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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
Rank 247 244 240
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -4
Permanent jobs citing PDA 1 7 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.014% 0.099% 0.015%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.051% 0.373% 0.058%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 1
Average salary £31,500 £21,000 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+50.00% -45.45%
UK excluding London average salary £31,000 £25,250 £29,500
% change year-on-year
+22.77% -14.40%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
1973 1877 1715
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 27.67% 26.62% 24.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1670 1557 1488
Average salary £35,000 £35,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £23,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,815 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.96% +6.66%
PDA
England

PDA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West PDA Salary Trend

PDA
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PDA within the North West region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Manchester -20 1 £31,500 +40.00%
PDA
England

PDA
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 (50.00%) MS Project
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (50.00%) CRM
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) BS7799
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) Android
1 1 (50.00%) iPhone
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS

PDA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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.

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Project
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) IT Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Security Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Information Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
1 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CRM
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) BS7799
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft