The first table below looks at the demand for RAD skills in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited RAD over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Rapid Application Development (RAD)
Rank 90 87 93
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +6
Permanent jobs citing RAD 2 7 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.171% 0.530% 0.432%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.225% 0.706% 0.535%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 5
Average salary £37,500 £45,000 £48,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-16.66% -6.25%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-22.22% +5.88%
All Processes & Methodologies
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
888 992 1309
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 75.90% 75.09% 80.75%
Number of salaries quoted 521 682 938
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -3.61%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
RAD
Scotland

RAD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh RAD Salary Trend

RAD
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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%) SQL Server
1 7 (87.50%) ASP.NET
1 7 (87.50%) CSS
1 7 (87.50%) C#
1 7 (87.50%) HTML
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
1 7 (87.50%) .NET
2 6 (75.00%) T-SQL
2 6 (75.00%) C++
2 6 (75.00%) VC++
2 6 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (75.00%) TDD
2 6 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (75.00%) Web Development
2 6 (75.00%) jQuery
3 2 (25.00%) Finance
4 1 (12.50%) Business Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Ajax
4 1 (12.50%) TOAD
4 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
4 1 (12.50%) ASP
4 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
4 1 (12.50%) Contact Management
4 1 (12.50%) DHTML
4 1 (12.50%) Java
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle

RAD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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%) HTML
1 7 (87.50%) .NET
1 7 (87.50%) ASP.NET
1 7 (87.50%) CSS
2 6 (75.00%) jQuery
3 1 (12.50%) DHTML
3 1 (12.50%) Ajax
3 1 (12.50%) ASP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Developer
2 6 (75.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) RAD Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
1 6 (75.00%) TDD
1 6 (75.00%) Web Development
2 1 (12.50%) Contact Management
2 1 (12.50%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) C#
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 6 (75.00%) T-SQL
2 6 (75.00%) VC++
2 6 (75.00%) C++
2 6 (75.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle