PDA Contracts in London

Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PDA in contract job vacancies advertised in London. 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 393 - 593
Rank change year-on-year - - -119
Contract jobs citing PDA 2 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.011% - 0.013%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.034% - 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £143
25th Percentile £188 - £148
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £195 - £188
Median % change year-on-year - - -41.41%
75th Percentile £203 - £297
90th Percentile - - £430
England median daily rate £195 - £230
% change year-on-year - - -17.12%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,826 9,282 14,081
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.34% 35.88% 36.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,122 6,700 10,271
10th Percentile £313 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £743 £713
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
England median daily rate £550 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 112 200
10th Percentile £15.48 £18.93 £17.95
25th Percentile £18.41 £21.24 £23.91
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -19.54% +29.85%
75th Percentile £49.13 £63.88 £51.75
90th Percentile £69.50 £84.88 £68.75
England median hourly rate £34.21 £22.49 £26.98
% change year-on-year +52.15% -16.66% +3.77%

PDA
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for PDA in London

PDA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for PDA in London

PDA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for PDA in London

PDA
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PDA within the London 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
Central London - 1 - - 2
PDA
England

PDA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (50.00%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
1 1 (50.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Support
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Support Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Support Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) ebXML
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) ERP
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Line Management
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Product Backlog
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (50.00%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft