RAD Contracts in London

Rapid Application Development (RAD)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 348 362 469
Rank change year-on-year +14 +107 +108
Contract jobs citing RAD 5 29 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.040% 0.16% 0.089%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.043% 0.18% 0.097%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 25 21
10th Percentile £719 - £475
25th Percentile £728 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £763 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year +27.08% -11.11% -12.90%
75th Percentile £803 £685 £738
90th Percentile £816 £721 £750
England median daily rate £763 £600 £675
% change year-on-year +27.08% -11.11% -7.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for RAD in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for RAD in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for RAD in London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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