Rapid Application Development (RAD)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring RAD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited RAD over the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 676 879 812
Rank change year-on-year +203 -67 +293
Permanent jobs citing RAD 24 23 161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.023% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.047% 0.027% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 14 20 144
10th Percentile £43,625 £47,375 -
25th Percentile £46,563 £62,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +47.62% -16.00%
75th Percentile £79,688 £95,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £105,600 £99,000 £89,852
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £70,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -28.57% +33.33% -16.00%

All Process and 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 51,147 84,812 96,895
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.75% 85.58% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 26,984 59,843 56,946
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £98,474 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 10 May 2025.

Salary histogram for RAD in the UK

RAD
Top 9 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 10 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +147 22 £61,250 -20.97% 25
UK excluding London +182 12 £50,000 -28.57% 18
London +102 10 £95,000 +8.57% 8
Work from Home +149 6 £108,000 +116.00% 11
North of England +63 6 £47,500 -24.00% 6
North West +17 6 £47,500 -24.00% 5
East of England - 3 £77,500 -
South West - 2 £72,500 - 1
South East +94 1 £47,500 -32.14% 9

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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (29.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (41.67%) AWS
1 10 (41.67%) Azure
2 3 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (12.50%) OpenShift
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.17%) SaaS
3 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (29.17%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (29.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 7 (29.17%) Jenkins
1 7 (29.17%) JIRA
2 5 (20.83%) AppScan
2 5 (20.83%) SonarQube
3 4 (16.67%) Git
4 3 (12.50%) Artifactory
4 3 (12.50%) GitLab
4 3 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (8.33%) Maven
General
1 6 (25.00%) Finance
2 4 (16.67%) Banking
3 3 (12.50%) Front Office
4 2 (8.33%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Developer
2 6 (25.00%) C# Developer
3 5 (20.83%) .NET Developer
3 5 (20.83%) .NET Software Developer
3 5 (20.83%) C# .NET Developer
3 5 (20.83%) C# Software Developer
3 5 (20.83%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) Software Developer
4 3 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Environment And Release Manager
4 3 (12.50%) Environment Manager
4 3 (12.50%) Front Office Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Release Manager
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Real Time Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (29.17%) .NET
1 7 (29.17%) .NET Framework
2 5 (20.83%) .NET Core
2 5 (20.83%) ASP.NET
3 2 (8.33%) Android Jetpack
3 2 (8.33%) Drools
3 2 (8.33%) Jetpack Compose
3 2 (8.33%) React
3 2 (8.33%) XML
4 1 (4.17%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Management Information System
2 6 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (20.83%) Data Structures
4 4 (16.67%) Algorithms
5 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (8.33%) Public Cloud
6 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
6 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 6 (25.00%) Linux
2 3 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (8.33%) Android
4 1 (4.17%) CentOS
4 1 (4.17%) Ubuntu
4 1 (4.17%) Windows
4 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
4 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) DevOps
2 11 (45.83%) Agile
3 7 (29.17%) Application Security
3 7 (29.17%) CI/CD
3 7 (29.17%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (29.17%) Design Patterns
3 7 (29.17%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 7 (29.17%) Static Application Security Testing
4 5 (20.83%) Containerisation
4 5 (20.83%) Software Engineering
5 4 (16.67%) Open Source
5 4 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 3 (12.50%) DevSecOps
6 3 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
7 2 (8.33%) Automated Trading
7 2 (8.33%) Customer Requirements
7 2 (8.33%) Front End Development
7 2 (8.33%) Pricing Strategy
7 2 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 9 (37.50%) SQL
2 7 (29.17%) C#
2 7 (29.17%) Python
3 4 (16.67%) Java
4 3 (12.50%) Bash
5 2 (8.33%) C++
5 2 (8.33%) Go
5 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.33%) Kotlin
5 2 (8.33%) T-SQL
5 2 (8.33%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.17%) F#
6 1 (4.17%) Haskell
6 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (29.17%) Degree
2 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 8 (33.33%) Ansible
3 7 (29.17%) Progress Chef
3 7 (29.17%) Puppet
4 3 (12.50%) Rancher
5 1 (4.17%) Nessus
5 1 (4.17%) Terraform
5 1 (4.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.83%) Atlassian
3 2 (8.33%) Oracle
4 1 (4.17%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.17%) VMware