The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term PDA in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 Berkshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
Rank 214 221 182
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -39
Permanent jobs citing PDA 1 2 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.019% 0.033% 0.272%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.065% 0.118% 0.923%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 9
Average salary £35,000 £18,000 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+94.44% -28.00%
UK excluding London average salary £31,000 £25,250 £29,500
% change year-on-year
+22.77% -14.40%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
1545 1695 1517
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 30.03% 27.64% 29.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1227 1410 1344
Average salary £42,500 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.55% +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £30,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,815 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.96% +6.66%
PDA
South East

PDA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire PDA Jobs Demand Trend

PDA
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing PDA across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire PDA Salary Trend

PDA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited PDA.

1 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) C#
2 3 (42.86%) .NET
2 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 3 (42.86%) .NET Framework
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) HTML5
2 3 (42.86%) Mobile App
2 3 (42.86%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (28.57%) BDD
3 2 (28.57%) Revenue Management
3 2 (28.57%) Windows Azure
3 2 (28.57%) Refactoring
3 2 (28.57%) Multithreading
3 2 (28.57%) TDD
3 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
3 2 (28.57%) SharePoint
3 2 (28.57%) E-Commerce
3 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
3 2 (28.57%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) OOP
3 2 (28.57%) OOA/OOD
3 2 (28.57%) OO
4 1 (14.29%) MCSE
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) GPRS
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification

PDA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited PDA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (42.86%) .NET
1 3 (42.86%) .NET Framework
1 3 (42.86%) HTML5
2 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) SharePoint
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) GPRS
1 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Desktop Support
1 3 (42.86%) Support Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) 2nd Line Support
1 3 (42.86%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Desktop Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) IT Support Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) IT Support
2 1 (14.29%) Mobile Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Mobile Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Desktop Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Desktop Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Mobile App
1 3 (42.86%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (14.29%) Blackberry
2 1 (14.29%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Mobile
2 1 (14.29%) Android
2 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) OOP
1 2 (28.57%) OOA/OOD
1 2 (28.57%) OO
1 2 (28.57%) E-Commerce
1 2 (28.57%) TDD
1 2 (28.57%) Refactoring
1 2 (28.57%) Multithreading
1 2 (28.57%) Revenue Management
1 2 (28.57%) BDD
2 1 (14.29%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) MCSE
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Motorola
2 1 (14.29%) Remedy
Reading, Berkshire
Expert knowledge of Infrastructure Architecture with a strong focus on servers and o/s, databases (Oracle, DB2), Virtualisation, Cloud. Experience of SAP, Mobility / PDA's, desktop productivity and...
Royal Mail Group
Salary: Excellent Salary & Benefits
Posted: 24 April 2013