The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term PDA in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PDA over the 3 months to 17 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 Buckinghamshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
Rank 64 71 74
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +3
Contract jobs citing PDA 1 4 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 0.127% 0.394% 0.094%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.758% 1.660% 0.481%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £100
UK excluding London average daily rate £351 £125 £300
% change year-on-year
+181.00% -58.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.50 £11.50 £11.50
% change year-on-year
+60.86% -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
132 241 208
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 16.75% 23.72% 19.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 85 68
Average daily rate £350 £338 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% +5.46%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £163 £251 £222
10% offered a daily rate of more than £493 £475 £444
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 17 21
Average hourly rate £17.50 £15.00 £16.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -10.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.20 £10.48 £13.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £35.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
PDA
South East

PDA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Milton Keynes +9 1 - -
PDA
South East

PDA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 12 (100.00%) MS Office
1 12 (100.00%) Windows
1 12 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 12 (100.00%) Remedy
2 11 (91.67%) Windows Vista
2 11 (91.67%) Microsoft
2 11 (91.67%) Active Directory
2 11 (91.67%) Windows 7
3 10 (83.33%) ITIL Certification
3 10 (83.33%) Lotus
3 10 (83.33%) 3G
3 10 (83.33%) Broadband
3 10 (83.33%) TCP/IP
3 10 (83.33%) VPN
3 10 (83.33%) Lotus Notes
3 10 (83.33%) SAP
3 10 (83.33%) ITIL
3 10 (83.33%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (50.00%) Marketing
5 3 (25.00%) Mathematics
5 3 (25.00%) SQL
5 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (8.333%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (8.333%) Blackberry
6 1 (8.333%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (8.333%) Incident Management
6 1 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2003
6 1 (8.333%) Finance
6 1 (8.333%) CA
6 1 (8.333%) Unicenter

PDA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 Platforms
1 10 (83.33%) Lotus Notes
2 1 (8.333%) MS Exchange
2 1 (8.333%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 12 (100.00%) MS Office
2 1 (8.333%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (83.33%) Broadband
1 10 (83.33%) TCP/IP
1 10 (83.33%) VPN
1 10 (83.33%) 3G
1 10 (83.33%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (8.333%) Internet
General
1 6 (50.00%) Marketing
2 1 (8.333%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (100.00%) Analyst
2 9 (75.00%) Service Desk Analyst
2 9 (75.00%) Service Analyst
3 4 (33.33%) Support Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (16.67%) Applications Support
5 1 (8.333%) 1st Line Support Analyst
5 1 (8.333%) Service Desk Engineer
5 1 (8.333%) Help Desk Analyst
5 1 (8.333%) 1st Line Support
5 1 (8.333%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (8.333%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Windows
1 12 (100.00%) Windows XP
2 11 (91.67%) Windows Vista
2 11 (91.67%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) ITIL
2 1 (8.333%) Incident Management
2 1 (8.333%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (83.33%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 11 (91.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (8.333%) Unicenter
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Remedy
2 11 (91.67%) Microsoft
3 10 (83.33%) SAP
3 10 (83.33%) Lotus
4 1 (8.333%) CA