The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Blackberry 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 over the 3 months to 21 May 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 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
RIM Blackberry
Rank 46 57 31
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -26
Contract jobs citing Blackberry 4 4 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 0.752% 0.478% 2.899%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.706% 2.857% 16.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
Average daily rate £294 £325 £120
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.61% +170.83%
UK excluding London average daily rate £309 £300 £313
% change year-on-year
+2.91% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
Average hourly rate - £10.00 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -37.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.83 £17.00 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-6.88% +6.25%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
85 140 110
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 15.98% 16.75% 17.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 92 43
Average daily rate £325 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £239 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £505 £451 £465
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 9
Average hourly rate £42.50 £19.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+117.94% +8.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-4.34% -13.20%
Blackberry
South West

Blackberry
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol Blackberry Jobs Demand Trend

Blackberry
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bristol Blackberry Daily Rate Trend

Blackberry
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bristol Blackberry Hourly Rate Trend

Blackberry
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing Blackberry 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.

1 10 (90.91%) Windows
2 8 (72.73%) Windows XP
2 8 (72.73%) Active Directory
3 7 (63.64%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 7 (63.64%) Windows 7
4 6 (54.55%) Citrix
4 6 (54.55%) LAN
5 5 (45.45%) VPN
5 5 (45.45%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (45.45%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (36.36%) TCP/IP
6 4 (36.36%) MS Office
6 4 (36.36%) ITIL
6 4 (36.36%) MS Excel
7 3 (27.27%) MCSE
7 3 (27.27%) WAN
7 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
7 3 (27.27%) HP
7 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (27.27%) Wireless
7 3 (27.27%) Finance
7 3 (27.27%) Handset
8 2 (18.18%) VMware
8 2 (18.18%) MCDST
8 2 (18.18%) Backup Exec
8 2 (18.18%) Legal
8 2 (18.18%) Internet
8 2 (18.18%) DHCP
8 2 (18.18%) DNS

Blackberry
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing Blackberry 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 7 (63.64%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
3 1 (9.091%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (9.091%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (9.091%) MS Exchange
3 1 (9.091%) GroupWise
Applications
1 4 (36.36%) MS Office
1 4 (36.36%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) LAN
2 5 (45.45%) VPN
3 4 (36.36%) TCP/IP
4 3 (27.27%) WAN
4 3 (27.27%) Wireless
5 2 (18.18%) Internet
5 2 (18.18%) DHCP
5 2 (18.18%) DNS
5 2 (18.18%) VoIP
6 1 (9.091%) SAN
6 1 (9.091%) Firewall
6 1 (9.091%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (9.091%) SQL Server
1 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Legal
3 1 (9.091%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Desktop Support
1 3 (27.27%) Support Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) 2nd Line Support
2 2 (18.18%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) IT Assistant
2 2 (18.18%) Help Desk Assistant
3 1 (9.091%) SCCM Specialist
3 1 (9.091%) Support Consultant
3 1 (9.091%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (9.091%) Consultant
3 1 (9.091%) Technical Support
3 1 (9.091%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Technical Support Consultant
3 1 (9.091%) Implementation Specialist
3 1 (9.091%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Handset
2 1 (9.091%) Fat Client
2 1 (9.091%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (9.091%) Thin Client
2 1 (9.091%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.091%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 10 (90.91%) Windows
2 8 (72.73%) Windows XP
3 7 (63.64%) Windows 7
4 5 (45.45%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (45.45%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (9.091%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) ITIL
2 3 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (18.18%) Network Management
4 1 (9.091%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (9.091%) Quality Management
4 1 (9.091%) Configuration Management
4 1 (9.091%) Migration
4 1 (9.091%) Business Continuity
4 1 (9.091%) Information Management
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) MCSE
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (18.18%) MCDST
3 1 (9.091%) MCP
3 1 (9.091%) MCTS
3 1 (9.091%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.091%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (9.091%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Backup Exec
2 1 (9.091%) HP SIM
2 1 (9.091%) WSUS
2 1 (9.091%) SCCM
2 1 (9.091%) DameWare
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Citrix
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) HP
3 2 (18.18%) VMware
3 2 (18.18%) ProCurve
4 1 (9.091%) Cisco
4 1 (9.091%) Symantec
4 1 (9.091%) Avaya
4 1 (9.091%) Juniper
4 1 (9.091%) Alcatel-Lucent
4 1 (9.091%) NetApp
4 1 (9.091%) CheckPoint