The first table below looks at the demand for RAD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RAD over the 3 months to 24 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 Nottinghamshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Rapid Application Development (RAD)
Rank 38 37 31
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -6
Contract jobs citing RAD 3 1 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 0.915% 0.355% 1.684%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.327% 0.524% 2.778%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Average daily rate £325 - £325
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 £40.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-24.40% +33.33%
All Processes & Methodologies
Nottinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
226 191 180
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 68.90% 67.73% 60.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 101 67
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £263 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £475 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 12 9
Average hourly rate £27.50 £17.50 £26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+57.14% -32.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £8.50 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £30.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
RAD
East Midlands

RAD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire region.

Nottinghamshire RAD Daily 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 Nottinghamshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Nottingham -2 3 £325 -
RAD
East Midlands

RAD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 4 (57.14%) DSDM
1 4 (57.14%) Internet
2 2 (28.57%) Project Management
2 2 (28.57%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 2 (28.57%) PRINCE2
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (28.57%) Change Management
2 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 2 (28.57%) V-Model
2 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
2 2 (28.57%) Change Control
3 1 (14.29%) REST
3 1 (14.29%) Apache Solr
3 1 (14.29%) Bash shell
3 1 (14.29%) jQuery
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (14.29%) MVC
3 1 (14.29%) Content Management
3 1 (14.29%) WebSphere
3 1 (14.29%) UNIX
3 1 (14.29%) UML
3 1 (14.29%) OO
3 1 (14.29%) XHTML
3 1 (14.29%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Eclipse
3 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
3 1 (14.29%) IBM
3 1 (14.29%) Commerce Server

RAD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) jQuery
1 1 (14.29%) WebSphere
1 1 (14.29%) XHTML
1 1 (14.29%) DHTML
1 1 (14.29%) HTML
1 1 (14.29%) J2EE
1 1 (14.29%) EJB
1 1 (14.29%) CSS
1 1 (14.29%) JDBC
1 1 (14.29%) JSP
1 1 (14.29%) Servlets
1 1 (14.29%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Solr
1 1 (14.29%) Commerce Server
1 1 (14.29%) WebSphere Application Server
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
1 1 (14.29%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 1 (14.29%) Eclipse
1 1 (14.29%) JUnit
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Business Analyst
1 4 (57.14%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Agile Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (14.29%) WebSphere Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) DSDM
2 2 (28.57%) Project Management
2 2 (28.57%) PRINCE2
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (28.57%) Change Management
2 2 (28.57%) V-Model
2 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
2 2 (28.57%) Change Control
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (14.29%) MVC
3 1 (14.29%) Content Management
3 1 (14.29%) UML
3 1 (14.29%) OO
3 1 (14.29%) PRINCE
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Bash shell
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 1 (14.29%) Perl
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) PRINCE2 Certification
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) IBM
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle