The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term PDA in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PDA over the 3 months to 20 June 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 England 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 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
Rank 491 502 526
Rank change year-on-year
+11 +24
Contract jobs citing PDA 39 59 59
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.089% 0.113% 0.103%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.323% 0.447% 0.358%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 17 20
Average daily rate £150 £204 £263
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-26.47% -22.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £140 £100
10% offered a daily rate of more than £277 £342 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £355 £301 £300
% change year-on-year
+18.13% +0.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 19 14
Average hourly rate £18.50 £13.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+37.03% -10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.95 £11.50 £11.42
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.00 £18.50 £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £11.50 £11.50
% change year-on-year
+52.17% -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
12060 13198 16484
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 27.42% 25.30% 28.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 7448 7869 10108
Average daily rate £430 £425 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.17% -19.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £610 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £330
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +4.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 526 620 646
Average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £22.63
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -0.55%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.84 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.00 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
PDA
UK

PDA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England PDA Daily Rate Trend

PDA
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PDA across the England region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

England PDA Daily Rate Histogram

PDA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England PDA Hourly Rate Trend

PDA
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PDA across the England region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

England PDA Hourly Rate Histogram

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 England region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
London +4 19 £150 -26.47% 5
South East +26 9 - - 4
South West +26 4 £120 -
Yorkshire +6 3 - - 2
West Midlands +4 2 £140 - 1
East of England - 1 - - 1
North West - - - - 2
PDA
UK

PDA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 41 (64.06%) Windows
2 29 (45.31%) Active Directory
3 27 (42.19%) Microsoft
3 27 (42.19%) MS Office
3 27 (42.19%) Blackberry
4 26 (40.63%) Windows 7
5 25 (39.06%) Windows XP
6 17 (26.56%) Citrix
6 17 (26.56%) TCP/IP
6 17 (26.56%) ITIL
7 12 (18.75%) VPN
8 11 (17.19%) MS Excel
8 11 (17.19%) Security Cleared
9 10 (15.63%) Windows Vista
9 10 (15.63%) Remedy
10 9 (14.06%) Internet
11 8 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (12.50%) Symantec
11 8 (12.50%) SC Cleared
12 7 (10.94%) Back Office
12 7 (10.94%) Service Management
12 7 (10.94%) Banking
12 7 (10.94%) Norton AntiVirus
12 7 (10.94%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (10.94%) Java
13 6 (9.375%) Finance
14 5 (7.813%) Wi-Fi
14 5 (7.813%) Incident Management
14 5 (7.813%) SAP
14 5 (7.813%) IBM Notes

