Rapid Application Development (RAD)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for RAD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited RAD over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 875 819 1078
Rank change year-on-year -56 +259 -198
Permanent jobs citing RAD 23 161 123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.16% 0.078%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.027% 0.17% 0.082%
Number of salaries quoted 20 144 100
10th Percentile £47,375 - £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £46,250 £56,525
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £52,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +47.62% -16.00% +31.58%
75th Percentile £95,000 £60,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £99,000 £89,852 £86,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £52,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +33.33% -16.00% +31.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

RAD is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,917 96,578 150,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.59% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,883 56,844 82,330
10th Percentile £29,008 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,190 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.12% +1.98% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

RAD
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing RAD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for RAD in the UK

RAD
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing RAD.

Salary trend for RAD in the UK

RAD
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing RAD over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for RAD in the UK

RAD
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RAD within the UK over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -3 23 £77,500 +40.91% 10
London +85 15 £87,500 +8.98% 3
UK excluding London -115 8 £70,000 +33.33% 7
South East - 6 £70,000 - 1
Work from Home -77 5 £50,000 -4.76% 1
North of England -9 2 £62,500 +19.05% 2
North West -10 2 £62,500 +19.05% 2

RAD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.35%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 6 (26.09%) Cloud Computing
2 5 (21.74%) AWS
2 5 (21.74%) Azure
3 3 (13.04%) WhatsApp
4 2 (8.70%) GCP
4 2 (8.70%) GitHub
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.35%) ChatGPT
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Composer
5 1 (4.35%) Power Automate
5 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.35%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (34.78%) SQL Server
2 4 (17.39%) MongoDB
2 4 (17.39%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (13.04%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) GitLab
2 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.35%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (30.43%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (26.09%) Finance
2 6 (26.09%) Front Office
2 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Legal
4 2 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Law
5 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Developer
2 5 (21.74%) Project Manager
3 4 (17.39%) Analyst
3 4 (17.39%) Business Analyst
3 4 (17.39%) Lead
3 4 (17.39%) Lead Business Analyst
3 4 (17.39%) Python Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Manager
4 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 3 (13.04%) Java Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) .NET Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Applications Specialist
6 1 (4.35%) C# Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Database Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Development Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Senior .NET Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior C# Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Software Development Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) HTML
1 5 (21.74%) REST
2 4 (17.39%) .NET
2 4 (17.39%) AngularJS
2 4 (17.39%) CSS
2 4 (17.39%) FastAPI
2 4 (17.39%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (17.39%) Kafka
2 4 (17.39%) NumPy
2 4 (17.39%) Pandas
2 4 (17.39%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (17.39%) React
2 4 (17.39%) Spring
2 4 (17.39%) Spring Boot
3 3 (13.04%) ASP.NET
4 2 (8.70%) .NET Core
4 2 (8.70%) .NET Framework
5 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (4.35%) HTML5
5 1 (4.35%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Hedge funds
2 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.35%) Fixed Income
3 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Low-Code
3 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (34.78%) Linux
2 2 (8.70%) CentOS
2 2 (8.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (65.22%) Agile
2 9 (39.13%) Analytics
3 5 (21.74%) Full Stack Development
4 4 (17.39%) Analytical Thinking
4 4 (17.39%) Business Case
4 4 (17.39%) Continuous Delivery
4 4 (17.39%) Data Analytics
4 4 (17.39%) Migration
4 4 (17.39%) Pricing Analytics
4 4 (17.39%) Risk Management
4 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (17.39%) Use Case
4 4 (17.39%) Waterfall
5 3 (13.04%) Data Analysis
5 3 (13.04%) Econometrics
5 3 (13.04%) OO
5 3 (13.04%) Project Governance
5 3 (13.04%) Quantitative Finance
5 3 (13.04%) Statistics
5 3 (13.04%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) Python
2 7 (30.43%) SQL
3 4 (17.39%) C#
3 4 (17.39%) Clojure
3 4 (17.39%) Groovy
3 4 (17.39%) Java
3 4 (17.39%) Scala
4 1 (4.35%) Google Apps Script
4 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.35%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) SC Cleared
1 6 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 5 (21.74%) Degree
3 3 (13.04%) DV Cleared
4 2 (8.70%) PMI Certification
4 2 (8.70%) PMP
4 2 (8.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.35%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) MiFID
2 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.35%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) Grafana
2 1 (4.35%) MIIS
2 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
2 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Bloomberg
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
1 4 (17.39%) Reuters
2 2 (8.70%) Google
2 2 (8.70%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle