The first table below looks at the demand for RAD skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RAD over the 3 months to 22 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 West Yorkshire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Rapid Application Development (RAD)
Rank 87 83 -
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -
Contract jobs citing RAD 4 7 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.314% 0.433% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.443% 0.597% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
Average daily rate £340 £370 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.10% -
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
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
902 1172 728
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 70.86% 72.44% 65.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 676 350
Average daily rate £325 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £235 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £459 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 26 29
Average hourly rate £23.75 £18.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+31.94% +2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.78 £12.00 £7.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £61.20 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
RAD
Yorkshire

RAD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire RAD Daily Rate Trend

RAD
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing RAD across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire RAD Hourly 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 West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Bradford - 3 £330 -
RAD
Yorkshire

RAD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 (80.00%) ISEB
1 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 4 (80.00%) Software Testing
1 4 (80.00%) ISTQB
1 4 (80.00%) Retail Banking
1 4 (80.00%) Banking
1 4 (80.00%) Retail
1 4 (80.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 4 (80.00%) Waterfall
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Middleware
3 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) J2EE
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) JDBC
3 1 (20.00%) Web Services
3 1 (20.00%) XML
3 1 (20.00%) XSLT
3 1 (20.00%) Apache
3 1 (20.00%) Swing
3 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
3 1 (20.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) Eclipse
3 1 (20.00%) XQuery
3 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (20.00%) RESTful

RAD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 (20.00%) Middleware
1 1 (20.00%) J2EE
1 1 (20.00%) JDBC
1 1 (20.00%) Web Services
1 1 (20.00%) XML
1 1 (20.00%) XSLT
1 1 (20.00%) Swing
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (20.00%) Maven
General
1 4 (80.00%) Retail Banking
1 4 (80.00%) Banking
1 4 (80.00%) Retail
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Test Leader
2 2 (40.00%) UAT Manager
2 2 (40.00%) UAT Test Manager
2 2 (40.00%) Test Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 4 (80.00%) Software Testing
1 4 (80.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 4 (80.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (20.00%) TDD
2 1 (20.00%) ETL
2 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (20.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
1 1 (20.00%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) ISEB
1 4 (80.00%) ISTQB
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle