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 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 900 801 1140
Rank change year-on-year -99 +339 -228
Permanent jobs citing RAD 22 144 141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% 0.15% 0.082%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.024% 0.16% 0.086%
Number of salaries quoted 17 131 115
10th Percentile £47,500 - £42,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £46,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £52,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -16.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £95,000 £60,000 £70,624
90th Percentile £111,000 - £82,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £52,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +33.33% -16.00% +28.21%

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 89,994 88,841 164,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.98% 95.43% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 62,089 53,798 83,455
10th Percentile £29,500 £33,848 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 June 2024.

Salary histogram for RAD in the UK

RAD
Top 8 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 June 2024. 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 -56 22 £75,000 +42.86% 10
London +53 13 £90,000 -13.46% 3
UK excluding London -169 9 £70,000 +33.33% 7
South East - 6 £70,000 - 2
Work from Home -74 4 £50,000 -4.76% 2
North West -21 2 £62,500 +19.05% 2
North of England -32 2 £62,500 +19.05% 2
South West - 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 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.55%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 6 (27.27%) AWS
1 6 (27.27%) Cloud Computing
2 5 (22.73%) Azure
3 4 (18.18%) WhatsApp
4 2 (9.09%) GitHub
5 1 (4.55%) Azure AI
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.55%) ChatGPT
5 1 (4.55%) GCP
5 1 (4.55%) Google Gemini
5 1 (4.55%) Power Automate
5 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.55%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (22.73%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (40.91%) SQL Server
2 5 (22.73%) MongoDB
2 5 (22.73%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Git
1 2 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.55%) Cucumber
2 1 (4.55%) GitLab
2 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.55%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (4.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (31.82%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (31.82%) Finance
1 7 (31.82%) Front Office
2 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.55%) Law
3 1 (4.55%) Legal
3 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Developer
2 5 (22.73%) Python Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Analyst
3 4 (18.18%) Business Analyst
3 4 (18.18%) Lead
3 4 (18.18%) Lead Business Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Manager
4 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 3 (13.64%) Java Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Project Manager
5 2 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior
6 1 (4.55%) .NET Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Specialist
6 1 (4.55%) C# Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Database Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Gen AI Specialist
6 1 (4.55%) Power Apps Specialist
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Software Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) HTML
1 6 (27.27%) REST
1 6 (27.27%) Spring
1 6 (27.27%) Spring Boot
2 5 (22.73%) AngularJS
2 5 (22.73%) CSS
2 5 (22.73%) FastAPI
2 5 (22.73%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (22.73%) Kafka
2 5 (22.73%) NumPy
2 5 (22.73%) Pandas
2 5 (22.73%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (22.73%) React
3 4 (18.18%) .NET
4 3 (13.64%) ASP.NET
5 2 (9.09%) .NET Core
5 2 (9.09%) .NET Framework
6 1 (4.55%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (4.55%) HTML5
6 1 (4.55%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Hedge funds
2 2 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.55%) Fixed Income
3 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Low-Code
3 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (40.91%) Linux
2 2 (9.09%) CentOS
2 2 (9.09%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (63.64%) Agile
2 10 (45.45%) Analytics
3 7 (31.82%) Full Stack Development
4 5 (22.73%) Continuous Delivery
4 5 (22.73%) Data Analytics
4 5 (22.73%) Migration
4 5 (22.73%) OO
4 5 (22.73%) Risk Management
5 4 (18.18%) Analytical Thinking
5 4 (18.18%) Business Case
5 4 (18.18%) Data Analysis
5 4 (18.18%) Econometrics
5 4 (18.18%) Pricing Analytics
5 4 (18.18%) Quantitative Finance
5 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (18.18%) Statistics
5 4 (18.18%) Use Case
5 4 (18.18%) Waterfall
6 3 (13.64%) Decision-Making
6 3 (13.64%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) Python
1 8 (36.36%) SQL
2 6 (27.27%) Java
3 5 (22.73%) Clojure
3 5 (22.73%) Groovy
3 5 (22.73%) Scala
4 4 (18.18%) C#
5 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.55%) Kotlin
5 1 (4.55%) PL/SQL
5 1 (4.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) Degree
2 6 (27.27%) SC Cleared
2 6 (27.27%) Security Cleared
3 3 (13.64%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.55%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Grafana
2 1 (4.55%) MIIS
2 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
2 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Bloomberg
1 5 (22.73%) Reuters
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.09%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.55%) Google
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle
4 1 (4.55%) YouTube