The first table below looks at the demand for RAD skills in IT jobs advertised for the Croydon region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited RAD over the 3 months to 24 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 Croydon region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Rapid Application Development (RAD)
Rank - - 37
Permanent jobs citing RAD 0 0 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Croydon - - 2.135%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - 3.093%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 6
Average salary - - £71,250
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £42,500 £44,500
% change year-on-year
-17.64% -4.49%
All Processes & Methodologies
Croydon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
199 269 194
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Croydon 67.46% 80.78% 69.04%
Number of salaries quoted 179 245 182
Average salary £48,250 £42,500 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.52% -22.72%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £80,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
RAD
London

RAD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Croydon 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 Croydon region.

Croydon RAD Salary Trend

RAD
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Croydon 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 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) Sybase
1 3 (100.00%) Business Objects
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
1 3 (100.00%) MCSE
1 3 (100.00%) Ingres
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Discoverer
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (100.00%) Project Management
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (100.00%) Data Security
1 3 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
1 3 (100.00%) dBASE
1 3 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Freedom of Information
1 3 (100.00%) Systems Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) QA
1 3 (100.00%) Release Management
1 3 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 3 (100.00%) Data Extraction
1 3 (100.00%) Waterfall

RAD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Croydon 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 3 (100.00%) Web Services
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Ingres
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Discoverer
1 3 (100.00%) dBASE
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Team Leader
1 3 (100.00%) Development Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (100.00%) Freedom of Information
1 3 (100.00%) Data Extraction
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Project Management
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (100.00%) Data Security
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
1 3 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Systems Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Release Management
1 3 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 3 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) MCSE
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) Sybase
1 3 (100.00%) Business Objects
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft