Reading Blackberry Enterprise Server Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Research In Motion Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) skills within the Reading 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Research In Motion Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES)
Location Berkshire Bicester Bristol Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Cramlington Docklands, London East of England England Essex Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire London Newbury North East North West Northumberland Oxford Oxfordshire Reading South East South West Surrey Teesside UK Warrington West Midlands	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	71	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.649 %	0.000 %
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	£338	£330
% change on same period last year	+2.42 %
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	£23.67	£22.67
% change on same period last year	+4.41 %
Application Platforms Reading
Matching contract IT job ads	154	178
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.205 %	0.180 %
Daily rates quoted	50	64
Average minimum daily rate	£341	£346
Average daily rate	£363	£393
% change on same period last year	-7.82 %
Average maximum daily rate	£384	£440
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£349
% change on same period last year	+1.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	21
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.94	£21.33
Average hourly rate	£34.47	£22.81
% change on same period last year	+51.11 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.00	£24.29
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.28	£23.70
% change on same period last year	+2.44 %
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 Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Blackberry Enterprise Server
Daily Rate Trend

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

Blackberry Enterprise Server
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 3 (100.00 %) Blackberry 2 2 (66.67 %) Lotus Notes 2 2 (66.67 %) Active Directory 2 2 (66.67 %) Lotus 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (33.33 %) Internet 3 1 (33.33 %) HP 3 1 (33.33 %) Dell 3 1 (33.33 %) Citrix 3 1 (33.33 %) CISSP 3 1 (33.33 %) VERITAS 3 1 (33.33 %) DHCP 3 1 (33.33 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (33.33 %) DNS 3 1 (33.33 %) IBM

3 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 3 1 (33.33 %) IIS 3 1 (33.33 %) MS Office 3 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 3 1 (33.33 %) CISA 3 1 (33.33 %) CISM 3 1 (33.33 %) Firewall 3 1 (33.33 %) Migration 3 1 (33.33 %) SoftGrid 3 1 (33.33 %) CEH

Blackberry Enterprise Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 (66.67 %) Lotus Notes 2 1 (33.33 %) IIS	Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Office
Business Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) SoftGrid	Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) DHCP 1 1 (33.33 %) TCP/IP 1 1 (33.33 %) DNS 1 1 (33.33 %) Internet 1 1 (33.33 %) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server	Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Desktop Support 1 1 (33.33 %) 2nd Line Support 1 1 (33.33 %) Migration Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) Server Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) Security Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 3 (100.00 %) Blackberry	Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) Migration	Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) CISSP 1 1 (33.33 %) CISA 1 1 (33.33 %) CISM 1 1 (33.33 %) CEH
System Software 1 2 (66.67 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 2 (66.67 %) Lotus 2 1 (33.33 %) IBM 2 1 (33.33 %) HP 2 1 (33.33 %) Dell 2 1 (33.33 %) Citrix 2 1 (33.33 %) VERITAS