RAD Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Rapid Application Development (RAD)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring RAD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RAD 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.033% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.041% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median daily rate - £285 -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

RAD falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,438 1,368 2,276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 80.94% 93.06% 85.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,583 849 1,242
10th Percentile £306 £300 £213
25th Percentile £406 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% - -1.96%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £520 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +4.00% -1.86% +1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 69 170
10th Percentile £16.35 £14.20 £14.42
25th Percentile £30.63 £14.75 £19.25
Median hourly rate £81.50 £25.15 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +224.06% -45.62% -11.23%
75th Percentile £88.00 £62.50 £62.64
90th Percentile £105.30 £78.00 £85.65
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +108.75% -47.05% -9.52%

RAD
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing RAD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

RAD job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

RAD
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing RAD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing RAD

RAD
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing RAD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing RAD

RAD
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RAD within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 8 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire - 1 - -
RAD
South East

RAD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) iPaaS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Business Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Product Owner
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Project Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Product Business Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Product Owner
1 1 (100.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Project Owner
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Business Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Product Owner
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Low-Code
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Intelligent Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Network Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Portfolio Management
1 1 (100.00%) Product Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow