Newbury Blackberry Enterprise Server Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Research In Motion Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) skills within the Newbury region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Blackberry Enterprise Server over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Research In Motion Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES)
Location Basildon Berkshire Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf City of London Docklands, London East Kilbride East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Guildford Hammersmith Kingston Upon Thames Leatherhead Leeds London Manchester Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Scotland Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South West Surrey Sussex Taunton Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge West Yorkshire Westminster Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	21	31
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	3	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	20.00 %	3.704 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£297	£338
% change on same period last year	-12.11 %
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	£15.38	£15.98
% change on same period last year	-3.75 %
Application Platforms Newbury
Matching contract IT job ads	15	27
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.027 %
Daily rates quoted	2	5
Average minimum daily rate	£700	£408
Average daily rate	£720	£408
% change on same period last year	+76.68 %
Average maximum daily rate	£740	£408
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£338
% change on same period last year	+3.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	6
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£21.12
Average hourly rate	-	£23.04
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£24.96
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.77	£24.01
% change on same period last year	+3.15 %
Blackberry Enterprise Server Berkshire

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.

Blackberry Enterprise Server
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Blackberry Enterprise Server across the Newbury region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Blackberry Enterprise Server
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Newbury region citing Blackberry Enterprise Server 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 Enterprise Server.

1 8 (100.00 %) MS Exchange 2 6 (75.00 %) Telecoms 3 5 (62.50 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 5 (62.50 %) Billing 4 3 (37.50 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 3 (37.50 %) Windows XP 4 3 (37.50 %) Symantec 4 3 (37.50 %) Blackberry 4 3 (37.50 %) Windows Server 2003 4 3 (37.50 %) MOM 4 3 (37.50 %) TCP/IP 4 3 (37.50 %) Microsoft 4 3 (37.50 %) Active Directory 4 3 (37.50 %) SQL 4 3 (37.50 %) SQL Server

4 3 (37.50 %) Windows 5 1 (12.50 %) MCSA 5 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification 5 1 (12.50 %) Degree

Blackberry Enterprise Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Newbury region citing Blackberry Enterprise Server 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 Enterprise Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 8 (100.00 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (37.50 %) Exchange Server 2003	Communications & Networking 1 3 (37.50 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (37.50 %) SQL Server	General 1 6 (75.00 %) Telecoms 2 5 (62.50 %) Billing
Job Titles 1 5 (62.50 %) Technical Designer 2 3 (37.50 %) Support Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) Communications Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (37.50 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 3 (37.50 %) Windows 1 3 (37.50 %) Windows XP 1 3 (37.50 %) Windows Server 2003	Programming Languages 1 3 (37.50 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 1 (12.50 %) MCSA 1 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (12.50 %) Degree	System Software 1 3 (37.50 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 5 (62.50 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 3 (37.50 %) MOM	Vendors 1 3 (37.50 %) Microsoft 1 3 (37.50 %) Symantec