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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Rapid Application Development (RAD)
Rank 52 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing RAD 7 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 1.452% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.017% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
Average salary £27,500 - -
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £42,500 £44,500
% change year-on-year
-17.64% -4.49%
All Processes & Methodologies
Lancashire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
347 382 255
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 71.99% 69.20% 66.06%
Number of salaries quoted 308 351 215
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £22,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
RAD
North West

RAD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire RAD Salary Trend

RAD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 11 (100.00%) Web Services
2 10 (90.91%) XML
2 10 (90.91%) Python
2 10 (90.91%) C
2 10 (90.91%) C#
2 10 (90.91%) C++
2 10 (90.91%) Java
2 10 (90.91%) PHP
2 10 (90.91%) SQL
2 10 (90.91%) QA
2 10 (90.91%) WATIR
2 10 (90.91%) Selenium
2 10 (90.91%) FitNesse
2 10 (90.91%) User Acceptance Testing
2 10 (90.91%) Unit Testing
2 10 (90.91%) System Testing
2 10 (90.91%) HTTP
2 10 (90.91%) Waterfall
2 10 (90.91%) soapUI
2 10 (90.91%) REST
2 10 (90.91%) Mobile App
2 10 (90.91%) Ruby
2 10 (90.91%) SOAP
3 1 (9.091%) .NET Framework
3 1 (9.091%) TDD
3 1 (9.091%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (9.091%) .NET
3 1 (9.091%) ASP.NET
3 1 (9.091%) MVC
3 1 (9.091%) CMS

RAD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 11 (100.00%) Web Services
2 10 (90.91%) XML
2 10 (90.91%) soapUI
2 10 (90.91%) REST
2 10 (90.91%) SOAP
3 1 (9.091%) .NET Framework
3 1 (9.091%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (9.091%) .NET
3 1 (9.091%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) CMS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (90.91%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 10 (90.91%) WATIR
1 10 (90.91%) Selenium
1 10 (90.91%) FitNesse
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Consultant
1 10 (90.91%) Test Consultant
2 1 (9.091%) Junior
2 1 (9.091%) Developer
2 1 (9.091%) Junior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (90.91%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) User Acceptance Testing
1 10 (90.91%) Unit Testing
1 10 (90.91%) System Testing
1 10 (90.91%) Waterfall
2 1 (9.091%) TDD
2 1 (9.091%) MVC
2 1 (9.091%) E-Commerce
2 1 (9.091%) UML
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) Python
1 10 (90.91%) C
1 10 (90.91%) C#
1 10 (90.91%) C++
1 10 (90.91%) Java
1 10 (90.91%) PHP
1 10 (90.91%) SQL
1 10 (90.91%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (90.91%) QA