The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Blackberry in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Blackberry over the 3 months to 17 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 Milton Keynes 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
RIM Blackberry
Rank 47 - 51
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Blackberry 5 0 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 0.975% - 1.173%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.263% - 5.147%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £163 - £100
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £313
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
Average hourly rate - - £14.00
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
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
95 186 136
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 18.52% 25.58% 22.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 55 41
Average daily rate £350 £339 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.32% +12.91%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £163 £250 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 15
Average hourly rate £16.23 £15.00 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.20% +7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.80 £10.29 £13.13
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £35.00 £16.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
Blackberry
Buckinghamshire

Blackberry
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes Blackberry Hourly Rate Trend

Blackberry
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 8 (80.00%) Windows
1 8 (80.00%) Windows 7
2 6 (60.00%) TCP/IP
3 5 (50.00%) ITIL
3 5 (50.00%) SQL
3 5 (50.00%) MS Excel
3 5 (50.00%) MS Exchange
3 5 (50.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 5 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
3 5 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
4 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (40.00%) Windows Vista
4 4 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2007
4 4 (40.00%) Integration Testing
4 4 (40.00%) Test Scripting
4 4 (40.00%) VMware
4 4 (40.00%) Validation
4 4 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 4 (40.00%) Configuration Management
4 4 (40.00%) SAN
4 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (40.00%) Firewall
4 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
4 4 (40.00%) HP
4 4 (40.00%) DNS
4 4 (40.00%) LAN
4 4 (40.00%) WAN
4 4 (40.00%) DHCP

Blackberry
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 5 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 5 (50.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 5 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 4 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 4 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (10.00%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 5 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 3 (30.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (40.00%) DNS
2 4 (40.00%) SAN
2 4 (40.00%) LAN
2 4 (40.00%) WAN
2 4 (40.00%) DHCP
2 4 (40.00%) Firewall
3 1 (10.00%) ISDN
3 1 (10.00%) Internet
General
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
1 1 (10.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Integration Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst Programmer
3 1 (10.00%) Programmer
3 1 (10.00%) Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Service Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (10.00%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Project Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Project Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) iPhone
2 1 (10.00%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Windows
1 8 (80.00%) Windows 7
2 5 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (40.00%) Windows Vista
4 3 (30.00%) Windows XP
5 1 (10.00%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) ITIL
2 4 (40.00%) Configuration Management
2 4 (40.00%) Validation
2 4 (40.00%) Integration Testing
2 4 (40.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (10.00%) ITIL V3
3 1 (10.00%) Migration
3 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (20.00%) XenApp
2 2 (20.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Unicenter
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) HP
1 4 (40.00%) VMware
2 3 (30.00%) Remedy
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) Citrix
4 1 (10.00%) CA
4 1 (10.00%) Lotus
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco