The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Blackberry in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Blackberry over the 3 months to 22 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 Edinburgh 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
RIM Blackberry
Rank 47 55 64
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +9
Contract jobs citing Blackberry 8 3 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.969% 0.272% 0.541%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.263% 2.000% 3.590%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
Average daily rate £121 £188 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-35.33% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £313
% change year-on-year
- -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £18.00
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
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
152 150 195
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 18.40% 13.59% 15.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 65 75
Average daily rate £375 £338 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% -3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £200 £223
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £526
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 5
Average hourly rate £12.42 £40.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-68.95% +196.29%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.66
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -12.31%
Blackberry
Scotland

Blackberry
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Blackberry Hourly Rate Trend

Blackberry
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 11 (84.62%) Windows
1 11 (84.62%) Active Directory
2 7 (53.85%) MS Exchange
3 5 (38.46%) Windows XP
3 5 (38.46%) Windows 7
4 4 (30.77%) MS Office
4 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
5 3 (23.08%) Exchange Server 2003
5 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (23.08%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (15.38%) vSphere
6 2 (15.38%) PureDisk
6 2 (15.38%) MCITP
6 2 (15.38%) Veeam
6 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (15.38%) Novell
6 2 (15.38%) Lotus
6 2 (15.38%) HP
6 2 (15.38%) Nortel
6 2 (15.38%) Internet
6 2 (15.38%) DNS
6 2 (15.38%) IBM
6 2 (15.38%) ITIL
6 2 (15.38%) SQL
6 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
6 2 (15.38%) IIS
6 2 (15.38%) Linux
6 2 (15.38%) Windows 2000

Blackberry
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 (53.85%) MS Exchange
2 3 (23.08%) Exchange Server 2003
2 3 (23.08%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (15.38%) IIS
3 2 (15.38%) Lotus Notes
3 2 (15.38%) Apache
4 1 (7.692%) Lotus Domino
Applications
1 4 (30.77%) MS Office
2 2 (15.38%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Internet
1 2 (15.38%) DNS
1 2 (15.38%) DHCP
1 2 (15.38%) LDAP
2 1 (7.692%) Firewall
2 1 (7.692%) Wireless
2 1 (7.692%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (7.692%) Selenium
1 1 (7.692%) Robotium
General
1 1 (7.692%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) 2nd Line Support
1 4 (30.77%) Support Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Desktop Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Desktop Support
3 2 (15.38%) IT Support
3 2 (15.38%) Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (15.38%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Administrator
4 1 (7.692%) IT Administrator
4 1 (7.692%) Applications Tester
4 1 (7.692%) Help Desk Support
4 1 (7.692%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (7.692%) Service Analyst
4 1 (7.692%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) Exchange Consultant
4 1 (7.692%) Messaging Consultant
4 1 (7.692%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Handset
2 1 (7.692%) iPhone
2 1 (7.692%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 11 (84.62%) Windows
2 5 (38.46%) Windows XP
2 5 (38.46%) Windows 7
3 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (15.38%) Linux
4 2 (15.38%) Windows 2000
4 2 (15.38%) Windows Vista
5 1 (7.692%) Android
5 1 (7.692%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Management
1 2 (15.38%) ITIL
1 2 (15.38%) Data Migration
1 2 (15.38%) Migration
2 1 (7.692%) Service Delivery
2 1 (7.692%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (7.692%) Manual Testing
2 1 (7.692%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
2 1 (7.692%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (15.38%) MCITP
2 2 (15.38%) MCSA
2 2 (15.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 11 (84.62%) Active Directory
2 2 (15.38%) vSphere
3 1 (7.692%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) PureDisk
1 2 (15.38%) WSUS
1 2 (15.38%) NetBackup
1 2 (15.38%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Veeam
2 2 (15.38%) Novell
2 2 (15.38%) Lotus
2 2 (15.38%) HP
2 2 (15.38%) Nortel
2 2 (15.38%) IBM
2 2 (15.38%) VMware
3 1 (7.692%) Citrix
3 1 (7.692%) Apple