Glasgow PDA Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) skills within the Glasgow 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 Glasgow 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	-	67
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	1.333 %
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 Glasgow
Matching contract IT job ads	100	150
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.133 %	0.152 %
Daily rates quoted	31	44
Average minimum daily rate	£328	£301
Average daily rate	£352	£316
% change on same period last year	+11.54 %
Average maximum daily rate	£376	£330
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£354
% change on same period last year	-0.56 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.50	£18.81
Average hourly rate	£20.65	£20.56
% change on same period last year	+0.45 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.80	£22.31
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.44	£29.20
% change on same period last year	-16.30 %
PDA Scotland

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 Glasgow 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 Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

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Top 2 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 1 (100.00 %) Microsoft 1 1 (100.00 %) Blackberry

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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.

Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Support Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (100.00 %) Blackberry
Vendors 1 1 (100.00 %) Microsoft