The first table below looks at the demand for Blackberry Enterprise Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Blackberry Enterprise Server over the 3 months to 18 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 of the Application Platforms category for the Bristol region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Research In Motion Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES)
Rank 47 67 53
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -14
Contract jobs citing Blackberry Enterprise Server 1 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 0.198% 0.114% 0.289%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.935% 0.588% 1.600%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £288 - £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £296 £315 £300
% change year-on-year
-6.03% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £15.63 £23.18
% change year-on-year
+8.80% -32.59%
All Application Platforms
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
107 170 125
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 21.19% 19.36% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 112 75
Average daily rate £300 £330 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.09% +1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £165 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £440 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 8
Average hourly rate £14.00 £24.50 £15.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.85% +60.65%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.00 £14.50 £12.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £25.00 £29.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +2.56%
Blackberry Enterprise Server
South West

Blackberry Enterprise Server
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Blackberry Enterprise Server across the Bristol region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Bristol Blackberry Enterprise Server Jobs Demand Trend

Blackberry Enterprise Server
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Blackberry Enterprise Server across the Bristol region.

Bristol Blackberry Enterprise Server Daily Rate Trend

Blackberry Enterprise Server
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Blackberry Enterprise Server across the Bristol region.

Bristol Blackberry Enterprise Server Hourly Rate Trend

Blackberry Enterprise Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing Blackberry Enterprise Server 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited Blackberry Enterprise Server.

1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Blackberry
2 5 (83.33%) LAN
3 4 (66.67%) TCP/IP
3 4 (66.67%) Windows XP
4 3 (50.00%) VPN
4 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
4 3 (50.00%) HP
4 3 (50.00%) Citrix
4 3 (50.00%) ITIL
4 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (50.00%) Wireless
4 3 (50.00%) Finance
4 3 (50.00%) Handset
4 3 (50.00%) Windows 7
5 2 (33.33%) ProCurve
5 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (33.33%) Network Management
5 2 (33.33%) VMware
5 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (33.33%) Backup Exec
5 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (33.33%) Internet
5 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (33.33%) DNS
5 2 (33.33%) WAN
5 2 (33.33%) DHCP
5 2 (33.33%) MCSE
6 1 (16.67%) MS Excel

Blackberry Enterprise Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing Blackberry Enterprise Server also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Blackberry Enterprise Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
1 1 (16.67%) MS Exchange
1 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Office
1 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) LAN
2 4 (66.67%) TCP/IP
3 3 (50.00%) VPN
3 3 (50.00%) Wireless
4 2 (33.33%) Internet
4 2 (33.33%) DNS
4 2 (33.33%) WAN
4 2 (33.33%) DHCP
5 1 (16.67%) VoIP
5 1 (16.67%) SAN
5 1 (16.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Law
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Desktop Support
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Support
2 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Support Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Support Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) IT Assistant
2 1 (16.67%) Help Desk Assistant
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Blackberry
2 3 (50.00%) Handset
3 1 (16.67%) Clustering
3 1 (16.67%) Fat Client
3 1 (16.67%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (16.67%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Windows XP
3 3 (50.00%) Windows 7
4 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (16.67%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) ITIL
1 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (33.33%) Network Management
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity
3 1 (16.67%) Information Management
3 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 1 (16.67%) Quality Management
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) MCSE
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (16.67%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Terminal Server
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Backup Exec
2 1 (16.67%) WSUS
2 1 (16.67%) HP SIM
2 1 (16.67%) DameWare
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) HP
1 3 (50.00%) Citrix
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) ProCurve
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) Avaya
3 1 (16.67%) Juniper
3 1 (16.67%) Alcatel-Lucent
3 1 (16.67%) NetApp
3 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint
3 1 (16.67%) Symantec