The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Blackberry in IT contracts advertised for the Uxbridge 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 Uxbridge 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 17 23 21
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -2
Contract jobs citing Blackberry 1 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Uxbridge 1.020% 0.741% 0.943%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.125% 4.762% 5.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £450 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £313
% change year-on-year
- -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £15.50 - -
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
Uxbridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
32 21 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Uxbridge 32.65% 15.56% 18.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 15 6
Average daily rate £450 £525 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +27.27%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £400 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £590 £600 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
Average hourly rate £13.96 £26.00 £11.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-46.30% +126.08%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.73 £26.00 £10.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.19 £26.00 £31.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Blackberry
London

Blackberry
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Uxbridge 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 Uxbridge region.

Uxbridge 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 Uxbridge region.

Uxbridge Blackberry Hourly Rate Trend

Blackberry
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Uxbridge 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 (100.00%) Windows
1 8 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 8 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 8 (100.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 7 (87.50%) SAN
2 7 (87.50%) Windows Server 2003
2 7 (87.50%) NetIQ
2 7 (87.50%) Symantec
2 7 (87.50%) VMware
2 7 (87.50%) CLARiiON
2 7 (87.50%) EMC
2 7 (87.50%) Citrix
2 7 (87.50%) Windows 2000
2 7 (87.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (87.50%) Capacity Planning
2 7 (87.50%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 4 (50.00%) Law
3 4 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 4 (50.00%) MCSE
3 4 (50.00%) MCSA
3 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
4 3 (37.50%) RepliStor
4 3 (37.50%) Clearswift
4 3 (37.50%) MAILsweeper
4 3 (37.50%) Intel
4 3 (37.50%) HP
4 3 (37.50%) Compaq
4 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
4 3 (37.50%) SQL Server 2005

Blackberry
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Uxbridge 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 8 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 8 (100.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 3 (37.50%) Exchange Server 2003
2 3 (37.50%) WorkSite
2 3 (37.50%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) SAN
2 3 (37.50%) NAS
3 1 (12.50%) DHCP
3 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
3 1 (12.50%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server 2005
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 4 (50.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Server Support
2 4 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 4 (50.00%) Server Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Server Analyst
2 4 (50.00%) Storage Analyst
2 4 (50.00%) Storage Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Desktop Support
3 1 (12.50%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (87.50%) Windows Server 2003
2 7 (87.50%) Windows 2000
3 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (12.50%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Capacity Planning
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 4 (50.00%) MCSE
1 4 (50.00%) MCSA
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (87.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (37.50%) XenApp
3 3 (37.50%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 3 (37.50%) RepliStor
2 3 (37.50%) MAILsweeper
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) NetIQ
1 7 (87.50%) Symantec
1 7 (87.50%) VMware
1 7 (87.50%) EMC
1 7 (87.50%) Citrix
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) Clearswift
2 3 (37.50%) Intel
2 3 (37.50%) HP
2 3 (37.50%) Compaq