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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Rapid Application Development (RAD)
Rank 203 175 167
Rank change year-on-year
-28 -8
Permanent jobs citing RAD 7 40 38
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 0.133% 0.725% 0.648%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.177% 0.961% 0.945%
Number of salaries quoted 4 31 31
Average salary £35,000 £34,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.94% -20.00%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £40,500 £44,500
% change year-on-year
-13.58% -8.98%
All Processes & Methodologies
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
3948 4161 4023
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 75.26% 75.44% 68.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3460 3540 3403
Average salary £37,500 £38,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.59% +2.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
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 South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

South West 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 South West region.

South West 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 South West 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
Gloucestershire -10 4 £35,000 +2.94%
Bristol -11 2 - -
Dorset -7 1 £31,000 -11.42%
RAD
England

RAD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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 16 (88.89%) SQL
2 11 (61.11%) HTML
2 11 (61.11%) CSS
3 10 (55.56%) JavaScript
3 10 (55.56%) MVC
3 10 (55.56%) Content Management
4 9 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
4 9 (50.00%) Web Development
4 9 (50.00%) Finance
4 9 (50.00%) XML
4 9 (50.00%) E-Commerce
5 8 (44.44%) UNIX
5 8 (44.44%) XHTML
5 8 (44.44%) JDBC
5 8 (44.44%) JSP
5 8 (44.44%) Perl
5 8 (44.44%) Java
5 8 (44.44%) .NET
5 8 (44.44%) J2EE
5 8 (44.44%) Oracle
5 8 (44.44%) DB2
5 8 (44.44%) JUnit
5 8 (44.44%) WebSphere Application Server
5 8 (44.44%) Games
5 8 (44.44%) Struts
5 8 (44.44%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
5 8 (44.44%) Eclipse
5 8 (44.44%) IBM
5 8 (44.44%) Sun
5 8 (44.44%) Sun Certification

RAD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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 (61.11%) HTML
1 11 (61.11%) CSS
2 9 (50.00%) XML
3 8 (44.44%) XHTML
3 8 (44.44%) WebSphere
3 8 (44.44%) JSTL
3 8 (44.44%) JDBC
3 8 (44.44%) JSP
3 8 (44.44%) .NET
3 8 (44.44%) J2EE
3 8 (44.44%) Struts
4 3 (16.67%) ASP.NET
5 2 (11.11%) jQuery
6 1 (5.556%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (5.556%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 1 (5.556%) LINQ
6 1 (5.556%) .NET Framework
6 1 (5.556%) Ajax
6 1 (5.556%) COM+
6 1 (5.556%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 8 (44.44%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (5.556%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.556%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 4 (22.22%) FastStats
2 2 (11.11%) MS Project
2 2 (11.11%) MS Office
3 1 (5.556%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.556%) Tridion
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (44.44%) DB2
2 7 (38.89%) SQL Server
3 5 (27.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (22.22%) Crystal Reports
4 4 (22.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (5.556%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (5.556%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 8 (44.44%) JUnit
1 8 (44.44%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 8 (44.44%) Eclipse
1 8 (44.44%) Rational Application Developer
General
1 9 (50.00%) Finance
2 8 (44.44%) Games
2 8 (44.44%) Retail
3 2 (11.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 16 (88.89%) Developer
2 8 (44.44%) Java Developer
2 8 (44.44%) J2EE Developer
2 8 (44.44%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 5 (27.78%) Developer Analyst
3 5 (27.78%) Support Analyst
3 5 (27.78%) Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) Consultant
4 3 (16.67%) Support Consultant
4 3 (16.67%) SQL Developer
4 3 (16.67%) J2EE Consultant
4 3 (16.67%) Java Consultant
5 2 (11.11%) IT Project Manager
5 2 (11.11%) Technical Manager
5 2 (11.11%) Technical Project Manager
5 2 (11.11%) Software Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Project Manager
6 1 (5.556%) Web Developer
6 1 (5.556%) Applications Developer
6 1 (5.556%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) PMI
1 2 (11.11%) Computer Science
2 1 (5.556%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) MVC
1 10 (55.56%) Content Management
2 9 (50.00%) Web Development
2 9 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 9 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (33.33%) Project Management
4 4 (22.22%) Change Control
4 4 (22.22%) Customer Analysis
4 4 (22.22%) ETL
5 3 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (11.11%) Matrix Management
6 2 (11.11%) Resource Management
6 2 (11.11%) Risk Management
6 2 (11.11%) Migration
6 2 (11.11%) ITIL
6 2 (11.11%) PRINCE2
6 2 (11.11%) OO
6 2 (11.11%) Waterfall
7 1 (5.556%) Data Visualisation
7 1 (5.556%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 16 (88.89%) SQL
2 10 (55.56%) JavaScript
3 8 (44.44%) Perl
3 8 (44.44%) Java
3 8 (44.44%) Bash shell
4 4 (22.22%) PHP
4 4 (22.22%) C#
4 4 (22.22%) Delphi
5 1 (5.556%) T-SQL
5 1 (5.556%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) Sun Certification
2 2 (11.11%) PMP
2 2 (11.11%) PMI Certification
2 2 (11.11%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) APMP
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Oracle
1 8 (44.44%) IBM
1 8 (44.44%) Sun
2 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 4 (22.22%) Alterian
3 4 (22.22%) smartFOCUS
4 1 (5.556%) Open Text