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The first part of the table below looks at the prevalence of the term Blackberry in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Blackberry over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category.

LinkRIM Blackberry
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank254198234
Rank change year-on-year
Down-56Up+36
Matching contract IT job ads267283511
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.553 %0.717 %0.622 %
As % of the Miscellaneous category2.069 %2.976 %2.923 %
Daily rates quoted747397
Average daily rate£244£325£255
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.00 %+27.45 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£142£178£128
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£380£425£400
UK excluding London average daily rate£235£350£245
% change year-on-year
-32.85 %+42.85 %
Hourly rates quoted7261105
Average hourly rate£17.50£18.00£19.70
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.770 %-8.620 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.00£13.00£14.25
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£22.50£26.00£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£13.75£15.00£16.75
% change year-on-year
-8.330 %-10.44 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryAll Miscellaneous Category
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
12906950817483
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK26.72 %24.10 %21.27 %
Daily rates quoted681835476206
Average daily rate£525£425£515
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.52 %-17.47 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£285£225£275
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£650£600£700
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£330£350
% change year-on-year
-1.510 %-5.710 %
Hourly rates quoted5918051511
Average hourly rate£19.50£22.50£25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.33 %-10.00 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£10.50£12.00£10.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£40.00£40.00£42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£19.00£22.63£25.00
% change year-on-year
-16.04 %-9.480 %

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.

Blackberry
Demand Trend

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

Blackberry Demand Trend

Blackberry
Daily Rate Trend

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

Blackberry Daily Rate Trend

Blackberry
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Blackberry within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Blackberry Daily Rate Histogram

Blackberry
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Blackberry Hourly Rate Trend

Blackberry
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Blackberry within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Blackberry Hourly Rate Histogram

Blackberry
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandDown-44252£244-26.13 %
LondonDown-69169£250-3.84 %
City of LondonDown-6661£275-18.51 %
South EastDown-1727£300-13.04 %
South WestDown-316£235-
BerkshireUp+911£293-35.71 %
North WestUp+210--
East of EnglandDown-310£165-60.00 %
SomersetNew entry-9£229-
YorkshireUp+118--
South WalesUp+88--
WalesUp+78--
ManchesterNo change08--
TauntonNew entry-8£229-
North EastNew entry-8--
West YorkshireDown-47--
ScotlandDown-127--
LeedsUp+116--
SurreyDown-156£438+25.00 %
Newcastle Upon TyneNew entry-6--
BrightonNew entry-6£400-
East SussexNew entry-6£400-
Tyne and WearNew entry-6--
WatfordNew entry-4£150-
HertfordshireNew entry-4£150-
GlasgowDown-73--
EssexDown-143£225-45.45 %
West MidlandsUp+112--
CardiffUp+82--
WiltshireUp+72--

Blackberry
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1297 (56.04 %)Windows
2182 (34.34 %)Active Directory
3168 (31.70 %)Microsoft
4160 (30.19 %)Windows XP
5158 (29.81 %)MS Exchange
6144 (27.17 %)MS Office
7118 (22.26 %)Windows Server 2003
8103 (19.43 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
989 (16.79 %)Citrix
1088 (16.60 %)ITIL
1185 (16.04 %)Lotus
1284 (15.85 %)MS Excel
1284 (15.85 %)Banking
1375 (14.15 %)Finance
1375 (14.15 %)Exchange Server 2003
1472 (13.58 %)Exchange Server 2007
1472 (13.58 %)Lotus Notes
1563 (11.89 %)VPN
1656 (10.57 %)Microsoft Certification
1755 (10.38 %)iPhone
1850 (9.434 %)Lotus Domino
1949 (9.245 %)HP
2047 (8.868 %)Investment Banking
2145 (8.491 %)Windows 2000
2244 (8.302 %)Java
2244 (8.302 %)Windows Vista
2342 (7.925 %)PDA
2441 (7.736 %)SAN
2540 (7.547 %)DNS
2540 (7.547 %)TCP/IP

