The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Blackberry in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Blackberry over the 3 months to 23 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 Glasgow 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
RIM Blackberry
Rank 78 56 56
Rank change year-on-year
-22 0
Contract jobs citing Blackberry 4 1 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.423% 0.129% 0.989%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.527% 0.746% 7.143%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
Average daily rate £163 £200 £208
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.75% -3.61%
UK excluding London average daily rate £309 £300 £313
% change year-on-year
+2.91% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-4.73% +6.25%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
262 134 98
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 27.70% 17.34% 13.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 63 62
Average daily rate £360 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.78% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £269 £199 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £427 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 13 5
Average hourly rate £14.00 £25.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.00% -16.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.89 £12.00 £20.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.20 £26.00 £121.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%
Blackberry
Scotland

Blackberry
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow Blackberry Hourly Rate Trend

Blackberry
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 (83.33%) Windows
2 6 (50.00%) MS Office
2 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (41.67%) VPN
3 5 (41.67%) XML
3 5 (41.67%) MS Visio
4 3 (25.00%) Tomcat
4 3 (25.00%) JBoss
4 3 (25.00%) Java
4 3 (25.00%) SQL
4 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 3 (25.00%) Windows Mobile
4 3 (25.00%) Hibernate
5 2 (16.67%) HTML5
5 2 (16.67%) iPad
5 2 (16.67%) Sencha
5 2 (16.67%) CSS3
5 2 (16.67%) WebSockets
5 2 (16.67%) Sencha Touch
5 2 (16.67%) Banking
5 2 (16.67%) JSON
5 2 (16.67%) jQuery
5 2 (16.67%) SCCM
5 2 (16.67%) Ext JS
5 2 (16.67%) Data Integration
5 2 (16.67%) Lightstreamer
5 2 (16.67%) Web Usability
5 2 (16.67%) Ajax
5 2 (16.67%) Finance
5 2 (16.67%) Shell Script

Blackberry
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 Development
1 5 (41.67%) XML
2 3 (25.00%) Hibernate
3 2 (16.67%) HTML5
3 2 (16.67%) CSS3
3 2 (16.67%) WebSockets
3 2 (16.67%) Sencha Touch
3 2 (16.67%) JSON
3 2 (16.67%) jQuery
3 2 (16.67%) Ext JS
3 2 (16.67%) Ajax
3 2 (16.67%) J2EE
3 2 (16.67%) HTML
3 2 (16.67%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 3 (25.00%) Tomcat
2 2 (16.67%) Lightstreamer
3 1 (8.333%) Lotus Notes
3 1 (8.333%) Lotus Domino
3 1 (8.333%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 6 (50.00%) MS Office
2 5 (41.67%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) VPN
2 2 (16.67%) 3G
2 2 (16.67%) Broadband
General
1 2 (16.67%) Banking
1 2 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Deployment Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Designer
3 2 (16.67%) Desktop Support
3 2 (16.67%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Web Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Support Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Technical Specialist
4 1 (8.333%) Desktop Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Desktop Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) iPad
1 2 (16.67%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) Windows
2 3 (25.00%) Windows Mobile
3 1 (8.333%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (16.67%) Web Usability
2 1 (8.333%) Migration
2 1 (8.333%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Java
1 3 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
2 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) JBoss
3 2 (16.67%) Sencha
3 2 (16.67%) Sybase
4 1 (8.333%) Lotus
4 1 (8.333%) IBM