PDA Contracts in Berkshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term PDA in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PDA over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Berkshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
Rank 114 136 -
Rank change year-on-year
+22 -
Contract jobs citing PDA 5 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.206% 0.033% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.082% 0.172% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £351 £125 £300
% change year-on-year
+181.00% -58.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
Average hourly rate £18.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.50 £11.50 £11.50
% change year-on-year
+60.86% -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 462 581 563
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 18.99% 18.96% 19.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 246 231
Average daily rate £388 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+19.23% -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £450 £473
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £343 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.18% +0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 31 33
Average hourly rate £18.00 £22.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-18.18% +29.41%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £14.48 £11.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £50.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £24.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year
-8.16% -9.25%
PDA
South East

PDA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing PDA across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Berkshire PDA Jobs Demand Trend

PDA
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing PDA across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire PDA Daily Rate Trend

PDA
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing PDA across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire PDA Hourly Rate Trend

PDA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PDA within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Reading - 5 - -
PDA
South East

PDA
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing PDA also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited PDA.

1 5 (83.33%) Blackberry
2 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) MS Office
3 2 (33.33%) Windows
3 2 (33.33%) Windows XP
3 2 (33.33%) VPN
3 2 (33.33%) Internet
4 1 (16.67%) C
4 1 (16.67%) Adobe
4 1 (16.67%) Windows 2000
4 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
4 1 (16.67%) CSS
4 1 (16.67%) MCP
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (16.67%) Acrobat
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (16.67%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (16.67%) Degree
4 1 (16.67%) Windows 7

PDA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing PDA also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited PDA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (16.67%) CSS
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MS Office
2 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
2 1 (16.67%) Acrobat
2 1 (16.67%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) VPN
1 2 (33.33%) Internet
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Desktop Support
2 4 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) 2nd Line Support
2 4 (66.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) Desktop Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) IT Support
3 2 (33.33%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Desktop Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Desktop Support Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Windows XP
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (16.67%) Windows 7
2 1 (16.67%) Windows 2000
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) MCP
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Adobe
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