The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term PDA in IT jobs advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PDA over the 3 months to 19 June 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 South West region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
Rank 210 207 201
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -6
Permanent jobs citing PDA 2 7 19
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 0.038% 0.125% 0.304%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.120% 0.437% 1.165%
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 19
Average salary £42,000 £21,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+100.00% -47.50%
UK excluding London average salary £31,000 £25,500 £28,000
% change year-on-year
+21.56% -8.92%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
1669 1603 1631
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 31.66% 28.70% 26.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1407 1322 1371
Average salary £36,000 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.00% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
PDA
England

PDA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South 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 South West region.

South 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 South West region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Gloucestershire - 2 £42,000 -
PDA
England

PDA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the South 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 4 (57.14%) MS Excel
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (42.86%) Citrix
2 3 (42.86%) Terminal Services
2 3 (42.86%) ITIL
2 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) VPN
2 3 (42.86%) MS Exchange
2 3 (42.86%) VoIP
2 3 (42.86%) Service Delivery
2 3 (42.86%) Firewall
3 2 (28.57%) VMware
3 2 (28.57%) VMware ESX
3 2 (28.57%) AppSense
3 2 (28.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (28.57%) WAN
3 2 (28.57%) Broadband
3 2 (28.57%) LAN
3 2 (28.57%) MCSE
3 2 (28.57%) HP
3 2 (28.57%) Dell
3 2 (28.57%) Symantec
3 2 (28.57%) CCA
3 2 (28.57%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (14.29%) MetaFrame
4 1 (14.29%) A+ Certification
4 1 (14.29%) Avaya
4 1 (14.29%) SAN

PDA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the South 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.

Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) MS Exchange
2 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 4 (57.14%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) VPN
1 3 (42.86%) VoIP
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) WAN
2 2 (28.57%) Broadband
2 2 (28.57%) LAN
3 1 (14.29%) SAN
3 1 (14.29%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) DHCP
3 1 (14.29%) Ethernet
3 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 1 (14.29%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Desktop Support
1 3 (42.86%) Support Technician
1 3 (42.86%) Desktop Support Technician
1 3 (42.86%) Desktop Technician
2 2 (28.57%) Project Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Service Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Hardware Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Break Fix Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Hardware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) EPoS
1 1 (14.29%) Blackberry
1 1 (14.29%) HP StorageWorks
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) ITIL
1 3 (42.86%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (28.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (28.57%) MCSE
2 2 (28.57%) CCA
2 2 (28.57%) Citrix Certification
3 1 (14.29%) A+ Certification
3 1 (14.29%) MCDST
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Terminal Services
2 2 (28.57%) VMware ESX
2 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (14.29%) MetaFrame
3 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Citrix
3 2 (28.57%) VMware
3 2 (28.57%) AppSense
3 2 (28.57%) HP
3 2 (28.57%) Dell
3 2 (28.57%) Symantec
4 1 (14.29%) Avaya
4 1 (14.29%) Apple
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco
4 1 (14.29%) SonicWALL
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