PDA Contracts in London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term PDA in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PDA over the 3 months to 17 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 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
Rank 373 376 415
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +39
Contract jobs citing PDA 12 30 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.056% 0.112% 0.070%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.168% 0.350% 0.186%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 9
Average daily rate £150 £204 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-26.47% +2.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £147 £142 £129
10% offered a daily rate of more than £268 £340 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £351 £125 £300
% change year-on-year
+181.00% -58.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 8
Average hourly rate £22.00 £14.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+51.72% -3.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.50 £11.50 £11.50
% change year-on-year
+60.86% -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 7160 8579 11824
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 33.16% 32.03% 37.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4979 5832 7989
Average daily rate £475 £475 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -13.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £283 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 205 199
Average hourly rate £23.50 £22.50 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.44% +9.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £13.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £52.50 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
PDA
England

PDA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London 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 London region.

London PDA Hourly Rate Trend

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 London region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
City of London +11 3 £165 -19.11%
PDA
England

PDA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 19 (73.08%) Windows
2 15 (57.69%) Blackberry
3 12 (46.15%) MS Office
3 12 (46.15%) Windows 7
4 11 (42.31%) Windows XP
4 11 (42.31%) Microsoft
5 10 (38.46%) Active Directory
5 10 (38.46%) Citrix
6 8 (30.77%) TCP/IP
6 8 (30.77%) MS Excel
7 6 (23.08%) ITIL
7 6 (23.08%) MS Exchange
8 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (15.38%) Symantec
9 4 (15.38%) Norton AntiVirus
9 4 (15.38%) HP
9 4 (15.38%) Java
9 4 (15.38%) Back Office
9 4 (15.38%) Banking
9 4 (15.38%) Exchange Server 2010
10 3 (11.54%) Degree
10 3 (11.54%) MS PowerPoint
10 3 (11.54%) Exchange Server 2007
10 3 (11.54%) MCSE
10 3 (11.54%) WAN
10 3 (11.54%) DNS
10 3 (11.54%) Windows Server 2003
10 3 (11.54%) Change Management
11 2 (7.692%) Project Management
11 2 (7.692%) Internet

PDA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 6 (23.08%) MS Exchange
2 4 (15.38%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (11.54%) Exchange Server 2007
4 2 (7.692%) IIS
4 2 (7.692%) SharePoint
5 1 (3.846%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (3.846%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (3.846%) Lync
Applications
1 12 (46.15%) MS Office
2 8 (30.77%) MS Excel
3 3 (11.54%) MS PowerPoint
4 2 (7.692%) MS Project
5 1 (3.846%) Office 365
5 1 (3.846%) MS Visio
5 1 (3.846%) Acrobat
Communications & Networking
1 8 (30.77%) TCP/IP
2 3 (11.54%) DNS
2 3 (11.54%) WAN
3 2 (7.692%) Internet
4 1 (3.846%) Wireless
4 1 (3.846%) DHCP
4 1 (3.846%) ADSL
4 1 (3.846%) PSTN
Development Applications
1 1 (3.846%) MSI
1 1 (3.846%) FrontPage
General
1 4 (15.38%) Back Office
1 4 (15.38%) Banking
2 2 (7.692%) Finance
2 2 (7.692%) Law
3 1 (3.846%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Analyst
2 6 (23.08%) Desktop Support
2 6 (23.08%) Support Analyst
2 6 (23.08%) Desktop Analyst
3 5 (19.23%) Desktop Support Analyst
3 5 (19.23%) Support Engineer
4 2 (7.692%) Business Analyst
4 2 (7.692%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (7.692%) Windows Support Analyst
4 2 (7.692%) Change Manager
5 1 (3.846%) Incident Manager
5 1 (3.846%) Desktop Support Manager
5 1 (3.846%) Desktop Manager
5 1 (3.846%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
5 1 (3.846%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (3.846%) EPoS Business Analyst
5 1 (3.846%) Field Engineer
5 1 (3.846%) Citrix Engineer
5 1 (3.846%) Service Desk Analyst
5 1 (3.846%) Support Manager
Miscellaneous
1 15 (57.69%) Blackberry
2 2 (7.692%) Thin Client
2 2 (7.692%) Fat Client
2 2 (7.692%) iPad
3 1 (3.846%) Mobile Computing
3 1 (3.846%) EPoS
3 1 (3.846%) Mainframe
3 1 (3.846%) IVR
3 1 (3.846%) Smartphone
3 1 (3.846%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 19 (73.08%) Windows
2 12 (46.15%) Windows 7
3 11 (42.31%) Windows XP
4 3 (11.54%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (7.692%) Windows 2000
5 2 (7.692%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (3.846%) Windows 2000 Server
6 1 (3.846%) Windows NT
6 1 (3.846%) Windows Mobile
6 1 (3.846%) Windows Vista
6 1 (3.846%) Android
6 1 (3.846%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (23.08%) ITIL
2 3 (11.54%) Change Management
3 2 (7.692%) Project Management
3 2 (7.692%) Incident Management
4 1 (3.846%) Problem Management
4 1 (3.846%) Time Management
4 1 (3.846%) Service Management
4 1 (3.846%) PRINCE2
4 1 (3.846%) Migration
4 1 (3.846%) Asset Management
4 1 (3.846%) Logistics
4 1 (3.846%) Knowledge Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (15.38%) Java
2 1 (3.846%) SQL
2 1 (3.846%) VBScript
2 1 (3.846%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (11.54%) Degree
2 3 (11.54%) MCSE
3 2 (7.692%) MCSA
3 2 (7.692%) CCA
3 2 (7.692%) Citrix Certification
3 2 (7.692%) MCP
4 1 (3.846%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (3.846%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.846%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.692%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (38.46%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.846%) MetaFrame
2 1 (3.846%) Terminal Services
2 1 (3.846%) ISA Server
2 1 (3.846%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (3.846%) XenApp
2 1 (3.846%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) Norton AntiVirus
2 2 (7.692%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (3.846%) OpenView Configuration Management
3 1 (3.846%) MAILsweeper
3 1 (3.846%) Backup Exec
3 1 (3.846%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (42.31%) Microsoft
2 10 (38.46%) Citrix
3 4 (15.38%) HP
3 4 (15.38%) Symantec
4 2 (7.692%) Remedy
4 2 (7.692%) Mitel
4 2 (7.692%) Dell
4 2 (7.692%) Reuters
4 2 (7.692%) Bloomberg
5 1 (3.846%) Novell
5 1 (3.846%) Adobe
5 1 (3.846%) Altiris
5 1 (3.846%) Cisco
5 1 (3.846%) McAfee
5 1 (3.846%) Wyse
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