAD East of England

RAD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 22 (95.65 %) SQL 2 15 (65.22 %) Transact-SQL 2 15 (65.22 %) SQL Server 3 10 (43.48 %) OLAP 3 10 (43.48 %) Windows 3 10 (43.48 %) Datawarehouse 3 10 (43.48 %) DTS 3 10 (43.48 %) Business Intelligence 3 10 (43.48 %) ProClarity 3 10 (43.48 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 3 10 (43.48 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 4 7 (30.43 %) Shell Script 4 7 (30.43 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 7 (30.43 %) WebSphere 4 7 (30.43 %) Business Analysis

4 7 (30.43 %) J2EE 4 7 (30.43 %) Oracle 4 7 (30.43 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 7 (30.43 %) JDBC 4 7 (30.43 %) SOAP 4 7 (30.43 %) WebServices 4 7 (30.43 %) XML 4 7 (30.43 %) UNIX 5 6 (26.09 %) HTTP 5 6 (26.09 %) UML 5 6 (26.09 %) Log4j 6 5 (21.74 %) Scrum 6 5 (21.74 %) Validation 6 5 (21.74 %) Korn 6 5 (21.74 %) RUP

RAD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 7 (30.43 %) J2EE 1 7 (30.43 %) JDBC 1 7 (30.43 %) SOAP 1 7 (30.43 %) WebServices 1 7 (30.43 %) XML 1 7 (30.43 %) WebSphere 2 5 (21.74 %) XML Schema 2 5 (21.74 %) ADO.NET 2 5 (21.74 %) ASP.NET 2 5 (21.74 %) .NET 3 4 (17.39 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 7 (30.43 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 5 (21.74 %) SharePoint 3 4 (17.39 %) CMS
Applications 1 4 (17.39 %) InfoPath	Communications & Networking 1 6 (26.09 %) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 15 (65.22 %) SQL Server 2 10 (43.48 %) OLAP 2 10 (43.48 %) Datawarehouse 2 10 (43.48 %) DTS 2 10 (43.48 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 2 10 (43.48 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 3 7 (30.43 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 3 (13.04 %) SQL Server 2005 4 3 (13.04 %) SQL Server 2000 4 3 (13.04 %) BusinessObjects 5 1 (4.348 %) SQL Server 7	Development Applications 1 6 (26.09 %) Log4j 2 4 (17.39 %) Visual Studio 3 1 (4.348 %) JUnit
General 1 2 (8.696 %) Automotive 1 2 (8.696 %) Marketing 2 1 (4.348 %) Government	Job Titles 1 16 (69.57 %) Developer 2 8 (34.78 %) Analyst 2 8 (34.78 %) Datawarehouse Developer 3 5 (21.74 %) Business Analyst 4 4 (17.39 %) J2EE Developer 5 3 (13.04 %) Business Intelligence Developer 5 3 (13.04 %) Business Developer 6 1 (4.348 %) Analyst Programmer 6 1 (4.348 %) Programmer 6 1 (4.348 %) Data Analyst 6 1 (4.348 %) Java Developer 6 1 (4.348 %) Software Developer 6 1 (4.348 %) Web Developer 6 1 (4.348 %) Developer Analyst
Operating Systems 1 10 (43.48 %) Windows 2 7 (30.43 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (43.48 %) Business Intelligence 2 7 (30.43 %) Business Analysis 3 6 (26.09 %) UML 4 5 (21.74 %) RUP 4 5 (21.74 %) Scrum 4 5 (21.74 %) Validation 5 4 (17.39 %) BPMN 5 4 (17.39 %) Extreme Programming 6 3 (13.04 %) Migration 7 2 (8.696 %) Internet Marketing 7 2 (8.696 %) DSDM 7 2 (8.696 %) CRM 8 1 (4.348 %) OO 8 1 (4.348 %) Agile Software Development 8 1 (4.348 %) Data Analysis
Programming Languages 1 22 (95.65 %) SQL 2 15 (65.22 %) Transact-SQL 3 7 (30.43 %) Shell Script 4 5 (21.74 %) Korn 4 5 (21.74 %) C# 5 1 (4.348 %) Java	Vendors 1 10 (43.48 %) ProClarity 2 7 (30.43 %) Oracle 3 5 (21.74 %) Microsoft 4 3 (13.04 %) Business Objects 4 3 (13.04 %) Cognos 5 1 (4.348 %) ILOG