Blackberry Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Blackberry in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Blackberry over the 3 months to 17 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Scotland 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
RIM Blackberry
Rank 104 97 95
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -2
Contract jobs citing Blackberry 16 8 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.656% 0.302% 0.677%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.680% 1.852% 4.847%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 3
Average daily rate £125 £200 £208
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-37.50% -3.61%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £313
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
Average hourly rate £15.77 £17.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.88% -2.77%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.77 £17.00 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-7.23% +6.25%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 597 432 392
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 24.48% 16.31% 13.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 183 175
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £271 £195 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 35 17
Average hourly rate £15.77 £26.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-39.34% -13.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £11.48 £12.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.00 £32.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
Blackberry
UK

Blackberry
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland Blackberry Hourly Rate Trend

Blackberry
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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Edinburgh +14 8 £121 -35.33%
Aberdeen +4 4 £150 -
Glasgow -18 4 £163 -18.75%
Blackberry
UK

Blackberry
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 33 (80.49%) Windows
2 22 (53.66%) MS Office
3 21 (51.22%) Microsoft
4 17 (41.46%) Windows XP
5 16 (39.02%) Active Directory
6 12 (29.27%) DNS
7 11 (26.83%) DHCP
8 10 (24.39%) Cisco
9 9 (21.95%) FTP
9 9 (21.95%) MS PowerPoint
9 9 (21.95%) Cisco IPT
10 7 (17.07%) Windows 7
10 7 (17.07%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 7 (17.07%) MS Exchange
11 6 (14.63%) MS Visio
11 6 (14.63%) VPN
12 5 (12.20%) SCCM
12 5 (12.20%) XML
12 5 (12.20%) SQL
13 3 (7.317%) Migration
13 3 (7.317%) Hibernate
13 3 (7.317%) Windows Mobile
13 3 (7.317%) Exchange Server 2003
13 3 (7.317%) Banking
13 3 (7.317%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (7.317%) Exchange Server 2010
13 3 (7.317%) Finance
13 3 (7.317%) 3G
13 3 (7.317%) Lotus
13 3 (7.317%) Windows Server 2003

Blackberry
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 5 (12.20%) XML
2 3 (7.317%) Hibernate
3 2 (4.878%) Ajax
3 2 (4.878%) JSON
3 2 (4.878%) jQuery
3 2 (4.878%) Ext JS
3 2 (4.878%) HTML5
3 2 (4.878%) CSS3
3 2 (4.878%) WebSockets
3 2 (4.878%) Sencha Touch
3 2 (4.878%) HTML
3 2 (4.878%) J2EE
3 2 (4.878%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 7 (17.07%) MS Exchange
1 7 (17.07%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 3 (7.317%) Exchange Server 2003
2 3 (7.317%) Lotus Notes
2 3 (7.317%) Tomcat
2 3 (7.317%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (4.878%) IIS
3 2 (4.878%) Lotus Domino
3 2 (4.878%) Apache
3 2 (4.878%) Lightstreamer
4 1 (2.439%) Lync
4 1 (2.439%) SharePoint
Applications
1 22 (53.66%) MS Office
2 9 (21.95%) MS PowerPoint
3 6 (14.63%) MS Visio
4 3 (7.317%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 12 (29.27%) DNS
2 11 (26.83%) DHCP
3 9 (21.95%) FTP
3 9 (21.95%) Cisco IPT
4 6 (14.63%) VPN
5 3 (7.317%) Broadband
5 3 (7.317%) 3G
6 2 (4.878%) Internet
6 2 (4.878%) LDAP
7 1 (2.439%) HTTP
7 1 (2.439%) Firewall
7 1 (2.439%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.317%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.878%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (2.439%) Selenium
1 1 (2.439%) Robotium
General
1 3 (7.317%) Finance
1 3 (7.317%) Banking
2 2 (4.878%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 11 (26.83%) Desktop Support
2 9 (21.95%) Analyst
3 8 (19.51%) Desktop Engineer
4 7 (17.07%) Support Engineer
5 6 (14.63%) 2nd Line Support
5 6 (14.63%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 5 (12.20%) Help Desk Support
6 5 (12.20%) Developer
7 4 (9.756%) Support Analyst
7 4 (9.756%) Desktop Support Analyst
7 4 (9.756%) Desktop Analyst
8 3 (7.317%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 3 (7.317%) Designer
8 3 (7.317%) Deployment Engineer
8 3 (7.317%) Java Developer
8 3 (7.317%) Service Desk Analyst
8 3 (7.317%) Service Analyst
9 2 (4.878%) Administrator
9 2 (4.878%) Systems Administrator
9 2 (4.878%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.878%) Handset
1 2 (4.878%) Data Integration
1 2 (4.878%) iPad
2 1 (2.439%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.439%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 33 (80.49%) Windows
2 17 (41.46%) Windows XP
3 7 (17.07%) Windows 7
4 3 (7.317%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (7.317%) Windows Mobile
4 3 (7.317%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (4.878%) Windows Vista
5 2 (4.878%) Linux
5 2 (4.878%) Windows 2000
6 1 (2.439%) Windows Phone
6 1 (2.439%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (7.317%) Migration
2 2 (4.878%) ITIL
2 2 (4.878%) Data Migration
2 2 (4.878%) Web Usability
2 2 (4.878%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (2.439%) Test Automation
3 1 (2.439%) Service Delivery
3 1 (2.439%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (2.439%) Logistics
3 1 (2.439%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.20%) SQL
2 3 (7.317%) Java
3 2 (4.878%) JavaScript
3 2 (4.878%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.439%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (7.317%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (4.878%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (4.878%) MCITP
2 2 (4.878%) MCSA
3 1 (2.439%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.439%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.439%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (39.02%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.878%) vSphere
3 1 (2.439%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (12.20%) SCCM
2 2 (4.878%) PureDisk
2 2 (4.878%) NetBackup
2 2 (4.878%) Backup Exec
2 2 (4.878%) WSUS
3 1 (2.439%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 21 (51.22%) Microsoft
2 10 (24.39%) Cisco
3 3 (7.317%) IBM
3 3 (7.317%) JBoss
3 3 (7.317%) Lotus
4 2 (4.878%) VMware
4 2 (4.878%) Sybase
4 2 (4.878%) HP
4 2 (4.878%) Dell
4 2 (4.878%) Nortel
4 2 (4.878%) Citrix
4 2 (4.878%) Avaya
4 2 (4.878%) Novell
4 2 (4.878%) Veritas
4 2 (4.878%) Altiris
4 2 (4.878%) Veeam
4 2 (4.878%) Sencha
5 1 (2.439%) Mitel
5 1 (2.439%) Apple
5 1 (2.439%) Symantec
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