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The table below looks at the demand for Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) skills within the North East 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 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkPersonal Digital Assistant (PDA)
Location
3 months to
13 Oct 2008
Same period last year
Rank5261
Rank change on same period last yearUp+9
Matching contract IT job ads21
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.003 %0.001 %
As % of the category below2.151 %0.794 %
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£355£268
% change on same period last year+32.29 %
Hourly rates quoted00
Average minimum hourly rate--
Average hourly rate--
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum hourly rate--
UK excluding London average hourly rate£15.15£19.41
% change on same period last year-21.91 %
North East IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
North East
Matching contract IT job ads93126
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.132 %0.128 %
Daily rates quoted1834
Average minimum daily rate£301£292
Average daily rate£346£307
% change on same period last year+12.95 %
Average maximum daily rate£392£322
UK excluding London average daily rate£349£344
% change on same period last year+1.42 %
Hourly rates quoted1516
Average minimum hourly rate£19.95£14.76
Average hourly rate£21.66£16.35
% change on same period last year+32.46 %
Average maximum hourly rate£23.37£17.94
UK excluding London average hourly rate£25.09£26.20
% change on same period last year-4.24 %
PDA EnglandPDA
England

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

North East 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 North East region.

North East PDA Daily Rate Trend

PDA
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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.

12 (40.00 %)C#
12 (40.00 %).NET
12 (40.00 %)Photoshop
12 (40.00 %)Adobe
12 (40.00 %)Adobe Illustrator
21 (20.00 %)Security Cleared
21 (20.00 %)Citrix
21 (20.00 %)Windows Server 2003
21 (20.00 %)Blackberry
21 (20.00 %)Visual Studio
21 (20.00 %)Windows
21 (20.00 %)Windows 2000
21 (20.00 %)Windows XP
21 (20.00 %)Microsoft
21 (20.00 %)Oracle
21 (20.00 %)SQL Server
21 (20.00 %)SQL
21 (20.00 %)Transact-SQL

PDA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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.

North East IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
12 (40.00 %).NET
North East IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
12 (40.00 %)Photoshop
12 (40.00 %)Adobe Illustrator
North East IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
11 (20.00 %)SQL Server
North East IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
11 (20.00 %)Visual Studio
North East IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
12 (40.00 %)Developer
12 (40.00 %).NET Developer
21 (20.00 %)C# Developer
21 (20.00 %)1st Line Support Analyst
21 (20.00 %)Architect
21 (20.00 %)Desktop Support
21 (20.00 %)Analyst
21 (20.00 %)Solutions Architect
21 (20.00 %)Support Analyst
21 (20.00 %)1st Line Support
21 (20.00 %)2nd Line Support
North East IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
11 (20.00 %)Blackberry
North East IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
11 (20.00 %)Windows
11 (20.00 %)Windows 2000
11 (20.00 %)Windows XP
11 (20.00 %)Windows Server 2003
North East IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
11 (20.00 %)Security Cleared
North East IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
12 (40.00 %)C#
21 (20.00 %)SQL
21 (20.00 %)Transact-SQL
North East IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
12 (40.00 %)Adobe
21 (20.00 %)Citrix
21 (20.00 %)Oracle
21 (20.00 %)Microsoft