Blackberry
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
121 (3.962 %)J2ME
215 (2.830 %)WebSphere
313 (2.453 %)CSS
412 (2.264 %).NET
511 (2.075 %)Cocoa
610 (1.887 %)Web Services
79 (1.698 %)iPhone SDK
79 (1.698 %)XML
88 (1.509 %)HTML
97 (1.321 %)MIDP
106 (1.132 %)BREW
115 (0.943 %)Flash
115 (0.943 %)AJAX
124 (0.755 %)Java SE
124 (0.755 %)Java EE
124 (0.755 %)Spring
124 (0.755 %)DHTML
124 (0.755 %)OpenGL
133 (0.566 %)Middleware
133 (0.566 %)J2EE
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1158 (29.81 %)MS Exchange
2103 (19.43 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
375 (14.15 %)Exchange Server 2003
472 (13.58 %)Exchange Server 2007
472 (13.58 %)Lotus Notes
550 (9.434 %)Lotus Domino
626 (4.906 %)SharePoint
712 (2.264 %)WebSphere Process Server
712 (2.264 %)WebSphere Application Server
811 (2.075 %)Exchange Server 2000
910 (1.887 %)Office Communications Server
108 (1.509 %)Exchange Server 5.5
108 (1.509 %)IIS
115 (0.943 %)Apache
123 (0.566 %)GroupWise
123 (0.566 %)Rendezvous
132 (0.377 %)CMS
141 (0.189 %)Tomcat
141 (0.189 %)Oracle Workflow
141 (0.189 %)WorkSite
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1144 (27.17 %)MS Office
284 (15.85 %)MS Excel
311 (2.075 %)MS Project
311 (2.075 %)MS PowerPoint
46 (1.132 %)MS Visio
54 (0.755 %)Photoshop
63 (0.566 %)Spreadsheet
72 (0.377 %)AutoCAD
81 (0.189 %)DeltaView
81 (0.189 %)S-PLUS
81 (0.189 %)Acrobat
81 (0.189 %)Vectorworks
81 (0.189 %)CINEMA 4D
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
17 (1.321 %)assyst
17 (1.321 %)3000 Xtra
26 (1.132 %)RMDS
32 (0.377 %)Remedy ITSM
41 (0.189 %)Microsoft CRM
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
163 (11.89 %)VPN
241 (7.736 %)SAN
340 (7.547 %)DNS
340 (7.547 %)TCP/IP
433 (6.226 %)Internet
532 (6.038 %)WAN
629 (5.472 %)Wireless
727 (5.094 %)DHCP
825 (4.717 %)LAN
923 (4.340 %)Firewall
1017 (3.208 %)SMTP
1017 (3.208 %)VoIP
1110 (1.887 %)Wi-Fi
129 (1.698 %)3G
129 (1.698 %)SSL
129 (1.698 %)IP Telephony
136 (1.132 %)Intranet
145 (0.943 %)Bluetooth
145 (0.943 %)GSM
145 (0.943 %)SMS
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
118 (3.396 %)SQL Server
29 (1.698 %)DB2
36 (1.132 %)SQL Server 2005
44 (0.755 %)SQL Server 2000
53 (0.566 %)DTS
62 (0.377 %)MySQL
71 (0.189 %)EDRMS
71 (0.189 %)SQL Server 2008
71 (0.189 %)SQLite
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
15 (0.943 %)Ant
24 (0.755 %)Xcode
24 (0.755 %)Eclipse
24 (0.755 %)JUnit
33 (0.566 %)Subversion
33 (0.566 %)JIRA
42 (0.377 %)Dreamweaver
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
184 (15.85 %)Banking
275 (14.15 %)Finance
347 (8.868 %)Investment Banking
415 (2.830 %)Front Office
415 (2.830 %)Telecoms
511 (2.075 %)Government
511 (2.075 %)Legal
69 (1.698 %)Law
69 (1.698 %)Insurance
78 (1.509 %)Retail
78 (1.509 %)Financial Institution
86 (1.132 %)Games
86 (1.132 %)Education
94 (0.755 %)Publishing
94 (0.755 %)Back Office
103 (0.566 %)Construction
103 (0.566 %)Mobile Games
103 (0.566 %)Advertising
103 (0.566 %)Health
103 (0.566 %)Online Betting
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1145 (27.36 %)Analyst
279 (14.91 %)Support Analyst
378 (14.72 %)Desktop Support
452 (9.811 %)Support Engineer
549 (9.245 %)Developer
637 (6.981 %)Helpdesk Analyst
736 (6.792 %)Administrator
834 (6.415 %)Service Analyst
834 (6.415 %)2nd Line Support
834 (6.415 %)Service Desk Analyst
927 (5.094 %)Desktop Analyst
1026 (4.906 %)Desktop Engineer
1122 (4.151 %)Helpdesk Support
1122 (4.151 %)Desktop Support Engineer
1221 (3.962 %)Desktop Support Analyst
1320 (3.774 %)Consultant
1320 (3.774 %)Exchange Engineer
1418 (3.396 %)IT Support
1517 (3.208 %)Mobile Developer
1615 (2.830 %)3rd Line Support
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
155 (10.38 %)iPhone
242 (7.925 %)PDA
322 (4.151 %)Clustering
418 (3.396 %)Handset
515 (2.830 %)Replication
610 (1.887 %)Video Conferencing
78 (1.509 %)Smartphone
78 (1.509 %)iSeries
78 (1.509 %)NHS
78 (1.509 %)AS400
86 (1.132 %)Management Information System
