The first table below looks at the demand for Blackberry Enterprise Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading 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 19 June 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 Reading 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Research In Motion Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES)
Rank 69 76 75
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -1
Contract jobs citing Blackberry Enterprise Server 4 5 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.455% 0.434% 0.296%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.210% 3.165% 1.863%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 1
Average daily rate - £500 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +73.91%
UK excluding London average daily rate £298 £315 £300
% change year-on-year
-5.55% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Average hourly rate £13.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £15.63 £22.00
% change year-on-year
+8.80% -28.97%
All Application Platforms
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
181 158 161
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 20.57% 13.73% 15.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 68 66
Average daily rate £425 £365 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.43% +4.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £214 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £483 £500 £478
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 6 10
Average hourly rate £18.00 £35.00 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-48.57% +118.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.20 £12.60 £12.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £35.00 £21.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%
Blackberry Enterprise Server
Berkshire

Blackberry Enterprise Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Blackberry Enterprise Server Daily Rate Trend

Blackberry Enterprise Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (75.00%) LANDesk
3 2 (50.00%) Citrix
3 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (50.00%) Windows 7
3 2 (50.00%) Lotus
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (50.00%) Internet
3 2 (50.00%) Blackberry
3 2 (50.00%) Wireless
3 2 (50.00%) VMware
3 2 (50.00%) Clustering
3 2 (50.00%) Windows XP
3 2 (50.00%) MS Exchange
3 2 (50.00%) ADSL
3 2 (50.00%) LAN
3 2 (50.00%) WAN
3 2 (50.00%) DHCP
3 2 (50.00%) Ethernet
3 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (50.00%) VPN
3 2 (50.00%) DNS
4 1 (25.00%) SLA
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (25.00%) Dell
4 1 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
4 1 (25.00%) Linux

Blackberry Enterprise Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (25.00%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Internet
1 2 (50.00%) Wireless
1 2 (50.00%) ADSL
1 2 (50.00%) LAN
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
1 2 (50.00%) DHCP
1 2 (50.00%) Ethernet
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 2 (50.00%) Service Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Service Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Blackberry
1 2 (50.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (50.00%) Windows 7
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (50.00%) Windows XP
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) LANDesk
2 2 (50.00%) Citrix
2 2 (50.00%) Lotus
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Dell
Reading, Thames Valley
Excellent Active Directory exposure - a key task during this role will be to cleanse the AD. Windows 7 and XP support experience Laptop Imaging VNC Wireless networks BES -...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £12.00 - £15.00 per hour
Posted: 6 June 2013