PDA Contracts in England

Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PDA in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PDA over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 523 638 759
Rank change year-on-year +115 +121 -121
Contract jobs citing PDA 8 2 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.022% 0.004% 0.014%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.072% 0.012% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 8
10th Percentile £166 - £147
25th Percentile £174 - £193
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £195 - £230
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.12%
75th Percentile £203 - £505
90th Percentile - - £551
UK median daily rate £195 - £230
% change year-on-year - - -17.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 -

All Generic Skills
England

PDA is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,144 16,209 23,887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.60% 33.64% 33.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,307 11,283 17,040
10th Percentile £266 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £573 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £697 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 814 571 628
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.16
Median hourly rate £34.21 £22.49 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +52.15% -16.66% +3.77%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.60
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.26 £27.50
% change year-on-year +40.98% -19.07% +4.90%

PDA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing PDA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for PDA in England

PDA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PDA in England.

Daily rate trend for PDA in England

PDA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PDA in England.

Hourly rate trend for PDA in England

PDA
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PDA within the England region over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands - 6 £178 - 6
East Midlands - 5 £160 - 3
London - 2 £195 - 16
West Midlands - 1 £195 - 3
PDA
UK

PDA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) Wireless
2 1 (12.50%) FTP
2 1 (12.50%) PBX
2 1 (12.50%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) BigQuery
1 1 (12.50%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
1 1 (12.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
1 2 (25.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 2 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Applications Support
1 2 (25.00%) Applications Support Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Field Support Technician
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Support Technician
2 1 (12.50%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) ebXML
1 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Smartphone
2 1 (12.50%) BYOD
2 1 (12.50%) iPad
2 1 (12.50%) iPhone
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (12.50%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Android
3 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
3 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
3 1 (12.50%) Windows 7
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (12.50%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Test Scripting
2 2 (25.00%) ERP
2 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (25.00%) WFM
3 1 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (12.50%) Agile
3 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
3 1 (12.50%) Inventory Management
3 1 (12.50%) ITSM
3 1 (12.50%) Kanban
3 1 (12.50%) Line Management
3 1 (12.50%) Manual Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Product Backlog
3 1 (12.50%) Scrum
3 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
3 1 (12.50%) User Stories
3 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Dell
2 1 (12.50%) HP
2 1 (12.50%) Intel
2 1 (12.50%) Peregrine
2 1 (12.50%) Remedy