RAD Contracts in England

Rapid Application Development (RAD)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring RAD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited RAD over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 481 500 643
Rank change year-on-year +19 +143 +110
Contract jobs citing RAD 5 41 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.020% 0.11% 0.060%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.022% 0.13% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 37 27
10th Percentile £719 £483 £433
25th Percentile £728 £525 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £763 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year +27.08% -11.11% -7.94%
75th Percentile £803 £675 £738
90th Percentile £816 £712 £743
UK median daily rate £763 £600 £675
% change year-on-year +27.08% -11.11% -3.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

RAD falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,247 32,161 45,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.13% 86.56% 90.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,550 21,078 31,861
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £768
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 916 2,252 1,585
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.93 £10.91
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

RAD
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for RAD in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RAD in England.

Daily rate trend for RAD in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing RAD in England.

Hourly rate trend for RAD in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RAD within the England region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +18 5 £763 +27.08% 8
RAD
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (80.00%) Banking
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
1 4 (80.00%) Front Office
2 3 (60.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Python Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Front Office Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Quantitative Developer
3 1 (20.00%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Spread Betting
2 1 (20.00%) Fixed Income
2 1 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) OO
1 2 (40.00%) OOP
1 2 (40.00%) PnL Attribution
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (20.00%) Greeks
2 1 (20.00%) Microservices
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Quantitative Research
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) SOLID
2 1 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) C#
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) C++
3 2 (40.00%) Java
3 2 (40.00%) VBA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle