The first table below looks at the demand for Blackberry Enterprise Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge 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 20 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 of the Application Platforms category for the Cambridge 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Research In Motion Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES)
Rank 33 45 -
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -
Contract jobs citing Blackberry Enterprise Server 6 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 1.786% 0.964% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.000% 4.819% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
Average daily rate £170 £251 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-32.33% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £295 £290 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.72% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.50 £14.75 £23.36
% change year-on-year
+11.86% -36.85%
All Application Platforms
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
75 83 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 22.32% 20.00% 11.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 30 14
Average daily rate £280 £300 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £175 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 3
Average hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +159.25%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
Blackberry Enterprise Server
Cambridgeshire

Blackberry Enterprise Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge Blackberry Enterprise Server Daily Rate Trend

Blackberry Enterprise Server
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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%) MS Exchange
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (100.00%) Blackberry
2 5 (83.33%) Clustering
2 5 (83.33%) Citrix
2 5 (83.33%) Red Hat
2 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 5 (83.33%) Oracle
2 5 (83.33%) ITIL
2 5 (83.33%) SCOM
2 5 (83.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 5 (83.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (83.33%) XenApp
2 5 (83.33%) PKI
2 5 (83.33%) Exchange Server 2010
2 5 (83.33%) NetScaler
2 5 (83.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (50.00%) WSUS
3 3 (50.00%) SCCM
3 3 (50.00%) Windows 7
3 3 (50.00%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (33.33%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (33.33%) Lync
5 1 (16.67%) NHS

Blackberry Enterprise Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 6 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 5 (83.33%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (33.33%) Lync
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) NetScaler
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Systems Administrator
1 5 (83.33%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Desktop Support Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Desktop Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Support Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Desktop Support
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Blackberry
2 5 (83.33%) Clustering
2 5 (83.33%) PKI
3 1 (16.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 5 (83.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 5 (83.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 5 (83.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (50.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (83.33%) XenApp
3 3 (50.00%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (33.33%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) SCOM
2 3 (50.00%) WSUS
2 3 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (83.33%) Citrix
2 5 (83.33%) Red Hat
2 5 (83.33%) Oracle