Rapid Application Development (RAD)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for RAD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited RAD over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 555 687 810
Rank change year-on-year +132 +123 -164
Contract jobs citing RAD 43 32 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.099% 0.054% 0.044%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.060% 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 29 19
10th Percentile £483 £441 £455
25th Percentile £531 £555 £573
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +33.33%
75th Percentile £673 £738 £753
90th Percentile £712 £740 £793
UK excluding London median daily rate £508 £543 £727
% change year-on-year -6.45% -25.38% +93.87%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

RAD is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

RAD
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing RAD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for RAD in the UK

RAD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RAD.

Daily rate trend for RAD in the UK

RAD
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RAD over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for RAD in the UK

RAD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing RAD.

Hourly rate trend for RAD in the UK

RAD
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RAD within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
England +139 41 £600 -11.11% 13
London +106 29 £600 -11.11% 6
Work from Home +148 24 £600 +5.26% 3
UK excluding London +71 12 £508 -6.45% 6
North of England - 12 £508 - 1
Yorkshire - 12 £508 -

RAD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 6 (13.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (20.93%) Loan IQ
2 1 (2.33%) SAP CAR
2 1 (2.33%) SAP POS DM
2 1 (2.33%) SAP Retail
2 1 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (30.23%) Akamai
1 13 (30.23%) Cloudflare
2 11 (25.58%) Azure
3 5 (11.63%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.33%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.63%) Firewall
1 5 (11.63%) Network Security
1 5 (11.63%) Wireshark
2 3 (6.98%) DNS
3 1 (2.33%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.30%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.33%) MS Access
2 1 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.33%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Eclipse
General
1 26 (60.47%) Finance
2 18 (41.86%) Banking
3 17 (39.53%) Front Office
4 15 (34.88%) Investment Banking
5 11 (25.58%) Social Skills
6 10 (23.26%) Retail
7 9 (20.93%) Financial Institution
8 4 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (48.84%) Developer
2 16 (37.21%) Java Developer
3 14 (32.56%) Front Office Developer
3 14 (32.56%) Investment Banking Java Developer
4 8 (18.60%) Architect
5 7 (16.28%) Enterprise Architect
5 7 (16.28%) Enterprise Security Architect
5 7 (16.28%) Security Architect
6 6 (13.95%) Business Analyst
7 5 (11.63%) Project Manager
8 4 (9.30%) RAD Developer
9 3 (6.98%) C# Developer
9 3 (6.98%) Consultant
9 3 (6.98%) Cybersecurity Manager
9 3 (6.98%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
9 3 (6.98%) Security Manager
9 3 (6.98%) Security Project Manager
10 2 (4.65%) C# Developer - Investment Banking
10 2 (4.65%) Front Office RAD Developer
11 1 (2.33%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (18.60%) Apache Camel
2 3 (6.98%) .NET
3 2 (4.65%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.33%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.33%) CSS
4 1 (2.33%) FastAPI
4 1 (2.33%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (2.33%) HTML
4 1 (2.33%) Kafka
4 1 (2.33%) NumPy
4 1 (2.33%) Pandas
4 1 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (2.33%) React
4 1 (2.33%) REST
4 1 (2.33%) Spring
4 1 (2.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 15 (34.88%) Derivative
2 14 (32.56%) Equity Derivative
3 3 (6.98%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (4.65%) Equities
4 2 (4.65%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.33%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.33%) Hedge funds
5 1 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.33%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 10 (23.26%) Linux
2 9 (20.93%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (30.23%) Agile
2 12 (27.91%) Migration
3 10 (23.26%) Data Modelling
3 10 (23.26%) Waterfall
4 9 (20.93%) DSDM
4 9 (20.93%) SSADM
4 9 (20.93%) UML
5 8 (18.60%) CI/CD
5 8 (18.60%) Continuous Deployment
5 8 (18.60%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (18.60%) Data Migration
6 7 (16.28%) Requirements Gathering
7 5 (11.63%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (11.63%) DevOps
8 3 (6.98%) OWASP
8 3 (6.98%) Risk Management
9 2 (4.65%) Infrastructure as Code
9 2 (4.65%) Mentoring
9 2 (4.65%) OO
9 2 (4.65%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 24 (55.81%) Java
2 14 (32.56%) SQL
3 6 (13.95%) Python
3 6 (13.95%) VBA
4 5 (11.63%) C#
5 4 (9.30%) C++
6 1 (2.33%) ABAP
6 1 (2.33%) Clojure
6 1 (2.33%) Groovy
6 1 (2.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (6.98%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (4.65%) CCNP
3 1 (2.33%) CCNA
3 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.33%) Degree
3 1 (2.33%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.33%) MiFID
Systems Management
1 2 (4.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (30.23%) F5
2 9 (20.93%) IBM
3 7 (16.28%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.98%) Oracle
5 1 (2.33%) Ariba
5 1 (2.33%) Bloomberg
5 1 (2.33%) Reuters
5 1 (2.33%) SAP