Kent Blackberry Contracts

This section looks at the demand for RIM Blackberry skills within the Kent 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

RIM Blackberry
Location Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire Chichester City of London County Antrim Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dudley Durham East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Gatwick Glasgow Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Kent Kingston Upon Thames Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Redditch Scotland South Coast South East South Shields South West Staffordshire Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Sussex Teesside Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Walton-on-Thames Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Woking Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	54
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	1.980 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£465
Average daily rate	-	£465
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£465
UK excluding London average daily rate	£255	£365
% change on same period last year	-30.22 %
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	£17.29	£16.30
% change on same period last year	+6.05 %
Miscellaneous Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	68	101
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.091 %	0.102 %
Daily rates quoted	21	19
Average minimum daily rate	£316	£323
Average daily rate	£337	£339
% change on same period last year	-0.65 %
Average maximum daily rate	£358	£355
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£354
% change on same period last year	-0.56 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	22
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.50	£31.78
Average hourly rate	£25.86	£37.26
% change on same period last year	-30.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.23	£42.74
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.44	£29.20
% change on same period last year	-16.30 %
Blackberry South East

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 2 (66.67 %) VPN 1 2 (66.67 %) SSL 1 2 (66.67 %) Microsoft 1 2 (66.67 %) MS Office 1 2 (66.67 %) PDA 1 2 (66.67 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 5.5 2 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows NT 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows XP 2 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory 2 1 (33.33 %) Service Delivery 2 1 (33.33 %) Government 2 1 (33.33 %) Local Government

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 2 (66.67 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 5.5 2 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2000	Applications 1 2 (66.67 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 2 (66.67 %) VPN 1 2 (66.67 %) SSL	General 1 1 (33.33 %) Government 1 1 (33.33 %) Local Government
Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Support Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Technical Support 1 1 (33.33 %) Helpdesk Support 1 1 (33.33 %) IT Support Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 2 (66.67 %) PDA
Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows NT 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) Service Delivery
System Software 1 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 2 (66.67 %) Microsoft