RAD Contract Job Trends in London

Rapid Application Development (RAD)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London 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 369 368 410
Rank change year-on-year -1 +42 +127
Contract jobs citing RAD 10 5 13
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.073% 0.032% 0.065%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.078% 0.036% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 11
10th Percentile - £635 £405
25th Percentile £463 £688 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £800 £650
Median % change year-on-year -40.63% +23.08% -7.14%
75th Percentile £534 £838 £675
90th Percentile £673 £845 -
England median daily rate £475 £800 £575
% change year-on-year -40.63% +39.13% -17.86%

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 12,740 13,914 18,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.46% 89.10% 89.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,386 8,952 13,004
10th Percentile £331 £350 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £799 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 165 235
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.35 £18.50
25th Percentile £25.01 £25.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £38.07 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.20% +0.18% +1.33%
75th Percentile £46.88 £58.75 £62.75
90th Percentile £64.90 £80.45 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.93% -15.73% +27.14%

RAD
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

RAD job vacancy trend in London

RAD
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing RAD

RAD
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for RAD in London

RAD
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing RAD

RAD
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RAD within the London 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
Central London - 1 - - 2
RAD
England

RAD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (20.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) IaaS
1 2 (20.00%) PaaS
1 2 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 10 (100.00%) Banking
1 10 (100.00%) Finance
2 6 (60.00%) Front Office
3 2 (20.00%) General Ledger
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Retail
4 1 (10.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Developer
1 6 (60.00%) Python Developer
1 6 (60.00%) RAD Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Head of Technology
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) NumPy
1 7 (70.00%) Pandas
2 6 (60.00%) COM
2 6 (60.00%) REST
3 2 (20.00%) Middleware
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (20.00%) XML
3 2 (20.00%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (60.00%) Equities
2 6 (60.00%) Hedge funds
3 2 (20.00%) Virtual Team
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (10.00%) Blockchain
4 1 (10.00%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Prototyping
1 7 (70.00%) Rapid Prototyping
2 6 (60.00%) Analytics
2 6 (60.00%) Data Analysis
2 6 (60.00%) Pricing Analytics
2 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (60.00%) Risk Management
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) ETL
4 2 (20.00%) BPEL
4 2 (20.00%) Data Integration
4 2 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (20.00%) ERP
4 2 (20.00%) Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (20.00%) SOA
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (20.00%) UML
4 2 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) SQL
2 7 (70.00%) Python
3 6 (60.00%) VBA
4 2 (20.00%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) GAAP
2 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) IBM
1 2 (20.00%) Informatica
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle
1 2 (20.00%) ServiceNow