Merseyside PDA Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) skills within the Merseyside 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 5 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
Location Aberdeen Bedfordshire Berkshire Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf City of London Colchester Coventry Cumbria Docklands, London Dorset East of England Edinburgh England Essex Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Kent Lancashire Leeds Livingston London Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes North East North West Preston Reading Scotland Shropshire South East South West Staffordshire Stockport Surrey Swindon Telford UK Uxbridge Warwick Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	36
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	1.250 %
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	£260	£307
% change on same period last year	-15.34 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£10.00
Average hourly rate	-	£11.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£12.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£16.68	£17.93
% change on same period last year	-6.94 %
Miscellaneous Merseyside
Matching contract IT job ads	76	80
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.124 %	0.088 %
Daily rates quoted	20	11
Average minimum daily rate	£275	£199
Average daily rate	£304	£207
% change on same period last year	+47.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£333	£215
UK excluding London average daily rate	£343	£345
% change on same period last year	-0.54 %
Hourly rates quoted	28	28
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.42	£12.27
Average hourly rate	£12.93	£13.19
% change on same period last year	-1.95 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£13.44	£14.11
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.75	£25.49
% change on same period last year	+1.03 %
PDA North West

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 Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

PDA
Hourly Rate Trend

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