The first table below looks at the demand for the Blackberry Developer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Blackberry Developer in their job title 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 Job Titles currently tracked.

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
Blackberry Developer
Rank 520 545 534
Rank change year-on-year
+25 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Blackberry Developer 10 33 54
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.022% 0.057% 0.088%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.023% 0.061% 0.095%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 22 29
Average daily rate £405 £381 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.22% +17.30%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £350 £325
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £42.50
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42797 53993 56874
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.24% 92.65% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 24561 29781 30909
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2134 2552 2929
Average hourly rate £18.50 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.63% -5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%

Blackberry Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Blackberry Developer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Blackberry Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Blackberry Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Blackberry Developer within the UK.

Blackberry Developer Daily Rate Trend

Blackberry Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Blackberry Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Blackberry Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Blackberry Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Blackberry Developer within the UK.

Blackberry Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Blackberry Developer
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Blackberry Developer within the UK 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
England +25 10 £405 +6.22%
London +14 10 £405 +3.51%
City of London +13 7 £405 -2.46%

Blackberry Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Blackberry Developer in their job title 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 with Blackberry Developer in their job title.

1 36 (100.00%) Blackberry
2 17 (47.22%) Git (software)
3 16 (44.44%) Mobile App
4 13 (36.11%) Java
5 11 (30.56%) OOP
6 10 (27.78%) JUnit
6 10 (27.78%) MVC
6 10 (27.78%) REST
6 10 (27.78%) SQLite
7 9 (25.00%) Finance
7 9 (25.00%) OO
8 8 (22.22%) Ant
8 8 (22.22%) Maven
8 8 (22.22%) BlackBerry OS
9 6 (16.67%) Banking
9 6 (16.67%) Digital Media
9 6 (16.67%) J2ME
9 6 (16.67%) Eclipse
10 5 (13.89%) C++
10 5 (13.89%) Mobile Banking
10 5 (13.89%) Android
11 4 (11.11%) Multithreading
11 4 (11.11%) Subversion
11 4 (11.11%) Mercurial
11 4 (11.11%) E-Commerce
12 3 (8.333%) Data Modelling
12 3 (8.333%) QML
12 3 (8.333%) JSON
13 2 (5.556%) Flash Lite
13 2 (5.556%) iPhone

Blackberry Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Blackberry Developer in their job title 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 with Blackberry Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (27.78%) REST
2 6 (16.67%) J2ME
3 3 (8.333%) QML
3 3 (8.333%) JSON
4 2 (5.556%) Qt
4 2 (5.556%) BREW
4 2 (5.556%) Java ME
4 2 (5.556%) WML
4 2 (5.556%) Flash
4 2 (5.556%) XHTML
5 1 (2.778%) iOS SDK
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (27.78%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 17 (47.22%) Git (software)
2 10 (27.78%) JUnit
3 8 (22.22%) Ant
3 8 (22.22%) Maven
4 6 (16.67%) Eclipse
5 4 (11.11%) Subversion
5 4 (11.11%) Mercurial
6 1 (2.778%) NetBeans
General
1 9 (25.00%) Finance
2 6 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (2.778%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 36 (100.00%) Blackberry
2 16 (44.44%) Mobile App
3 6 (16.67%) Digital Media
4 5 (13.89%) Mobile Banking
5 2 (5.556%) Flash Lite
5 2 (5.556%) iPhone
6 1 (2.778%) Streaming Video
Operating Systems
1 8 (22.22%) BlackBerry OS
2 5 (13.89%) Android
3 2 (5.556%) Windows
3 2 (5.556%) Windows Mobile
4 1 (2.778%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (30.56%) OOP
2 10 (27.78%) MVC
3 9 (25.00%) OO
4 4 (11.11%) E-Commerce
4 4 (11.11%) Multithreading
5 3 (8.333%) Data Modelling
6 2 (5.556%) Scrum
6 2 (5.556%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (2.778%) Memory Management
7 1 (2.778%) Mobile Commerce
Programming Languages
1 13 (36.11%) Java
2 5 (13.89%) C++
3 1 (2.778%) C
Vendors
1 2 (5.556%) JD Edwards
2 1 (2.778%) Symbian
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