The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term PDA in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PDA over the 3 months to 24 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 Milton Keynes 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
Rank 54 57 55
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -2
Contract jobs citing PDA 1 5 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 0.188% 0.716% 0.166%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.980% 2.717% 0.719%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £101 £100
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +0.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £351 £238 £255
% change year-on-year
+47.89% -6.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £11.50 £11.44
% change year-on-year
+47.82% +0.52%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
102 184 139
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 19.21% 26.36% 23.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 54 41
Average daily rate £350 £325 £295
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% +10.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £163 £248 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £423
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 15 18
Average hourly rate £16.23 £15.00 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.20% +7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.58 £10.34 £13.23
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £35.00 £16.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
PDA
Buckinghamshire

PDA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes PDA Daily Rate Trend

PDA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Milton Keynes PDA Hourly Rate Trend

PDA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 9 (100.00%) MS Office
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
1 9 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 9 (100.00%) Remedy
1 9 (100.00%) Windows 7
2 8 (88.89%) Windows Vista
2 8 (88.89%) Wi-Fi
2 8 (88.89%) ITIL Certification
2 8 (88.89%) Lotus
2 8 (88.89%) 3G
2 8 (88.89%) Lotus Notes
2 8 (88.89%) SAP
2 8 (88.89%) ITIL
2 8 (88.89%) Broadband
2 8 (88.89%) TCP/IP
2 8 (88.89%) VPN
2 8 (88.89%) Microsoft
2 8 (88.89%) Active Directory
3 4 (44.44%) Marketing
4 3 (33.33%) Mathematics
4 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (33.33%) SQL
5 1 (11.11%) Incident Management
5 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (11.11%) Finance
5 1 (11.11%) Blackberry
5 1 (11.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (11.11%) Unicenter
5 1 (11.11%) Internet
5 1 (11.11%) CA

PDA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 8 (88.89%) Lotus Notes
2 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (11.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (11.11%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 9 (100.00%) MS Office
2 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) Wi-Fi
1 8 (88.89%) 3G
1 8 (88.89%) Broadband
1 8 (88.89%) TCP/IP
1 8 (88.89%) VPN
2 1 (11.11%) Internet
General
1 4 (44.44%) Marketing
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Analyst
2 7 (77.78%) Service Analyst
2 7 (77.78%) Service Desk Analyst
3 3 (33.33%) Support Analyst
4 2 (22.22%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (22.22%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 2 (22.22%) Applications Support
5 1 (11.11%) Service Desk Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Mathematics
2 1 (11.11%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
1 9 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 9 (100.00%) Windows 7
2 8 (88.89%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) ITIL
2 1 (11.11%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Unicenter
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Remedy
2 8 (88.89%) Lotus
2 8 (88.89%) SAP
2 8 (88.89%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) CA