South West Blackberry Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for RIM Blackberry skills within the South West region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Blackberry over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

RIM Blackberry
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Buxton Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London County Antrim Crawley Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Durham East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Falkirk Feltham Glasgow Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hartlepool Hertfordshire Horsham Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds London Luton Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Preston Reading Redditch Scotland Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West Street Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Woking Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	139	159
Rank change on same period last year	+20
Matching contract IT job ads	7	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.010 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	1.282 %	0.996 %
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	£277	£316
% change on same period last year	-12.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.00	-
Average hourly rate	£19.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.08	£15.57
% change on same period last year	+9.74 %
Miscellaneous South West
Matching contract IT job ads	546	803
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.772 %	0.813 %
Daily rates quoted	151	147
Average minimum daily rate	£312	£315
Average daily rate	£328	£335
% change on same period last year	-2.08 %
Average maximum daily rate	£344	£355
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£344
% change on same period last year	+1.42 %
Hourly rates quoted	78	114
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.48	£28.37
Average hourly rate	£26.57	£30.54
% change on same period last year	-12.99 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.67	£32.72
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.09	£26.20
% change on same period last year	-4.24 %
Blackberry England

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
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Blackberry across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Blackberry
Daily Rate Trend

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

Blackberry
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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 South West region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Somerset	+4	3	-	-
Bristol	+4	1	-	-
Wiltshire	-1	1	-	-

Blackberry England

Blackberry
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 8 (50.00 %) Windows 2 7 (43.75 %) MS Office 2 7 (43.75 %) Active Directory 3 5 (31.25 %) Lotus 3 5 (31.25 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 3 5 (31.25 %) Lotus Notes 4 4 (25.00 %) Windows 2000 4 4 (25.00 %) ITIL 4 4 (25.00 %) MS Exchange 4 4 (25.00 %) Windows Server 2003 4 4 (25.00 %) Microsoft 5 3 (18.75 %) Law 5 3 (18.75 %) Windows Vista 5 3 (18.75 %) Microsoft Certification 5 3 (18.75 %) Windows XP

5 3 (18.75 %) Lotus Domino 6 2 (12.50 %) MCP 6 2 (12.50 %) DHCP 6 2 (12.50 %) VPN 6 2 (12.50 %) DNS 6 2 (12.50 %) Cisco 6 2 (12.50 %) Citrix 6 2 (12.50 %) SC Cleared 6 2 (12.50 %) Security Cleared 6 2 (12.50 %) assyst 6 2 (12.50 %) Legal 6 2 (12.50 %) Service Management 6 2 (12.50 %) Government 6 2 (12.50 %) Front Office 6 2 (12.50 %) Telecoms

Blackberry
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 5 (31.25 %) Lotus Notes 1 5 (31.25 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 2 4 (25.00 %) MS Exchange 3 3 (18.75 %) Lotus Domino 4 1 (6.250 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 7 (43.75 %) MS Office 2 1 (6.250 %) DeltaView 2 1 (6.250 %) MS Project
Business Applications 1 2 (12.50 %) assyst	Communications & Networking 1 2 (12.50 %) DHCP 1 2 (12.50 %) VPN 1 2 (12.50 %) DNS 2 1 (6.250 %) Wi-Fi 2 1 (6.250 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (6.250 %) Broadband 2 1 (6.250 %) SMS 2 1 (6.250 %) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server 1 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server 2000 1 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 1 (6.250 %) FrontPage
General 1 3 (18.75 %) Law 2 2 (12.50 %) Legal 2 2 (12.50 %) Front Office 2 2 (12.50 %) Telecoms 2 2 (12.50 %) Government 3 1 (6.250 %) Finance 3 1 (6.250 %) Billing	Job Titles 1 4 (25.00 %) Analyst 2 3 (18.75 %) Support Technician 2 3 (18.75 %) Support Analyst 2 3 (18.75 %) Administrator 2 3 (18.75 %) Desktop Analyst 2 3 (18.75 %) Domino Administrator 3 2 (12.50 %) Desktop Support Analyst 3 2 (12.50 %) Desktop Support 3 2 (12.50 %) 3rd Line Support 4 1 (6.250 %) IT Manager 4 1 (6.250 %) Helpdesk Analyst 4 1 (6.250 %) Support Engineer 4 1 (6.250 %) Lotus Notes Administrator 4 1 (6.250 %) Legal Analyst 4 1 (6.250 %) Systems Manager 4 1 (6.250 %) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (6.250 %) PDA	Operating Systems 1 8 (50.00 %) Windows 2 4 (25.00 %) Windows 2000 2 4 (25.00 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (18.75 %) Windows Vista 3 3 (18.75 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (25.00 %) ITIL 2 2 (12.50 %) Service Management 2 2 (12.50 %) SC Cleared 2 2 (12.50 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (6.250 %) Document Management	Qualifications 1 3 (18.75 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (12.50 %) MCP 3 1 (6.250 %) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (6.250 %) SLA	System Software 1 7 (43.75 %) Active Directory 2 1 (6.250 %) Terminal Services
Vendors 1 5 (31.25 %) Lotus 2 4 (25.00 %) Microsoft 3 2 (12.50 %) Citrix 3 2 (12.50 %) Cisco 4 1 (6.250 %) Apple 4 1 (6.250 %) Remedy 4 1 (6.250 %) Altiris