The first table below looks at the demand for RAD skills in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited RAD over the 3 months to 23 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 Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Rapid Application Development (RAD)
Rank 102 97 86
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -11
Permanent jobs citing RAD 7 5 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.415% 0.341% 0.516%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.559% 0.493% 0.803%
Number of salaries quoted 7 5 7
Average salary £45,500 £36,500 £65,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+24.65% -43.84%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £42,500 £44,500
% change year-on-year
-17.64% -4.49%
All Processes & Methodologies
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1253 1015 872
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 74.36% 69.14% 64.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1056 888 750
Average salary £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88% -
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £27,500 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
RAD
West Midlands

RAD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham RAD Jobs Demand Trend

RAD
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing RAD across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham RAD Salary Trend

RAD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 IT job ads sampled that cited RAD.

1 7 (87.50%) .NET
1 7 (87.50%) Finance
2 6 (75.00%) V-Model
3 5 (62.50%) Oracle 11g
3 5 (62.50%) Change Management
3 5 (62.50%) SOA
3 5 (62.50%) Oracle
4 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
5 2 (25.00%) Project Management
5 2 (25.00%) ITIL
5 2 (25.00%) ITSM
5 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
5 2 (25.00%) Programme Management
5 2 (25.00%) Matrix Management
5 2 (25.00%) ESB
6 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
6 1 (12.50%) TDD
6 1 (12.50%) Pair Programming
6 1 (12.50%) Business Analysis
6 1 (12.50%) Scrum
6 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
6 1 (12.50%) B2B
6 1 (12.50%) B2C
6 1 (12.50%) C#
6 1 (12.50%) SQL
6 1 (12.50%) UML
6 1 (12.50%) OO
6 1 (12.50%) SSADM
6 1 (12.50%) DSDM

RAD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 IT job ads sampled that cited RAD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (87.50%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) ESB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (87.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) IT Development Manager
1 6 (75.00%) Development Manager
2 1 (12.50%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
2 1 (12.50%) C# Developer
2 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (12.50%) UML Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Business Systems Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) V-Model
2 5 (62.50%) Change Management
2 5 (62.50%) SOA
3 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (25.00%) Project Management
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) ITSM
3 2 (25.00%) Programme Management
3 2 (25.00%) Matrix Management
4 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
4 1 (12.50%) TDD
4 1 (12.50%) Pair Programming
4 1 (12.50%) Business Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Scrum
4 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) B2B
4 1 (12.50%) B2C
4 1 (12.50%) UML
4 1 (12.50%) OO
4 1 (12.50%) SSADM
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) C#
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Oracle
2 4 (50.00%) Microsoft