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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Rapid Application Development (RAD)
Rank - 64 67
Permanent jobs citing RAD 0 2 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Suffolk - 0.359% 0.309%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 0.480% 0.458%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 2
Average salary - £33,500 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -44.16%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £42,500 £44,500
% change year-on-year
-17.64% -4.49%
All Processes & Methodologies
Suffolk
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
491 417 437
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Suffolk 70.44% 74.87% 67.54%
Number of salaries quoted 464 372 385
Average salary £37,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.50% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £54,000 £52,500
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 Suffolk region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Suffolk RAD Salary Trend

RAD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Suffolk 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 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (66.67%) Ajax
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
2 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio
2 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
2 2 (66.67%) N-Tier
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
2 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) Silverlight
2 2 (66.67%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (66.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (33.33%) Ant
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) JBoss
3 1 (33.33%) SSADM
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (33.33%) Middleware
3 1 (33.33%) Subversion

RAD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Suffolk 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 3 (100.00%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) Ajax
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
2 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) Silverlight
2 2 (66.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (33.33%) Middleware
3 1 (33.33%) Spring
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio
1 2 (66.67%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (33.33%) Ant
2 1 (33.33%) Subversion
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Developer
2 2 (66.67%) C# Developer
2 2 (66.67%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Business Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) N-Tier
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) SSADM
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
2 2 (66.67%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) JBoss