Chester PDA Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) skills within the Chester region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PDA over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Doncaster East Midlands East of England England Essex Farnborough Farnham Flintshire Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Manchester Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Potters Bar Powys Reading Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Helens Stevenage Surrey Swindon Tring Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Welling Welshpool Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	51	59
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching permanent IT job ads	3	4
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	4.412 %	2.410 %
Salaries quoted	2	4
Average minimum salary	£26,011	£26,000
Average salary	£27,261	£26,000
% change on same period last year	+4.84 %
Average maximum salary	£28,511	£26,000
UK excluding London average salary	£33,863	£30,745
% change on same period last year	+10.14 %
Miscellaneous Chester
Matching permanent IT job ads	68	166
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.037 %	0.070 %
Salaries quoted	57	151
Average minimum salary	£30,428	£28,329
Average salary	£31,772	£30,299
% change on same period last year	+4.86 %
Average maximum salary	£33,116	£32,270
UK excluding London average salary	£37,751	£39,165
% change on same period last year	-3.61 %
PDA Cheshire

PDA
Demand Trend

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

PDA
Salary Trend

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

PDA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Chester 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 3 (100.00 %) Windows 2 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server 2 2 (66.67 %) IIS 2 2 (66.67 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (66.67 %) Broadband 2 2 (66.67 %) Active Directory 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows Server 2003 2 2 (66.67 %) SQL 2 2 (66.67 %) Microsoft 2 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (33.33 %) Web Development 3 1 (33.33 %) Network Security 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 1 (33.33 %) CCNA

3 1 (33.33 %) Transact-SQL 3 1 (33.33 %) .NET 3 1 (33.33 %) C# 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (33.33 %) Firewall 3 1 (33.33 %) Telecoms 3 1 (33.33 %) Citrix 3 1 (33.33 %) Citrix Certification 3 1 (33.33 %) Cisco Certification 3 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (33.33 %) Avaya 3 1 (33.33 %) SAN 3 1 (33.33 %) Nokia 3 1 (33.33 %) VERITAS 3 1 (33.33 %) CheckPoint

PDA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Chester 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 1 (33.33 %) .NET 1 1 (33.33 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 2 (66.67 %) IIS 1 2 (66.67 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Office 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 2 (66.67 %) Broadband 2 1 (33.33 %) LAN 2 1 (33.33 %) WAN 2 1 (33.33 %) DHCP 2 1 (33.33 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (33.33 %) VPN 2 1 (33.33 %) DNS 2 1 (33.33 %) SAN 2 1 (33.33 %) Firewall 2 1 (33.33 %) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server 2005 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2000	Development Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) Visual Studio 1 1 (33.33 %) VSS/SourceSafe
General 1 1 (33.33 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Developer 1 1 (33.33 %) Systems Administrator 1 1 (33.33 %) Systems Support 1 1 (33.33 %) Programmer 1 1 (33.33 %) Support Specialist 1 1 (33.33 %) 3rd Line Support 1 1 (33.33 %) Administrator 1 1 (33.33 %) C# Developer 1 1 (33.33 %) IT Support Specialist 1 1 (33.33 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer
Operating Systems 1 3 (100.00 %) Windows 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) Web Development
Programming Languages 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) Transact-SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) C#	Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) MCSE 1 1 (33.33 %) MCSA 1 1 (33.33 %) CCNA 1 1 (33.33 %) Citrix Certification 1 1 (33.33 %) Cisco Certification 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft Certification
System Software 1 2 (66.67 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 2 (66.67 %) Microsoft 2 1 (33.33 %) Citrix 2 1 (33.33 %) Avaya 2 1 (33.33 %) Nokia 2 1 (33.33 %) VERITAS 2 1 (33.33 %) CheckPoint 2 1 (33.33 %) Cisco