RAD Contracts in the South East

Rapid Application Development (RAD)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 - 210
Rank change year-on-year - - +54
Contract jobs citing RAD 1 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.034% - 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.037% - 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £406
25th Percentile - - £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £290 - £543
Median % change year-on-year - - -18.42%
75th Percentile - - £569
90th Percentile - - £570
England median daily rate £725 £600 £675
% change year-on-year +20.83% -11.11% -7.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,716 4,624 5,070
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.32% 84.35% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,732 2,697 3,519
10th Percentile £250 £250 £248
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £619
90th Percentile £665 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 223
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.00 £16.37
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.20 £22.16
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -3.06% +127.91%
75th Percentile £62.37 £62.50 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £29.00 £36.50 £37.34
% change year-on-year -20.55% -2.25% +49.36%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing RAD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for RAD in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RAD in the South East.

Daily rate trend for RAD in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing RAD in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for RAD in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RAD within the South East region over the 6 months to 14 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
West Sussex - 1 £290 - 2
RAD
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk