The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Blackberry in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Blackberry over the 3 months to 20 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 Merseyside 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
RIM Blackberry
Rank 32 33 30
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -3
Contract jobs citing Blackberry 1 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 0.465% 0.386% 0.800%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.564% 1.370% 2.899%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £140 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £300 £313
% change year-on-year
+5.00% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.77 £17.00 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-7.23% +6.25%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
39 73 69
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 18.14% 28.19% 27.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 27 31
Average daily rate £250 £300 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +3.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £261 £201
10% offered a daily rate of more than £440 £470 £365
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £343 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.18% +0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 23 17
Average hourly rate £12.42 £21.86 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-43.18% +61.92%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.68 £11.37 £11.01
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.86 £25.00 £25.66
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £24.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year
-8.16% -9.25%
Blackberry
North West

Blackberry
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside Blackberry Hourly Rate Trend

Blackberry
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Blackberry within the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Liverpool - 1 - -
Blackberry
North West

Blackberry
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 1 (33.33%) C
1 1 (33.33%) MS Office
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) MCP
1 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) ADSL
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) HP
1 1 (33.33%) Dell
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) Thin Client
1 1 (33.33%) Internet
1 1 (33.33%) MPLS
1 1 (33.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Security Management
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) Wyse
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) IP Telephony
1 1 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection

Blackberry
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 1 (33.33%) Software Packaging
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) ADSL
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) Internet
1 1 (33.33%) MPLS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) IP Telephony
1 1 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Thin Client
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
1 1 (33.33%) Fat Client
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (33.33%) Security Management
1 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
1 1 (33.33%) Service Desk Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) MCP
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (33.33%) XenApp
1 1 (33.33%) XenDesktop
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) HP
1 1 (33.33%) Dell
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix
1 1 (33.33%) Wyse
1 1 (33.33%) NETGEAR