The first table below looks at the demand for the RAD Developer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RAD Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
RAD Developer
Rank 495 559 509
Rank change year-on-year
+64 -50
Contract jobs requiring a RAD Developer 59 30 78
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.121% 0.052% 0.125%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.131% 0.056% 0.135%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 26 67
Average daily rate £550 £456 £540
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.54% -15.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £500 £450 £250
% change year-on-year
+11.11% +80.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
44867 53712 57592
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.17% 92.50% 92.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 25887 29609 31515
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2132 2587 2980
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.25 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £40.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

RAD Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing RAD Developer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

RAD Developer Jobs Demand Trend

RAD Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing RAD Developer within the UK.

RAD Developer Daily Rate Trend

RAD Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing RAD Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

RAD Developer Daily Rate Histogram

RAD Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing RAD Developer within the UK.

RAD Developer Hourly Rate Trend

RAD Developer
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RAD Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
London +58 58 £550 +15.78% 3
England +51 58 £550 +15.78% 3
City of London +26 25 £538 +19.44% 2
Scotland -21 1 £500 +11.11%
Canary Wharf - 1 - -
Edinburgh - - - -

RAD Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited RAD Developer in their job title 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 with RAD Developer in their job title.

1 95 (100.00%) RAD
2 79 (83.16%) C#
3 68 (71.58%) VBA
4 48 (50.53%) Front Office
5 46 (48.42%) SQL Server
6 44 (46.32%) SQL
7 39 (41.05%) Python
8 34 (35.79%) Banking
9 32 (33.68%) Derivative
10 31 (32.63%) Investment Banking
11 28 (29.47%) Credit Derivative
12 27 (28.42%) Fixed Income
12 27 (28.42%) .NET
13 26 (27.37%) Market Risk
14 25 (26.32%) Oracle
15 18 (18.95%) Finance
15 18 (18.95%) Java
16 12 (12.63%) Analytics
17 11 (11.58%) Degree
17 11 (11.58%) Oracle Reports
18 9 (9.474%) OO
18 9 (9.474%) MS Excel
19 8 (8.421%) Credit Risk
20 7 (7.368%) Fund Management
20 7 (7.368%) WCF
21 6 (6.316%) Bloomberg
21 6 (6.316%) Computer Science
22 5 (5.263%) WPF
22 5 (5.263%) Problem Management
22 5 (5.263%) Management Information System

RAD Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited RAD Developer in their job title 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 with RAD Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 27 (28.42%) .NET
2 7 (7.368%) WCF
3 5 (5.263%) WPF
4 4 (4.211%) ASP.NET
5 3 (3.158%) CSS
5 3 (3.158%) WinForms
5 3 (3.158%) HTML
6 2 (2.105%) LINQ
6 2 (2.105%) jQuery
7 1 (1.053%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (1.053%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 1 (1.053%) JSP
7 1 (1.053%) Struts
7 1 (1.053%) XML
7 1 (1.053%) XSL
7 1 (1.053%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.053%) Java SE
Application Platforms
1 1 (1.053%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (9.474%) MS Excel
2 3 (3.158%) MS Office
3 1 (1.053%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (4.211%) RMDS
2 1 (1.053%) LatentZero
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.263%) Intranet
2 1 (1.053%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (48.42%) SQL Server
2 11 (11.58%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (5.263%) MS Access
4 2 (2.105%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (1.053%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.053%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (1.053%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (1.053%) Xcelsius
5 1 (1.053%) Oracle 10g
5 1 (1.053%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 3 (3.158%) Visual Studio
1 3 (3.158%) Subversion
2 1 (1.053%) MSTest
2 1 (1.053%) Rhino Mocks
General
1 48 (50.53%) Front Office
2 34 (35.79%) Banking
3 31 (32.63%) Investment Banking
4 18 (18.95%) Finance
5 1 (1.053%) Retail
5 1 (1.053%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 32 (33.68%) Derivative
2 28 (29.47%) Credit Derivative
3 27 (28.42%) Fixed Income
4 26 (27.37%) Market Risk
5 8 (8.421%) Credit Risk
6 6 (6.316%) Computer Science
7 5 (5.263%) Management Information System
8 4 (4.211%) Grid Computing
9 2 (2.105%) Interest Rate Derivative
10 1 (1.053%) Equities
10 1 (1.053%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.053%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (100.00%) RAD
2 12 (12.63%) Analytics
3 9 (9.474%) OO
4 7 (7.368%) Fund Management
5 5 (5.263%) Problem Management
6 4 (4.211%) Agile Software Development
6 4 (4.211%) Risk Management
6 4 (4.211%) Greeks
7 3 (3.158%) MVVM
7 3 (3.158%) Unit Testing
7 3 (3.158%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (3.158%) OOP
7 3 (3.158%) TDD
7 3 (3.158%) Business Analysis
8 1 (1.053%) Requirements Analysis
8 1 (1.053%) Asset Management
8 1 (1.053%) Risk Analysis
8 1 (1.053%) Use Case
8 1 (1.053%) Validation
8 1 (1.053%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 79 (83.16%) C#
2 68 (71.58%) VBA
3 44 (46.32%) SQL
4 39 (41.05%) Python
5 18 (18.95%) Java
6 4 (4.211%) T-SQL
7 3 (3.158%) C++
8 2 (2.105%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.053%) Perl
9 1 (1.053%) VB
Qualifications
1 11 (11.58%) Degree
Vendors
1 25 (26.32%) Oracle
2 6 (6.316%) Bloomberg
3 4 (4.211%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.211%) Reuters
4 2 (2.105%) Perforce
5 1 (1.053%) thinkFolio
5 1 (1.053%) DevExpress
5 1 (1.053%) Sybase
5 1 (1.053%) Business Objects
5 1 (1.053%) SAP
London
Working closely alongside the business users you will be required to have excellent Excel VBA skills as well as being comfortable working in a RAD environment and having...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £450.00 - £550.00 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
City, London
Business Analyst, RAD Developer, SQL, VaR, Greeks, Front Office Risk... It requires a strong background in a front office risk environment (VaR and greeks etc.) as well as...
Thomson Keene Associates
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
City, London
Relevant Experience/Qualifications: Object oriented programming experience essential is essential (OOP - particular knowledge of Java or C# would be ideal. Relevant experience within the Risk arena (VaR, greeks,...
ComputAppoint
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013