PDA Job Trends in the North of England

Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PDA in permanent job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited PDA over the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 - 294
Rank change year-on-year - - +148
Permanent jobs citing PDA 1 0 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.011% - 0.098%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.027% - 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 - £26,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.00%
75th Percentile £31,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £27,500 £40,000 £26,000
% change year-on-year -31.25% +53.85% -32.90%

All Generic Skills
North of England

PDA falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,761 3,536 3,223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 39.89% 27.21% 39.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,564 1,496 2,392
10th Percentile £26,000 £30,250 £32,092
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,375 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -8.70% +6.74%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -

PDA
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PDA relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

PDA job vacancy trend in the North of England

PDA
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing PDA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing PDA

PDA
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PDA within the North of England region over the 6 months to 15 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Yorkshire - 1 £31,000 -
PDA
England

PDA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Support
1 1 (100.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V