Oxfordshire Blackberry Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for RIM Blackberry skills within the Oxfordshire region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Blackberry over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

RIM Blackberry
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London County Antrim Crawley Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Durham East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Falkirk Feltham Glasgow Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hartlepool Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds London Luton Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Preston Reading Redditch Scotland Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West Street Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Woking Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	51	43
Rank change on same period last year	-8
Matching contract IT job ads	4	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	6.557 %	9.524 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£265	-
Average daily rate	£283	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£300	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£275	£316
% change on same period last year	-12.88 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	7
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£12.84
Average hourly rate	-	£13.99
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£15.14
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£16.91	£15.62
% change on same period last year	+8.25 %
Miscellaneous Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	61	105
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.087 %	0.106 %
Daily rates quoted	11	14
Average minimum daily rate	£251	£237
Average daily rate	£271	£248
% change on same period last year	+9.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£291	£259
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£345
% change on same period last year	+1.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	18
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.13	£17.80
Average hourly rate	£19.60	£18.83
% change on same period last year	+4.08 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.07	£19.86
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.85	£26.56
% change on same period last year	-6.42 %
Blackberry South East

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
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Blackberry across the Oxfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Blackberry across the Oxfordshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Blackberry across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Blackberry across the Oxfordshire region.

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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 Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Oxford	-8	1	-	-

Blackberry South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 (100.00 %) Windows 2 7 (87.50 %) Active Directory 2 7 (87.50 %) Citrix 3 6 (75.00 %) Windows Server 2003 3 6 (75.00 %) Microsoft 3 6 (75.00 %) MS Exchange 4 5 (62.50 %) DHCP 4 5 (62.50 %) VPN 4 5 (62.50 %) DNS 4 5 (62.50 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 4 (50.00 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 5 4 (50.00 %) Backup Exec 5 4 (50.00 %) Microsoft Certification 5 4 (50.00 %) LAN 5 4 (50.00 %) MS Excel

5 4 (50.00 %) MCP 6 3 (37.50 %) PRINCE2 6 3 (37.50 %) SQL Server 6 3 (37.50 %) MCSE 6 3 (37.50 %) MCSA 6 3 (37.50 %) ADSL 6 3 (37.50 %) TCP/IP 6 3 (37.50 %) SAN 6 3 (37.50 %) Terminal Services 6 3 (37.50 %) Cisco 6 3 (37.50 %) IBM 6 3 (37.50 %) WAN 6 3 (37.50 %) Citrix Presentation Server 6 3 (37.50 %) Clustering 7 2 (25.00 %) Cisco IPT

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 6 (75.00 %) MS Exchange 2 5 (62.50 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 4 (50.00 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server	Applications 1 4 (50.00 %) MS Excel 2 1 (12.50 %) MS Office
Business Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) GoldMine	Communications & Networking 1 5 (62.50 %) DHCP 1 5 (62.50 %) VPN 1 5 (62.50 %) DNS 2 4 (50.00 %) LAN 3 3 (37.50 %) ADSL 3 3 (37.50 %) TCP/IP 3 3 (37.50 %) SAN 3 3 (37.50 %) WAN 4 2 (25.00 %) Cisco IPT 4 2 (25.00 %) Intrusion Detection 4 2 (25.00 %) PPTP 4 2 (25.00 %) Firewall 4 2 (25.00 %) SSL 4 2 (25.00 %) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (37.50 %) SQL Server 2 2 (25.00 %) SQL Server 2005 2 2 (25.00 %) SQL Server 2000	Job Titles 1 3 (37.50 %) Analyst 2 2 (25.00 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 2 2 (25.00 %) Support Analyst 2 2 (25.00 %) 2nd Line Support 3 1 (12.50 %) Senior Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Technical Consultant 3 1 (12.50 %) Helpdesk Support 3 1 (12.50 %) Technical Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Technical Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) Senior Technical Consultant 3 1 (12.50 %) Senior Technical Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Desktop Support 3 1 (12.50 %) IT Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) Senior Consultant 3 1 (12.50 %) Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 3 (37.50 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 8 (100.00 %) Windows 2 6 (75.00 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (12.50 %) Windows XP 3 1 (12.50 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (37.50 %) PRINCE2 2 1 (12.50 %) ITIL 2 1 (12.50 %) Project Management 2 1 (12.50 %) Security Cleared	Qualifications 1 4 (50.00 %) Microsoft Certification 1 4 (50.00 %) MCP 2 3 (37.50 %) MCSE 2 3 (37.50 %) MCSA
System Software 1 7 (87.50 %) Active Directory 2 4 (50.00 %) Backup Exec 3 3 (37.50 %) Terminal Services 3 3 (37.50 %) Citrix Presentation Server	Systems Management 1 2 (25.00 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 7 (87.50 %) Citrix 2 6 (75.00 %) Microsoft 3 3 (37.50 %) Cisco 3 3 (37.50 %) IBM 4 1 (12.50 %) Sophos 4 1 (12.50 %) HP 4 1 (12.50 %) Dell