The first table below looks at the demand for RAD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RAD over the 3 months to 21 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 Leeds 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Rapid Application Development (RAD)
Rank - 61 -
Contract jobs citing RAD 0 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds - 0.562% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 0.785% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £370 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.24 - £30.00
All Processes & Methodologies
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
556 637 410
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 73.45% 71.57% 67.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 374 205
Average daily rate £310 £345 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.14% -1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £242 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £452 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 19
Average hourly rate £33.50 £19.25 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+74.02% +10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.70 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £62.50 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
RAD
West Yorkshire

RAD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds RAD Hourly Rate Trend

RAD
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) JDBC
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Swing
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) XQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories

RAD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) JDBC
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
1 1 (100.00%) Swing
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) XQuery
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle