The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term PDA in IT jobs advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PDA over the 3 months to 21 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 Hertfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
Rank 139 149 158
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +9
Permanent jobs citing PDA 4 1 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.163% 0.040% 0.303%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.583% 0.146% 1.047%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 2
Average salary - £25,500 £26,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -2.85%
UK excluding London average salary £31,000 £25,500 £29,500
% change year-on-year
+21.56% -13.55%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
686 685 955
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 27.91% 27.19% 28.97%
Number of salaries quoted 567 540 784
Average salary £42,500 £44,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.40% +10.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
PDA
East of England

PDA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire PDA Salary Trend

PDA
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 10 (100.00%) SQL
1 10 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 10 (100.00%) C#
1 10 (100.00%) CRM
1 10 (100.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 10 (100.00%) Firewall
1 10 (100.00%) Mobile App
2 8 (80.00%) Windows
2 8 (80.00%) Visual Studio
2 8 (80.00%) Web Services
3 4 (40.00%) XML
3 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (40.00%) HTML
3 4 (40.00%) Windows Mobile
3 4 (40.00%) Silverlight
3 4 (40.00%) Windows 8
4 2 (20.00%) XAML

PDA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 8 (80.00%) Web Services
2 4 (40.00%) XML
2 4 (40.00%) HTML
2 4 (40.00%) Silverlight
Business Applications
1 10 (100.00%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 8 (80.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 10 (100.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Windows
2 4 (40.00%) Windows Mobile
2 4 (40.00%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) SQL
1 10 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 10 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (20.00%) XAML
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft