Essex PDA Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) skills within the Essex region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited PDA over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
Location Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Cambridgeshire Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Derby Derbyshire Dorset Dudley East Midlands East of England England Essex Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Highlands Inverness Ipswich Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Potters Bar Reading Rotherham Scotland South East South West South Yorkshire Stafford Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Tyne and Wear UK Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Yorkshire Weybridge Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	55	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.578 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£309	£245
% change on same period last year	+26.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.25	£19.08
% change on same period last year	+16.65 %
Miscellaneous Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	173	92
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.231 %	0.093 %
Daily rates quoted	59	28
Average minimum daily rate	£304	£357
Average daily rate	£330	£369
% change on same period last year	-10.42 %
Average maximum daily rate	£357	£381
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£354
% change on same period last year	-0.56 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.99	£23.20
Average hourly rate	£28.49	£24.13
% change on same period last year	+18.08 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.99	£25.06
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.44	£29.20
% change on same period last year	-16.30 %
PDA East of England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing PDA across the Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 2 (66.67 %) Windows 1 2 (66.67 %) .NET 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2 1 (33.33 %) IIS 2 1 (33.33 %) MS Office 2 1 (33.33 %) C 2 1 (33.33 %) C# 2 1 (33.33 %) C++ 2 1 (33.33 %) N-Tier 2 1 (33.33 %) MS Visio 2 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (33.33 %) LAN 2 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 2 1 (33.33 %) Borland 2 1 (33.33 %) NHS

2 1 (33.33 %) iSOFT 2 1 (33.33 %) McAfee Security 2 1 (33.33 %) Electronics 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows Mobile 2 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (33.33 %) .NET Framework 2 1 (33.33 %) User Acceptance Testing

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 2 (66.67 %) .NET 2 1 (33.33 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) IIS 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2000 1 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Office 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005	General 1 1 (33.33 %) Electronics
Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Software Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Test Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Network Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) Support Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) Network Support Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) C++ Software Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) IT Support Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) Network Support 1 1 (33.33 %) C Software Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) N-Tier 1 1 (33.33 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows Mobile	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) C 1 1 (33.33 %) C# 1 1 (33.33 %) C++	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 1 1 (33.33 %) Borland 1 1 (33.33 %) iSOFT 1 1 (33.33 %) McAfee Security