94 (0.755 %)French Language
94 (0.755 %)Mainframe
103 (0.566 %)Thin Client
103 (0.566 %)Fat Client
103 (0.566 %)PKI
103 (0.566 %)Augmented Reality
112 (0.377 %)Web 2.0
112 (0.377 %)Celerra
112 (0.377 %)Social Network
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1297 (56.04 %)Windows
2160 (30.19 %)Windows XP
3118 (22.26 %)Windows Server 2003
445 (8.491 %)Windows 2000
544 (8.302 %)Windows Vista
636 (6.792 %)Android
730 (5.660 %)Windows Server 2008
824 (4.528 %)Linux
920 (3.774 %)Windows Mobile
1018 (3.396 %)UNIX
1116 (3.019 %)Windows 2000 Server
128 (1.509 %)Windows NT
135 (0.943 %)Windows CE
135 (0.943 %)Solaris
135 (0.943 %)Windows 7
143 (0.566 %)Mac OS X
143 (0.566 %)NetWare
151 (0.189 %)MVS
151 (0.189 %)HPUX
151 (0.189 %)VMS
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
188 (16.60 %)ITIL
235 (6.604 %)Migration
315 (2.830 %)Service Management
49 (1.698 %)Service Delivery
49 (1.698 %)Incident Management
58 (1.509 %)Release Management
58 (1.509 %)Project Management
58 (1.509 %)Configuration Management
67 (1.321 %)Performance Management
76 (1.132 %)Asset Management
85 (0.943 %)Document Management
85 (0.943 %)Agile Software Development
94 (0.755 %)Problem Management
94 (0.755 %)Investment Management
94 (0.755 %)Time Management
94 (0.755 %)OO
103 (0.566 %)Change Management
103 (0.566 %)CRM
103 (0.566 %)RDF
103 (0.566 %)Content Management
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
144 (8.302 %)Java
237 (6.981 %)C
336 (6.792 %)SQL
413 (2.453 %)Objective-C
413 (2.453 %)PowerShell
511 (2.075 %)JavaScript
69 (1.698 %)VB
78 (1.509 %)C#
86 (1.132 %)VBScript
94 (0.755 %)PHP
103 (0.566 %)VBA
112 (0.377 %)LotusScript
112 (0.377 %)VB6
112 (0.377 %)VB.NET
112 (0.377 %)C++
121 (0.189 %)PL/SQL
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
156 (10.57 %)Microsoft Certification
236 (6.792 %)MCSE
330 (5.660 %)MCP
418 (3.396 %)Degree
515 (2.830 %)ITIL Certification
611 (2.075 %)Security Cleared
710 (1.887 %)MCSA
89 (1.698 %)MCITP
97 (1.321 %)CCA
97 (1.321 %)Citrix Certification
97 (1.321 %)SC Cleared
105 (0.943 %)MCTS
113 (0.566 %)Sun Certification
113 (0.566 %)MOS
122 (0.377 %)MCDST
131 (0.189 %)CNE
131 (0.189 %)Novell Certification
131 (0.189 %)A+ Certification
131 (0.189 %)CCNP
131 (0.189 %)CCNA
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
121 (3.962 %)SLA
21 (0.189 %)ISO17799
21 (0.189 %)ISO27001
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1182 (34.34 %)Active Directory
213 (2.453 %)Citrix Presentation Server
213 (2.453 %)XenApp
311 (2.075 %)VMware Infrastructure
410 (1.887 %)VMware ESX
410 (1.887 %)ISA Server
56 (1.132 %)MailMarshal
65 (0.943 %)MetaFrame
65 (0.943 %)Postfix
65 (0.943 %)DFS Replication
73 (0.566 %)XenDesktop
82 (0.377 %)Terminal Services
91 (0.189 %)Terminal Server
91 (0.189 %)NDS
91 (0.189 %)VMware Workstation
91 (0.189 %)Novell eDirectory
91 (0.189 %)BlackBerry Internet Service
91 (0.189 %)XenServer
91 (0.189 %)vSphere
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
112 (2.264 %)Backup Exec
112 (2.264 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
211 (2.075 %)Norton AntiVirus
310 (1.887 %)WSUS
48 (1.509 %)SCOM
57 (1.321 %)MAILsweeper
57 (1.321 %)NetBackup
66 (1.132 %)DameWare
75 (0.943 %)MOM
75 (0.943 %)MIMEsweeper
75 (0.943 %)EMC NetWorker
84 (0.755 %)Tivoli
84 (0.755 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
93 (0.566 %)ARCserve
93 (0.566 %)OpenView
102 (0.377 %)SCCM
102 (0.377 %)OpenView Configuration Management
111 (0.189 %)Legato
111 (0.189 %)CONTROL-M
111 (0.189 %)Unicenter
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1168 (31.70 %)Microsoft
289 (16.79 %)Citrix
385 (16.04 %)Lotus
449 (9.245 %)HP
540 (7.547 %)Remedy
635 (6.604 %)Cisco
734 (6.415 %)Reuters
832 (6.038 %)Bloomberg
931 (5.849 %)Symantec
1028 (5.283 %)VMware
1115 (2.830 %)FileNet
1115 (2.830 %)Nokia
1213 (2.453 %)Novell
1213 (2.453 %)Apple
1312 (2.264 %)Dell
1411 (2.075 %)Symbian
1411 (2.075 %)Altiris
1510 (1.887 %)Oracle
1510 (1.887 %)McAfee
167 (1.321 %)Adobe