The first table below looks at the demand for RAD skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West 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 North West 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 112 133 120
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -13
Contract jobs citing RAD 7 2 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.296% 0.063% 0.332%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.419% 0.103% 0.509%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 5
Average daily rate £300 £306 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.04% -31.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £291 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £340 £321 £525
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
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1669 1945 1965
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 70.69% 61.67% 65.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 819 1005 1027
Average daily rate £350 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £238 £223
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 84 96
Average hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £21.12
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -5.29%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.20 £13.35 £12.95
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £55.00 £37.50 £36.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
RAD
England

RAD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 21 May 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
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Lancashire - 4 £300 -
Manchester +18 3 - -
RAD
England

RAD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 18 (90.00%) SQL
2 15 (75.00%) Java
3 14 (70.00%) UML
4 13 (65.00%) J2EE
4 13 (65.00%) JDBC
4 13 (65.00%) XML
4 13 (65.00%) WebSphere
5 11 (55.00%) JavaScript
5 11 (55.00%) Struts
6 10 (50.00%) UNIX
6 10 (50.00%) OO
6 10 (50.00%) XHTML
6 10 (50.00%) E-Commerce
6 10 (50.00%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
6 10 (50.00%) Eclipse
6 10 (50.00%) RDBMS
6 10 (50.00%) IBM
6 10 (50.00%) HTML
6 10 (50.00%) XSLT
6 10 (50.00%) JSP
6 10 (50.00%) Servlets
6 10 (50.00%) DB2
6 10 (50.00%) WebSphere Application Server
6 10 (50.00%) EJB
7 9 (45.00%) JUnit
7 9 (45.00%) Perl
7 9 (45.00%) Linux
7 9 (45.00%) Content Management
7 9 (45.00%) Bash shell
8 8 (40.00%) Elastic Path

RAD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 13 (65.00%) J2EE
1 13 (65.00%) JDBC
1 13 (65.00%) XML
1 13 (65.00%) WebSphere
2 11 (55.00%) Struts
3 10 (50.00%) XHTML
3 10 (50.00%) HTML
3 10 (50.00%) XSLT
3 10 (50.00%) JSP
3 10 (50.00%) Servlets
3 10 (50.00%) EJB
4 8 (40.00%) XMLBeans
4 8 (40.00%) Ajax
4 8 (40.00%) JSTL
4 8 (40.00%) JMS
5 3 (15.00%) .NET
5 3 (15.00%) Web Services
5 3 (15.00%) REST
6 2 (10.00%) soapUI
6 2 (10.00%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 10 (50.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 8 (40.00%) MQSeries
3 1 (5.000%) Apache Solr
3 1 (5.000%) CMS
3 1 (5.000%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (5.000%) Maya
Business Applications
1 8 (40.00%) Tridion
2 1 (5.000%) Visualfiles
Communications & Networking
1 8 (40.00%) Internet
2 3 (15.00%) Unified Communications
3 2 (10.00%) HTTP
4 1 (5.000%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.000%) ATM
4 1 (5.000%) ISDN
4 1 (5.000%) VoIP
4 1 (5.000%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 10 (50.00%) DB2
2 3 (15.00%) Oracle 10g
3 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (10.00%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (5.000%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (5.000%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (5.000%) QlikView
4 1 (5.000%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (5.000%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (5.000%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (5.000%) Oracle OWB
4 1 (5.000%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 10 (50.00%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 10 (50.00%) Eclipse
2 9 (45.00%) JUnit
3 8 (40.00%) Log4j
3 8 (40.00%) Subversion
3 8 (40.00%) Ant
4 2 (10.00%) WATIR
4 2 (10.00%) Selenium
4 2 (10.00%) FitNesse
5 1 (5.000%) Oracle APEX
General
1 8 (40.00%) Finance
2 7 (35.00%) Retail
2 7 (35.00%) Games
3 1 (5.000%) Law
3 1 (5.000%) Legal
3 1 (5.000%) Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (80.00%) Developer
2 8 (40.00%) Java Developer
3 7 (35.00%) J2EE Developer
3 7 (35.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 4 (20.00%) Oracle Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Access Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Test Consultant
6 2 (10.00%) Consultant
7 1 (5.000%) MI Developer
7 1 (5.000%) WebSphere Developer
7 1 (5.000%) Oracle Data Warehouse Developer
7 1 (5.000%) Administrator
7 1 (5.000%) Software Developer
7 1 (5.000%) Architect
7 1 (5.000%) Data Warehouse Developer
7 1 (5.000%) WebSphere Administrator
7 1 (5.000%) Security Architect
7 1 (5.000%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) Web 2.0
2 2 (10.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.000%) Computer Science
3 1 (5.000%) CESG
3 1 (5.000%) CESG CLAS
Operating Systems
1 10 (50.00%) UNIX
2 9 (45.00%) Linux
3 8 (40.00%) HPUX
3 8 (40.00%) Solaris
4 1 (5.000%) MVS
4 1 (5.000%) Windows
4 1 (5.000%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) UML
2 10 (50.00%) OO
2 10 (50.00%) E-Commerce
3 9 (45.00%) Content Management
4 2 (10.00%) Waterfall
4 2 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (10.00%) Unit Testing
4 2 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (10.00%) MVC
4 2 (10.00%) Workflow
4 2 (10.00%) Practice Management
4 2 (10.00%) System Testing
5 1 (5.000%) Dimensional Modelling
5 1 (5.000%) Data Analysis
5 1 (5.000%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (5.000%) Change Management
5 1 (5.000%) TOGAF
5 1 (5.000%) ITIL
5 1 (5.000%) PRINCE2
5 1 (5.000%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 18 (90.00%) SQL
2 15 (75.00%) Java
3 11 (55.00%) JavaScript
4 9 (45.00%) Perl
4 9 (45.00%) Bash shell
5 8 (40.00%) XPath
6 2 (10.00%) Python
6 2 (10.00%) VB.NET
6 2 (10.00%) PHP
6 2 (10.00%) C
6 2 (10.00%) C#
6 2 (10.00%) C++
6 2 (10.00%) Ruby
7 1 (5.000%) VB6
7 1 (5.000%) PL/SQL
7 1 (5.000%) VBA
7 1 (5.000%) T-SQL
7 1 (5.000%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (5.000%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.000%) BC Cleared
1 1 (5.000%) Security Cleared
1 1 (5.000%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) IBM
2 8 (40.00%) Elastic Path
2 8 (40.00%) Blue Martini
2 8 (40.00%) ATG
2 8 (40.00%) Interwoven
3 5 (25.00%) Oracle
4 1 (5.000%) Sun
4 1 (5.000%) Microsoft