The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term PDA in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PDA over the 3 months to 22 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 Cambridge region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
Rank - - 128
Permanent jobs citing PDA 0 0 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge - - 0.047%
As % of the Miscellaneous category - - 0.123%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 1
Average salary - - £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £31,000 £25,500 £29,500
% change year-on-year
+21.56% -13.55%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
623 796 811
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 33.75% 38.98% 38.16%
Number of salaries quoted 534 619 731
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
PDA
Cambridgeshire

PDA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge PDA Salary Trend

PDA
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Data Mining
1 1 (100.00%) NFS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Samba
1 1 (100.00%) Text Mining
1 1 (100.00%) Wiki
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) Bash shell

PDA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Data Mining
1 1 (100.00%) Text Mining
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Bash shell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) NFS
1 1 (100.00%) Samba