PDA Contracts in the South East
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend 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 South East 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 South East 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 213 237 248
Rank change year-on-year
+24 +11
Contract jobs citing PDA 10 10 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.128% 0.098% 0.038%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.649% 0.522% 0.202%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 4
Average daily rate - £313 £293
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +6.83%
UK excluding London average daily rate £351 £125 £300
% change year-on-year
+181.00% -58.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
Average hourly rate £18.50 £13.25 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+39.62% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.50 £11.50 £11.50
% change year-on-year
+60.86% -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 1540 1915 1982
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 19.71% 18.85% 18.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 696 817 810
Average daily rate £375 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 180 182
Average hourly rate £23.75 £27.50 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.63% -8.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.92 £12.80 £12.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £45.00 £40.00
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 South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East 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
Berkshire +20 5 - -
Surrey +22 1 - -
Oxfordshire +9 1 - -
Buckinghamshire +7 1 - -
Hampshire -5 1 - -
East Sussex - 1 - -
PDA
England

PDA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South 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.

1 19 (73.08%) Active Directory
2 18 (69.23%) Windows
3 17 (65.38%) MS Office
3 17 (65.38%) Windows XP
4 15 (57.69%) Windows 7
5 14 (53.85%) VPN
6 12 (46.15%) Remedy
6 12 (46.15%) Microsoft
7 11 (42.31%) Windows Vista
8 10 (38.46%) ITIL Certification
8 10 (38.46%) Lotus
8 10 (38.46%) 3G
8 10 (38.46%) Broadband
8 10 (38.46%) TCP/IP
8 10 (38.46%) Lotus Notes
8 10 (38.46%) SAP
8 10 (38.46%) ITIL
8 10 (38.46%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (30.77%) Security Cleared
10 7 (26.92%) SC Cleared
11 6 (23.08%) Blackberry
11 6 (23.08%) Marketing
12 4 (15.38%) SQL
12 4 (15.38%) Internet
12 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (11.54%) Mathematics
13 3 (11.54%) SCCM
14 2 (7.692%) Windows Server 2003
14 2 (7.692%) MS Excel
15 1 (3.846%) MS Exchange

PDA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South 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.

Application Development
1 1 (3.846%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 10 (38.46%) Lotus Notes
2 1 (3.846%) MS Exchange
2 1 (3.846%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (3.846%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 17 (65.38%) MS Office
2 2 (7.692%) MS Excel
3 1 (3.846%) Acrobat
3 1 (3.846%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 14 (53.85%) VPN
2 10 (38.46%) Broadband
2 10 (38.46%) TCP/IP
2 10 (38.46%) 3G
2 10 (38.46%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (15.38%) Internet
Development Applications
1 1 (3.846%) TestDirector
General
1 6 (23.08%) Marketing
2 1 (3.846%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (3.846%) Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (53.85%) Analyst
2 9 (34.62%) Desktop Support
2 9 (34.62%) Service Analyst
2 9 (34.62%) Service Desk Analyst
3 8 (30.77%) 2nd Line Support
4 7 (26.92%) Support Engineer
5 6 (23.08%) Desktop Engineer
5 6 (23.08%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 5 (19.23%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 5 (19.23%) Support Analyst
7 3 (11.54%) IT Support Engineer
7 3 (11.54%) IT Support
7 3 (11.54%) Support Manager
7 3 (11.54%) Desktop Support Manager
7 3 (11.54%) Desktop Manager
8 2 (7.692%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
8 2 (7.692%) Applications Support
9 1 (3.846%) Tester
9 1 (3.846%) Help Desk Analyst
9 1 (3.846%) 1st Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Blackberry
2 3 (11.54%) Mathematics
3 1 (3.846%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (3.846%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 18 (69.23%) Windows
2 17 (65.38%) Windows XP
3 15 (57.69%) Windows 7
4 11 (42.31%) Windows Vista
5 2 (7.692%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (3.846%) AIX
6 1 (3.846%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) ITIL
2 1 (3.846%) Service Management
2 1 (3.846%) Incident Management
2 1 (3.846%) Test Scripting
2 1 (3.846%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (15.38%) SQL
2 1 (3.846%) C
Qualifications
1 10 (38.46%) ITIL Certification
2 8 (30.77%) Security Cleared
3 7 (26.92%) SC Cleared
4 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.846%) MCP
5 1 (3.846%) Degree
5 1 (3.846%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 19 (73.08%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.846%) VMware ESX
2 1 (3.846%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) SCCM
2 1 (3.846%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (3.846%) McAfee ePO
2 1 (3.846%) Unicenter
2 1 (3.846%) Netcool
Vendors
1 12 (46.15%) Microsoft
1 12 (46.15%) Remedy
2 10 (38.46%) SAP
2 10 (38.46%) Lotus
3 1 (3.846%) Symantec
3 1 (3.846%) Cisco
3 1 (3.846%) Adobe
3 1 (3.846%) Citrix
3 1 (3.846%) CA
3 1 (3.846%) Veritas
3 1 (3.846%) McAfee
3 1 (3.846%) VMware
3 1 (3.846%) Polycom
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