RAD Job Trends

Rapid Application Development (RAD)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring RAD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 627 661 703
Rank change year-on-year +34 +42 +229
Permanent jobs citing RAD 22 50 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.036% 0.093% 0.018%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.045% 0.10% 0.020%
Number of salaries quoted 22 24 9
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,625 £50,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -30.00% +39.53%
75th Percentile £55,000 £79,063 £85,000
90th Percentile - £117,625 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

RAD falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,808 48,616 49,870
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.95% 90.71% 89.93%
Number of salaries quoted 28,796 23,669 37,967
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £51,971
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.83% -5.51%

RAD
Job Vacancy Trend

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

RAD job vacancy trend in the UK

RAD
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing RAD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing RAD

RAD
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing RAD over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for RAD in the UK

RAD
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RAD within the UK over the 6 months to 15 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +33 22 £50,000 - 5
UK excluding London +33 19 £50,000 - 4
North West +28 19 £50,000 - 1
North of England +18 19 £50,000 - 1
London +40 3 £29,000 -74.22% 3
Work from Home +51 2 £29,000 -74.22% 7

RAD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 19 (86.36%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (86.36%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Synon
General
1 3 (13.64%) Finance
2 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 21 (95.45%) Developer
2 20 (90.91%) Software Developer
3 10 (45.45%) Lead
4 9 (40.91%) Lead Developer
4 9 (40.91%) Lead Software Developer
5 6 (27.27%) Senior
5 6 (27.27%) Senior Developer
5 6 (27.27%) Senior Software Developer
6 4 (18.18%) .NET Developer
6 4 (18.18%) .NET Software Developer
6 4 (18.18%) C# .NET Developer
6 4 (18.18%) C# Developer
6 4 (18.18%) C# Software Developer
7 2 (9.09%) Graduate
7 2 (9.09%) Graduate Developer
8 1 (4.55%) Graduate Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (90.91%) .NET
2 19 (86.36%) .NET Core
2 19 (86.36%) .NET Framework
2 19 (86.36%) ASP.NET
3 2 (9.09%) Node.js
3 2 (9.09%) React
4 1 (4.55%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Linux
1 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (95.45%) Agile
2 4 (18.18%) Line Management
3 2 (9.09%) Computer Science
3 2 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (9.09%) Software Engineering
4 1 (4.55%) Algorithmic Trading
4 1 (4.55%) Analytics
4 1 (4.55%) Backtesting
4 1 (4.55%) Code Quality
4 1 (4.55%) DevOps
4 1 (4.55%) Electronic Trading
4 1 (4.55%) Low Latency
4 1 (4.55%) Market Making
4 1 (4.55%) Multithreading
4 1 (4.55%) OO
4 1 (4.55%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 20 (90.91%) C#
2 19 (86.36%) SQL
3 3 (13.64%) Java
4 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 2 (9.09%) RPG
5 1 (4.55%) C++
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) QA
Vendors
1 19 (86.36%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) IBM