PDA Contracts in Central London

Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PDA in contract job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PDA over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PDA 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.13% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.41% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £165 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £170 - -
75th Percentile £175 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £273 - £165
% change year-on-year - - -67.00%

All Generic Skills
Central London

PDA falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 732 980 1,846
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 31.32% 32.44% 38.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 468 644 1,158
10th Percentile £362 £325 £363
25th Percentile £463 £480 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £600 £576
Median % change year-on-year -2.92% +4.12% -3.96%
75th Percentile £711 £725 £725
90th Percentile £838 £829 £825
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 13 33
10th Percentile £25.72 £17.00 £18.55
25th Percentile £26.20 £18.93 £20.25
Median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% -30.69% +44.29%
75th Percentile £59.75 £46.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.40 £65.60 £81.95
London median hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year +16.67% +13.21% -18.46%

PDA
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing PDA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for PDA in Central London

PDA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PDA in Central London.

Daily rate trend for PDA in Central London

PDA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PDA in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for PDA in Central London

PDA
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PDA within the Central London region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London - 3 £170 -
PDA
London

PDA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) BigQuery
1 1 (33.33%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (66.67%) Legal
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Deskside Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Deskside Support
1 2 (66.67%) Deskside Support Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Desktop Support
1 2 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) ebXML
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (33.33%) Kanban
1 1 (33.33%) Line Management
1 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Product Backlog
1 1 (33.33%) Scrum
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
1 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
1 1 (33.33%) User Stories
1 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes