The first table below looks at the demand for RAD skills in IT jobs advertised for the Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Rapid Application Development (RAD)
Rank - 133 122
Permanent jobs citing RAD 0 17 44
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire - 0.675% 1.304%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 0.925% 1.702%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 22
Average salary - £50,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +25.00%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £42,500 £44,500
% change year-on-year
-17.64% -4.49%
All Processes & Methodologies
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1885 1837 2585
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 76.47% 72.93% 76.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1486 1476 2084
Average salary £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.26% +5.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £31,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
RAD
East of England

RAD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire RAD Salary Trend

RAD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 9 (100.00%) HTML
1 9 (100.00%) Java
1 9 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 9 (100.00%) Perl
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
1 9 (100.00%) J2EE
1 9 (100.00%) Oracle
1 9 (100.00%) DB2
1 9 (100.00%) JUnit
1 9 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 9 (100.00%) CSS
1 9 (100.00%) JDBC
1 9 (100.00%) JSP
1 9 (100.00%) Struts
1 9 (100.00%) XML
1 9 (100.00%) UNIX
1 9 (100.00%) XHTML
1 9 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 9 (100.00%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 9 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 9 (100.00%) IBM
1 9 (100.00%) Sun
1 9 (100.00%) Sun Certification
1 9 (100.00%) MVC
1 9 (100.00%) Finance
1 9 (100.00%) Games
1 9 (100.00%) Retail
1 9 (100.00%) Content Management
1 9 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 9 (100.00%) Web Development

RAD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 9 (100.00%) HTML
1 9 (100.00%) J2EE
1 9 (100.00%) CSS
1 9 (100.00%) JDBC
1 9 (100.00%) JSP
1 9 (100.00%) Struts
1 9 (100.00%) XML
1 9 (100.00%) XHTML
1 9 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 9 (100.00%) JSTL
Application Platforms
1 9 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) JUnit
1 9 (100.00%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 9 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 9 (100.00%) Rational Application Developer
General
1 9 (100.00%) Finance
1 9 (100.00%) Games
1 9 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Developer
1 9 (100.00%) Analyst
1 9 (100.00%) Support Analyst
1 9 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 9 (100.00%) J2EE Developer
1 9 (100.00%) Developer Analyst
1 9 (100.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 9 (100.00%) MVC
1 9 (100.00%) Content Management
1 9 (100.00%) Web Development
1 9 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Java
1 9 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 9 (100.00%) Perl
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
1 9 (100.00%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) Sun Certification
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Oracle
1 9 (100.00%) IBM
1 9 (100.00%) Sun