The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Blackberry in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester 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 Manchester 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 71 78 60
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -18
Contract jobs citing Blackberry 4 10 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.425% 0.762% 0.879%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.770% 3.636% 4.348%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 2
Average daily rate - £270 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -13.60%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £313
% change year-on-year
- -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
Average hourly rate - £20.00 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +53.84%
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
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
226 275 207
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 23.99% 20.94% 20.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 107 87
Average daily rate £300 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £174 £199 £212
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £426 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 23 21
Average hourly rate £13.50 £20.50 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-34.14% +57.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.08 £17.00 £9.74
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.75 £32.47 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.66
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -12.31%
Blackberry
North West

Blackberry
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Blackberry Hourly Rate Trend

Blackberry
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 17 (85.00%) Windows
2 9 (45.00%) MS Office
2 9 (45.00%) Android
3 8 (40.00%) Windows Mobile
4 7 (35.00%) Apple iOS
4 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
5 6 (30.00%) Active Directory
5 6 (30.00%) Windows XP
5 6 (30.00%) Citrix
5 6 (30.00%) iPhone
6 5 (25.00%) Symbian
6 5 (25.00%) VPN
7 4 (20.00%) Java
7 4 (20.00%) Linux
7 4 (20.00%) Lotus Notes
7 4 (20.00%) ISEB
7 4 (20.00%) Lotus
7 4 (20.00%) Mac OS X
7 4 (20.00%) ISTQB
7 4 (20.00%) iOS SDK
7 4 (20.00%) iPhone SDK
7 4 (20.00%) bada
7 4 (20.00%) Maemo
7 4 (20.00%) Scrum
8 3 (15.00%) Xcode
8 3 (15.00%) Agile Software Development
8 3 (15.00%) TDD
8 3 (15.00%) Software Testing
8 3 (15.00%) JSON
8 3 (15.00%) Cucumber

Blackberry
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 4 (20.00%) iOS SDK
1 4 (20.00%) iPhone SDK
2 3 (15.00%) JSON
2 3 (15.00%) XML
3 2 (10.00%) XSLT
3 2 (10.00%) HTML
3 2 (10.00%) Series 60
4 1 (5.000%) Application Packaging
4 1 (5.000%) J2ME
Application Platforms
1 4 (20.00%) Lotus Notes
2 3 (15.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 3 (15.00%) MS Exchange
3 2 (10.00%) WorkSite
4 1 (5.000%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (5.000%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (5.000%) Lync
Applications
1 9 (45.00%) MS Office
2 3 (15.00%) MS Excel
3 2 (10.00%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.000%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) VPN
2 3 (15.00%) DNS
2 3 (15.00%) WAN
2 3 (15.00%) DHCP
3 2 (10.00%) Ethernet
3 2 (10.00%) FTP
3 2 (10.00%) HTTP
3 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (10.00%) LAN
3 2 (10.00%) Wireless
3 2 (10.00%) Cisco IPT
4 1 (5.000%) SAN
4 1 (5.000%) 3G
4 1 (5.000%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Xcode
1 3 (15.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (10.00%) Eclipse
3 1 (5.000%) Selenium
3 1 (5.000%) JIRA
3 1 (5.000%) Robotium
3 1 (5.000%) Firebug
General
1 1 (5.000%) Banking
1 1 (5.000%) Czech Language
1 1 (5.000%) Polish Language
1 1 (5.000%) Law
1 1 (5.000%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Test Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Support Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Service Desk Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) IT Support Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) IT Support
3 3 (15.00%) Service Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Applications Developer
5 1 (5.000%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (5.000%) IT Trainer
5 1 (5.000%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (5.000%) Training Consultant
5 1 (5.000%) Team Leader
5 1 (5.000%) Server Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) Server Support Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) Windows Server Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) Technical Services Analyst
5 1 (5.000%) Blackberry Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) iPhone
2 3 (15.00%) iPad
2 3 (15.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (15.00%) Fat Client
2 3 (15.00%) Thin Client
3 1 (5.000%) Interactive TV
3 1 (5.000%) Statistics
3 1 (5.000%) Semantic Web
3 1 (5.000%) Handset
3 1 (5.000%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.000%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 17 (85.00%) Windows
2 9 (45.00%) Android
3 8 (40.00%) Windows Mobile
4 7 (35.00%) Apple iOS
5 6 (30.00%) Windows XP
6 4 (20.00%) Linux
6 4 (20.00%) Mac OS X
6 4 (20.00%) bada
6 4 (20.00%) Maemo
7 2 (10.00%) Windows Vista
7 2 (10.00%) Windows 7
8 1 (5.000%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (5.000%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (5.000%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (20.00%) Scrum
2 3 (15.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (15.00%) TDD
2 3 (15.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (10.00%) ITIL
3 2 (10.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (10.00%) Automated Testing
4 1 (5.000%) Asset Management
4 1 (5.000%) BDD
4 1 (5.000%) Automation Testing
4 1 (5.000%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (5.000%) Change Control
4 1 (5.000%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (5.000%) Integration Testing
4 1 (5.000%) Web Testing
4 1 (5.000%) Test Automation
4 1 (5.000%) Project Management
4 1 (5.000%) Practice Management
4 1 (5.000%) Change Management
4 1 (5.000%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) Java
2 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (10.00%) PHP
2 2 (10.00%) Objective-C
3 1 (5.000%) Shell Script
3 1 (5.000%) SQL
3 1 (5.000%) VBScript
3 1 (5.000%) VB
3 1 (5.000%) C
3 1 (5.000%) C#
3 1 (5.000%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) ISEB
1 4 (20.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (5.000%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.000%) QA
1 1 (5.000%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.00%) Terminal Services
2 2 (10.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (5.000%) DameWare
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (30.00%) Citrix
3 5 (25.00%) Symbian
4 4 (20.00%) Lotus
5 2 (10.00%) Cisco
6 1 (5.000%) Apple
6 1 (5.000%) Avaya
6 1 (5.000%) Websense
6 1 (5.000%) SurfControl
6 1 (5.000%) Dell
6 1 (5.000%) EMC
6 1 (5.000%) Intel
Manchester, North West
The objective of the position is to provide a user support function or 'Service Desk' facility to all members of the company and undertake technical projects when required...
Hudson
Rate: £22000 - £25000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013