RAD Contract Job Trends in England

Rapid Application Development (RAD)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring RAD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 507 514 562
Rank change year-on-year +7 +48 +151
Contract jobs citing RAD 12 5 19
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.041% 0.016% 0.048%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.045% 0.019% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 17
10th Percentile £289 £635 £403
25th Percentile £463 £688 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £800 £575
Median % change year-on-year -40.63% +39.13% -17.86%
75th Percentile £488 £838 £675
90th Percentile £673 £845 -
UK median daily rate £475 £800 £575
% change year-on-year -40.63% +39.13% -17.86%

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 26,674 26,919 35,011
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.55% 86.57% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,953 16,411 24,057
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,726 969 1,471
10th Percentile £14.72 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.81 £20.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -15.73% +27.14%
75th Percentile £45.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £74.45 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +26.43%

RAD
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing RAD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

RAD job vacancy trend in England

RAD
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RAD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RAD

RAD
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RAD in England over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for RAD in England

RAD
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RAD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RAD

RAD
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 6 November 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 -1 10 £475 -40.63% 7
South East - 2 £285 - 5
RAD
UK

RAD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) JBoss
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (16.67%) GitHub
1 2 (16.67%) IaaS
1 2 (16.67%) PaaS
1 2 (16.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
1 2 (16.67%) IntelliJ
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
1 2 (16.67%) JUnit
General
1 10 (83.33%) Banking
1 10 (83.33%) Finance
2 6 (50.00%) Front Office
3 2 (16.67%) General Ledger
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
4 1 (8.33%) Investment Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Retail
4 1 (8.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Developer
1 6 (50.00%) Python Developer
1 6 (50.00%) RAD Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Lead
3 2 (16.67%) Head of Technology
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Leader
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) NumPy
1 7 (58.33%) Pandas
2 6 (50.00%) COM
2 6 (50.00%) REST
3 2 (16.67%) Middleware
3 2 (16.67%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (16.67%) Spring
3 2 (16.67%) XML
3 2 (16.67%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (50.00%) Equities
2 6 (50.00%) Hedge funds
3 2 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (16.67%) Virtual Team
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (8.33%) Blockchain
4 1 (8.33%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Prototyping
1 7 (58.33%) Rapid Prototyping
2 6 (50.00%) Analytics
2 6 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 6 (50.00%) Pricing Analytics
2 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 5 (41.67%) Agile
4 3 (25.00%) ETL
5 2 (16.67%) BPEL
5 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 2 (16.67%) Data Integration
5 2 (16.67%) ERP
5 2 (16.67%) SOA
5 2 (16.67%) Software Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (16.67%) TDD
5 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 2 (16.67%) UML
5 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) SQL
2 7 (58.33%) Python
3 6 (50.00%) VBA
4 2 (16.67%) Java
4 2 (16.67%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) GAAP
2 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Control-M
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) IBM
1 2 (16.67%) Informatica
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle
1 2 (16.67%) Red Hat
1 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow
1 2 (16.67%) Splunk