The first table below looks at the demand for Blackberry Enterprise Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the North East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Blackberry Enterprise Server over the 3 months to 24 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 of the Application Platforms category for the North East 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Research In Motion Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES)
Rank - 45 -
Contract jobs citing Blackberry Enterprise Server 0 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East - 0.405% -
As % of the Application Platforms category - 1.905% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £323 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £295 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
-1.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.50 £14.50 £23.36
% change year-on-year
+13.79% -37.92%
All Application Platforms
North East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
38 105 77
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 13.57% 21.26% 17.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 63 35
Average daily rate £300 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 5
Average hourly rate £13.11 £19.00 £23.88
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-31.00% -20.43%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
Blackberry Enterprise Server
England

Blackberry Enterprise Server
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Blackberry Enterprise Server across the North East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

North East Blackberry Enterprise Server Jobs Demand Trend

Blackberry Enterprise Server
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Blackberry Enterprise Server across the North East region.

North East Blackberry Enterprise Server Daily Rate Trend

Blackberry Enterprise Server
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Blackberry Enterprise Server across the North East region.

North East Blackberry Enterprise Server Hourly Rate Trend

Blackberry Enterprise Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Blackberry
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
2 2 (66.67%) McAfee
2 2 (66.67%) Clustering
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 2 (66.67%) Novell
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
2 2 (66.67%) UNIX
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) LDAP
2 2 (66.67%) MS Exchange
2 2 (66.67%) SMTP
2 2 (66.67%) FTP
2 2 (66.67%) SNMP
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) Problem Management
2 2 (66.67%) SRDF
2 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (66.67%) RightFax
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco UCCX
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) SLA
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification

Blackberry Enterprise Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 2 (66.67%) MS Exchange
2 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
1 2 (66.67%) LDAP
1 2 (66.67%) SMTP
1 2 (66.67%) FTP
1 2 (66.67%) SNMP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Server Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) Service Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Blackberry
2 2 (66.67%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) UNIX
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Project Management
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) Problem Management
1 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) SRDF
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) McAfee
2 2 (66.67%) Novell
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
2 2 (66.67%) RightFax
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) VMware