The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term PDA in IT jobs advertised for the Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
Rank 96 - 84
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing PDA 6 0 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 0.465% - 0.212%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.493% - 0.683%
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 0
Average salary £26,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £31,000 £25,250 £29,500
% change year-on-year
+22.77% -14.40%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Milton Keynes
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
402 280 293
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 31.19% 26.42% 31.01%
Number of salaries quoted 329 244 248
Average salary £40,000 £36,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.58% +4.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £22,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,815 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.96% +6.66%
PDA
Buckinghamshire

PDA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes PDA Salary Trend

PDA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 9 (100.00%) Windows
1 9 (100.00%) Windows XP
2 8 (88.89%) Active Directory
3 6 (66.67%) Blackberry
3 6 (66.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 6 (66.67%) Incident Management
4 5 (55.56%) Mitel
4 5 (55.56%) Problem Management
4 5 (55.56%) Mac OS
4 5 (55.56%) Change Management
4 5 (55.56%) Sage
4 5 (55.56%) ITIL
5 4 (44.44%) Remedy
5 4 (44.44%) MS Office
6 3 (33.33%) Lotus Notes
6 3 (33.33%) TCP/IP
6 3 (33.33%) SLA
6 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
6 3 (33.33%) Lotus
6 3 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (33.33%) Windows Vista
7 1 (11.11%) Finance
7 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2003
7 1 (11.11%) Windows 7
7 1 (11.11%) Unicenter
7 1 (11.11%) CA
7 1 (11.11%) Internet
7 1 (11.11%) MS Exchange
7 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
7 1 (11.11%) SQL

PDA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 Platforms
1 6 (66.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 3 (33.33%) Lotus Notes
3 1 (11.11%) MS Exchange
3 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 4 (44.44%) MS Office
2 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (11.11%) Internet
General
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Service Desk Technician
2 4 (44.44%) Analyst
3 3 (33.33%) Service Analyst
3 3 (33.33%) Service Desk Analyst
4 2 (22.22%) 1st Line Support
5 1 (11.11%) 1st Line Support Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
1 9 (100.00%) Windows XP
2 5 (55.56%) Mac OS
3 3 (33.33%) Windows Vista
4 1 (11.11%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 5 (55.56%) Problem Management
2 5 (55.56%) ITIL
2 5 (55.56%) Change Management
3 3 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Unicenter
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Sage
1 5 (55.56%) Mitel
2 4 (44.44%) Remedy
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (33.33%) Lotus
4 1 (11.11%) CA