Yorkshire RAD Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Rapid Application Development (RAD) skills within the Yorkshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited RAD over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Rapid Application Development (RAD)
Location Ashby-de-la-Zouch Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Cornwall Coventry Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Gateshead Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire Horsham Kent Leamington Spa Leeds Leicestershire London M4 Corridor Manchester Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Norwich Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sevenoaks Somerset South East South Wales South West Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Ives Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	109	115
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	9	24
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.024 %
As % of the category below	0.537 %	1.271 %
Daily rates quoted	1	6
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£433
Average daily rate	£400	£450
% change on same period last year	-11.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£467
UK excluding London average daily rate	£362	£397
% change on same period last year	-8.85 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.00	-
Average hourly rate	£29.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£43.75	£37.35
% change on same period last year	+17.14 %
Processes & Methodologies Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1677	1889
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.267 %	1.863 %
Daily rates quoted	436	458
Average minimum daily rate	£339	£347
Average daily rate	£364	£366
% change on same period last year	-0.68 %
Average maximum daily rate	£388	£385
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£375
% change on same period last year	+0.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	118	111
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.17	£25.62
Average hourly rate	£26.95	£26.79
% change on same period last year	+0.60 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.73	£27.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.41	£30.41
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
RAD England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

RAD
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing RAD across the Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

RAD
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing RAD across the Yorkshire region.

RAD
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
West Yorkshire	+1	4	£400	-11.11 %
North Yorkshire	+7	3	-	-

RAD England

RAD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the 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 25 (71.43 %) Finance 2 20 (57.14 %) Financial Institution 3 19 (54.29 %) Eclipse 3 19 (54.29 %) Java 4 17 (48.57 %) IBM 4 17 (48.57 %) Banking 5 7 (20.00 %) XML 6 6 (17.14 %) UML 7 4 (11.43 %) PRINCE2 7 4 (11.43 %) Sun 8 3 (8.571 %) GAP Analysis 8 3 (8.571 %) Business Analysis 8 3 (8.571 %) AJAX 8 3 (8.571 %) Pensions 8 3 (8.571 %) Web Development

8 3 (8.571 %) Dojo 8 3 (8.571 %) UNIX 8 3 (8.571 %) CSS 8 3 (8.571 %) JavaScript 8 3 (8.571 %) SQL 8 3 (8.571 %) .NET 8 3 (8.571 %) C 8 3 (8.571 %) DHTML 8 3 (8.571 %) HTML 8 3 (8.571 %) Lotus Notes 8 3 (8.571 %) Lotus Domino 8 3 (8.571 %) MS Visio 8 3 (8.571 %) SAS 8 3 (8.571 %) TestDirector 8 3 (8.571 %) Lotus

RAD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the 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 7 (20.00 %) XML 2 3 (8.571 %) HTML 2 3 (8.571 %) .NET 2 3 (8.571 %) CSS 2 3 (8.571 %) AJAX 2 3 (8.571 %) Dojo 2 3 (8.571 %) YUI 2 3 (8.571 %) jQuery 3 2 (5.714 %) MooTools 3 2 (5.714 %) WebSphere 3 2 (5.714 %) JSP 3 2 (5.714 %) J2EE 3 2 (5.714 %) DOM 3 2 (5.714 %) SAX 3 2 (5.714 %) Hibernate 3 2 (5.714 %) JSF 4 1 (2.857 %) ADO.NET 4 1 (2.857 %) ASP.NET 4 1 (2.857 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 3 (8.571 %) Lotus Notes 1 3 (8.571 %) Lotus Domino 1 3 (8.571 %) SAS 2 2 (5.714 %) Apache
Applications 1 3 (8.571 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 2 (5.714 %) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (2.857 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 19 (54.29 %) Eclipse 2 3 (8.571 %) TestDirector 3 2 (5.714 %) JUnit
General 1 25 (71.43 %) Finance 2 20 (57.14 %) Financial Institution 3 17 (48.57 %) Banking 4 3 (8.571 %) Pensions 5 1 (2.857 %) Insurance 5 1 (2.857 %) Law 5 1 (2.857 %) Legal	Job Titles 1 20 (57.14 %) Developer 2 9 (25.71 %) Analyst 3 3 (8.571 %) Business Analyst 4 2 (5.714 %) Java Developer 4 2 (5.714 %) Test Manager 4 2 (5.714 %) Test Analyst 4 2 (5.714 %) Programmer 4 2 (5.714 %) Service Analyst 5 1 (2.857 %) Data Analyst 5 1 (2.857 %) Architect 5 1 (2.857 %) Project Manager 5 1 (2.857 %) Technical Architect 5 1 (2.857 %) Analyst Programmer 5 1 (2.857 %) .NET Developer 5 1 (2.857 %) C# Developer 5 1 (2.857 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 1 (2.857 %) Enterprise Architect 5 1 (2.857 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer
Operating Systems 1 3 (8.571 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (17.14 %) UML 2 4 (11.43 %) PRINCE2 3 3 (8.571 %) GAP Analysis 3 3 (8.571 %) Business Analysis 3 3 (8.571 %) Web Development 4 2 (5.714 %) Incident Management 4 2 (5.714 %) PRINCE 4 2 (5.714 %) Change Management 4 2 (5.714 %) Scrum 4 2 (5.714 %) Agile Software Development 4 2 (5.714 %) ITIL 4 2 (5.714 %) Systems Analysis 5 1 (2.857 %) OO 5 1 (2.857 %) Data Analysis 5 1 (2.857 %) Enterprise Architecture 5 1 (2.857 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 1 (2.857 %) Unit Testing 5 1 (2.857 %) Test Management 5 1 (2.857 %) ERD
Programming Languages 1 19 (54.29 %) Java 2 3 (8.571 %) JavaScript 2 3 (8.571 %) SQL 2 3 (8.571 %) C 2 3 (8.571 %) DHTML 3 2 (5.714 %) XPath 4 1 (2.857 %) C#	Qualifications 1 2 (5.714 %) Sun Certification
Systems Management 1 2 (5.714 %) Netcool 1 2 (5.714 %) Netcool/OMNIbus	Vendors 1 17 (48.57 %) IBM 2 4 (11.43 %) Sun 3 3 (8.571 %) Lotus 4 2 (5.714 %) Oracle 5 1 (2.857 %) Microsoft