PDA Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term PDA in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PDA over the 3 months to 24 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 City of London 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
Rank 199 215 243
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +28
Contract jobs citing PDA 4 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.063% 0.038% 0.020%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.198% 0.117% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 1
Average daily rate £183 £204 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.53% -29.65%
UK excluding London average daily rate £351 £238 £255
% change year-on-year
+47.89% -6.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £22.00 - £17.87
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £11.50 £11.44
% change year-on-year
+47.82% +0.52%
Search 1 PDA jobs in the City of London
All of the Miscellaneous Category
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 2018 2574 3936
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 31.64% 32.73% 40.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1496 1987 3043
Average daily rate £500 £500 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £298 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £650 £675
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 67 54
Average hourly rate £24.00 £21.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.62% +2.38%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £13.38 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £45.00 £44.03
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
PDA
London

PDA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London PDA Hourly Rate Trend

PDA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 6 (66.67%) Windows
2 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 5 (55.56%) Blackberry
3 4 (44.44%) Windows 7
3 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
3 4 (44.44%) ITIL
4 3 (33.33%) HP
4 3 (33.33%) MS Excel
5 2 (22.22%) Windows XP
5 2 (22.22%) Citrix
5 2 (22.22%) Reuters
5 2 (22.22%) Bloomberg
5 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (22.22%) Internet
5 2 (22.22%) MS Office
5 2 (22.22%) Law
6 1 (11.11%) Legal
6 1 (11.11%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (11.11%) IVR
6 1 (11.11%) Mitel
6 1 (11.11%) MS PowerPoint
6 1 (11.11%) FrontPage
6 1 (11.11%) Smartphone
6 1 (11.11%) Incident Management
6 1 (11.11%) Degree
6 1 (11.11%) Windows Vista
6 1 (11.11%) SCCM
6 1 (11.11%) Time Management
6 1 (11.11%) CTC Cleared

PDA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 1 (11.11%) MS Exchange
1 1 (11.11%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (33.33%) MS Excel
2 2 (22.22%) MS Office
3 1 (11.11%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (11.11%) Acrobat
3 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
3 1 (11.11%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Internet
2 1 (11.11%) WAN
2 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) FrontPage
1 1 (11.11%) MSI
General
1 2 (22.22%) Law
2 1 (11.11%) Legal
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Service Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Support Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Field Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Service Desk Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Incident Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Service Support Manager
2 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (11.11%) Field Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Support Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Blackberry
2 1 (11.11%) IVR
2 1 (11.11%) Smartphone
2 1 (11.11%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Windows
2 4 (44.44%) Windows 7
3 2 (22.22%) Windows XP
3 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Vista
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (11.11%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) ITIL
2 1 (11.11%) Incident Management
2 1 (11.11%) Time Management
2 1 (11.11%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Scala
1 1 (11.11%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (11.11%) CCA
2 1 (11.11%) Citrix Certification
2 1 (11.11%) MCP
2 1 (11.11%) MCSE
2 1 (11.11%) MCSA
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (11.11%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) SCCM
1 1 (11.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 1 (11.11%) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) HP
3 2 (22.22%) Citrix
3 2 (22.22%) Reuters
3 2 (22.22%) Bloomberg
4 1 (11.11%) Mitel
4 1 (11.11%) Novell
4 1 (11.11%) Remedy
4 1 (11.11%) Dell
4 1 (11.11%) Adobe
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