The first table below looks at the demand for RAD skills in IT jobs advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited RAD over the 3 months to 17 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 East of England region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Rapid Application Development (RAD)
Rank 266 245 174
Rank change year-on-year
-21 -71
Permanent jobs citing RAD 3 27 90
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 0.036% 0.310% 0.948%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.050% 0.448% 1.304%
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 47
Average salary £30,000 £33,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.44% -16.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £23,000 £31,400
10% offered a salary of more than £34,000 £63,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £40,500 £44,500
% change year-on-year
-13.58% -8.98%
All Processes & Methodologies
East of England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
5984 6032 6901
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 72.37% 69.37% 72.73%
Number of salaries quoted 5129 5099 5854
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £61,500 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
RAD
England

RAD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England RAD Salary Trend

RAD
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RAD within the East of England region over the 3 months to 17 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Norfolk +1 1 £35,000 -
Cambridgeshire -3 1 - -
Bedfordshire - 1 £25,000 -
RAD
England

RAD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England 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 18 (75.00%) SQL
1 18 (75.00%) Finance
2 16 (66.67%) XML
3 15 (62.50%) CSS
3 15 (62.50%) HTML
4 14 (58.33%) Java
4 14 (58.33%) E-Commerce
5 13 (54.17%) MVC
5 13 (54.17%) Content Management
5 13 (54.17%) Web Development
6 12 (50.00%) JavaScript
7 11 (45.83%) Oracle
8 10 (41.67%) J2EE
8 10 (41.67%) JUnit
8 10 (41.67%) WebSphere Application Server
8 10 (41.67%) Perl
8 10 (41.67%) JDBC
8 10 (41.67%) JSP
8 10 (41.67%) Struts
8 10 (41.67%) DB2
8 10 (41.67%) UNIX
8 10 (41.67%) XHTML
8 10 (41.67%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
8 10 (41.67%) Eclipse
8 10 (41.67%) IBM
8 10 (41.67%) Sun
8 10 (41.67%) Sun Certification
8 10 (41.67%) WebSphere
8 10 (41.67%) Retail
8 10 (41.67%) JSTL

RAD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England 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 16 (66.67%) XML
2 15 (62.50%) HTML
2 15 (62.50%) CSS
3 10 (41.67%) JDBC
3 10 (41.67%) JSP
3 10 (41.67%) Struts
3 10 (41.67%) J2EE
3 10 (41.67%) XHTML
3 10 (41.67%) WebSphere
3 10 (41.67%) JSTL
4 7 (29.17%) .NET
5 5 (20.83%) Web Services
5 5 (20.83%) jQuery
6 3 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
6 3 (12.50%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 3 (12.50%) Ajax
6 3 (12.50%) ASP.NET
6 3 (12.50%) Silverlight
6 3 (12.50%) .NET Framework
7 2 (8.333%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 10 (41.67%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (4.167%) Rendezvous
Applications
1 4 (16.67%) MS Excel
2 1 (4.167%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (4.167%) MS Project
2 1 (4.167%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (41.67%) DB2
2 7 (29.17%) SQL Server
3 3 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (4.167%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (4.167%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (4.167%) MS Access
4 1 (4.167%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (41.67%) JUnit
1 10 (41.67%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 10 (41.67%) Eclipse
1 10 (41.67%) Rational Application Developer
2 3 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
2 3 (12.50%) Visual Studio
3 2 (8.333%) Subversion
4 1 (4.167%) Ant
4 1 (4.167%) NUnit
General
1 18 (75.00%) Finance
2 10 (41.67%) Retail
3 9 (37.50%) Games
4 1 (4.167%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (4.167%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.167%) Front Office
4 1 (4.167%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 20 (83.33%) Developer
2 12 (50.00%) Analyst
3 10 (41.67%) Support Analyst
3 10 (41.67%) Java Developer
3 10 (41.67%) J2EE Developer
3 10 (41.67%) Developer Analyst
3 10 (41.67%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 4 (16.67%) .NET Developer
4 4 (16.67%) C# Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Web Developer
5 3 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (8.333%) Business Analyst
7 1 (4.167%) Tester
7 1 (4.167%) Software Engineer
7 1 (4.167%) Senior Business Analyst
7 1 (4.167%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (4.167%) ASP.NET Developer
7 1 (4.167%) E-Commerce Project Manager
7 1 (4.167%) Business Developer
7 1 (4.167%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) N-Tier
2 2 (8.333%) Computer Science
3 1 (4.167%) Fixed Income
3 1 (4.167%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 10 (41.67%) UNIX
2 1 (4.167%) Windows
2 1 (4.167%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) E-Commerce
2 13 (54.17%) MVC
2 13 (54.17%) Content Management
2 13 (54.17%) Web Development
3 10 (41.67%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (12.50%) CRM
4 3 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (12.50%) OO
5 2 (8.333%) Web Application Development
5 2 (8.333%) Waterfall
6 1 (4.167%) Test Strategy
6 1 (4.167%) Test Automation
6 1 (4.167%) SSADM
6 1 (4.167%) DSDM
6 1 (4.167%) ITIL
6 1 (4.167%) PRINCE2
6 1 (4.167%) PRINCE
6 1 (4.167%) Project Management
6 1 (4.167%) Business Development
6 1 (4.167%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 18 (75.00%) SQL
2 14 (58.33%) Java
3 12 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 10 (41.67%) Perl
4 10 (41.67%) Bash shell
5 8 (33.33%) C#
6 3 (12.50%) T-SQL
7 1 (4.167%) C++
Qualifications
1 10 (41.67%) Sun Certification
2 5 (20.83%) Degree
3 1 (4.167%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.333%) QA
Vendors
1 11 (45.83%) Oracle
2 10 (41.67%) IBM
2 10 (41.67%) Sun
3 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.167%) JBoss
4 1 (4.167%) TIBCO