PDA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 (1.563%) HTML
1 1 (1.563%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 5 (7.813%) IBM Notes
2 4 (6.250%) MS Exchange
3 1 (1.563%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (1.563%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (1.563%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.563%) IIS
Applications
1 27 (42.19%) MS Office
2 11 (17.19%) MS Excel
3 4 (6.250%) Acrobat
3 4 (6.250%) MS Visio
3 4 (6.250%) MS PowerPoint
4 2 (3.125%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 17 (26.56%) TCP/IP
2 12 (18.75%) VPN
3 9 (14.06%) Internet
4 5 (7.813%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (7.813%) Broadband
4 5 (7.813%) 3G
5 3 (4.688%) LAN
5 3 (4.688%) WAN
5 3 (4.688%) DNS
6 2 (3.125%) Wireless
7 1 (1.563%) DHCP
7 1 (1.563%) PSTN
7 1 (1.563%) ADSL
Development Applications
1 4 (6.250%) FrontPage
2 1 (1.563%) TestDirector
General
1 7 (10.94%) Back Office
1 7 (10.94%) Banking
2 6 (9.375%) Finance
3 2 (3.125%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.563%) Law
4 1 (1.563%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 21 (32.81%) Analyst
2 19 (29.69%) Support Engineer
2 19 (29.69%) Desktop Support
3 14 (21.88%) Support Analyst
3 14 (21.88%) 2nd Line Support
4 8 (12.50%) Desktop Analyst
4 8 (12.50%) Desktop Support Analyst
4 8 (12.50%) Desktop Engineer
5 7 (10.94%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 7 (10.94%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 6 (9.375%) IT Support
6 6 (9.375%) Service Analyst
6 6 (9.375%) Service Desk Analyst
7 5 (7.813%) IT Support Engineer
7 5 (7.813%) Support Manager
8 4 (6.250%) Incident Manager
9 3 (4.688%) Windows Support Analyst
9 3 (4.688%) Desktop Manager
9 3 (4.688%) Desktop Support Manager
9 3 (4.688%) Field Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 27 (42.19%) Blackberry
2 3 (4.688%) Mathematics
2 3 (4.688%) IVR
3 2 (3.125%) iPad
4 1 (1.563%) Mobile Computing
4 1 (1.563%) Smartphone
4 1 (1.563%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.563%) Robotics
4 1 (1.563%) Clustering
4 1 (1.563%) E-Learning
4 1 (1.563%) EPoS
4 1 (1.563%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 41 (64.06%) Windows
2 26 (40.63%) Windows 7
3 25 (39.06%) Windows XP
4 10 (15.63%) Windows Vista
5 4 (6.250%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (6.250%) Windows 2000
6 1 (1.563%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.563%) Windows Mobile
6 1 (1.563%) Android
6 1 (1.563%) Windows NT
6 1 (1.563%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (26.56%) ITIL
2 7 (10.94%) Service Management
3 5 (7.813%) Incident Management
4 2 (3.125%) Change Management
5 1 (1.563%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (1.563%) Asset Management
5 1 (1.563%) Logistics
5 1 (1.563%) Time Management
5 1 (1.563%) Test Scripting
5 1 (1.563%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (1.563%) PRINCE2
5 1 (1.563%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.94%) Java
2 4 (6.250%) SQL
2 4 (6.250%) Scala
3 1 (1.563%) C
Qualifications
1 11 (17.19%) Security Cleared
2 8 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.94%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (6.250%) MCSE
5 2 (3.125%) CCA
5 2 (3.125%) Citrix Certification
5 2 (3.125%) MCSA
5 2 (3.125%) Degree
6 1 (1.563%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.563%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.563%) MCP
6 1 (1.563%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.688%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (45.31%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.125%) XenApp
3 1 (1.563%) XenDesktop
3 1 (1.563%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.563%) VMware ESX
3 1 (1.563%) ISA Server
3 1 (1.563%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 7 (10.94%) Norton AntiVirus
2 4 (6.250%) OpenView Configuration Management
3 3 (4.688%) SCCM
4 2 (3.125%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (1.563%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (1.563%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (1.563%) Netcool
5 1 (1.563%) Unicenter
Vendors
1 27 (42.19%) Microsoft
2 17 (26.56%) Citrix
3 10 (15.63%) Remedy
4 8 (12.50%) Symantec
5 5 (7.813%) SAP
5 5 (7.813%) Adobe
5 5 (7.813%) HP
5 5 (7.813%) Lotus
6 4 (6.250%) Mitel
7 3 (4.688%) Dell
8 2 (3.125%) Reuters
8 2 (3.125%) Bloomberg
8 2 (3.125%) Compaq
9 1 (1.563%) Polycom
9 1 (1.563%) VMware
9 1 (1.563%) Cisco
9 1 (1.563%) CA
9 1 (1.563%) Novell
9 1 (1.563%) Veritas
9 1 (1.563%) CheckPoint
York, North Yorkshire
have a valid EU passport.* On a technical front the environment is predominantly Microsoft based and the successful candidate will have suitable knowledge of: - Microsoft Windows - Microsoft Office -...
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Rate: From £120 to £140 per day
Posted: 19 June 2013
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