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The table below looks at the demand for RIM Blackberry skills within the Cambridge region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Blackberry over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkRIM Blackberry
Location
3 months to
7 Oct 2008
Same period last year
Rank3754
Rank change on same period last yearUp+17
Matching contract IT job ads43
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.006 %0.003 %
As % of the category below4.040 %3.061 %
Daily rates quoted00
Average minimum daily rate--
Average daily rate--
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum daily rate--
UK excluding London average daily rate£275£316
% change on same period last year-12.88 %
Hourly rates quoted32
Average minimum hourly rate£23.33£12.70
Average hourly rate£24.17£12.70
% change on same period last year+90.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate£25.00£12.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate£16.91£15.62
% change on same period last year+8.25 %
Cambridge IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
Cambridge
Matching contract IT job ads9998
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.141 %0.099 %
Daily rates quoted1217
Average minimum daily rate£247£238
Average daily rate£272£257
% change on same period last year+5.86 %
Average maximum daily rate£296£275
UK excluding London average daily rate£349£345
% change on same period last year+1.10 %
Hourly rates quoted4218
Average minimum hourly rate£26.90£36.52
Average hourly rate£28.53£39.96
% change on same period last year-28.59 %
Average maximum hourly rate£30.16£43.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate£24.85£26.56
% change on same period last year-6.42 %
Blackberry CambridgeshireBlackberry
Cambridgeshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Blackberry
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Blackberry across the Cambridge region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Cambridge Blackberry Demand Trend

Blackberry
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridge Blackberry Daily Rate Trend

Blackberry
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridge Blackberry Hourly Rate Trend

Blackberry
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Blackberry across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

Cambridge Blackberry Hourly Rate Histogram

Blackberry
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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.

15 (100.00 %)Windows
24 (80.00 %)VPN
24 (80.00 %)Active Directory
33 (60.00 %)SharePoint
33 (60.00 %)Windows XP
33 (60.00 %)Windows Mobile
33 (60.00 %)TCP/IP
42 (40.00 %)Subversion
42 (40.00 %)Exchange Server 2003
42 (40.00 %)Exchange Server 2007
42 (40.00 %)MS Exchange
42 (40.00 %)Configuration Management
51 (20.00 %)Wireless
51 (20.00 %)Bugzilla
51 (20.00 %)Objective-C
51 (20.00 %)Series 60
51 (20.00 %)NetApp
51 (20.00 %)Red Hat
51 (20.00 %)Windows Server 2003
51 (20.00 %)DNS
51 (20.00 %)Cisco
51 (20.00 %)Microsoft
51 (20.00 %)OOD
51 (20.00 %)Eclipse
51 (20.00 %)Symbian
51 (20.00 %)DHCP
51 (20.00 %)NFS
51 (20.00 %)Linux
51 (20.00 %)OO
51 (20.00 %)Apache

Blackberry
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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.

Cambridge IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
11 (20.00 %)Series 60
11 (20.00 %)J2ME
Cambridge IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
13 (60.00 %)SharePoint
22 (40.00 %)Exchange Server 2003
22 (40.00 %)Exchange Server 2007
22 (40.00 %)MS Exchange
31 (20.00 %)Apache
Cambridge IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
11 (20.00 %)MS Office
Cambridge IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
14 (80.00 %)VPN
23 (60.00 %)TCP/IP
31 (20.00 %)Wireless
31 (20.00 %)DNS
31 (20.00 %)DHCP
31 (20.00 %)Cisco PIX
Cambridge IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
11 (20.00 %)MySQL
Cambridge IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
12 (40.00 %)Subversion
21 (20.00 %)Bugzilla
21 (20.00 %)Eclipse
21 (20.00 %)Ant
21 (20.00 %)JUnit
Cambridge IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
12 (40.00 %)Helpdesk Support
21 (20.00 %)Software Engineer
21 (20.00 %)Analyst
21 (20.00 %)IT Manager
21 (20.00 %)Systems Support
21 (20.00 %)Support Analyst
21 (20.00 %)Helpdesk Analyst
21 (20.00 %)Support Engineer
21 (20.00 %)Systems Manager
21 (20.00 %)Helpdesk Support Analyst
21 (20.00 %)Support Manager
21 (20.00 %)IT Support Manager
21 (20.00 %)Helpdesk Engineer
21 (20.00 %)Systems Support Manager
Cambridge IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
11 (20.00 %)iPhone
Cambridge IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
15 (100.00 %)Windows
23 (60.00 %)Windows XP
23 (60.00 %)Windows Mobile
31 (20.00 %)Windows Server 2003
31 (20.00 %)Linux
31 (20.00 %)UNIX
31 (20.00 %)CentOS
31 (20.00 %)Red Hat Linux
Cambridge IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
12 (40.00 %)Configuration Management
21 (20.00 %)OOD
21 (20.00 %)OO
Cambridge IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
11 (20.00 %)Objective-C
11 (20.00 %)C
11 (20.00 %)C++
Cambridge IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
14 (80.00 %)Active Directory
21 (20.00 %)NFS
Cambridge IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
11 (20.00 %)NetApp
11 (20.00 %)Red Hat
11 (20.00 %)Cisco
11 (20.00 %)Microsoft
11 (20.00 %)Symbian