The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Blackberry in IT contracts advertised for the Stoke-on-Trent 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 Stoke-on-Trent 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 12 19 20
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +1
Contract jobs citing Blackberry 3 5 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stoke-on-Trent 9.677% 7.353% 1.818%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 25.00% 29.41% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 0
Average daily rate £330 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.53% -
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
Stoke-on-Trent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
12 17 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stoke-on-Trent 38.71% 25.00% 16.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 16 4
Average daily rate £330 £325 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.53% -16.12%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Blackberry
Staffordshire

Blackberry
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stoke-on-Trent 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 Stoke-on-Trent region.

Stoke-on-Trent 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 Stoke-on-Trent region.

Stoke-on-Trent Blackberry Hourly Rate Trend

Blackberry
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent 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 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) XSLT
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) XHTML
1 3 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 3 (100.00%) N-Tier
1 3 (100.00%) SOA
1 3 (100.00%) SEO
1 3 (100.00%) Games
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Document Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ajax
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Mobile
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
1 3 (100.00%) jQuery
1 3 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Android
1 3 (100.00%) AccuRev
1 3 (100.00%) HTML5
1 3 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 3 (100.00%) WURFL

Blackberry
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent 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 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) XSLT
1 3 (100.00%) XHTML
1 3 (100.00%) Ajax
1 3 (100.00%) jQuery
1 3 (100.00%) HTML5
1 3 (100.00%) CSS3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (100.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Web Developer
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 3 (100.00%) VB.NET Developer
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET Developer
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Developer
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Web Developer
1 3 (100.00%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# Web Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) N-Tier
1 3 (100.00%) WURFL
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Mobile
1 3 (100.00%) Android
1 3 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 3 (100.00%) BlackBerry OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 3 (100.00%) SOA
1 3 (100.00%) SEO
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Document Management
1 3 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) AccuRev