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This section looks at the demand for Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) skills within the Kent region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited PDA over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkPersonal Digital Assistant (PDA)
Location
3 months to 8 Jul 2008Same period last year
Rank4553
Rank change on same period last yearUp+8
Matching contract IT job ads31
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.004 %0.001 %
As % of the category below3.488 %0.990 %
Daily rates quoted00
Average minimum daily rate--
Average daily rate--
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum daily rate--
UK excluding London average daily rate£361£236
% change on same period last year+52.92 %
Hourly rates quoted11
Average minimum hourly rate£15.00£20.00
Average hourly rate£17.50£21.50
% change on same period last year-18.60 %
Average maximum hourly rate£20.00£23.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£23.14£18.17
% change on same period last year+27.32 %
Miscellaneous KentMiscellaneous
Kent
Matching contract IT job ads86101
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.113 %0.106 %
Daily rates quoted2521
Average minimum daily rate£308£330
Average daily rate£324£354
% change on same period last year-8.46 %
Average maximum daily rate£340£378
UK excluding London average daily rate£361£351
% change on same period last year+3.09 %
Hourly rates quoted1221
Average minimum hourly rate£19.53£31.58
Average hourly rate£20.82£36.48
% change on same period last year-42.91 %
Average maximum hourly rate£22.12£41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate£24.27£28.61
% change on same period last year-15.17 %
PDA South EastPDA
South East

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.

PDA
Demand Trend

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

Kent PDA Demand Trend

PDA
Daily Rate Trend

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

Kent PDA Daily Rate Trend

PDA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Kent PDA Hourly Rate Trend

PDA
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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.

13 (100.00 %)MS Office
22 (66.67 %)Windows NT
22 (66.67 %)MS Exchange
22 (66.67 %)VPN
22 (66.67 %)SSL
22 (66.67 %)Microsoft
22 (66.67 %)Blackberry
31 (33.33 %)Service Delivery
31 (33.33 %)Government
31 (33.33 %)Local Government
31 (33.33 %)Exchange Server 5.5
31 (33.33 %)Exchange Server 2000
31 (33.33 %)Exchange Server 2003
31 (33.33 %)Active Directory
31 (33.33 %)Windows

PDA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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
12 (66.67 %)MS Exchange
21 (33.33 %)Exchange Server 5.5
21 (33.33 %)Exchange Server 2000
21 (33.33 %)Exchange Server 2003
Applications
13 (100.00 %)MS Office
Communications & Networking
12 (66.67 %)VPN
12 (66.67 %)SSL
General
11 (33.33 %)Government
11 (33.33 %)Local Government
Job Titles
11 (33.33 %)Analyst
11 (33.33 %)Server Support
11 (33.33 %)Support Analyst
11 (33.33 %)Support Engineer
11 (33.33 %)IT Support Analyst
11 (33.33 %)Server Engineer
11 (33.33 %)Server Support Engineer
11 (33.33 %)Windows Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
12 (66.67 %)Blackberry
Operating Systems
12 (66.67 %)Windows NT
21 (33.33 %)Windows
Processes & Methodologies
11 (33.33 %)Service Delivery
System Software
11 (33.33 %)Active Directory
Vendors
12 (66.67 %)Microsoft
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