The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Blackberry in IT contracts advertised for the Slough region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Blackberry over the 3 months to 24 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 Slough 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
RIM Blackberry
Rank 38 28 36
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +8
Contract jobs citing Blackberry 1 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 0.410% 0.980% 0.313%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.439% 4.348% 1.429%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £319 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £313
% change year-on-year
- -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-4.73% +6.25%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Slough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
41 46 70
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 16.80% 22.55% 21.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 22 39
Average daily rate £370 £325 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.84% +18.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £208 £270 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £455 £413 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
Average hourly rate £162.50 £14.40 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1028.47% -55.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Blackberry
Berkshire

Blackberry
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Slough 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 Slough region.

Slough 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 Slough region.

Slough Blackberry Hourly Rate Trend

Blackberry
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough 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 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Site Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012

Blackberry
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough 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 1 (100.00%) Site Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware