Essex Blackberry Enterprise Server Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Research In Motion Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) skills within the Essex region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Blackberry Enterprise Server over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Research In Motion Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES)
Location Basildon Berkshire Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf City of London Docklands, London East Kilbride East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Guildford Hammersmith Kingston Upon Thames Leatherhead Leeds London Manchester Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Scotland Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South West Surrey Sussex Taunton Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge West Yorkshire Westminster Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	57	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	1.739 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£290	£338
% change on same period last year	-14.22 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.38	£15.98
% change on same period last year	-3.75 %
Application Platforms Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	115	109
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.161 %	0.110 %
Daily rates quoted	41	35
Average minimum daily rate	£328	£285
Average daily rate	£343	£309
% change on same period last year	+11.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£333
UK excluding London average daily rate	£351	£340
% change on same period last year	+3.04 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	23
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.39	£29.02
Average hourly rate	£22.32	£29.13
% change on same period last year	-23.40 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.25	£29.24
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.63	£24.22
% change on same period last year	+1.68 %
Blackberry Enterprise Server East of England

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 Enterprise Server
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Blackberry Enterprise Server across the Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Blackberry Enterprise Server
Daily Rate Trend

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

Blackberry Enterprise Server
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Blackberry Enterprise Server
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Blackberry Enterprise Server within the Essex region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Basildon	-	1	-	-

Blackberry Enterprise Server East of England

Blackberry Enterprise Server
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 3 (100.00 %) Active Directory 1 3 (100.00 %) MS Exchange 1 3 (100.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 2 (66.67 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (66.67 %) DNS 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows Server 2003 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows 3 1 (33.33 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (33.33 %) Blackberry 3 1 (33.33 %) Validation 3 1 (33.33 %) VMware 3 1 (33.33 %) VMware ESX 3 1 (33.33 %) Clustering 3 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2007

Blackberry Enterprise Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 3 (100.00 %) MS Exchange 1 3 (100.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2007	Communications & Networking 1 2 (66.67 %) TCP/IP 1 2 (66.67 %) DNS
Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Implementation Engineer 1 2 (66.67 %) Wintel Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) Blackberry 1 1 (33.33 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) Validation
System Software 1 3 (100.00 %) Active Directory 2 1 (33.33 %) VMware ESX 2 1 (33.33 %) VMware Infrastructure	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) VMware