The first table below looks at the demand for RAD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Stirling 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 Stirling 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 22 12 14
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +2
Contract jobs citing RAD 3 1 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stirling 2.586% 2.778% 6.944%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.261% 4.545% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Average daily rate £450 £425 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.94% -
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
Stirling
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
92 22 45
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stirling 79.31% 61.11% 62.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 6 25
Average daily rate £350 £525 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-33.33% +40.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £350 £330
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £525 £565
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Average hourly rate £15.50 - £7.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
RAD
Scotland

RAD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stirling 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 Stirling region.

Stirling RAD Daily Rate Trend

RAD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stirling 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 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2000
2 2 (66.67%) Investment Banking
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (66.67%) JSP
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle 10g
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) Struts
2 2 (66.67%) Java SE
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Rational Application Developer
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) XSLT
3 1 (33.33%) UNIX
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) ClearCase
3 1 (33.33%) Eclipse
3 1 (33.33%) TOAD
3 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
3 1 (33.33%) IBM
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) JDBC
3 1 (33.33%) J2EE
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript

RAD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stirling 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 2 (66.67%) JSP
1 2 (66.67%) Struts
1 2 (66.67%) Java SE
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) XSLT
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) JDBC
2 1 (33.33%) J2EE
2 1 (33.33%) Servlets
2 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
2 1 (33.33%) Ajax
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2000
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle 10g
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (33.33%) TOAD
2 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
2 1 (33.33%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Rational Application Developer
1 1 (33.33%) ClearCase
1 1 (33.33%) Eclipse
General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
2 2 (66.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) RAD Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Database Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) UNIX
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
2 1 (33.33%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Control-M
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) MKS
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