The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Blackberry in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Blackberry over the 3 months to 17 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 Buckinghamshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
RIM Blackberry
Rank 57 73 66
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -7
Contract jobs citing Blackberry 8 2 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 1.015% 0.197% 0.849%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.061% 0.830% 4.327%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £163 - £100
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £313
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 6
Average hourly rate £11.75 £14.61 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-19.57% +4.35%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.77 £17.00 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-7.23% +6.25%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
132 241 208
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 16.75% 23.72% 19.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 85 68
Average daily rate £350 £338 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% +5.46%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £163 £251 £222
10% offered a daily rate of more than £493 £475 £444
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 17 21
Average hourly rate £17.50 £15.00 £16.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -10.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.20 £10.48 £13.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £35.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
Blackberry
South East

Blackberry
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire Blackberry Hourly Rate Trend

Blackberry
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Blackberry within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Milton Keynes - 5 £163 -
High Wycombe -3 1 - -
Marlow - 1 - -
Wycombe - 1 - -
Blackberry
South East

Blackberry
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 (76.92%) Windows
2 9 (69.23%) Windows 7
3 6 (46.15%) TCP/IP
3 6 (46.15%) ITIL
3 6 (46.15%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
4 5 (38.46%) SQL
4 5 (38.46%) MS Excel
4 5 (38.46%) MS Exchange
4 5 (38.46%) DV Cleared
4 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
4 5 (38.46%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (38.46%) Exchange Server 2003
5 4 (30.77%) Windows Vista
5 4 (30.77%) Exchange Server 2007
5 4 (30.77%) Integration Testing
5 4 (30.77%) Test Scripting
5 4 (30.77%) Firewall
5 4 (30.77%) Validation
5 4 (30.77%) VMware
5 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (30.77%) Exchange Server 2010
5 4 (30.77%) Windows XP
5 4 (30.77%) MS Office
5 4 (30.77%) DNS
5 4 (30.77%) LAN
5 4 (30.77%) WAN
5 4 (30.77%) DHCP
5 4 (30.77%) HP
5 4 (30.77%) Windows Server 2003

Blackberry
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 6 (46.15%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 5 (38.46%) Exchange Server 2003
2 5 (38.46%) MS Exchange
3 4 (30.77%) Exchange Server 2007
3 4 (30.77%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (7.692%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 5 (38.46%) MS Excel
2 4 (30.77%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) TCP/IP
2 4 (30.77%) LAN
2 4 (30.77%) WAN
2 4 (30.77%) DHCP
2 4 (30.77%) DNS
2 4 (30.77%) SAN
2 4 (30.77%) Firewall
3 1 (7.692%) ISDN
3 1 (7.692%) Internet
3 1 (7.692%) VPN
General
1 1 (7.692%) Finance
1 1 (7.692%) Billing
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Analyst
1 4 (30.77%) Integration Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Consultant
3 1 (7.692%) Analyst Programmer
3 1 (7.692%) Programmer
3 1 (7.692%) Support Analyst
3 1 (7.692%) Service Analyst
3 1 (7.692%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (7.692%) Support Consultant
3 1 (7.692%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (7.692%) Project Analyst
3 1 (7.692%) Project Support Analyst
3 1 (7.692%) Enterprise Consultant
3 1 (7.692%) Blackberry Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) iPhone
2 1 (7.692%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 10 (76.92%) Windows
2 9 (69.23%) Windows 7
3 5 (38.46%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (30.77%) Windows XP
4 4 (30.77%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (30.77%) Windows Vista
5 1 (7.692%) Android
5 1 (7.692%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) ITIL
2 4 (30.77%) Configuration Management
2 4 (30.77%) Validation
2 4 (30.77%) Integration Testing
2 4 (30.77%) Test Scripting
3 2 (15.38%) Migration
4 1 (7.692%) Incident Management
4 1 (7.692%) ITIL V3
4 1 (7.692%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) DV Cleared
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
2 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (15.38%) XenApp
3 2 (15.38%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (7.692%) Unicenter
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) HP
1 4 (30.77%) VMware
2 3 (23.08%) Remedy
2 3 (23.08%) Citrix
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.692%) Cisco
4 1 (7.692%) CA
4 1 (7.692%) Lotus