The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term PDA in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PDA over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Yorkshire 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
Rank 114 115 98
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -17
Contract jobs citing PDA 3 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.153% 0.042% 0.053%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.691% 0.278% 0.280%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £525 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £355 £301 £300
% change year-on-year
+18.13% +0.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
Average hourly rate £9.00 - £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £11.50 £11.50
% change year-on-year
+52.17% -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
434 360 357
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 22.08% 15.11% 18.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 188 152
Average daily rate £313 £338 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.40% +8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £208 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £475 £480
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £340 £330
% change year-on-year
+2.94% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 13 28
Average hourly rate £15.75 £16.50 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.54% -26.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.83 £11.00 £10.56
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £30.00 £44.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -10.00%
PDA
England

PDA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire PDA Hourly Rate Trend

PDA
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PDA across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Yorkshire PDA Hourly Rate Histogram

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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
West Yorkshire - 2 - - 1
PDA
England

PDA
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, 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 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows XP
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) E-Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Dell
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) CA
2 1 (25.00%) Unicenter
2 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) SLA
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (25.00%) Windows NT
2 1 (25.00%) MS Office
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL

PDA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, 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 Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Office
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Service Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Coordinator
2 1 (25.00%) Project Coordinator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows XP
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (25.00%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL
1 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Unicenter
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Dell
1 1 (25.00%) Citrix
1 1 (25.00%) CA
1 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
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