Rapid Application Development (RAD)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for RAD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited RAD over the 6 months to 9 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 719 956 963
Rank change year-on-year +237 +7 -249
Permanent jobs citing RAD 10 122 107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.019% 0.100% 0.084%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.020% 0.10% 0.088%
Number of salaries quoted 8 90 43
10th Percentile £49,750 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £39,394 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,316 £69,375
90th Percentile - £90,000 £84,400
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% +25.00% -15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

RAD is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 49,044 117,345 121,929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 94.06% 95.75% 95.48%
Number of salaries quoted 35,534 71,933 82,211
10th Percentile £32,250 £34,605 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,519 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.90% +7.04% +3.63%

RAD
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for RAD in the UK

RAD
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing RAD.

Salary trend for RAD in the UK

RAD
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing RAD over the 6 months to 9 December 2023.

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 9 December 2023. 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 +250 9 £68,750 +25.00% 19
London +230 5 £85,000 +16.43% 8
Work from Home +194 5 £52,500 -4.55% 9
UK excluding London +173 4 £52,500 +5.00% 11
East of England +111 2 £52,500 -19.23% 5
South East - 2 £52,500 - 1

RAD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (40.00%) LibreOffice
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Composer
1 1 (10.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
General
1 4 (40.00%) Legal
1 4 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) C Developer
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
1 4 (40.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) JSON
1 4 (40.00%) Kafka
1 4 (40.00%) ODBC
1 4 (40.00%) WebSockets
1 4 (40.00%) XML
1 4 (40.00%) XSL
1 4 (40.00%) XSLT
1 4 (40.00%) X-Windows
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Agile
2 8 (80.00%) Project Management
3 4 (40.00%) Cost Control
3 4 (40.00%) Document Management
3 4 (40.00%) ITIL
3 4 (40.00%) Open Source
3 4 (40.00%) PRINCE2
3 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (40.00%) Supply Chain Management
4 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (10.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (10.00%) Data Security
4 1 (10.00%) ETL
4 1 (10.00%) IT Strategy
4 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (10.00%) Strategic Planning
4 1 (10.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (10.00%) Technology Strategy
4 1 (10.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) C
2 1 (10.00%) Google Apps Script
2 1 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) PMI Certification
1 4 (40.00%) PMP
1 4 (40.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Google
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft