Yorkshire PDA Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) skills within the Yorkshire 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 4 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 Guildford Hampshire Kent Lancashire Leeds London Maidstone Manchester 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 Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	107	125
Rank change on same period last year	+18
Matching contract IT job ads	3	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	0.370 %	2.306 %
Daily rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum daily rate	-	£370
Average daily rate	-	£401
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£431
UK excluding London average daily rate	£260	£307
% change on same period last year	-15.34 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£10.00	£17.40
Average hourly rate	£10.50	£17.40
% change on same period last year	-39.65 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£11.00	£17.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£16.05	£17.93
% change on same period last year	-10.47 %
Miscellaneous Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	810	607
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.314 %	0.663 %
Daily rates quoted	202	113
Average minimum daily rate	£364	£308
Average daily rate	£390	£334
% change on same period last year	+16.74 %
Average maximum daily rate	£415	£360
UK excluding London average daily rate	£344	£345
% change on same period last year	-0.45 %
Hourly rates quoted	53	71
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.76	£21.30
Average hourly rate	£22.65	£23.68
% change on same period last year	-4.36 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.54	£26.06
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.75	£25.58
% change on same period last year	+0.65 %
PDA 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing PDA across the Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing PDA across the Yorkshire region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 4 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
West Yorkshire	+4	3	-	-

PDA England

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Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 8 (72.73 %) Windows 2 5 (45.45 %) Windows Mobile 3 4 (36.36 %) Blackberry 4 3 (27.27 %) Microsoft 4 3 (27.27 %) MS Office 4 3 (27.27 %) C# 4 3 (27.27 %) .NET 5 2 (18.18 %) Intel 5 2 (18.18 %) Windows Server 2003 5 2 (18.18 %) SQL Server 2005 5 2 (18.18 %) SQL Server 5 2 (18.18 %) C++ 5 2 (18.18 %) XML 5 2 (18.18 %) OO 5 2 (18.18 %) LAN

5 2 (18.18 %) RDBMS 5 2 (18.18 %) Smartphone 6 1 (9.091 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 1 (9.091 %) Windows Vista 6 1 (9.091 %) Active Directory 6 1 (9.091 %) MS Exchange 6 1 (9.091 %) VB.NET 6 1 (9.091 %) Citrix 6 1 (9.091 %) Management Information System 6 1 (9.091 %) Migration 6 1 (9.091 %) VMware

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 3 (27.27 %) .NET 2 2 (18.18 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 1 (9.091 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 3 (27.27 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 2 (18.18 %) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (18.18 %) SQL Server 1 2 (18.18 %) RDBMS 1 2 (18.18 %) SQL Server 2005	Job Titles 1 4 (36.36 %) Developer 2 3 (27.27 %) .NET Developer 3 2 (18.18 %) C++ Developer 3 2 (18.18 %) C# Developer 3 2 (18.18 %) Helpdesk Support 3 2 (18.18 %) Analyst 3 2 (18.18 %) Support Engineer 3 2 (18.18 %) C++/C# Developer 4 1 (9.091 %) 2nd Line Support Engineer 4 1 (9.091 %) Service Analyst 4 1 (9.091 %) 2nd Line Support 4 1 (9.091 %) Applications Developer 4 1 (9.091 %) Support Analyst 4 1 (9.091 %) Helpdesk Analyst 4 1 (9.091 %) Service Desk Analyst 4 1 (9.091 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst 4 1 (9.091 %) SQL Developer 4 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server Developer 4 1 (9.091 %) PC Support 4 1 (9.091 %) .NET Applications Developer
Miscellaneous 1 4 (36.36 %) Blackberry 2 2 (18.18 %) Smartphone 3 1 (9.091 %) Management Information System	Operating Systems 1 8 (72.73 %) Windows 2 5 (45.45 %) Windows Mobile 3 2 (18.18 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (9.091 %) Windows Vista 4 1 (9.091 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (18.18 %) OO 2 1 (9.091 %) Migration	Programming Languages 1 3 (27.27 %) C# 2 2 (18.18 %) C++ 3 1 (9.091 %) VB.NET
System Software 1 1 (9.091 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 3 (27.27 %) Microsoft 2 2 (18.18 %) Intel 3 1 (9.091 %) Citrix 3 1 (9.091 %) VMware