The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Blackberry in IT contracts advertised for the Salford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Blackberry 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Salford 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
RIM Blackberry
Rank 6 6 -
Rank change year-on-year
0 -
Contract jobs citing Blackberry 2 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford 8.333% 8.333% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 20.00% 18.18% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Average daily rate £300 £275 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £269 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
-10.41% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £20.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.50 £15.00 £14.50
% change year-on-year
+10.00% +3.44%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Salford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
10 11 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford 41.67% 45.83% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 0
Average daily rate £325 £375 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £328
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +5.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £14.00 £20.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.00% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.63 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-3.88% -10.00%
Blackberry
Manchester

Blackberry
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Blackberry across the Salford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Salford Blackberry Jobs Demand Trend

Blackberry
Daily Rate Trend

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

Salford Blackberry Daily Rate Trend

Blackberry
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Salford Blackberry Hourly Rate Trend

Blackberry
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford 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 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Mobile
2 3 (75.00%) Android
2 3 (75.00%) Apple iOS
3 2 (50.00%) Robotium
3 2 (50.00%) iPhone
3 2 (50.00%) bada
3 2 (50.00%) Maemo
3 2 (50.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (50.00%) BDD
3 2 (50.00%) JSON
3 2 (50.00%) Selenium
3 2 (50.00%) XML
3 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (50.00%) TDD
3 2 (50.00%) Automated Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Mac OS X
3 2 (50.00%) Xcode
4 1 (25.00%) Objective-C
4 1 (25.00%) Maximo
4 1 (25.00%) Series 60
4 1 (25.00%) HTML
4 1 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (25.00%) PHP
4 1 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (25.00%) MS Office
4 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (25.00%) 3G
4 1 (25.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server

Blackberry
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford 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 Development
1 2 (50.00%) JSON
1 2 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) Series 60
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) XSLT
2 1 (25.00%) iPhone SDK
2 1 (25.00%) iOS SDK
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 1 (25.00%) IBM Notes
1 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Office
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) 3G
1 1 (25.00%) Wireless
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) VoIP
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Robotium
1 2 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (50.00%) Selenium
1 2 (50.00%) Xcode
2 1 (25.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (25.00%) Firebug
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Hudson
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Service Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) iPhone
2 1 (25.00%) Semantic Web
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Mobile
2 3 (75.00%) Android
2 3 (75.00%) Apple iOS
3 2 (50.00%) bada
3 2 (50.00%) Maemo
3 2 (50.00%) Mac OS X
4 1 (25.00%) Linux
4 1 (25.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) BDD
1 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (50.00%) TDD
1 2 (50.00%) Automated Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Objective-C
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) PHP
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) ISEB
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) DameWare
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Symbian
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Citrix
1 1 (25.00%) Lotus