RAD Contracts in England

Rapid Application Development (RAD)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for RAD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited RAD over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 501 615 738
Rank change year-on-year +114 +123 -134
Contract jobs citing RAD 40 30 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.061% 0.044%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.068% 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 27 15
10th Percentile £483 £433 £475
25th Percentile £524 £534 £601
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £729
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -7.41% +29.60%
75th Percentile £670 £738 £772
90th Percentile £712 £743 £793
UK median daily rate £600 £675 £683
% change year-on-year -11.11% -1.10% +24.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,610 44,349 64,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.47% 90.16% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,692 31,129 45,727
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £446 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £764 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,241 1,561 1,760
10th Percentile £12.87 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% +49.36% +6.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

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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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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RAD in England over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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 13 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +92 28 £600 -11.11% 3
Yorkshire - 12 £508 -
North of England - 12 £508 - 2
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UK

RAD
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 6 (15.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (22.50%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 12 (30.00%) Akamai
1 12 (30.00%) Cloudflare
2 11 (27.50%) Azure
3 5 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.50%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.50%) Firewall
1 5 (12.50%) Network Security
1 5 (12.50%) Wireshark
2 3 (7.50%) DNS
3 1 (2.50%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.50%) MS Access
2 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
General
1 26 (65.00%) Finance
2 18 (45.00%) Banking
3 17 (42.50%) Front Office
4 15 (37.50%) Investment Banking
5 9 (22.50%) Financial Institution
5 9 (22.50%) Retail
5 9 (22.50%) Social Skills
6 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (52.50%) Developer
2 16 (40.00%) Java Developer
3 14 (35.00%) Front Office Developer
3 14 (35.00%) Investment Banking Java Developer
4 6 (15.00%) Architect
4 6 (15.00%) Enterprise Architect
4 6 (15.00%) Enterprise Security Architect
4 6 (15.00%) Security Architect
5 5 (12.50%) Business Analyst
5 5 (12.50%) Project Manager
6 4 (10.00%) RAD Developer
7 3 (7.50%) C# Developer
7 3 (7.50%) Consultant
7 3 (7.50%) Cybersecurity Manager
7 3 (7.50%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
7 3 (7.50%) Security Manager
7 3 (7.50%) Security Project Manager
8 2 (5.00%) C# Developer - Investment Banking
8 2 (5.00%) Front Office RAD Developer
9 1 (2.50%) Tactical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.00%) Apache Camel
2 3 (7.50%) .NET
3 2 (5.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.50%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.50%) CSS
4 1 (2.50%) FastAPI
4 1 (2.50%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (2.50%) HTML
4 1 (2.50%) Kafka
4 1 (2.50%) NumPy
4 1 (2.50%) Pandas
4 1 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (2.50%) React
4 1 (2.50%) REST
4 1 (2.50%) Spring
4 1 (2.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 15 (37.50%) Derivative
2 14 (35.00%) Equity Derivative
3 3 (7.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (5.00%) Equities
4 2 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.50%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.50%) Hedge funds
5 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.50%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 10 (25.00%) Linux
2 9 (22.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (30.00%) Agile
2 11 (27.50%) Migration
3 9 (22.50%) Data Modelling
3 9 (22.50%) DSDM
3 9 (22.50%) SSADM
3 9 (22.50%) UML
3 9 (22.50%) Waterfall
4 8 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 8 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 8 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 8 (20.00%) Data Migration
5 7 (17.50%) Requirements Gathering
6 5 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (12.50%) DevOps
7 3 (7.50%) OWASP
7 3 (7.50%) Risk Management
8 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (5.00%) Mentoring
8 2 (5.00%) Project Delivery
8 2 (5.00%) Quantitative Research
Programming Languages
1 24 (60.00%) Java
2 14 (35.00%) SQL
3 6 (15.00%) Python
3 6 (15.00%) VBA
4 5 (12.50%) C#
5 4 (10.00%) C++
6 1 (2.50%) Clojure
6 1 (2.50%) Groovy
6 1 (2.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (7.50%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (5.00%) CCNP
3 1 (2.50%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) MiFID
Systems Management
1 2 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (30.00%) F5
2 9 (22.50%) IBM
3 7 (17.50%) Microsoft
4 3 (7.50%) Oracle
5 1 (2.50%) Bloomberg
5 1 (2.50%) Reuters