Reading PDA Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) skills within the Reading 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	131	150
Rank change on same period last year	+19
Matching permanent IT job ads	1	9
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	0.197 %	1.314 %
Salaries quoted	0	3
Average minimum salary	-	£33,333
Average salary	-	£36,667
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	-	£40,000
UK excluding London average salary	£33,863	£30,745
% change on same period last year	+10.14 %
Miscellaneous Reading
Matching permanent IT job ads	508	685
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.277 %	0.288 %
Salaries quoted	450	510
Average minimum salary	£35,234	£36,884
Average salary	£39,571	£40,585
% change on same period last year	-2.49 %
Average maximum salary	£43,909	£44,285
UK excluding London average salary	£37,751	£39,165
% change on same period last year	-3.61 %
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PDA
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing PDA across the Reading 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 Reading region.

PDA
Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Reading 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 2 (100.00 %) Windows 1 2 (100.00 %) Windows XP 1 2 (100.00 %) TestDirector 1 2 (100.00 %) Windows Server 2003 1 2 (100.00 %) Test Scripting 2 1 (50.00 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (50.00 %) StarTeam 2 1 (50.00 %) Borland 2 1 (50.00 %) MS Excel

PDA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Reading 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 Excel	Development Applications 1 2 (100.00 %) TestDirector 2 1 (50.00 %) StarTeam
Job Titles 1 2 (100.00 %) Tester 1 2 (100.00 %) Systems Tester	Operating Systems 1 2 (100.00 %) Windows 1 2 (100.00 %) Windows XP 1 2 (100.00 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (100.00 %) Test Scripting 2 1 (50.00 %) Security Cleared	Vendors 1 1 (50.00 %) Borland