West Sussex Blackberry Contracts

This section looks at the demand for RIM Blackberry skills within the West Sussex 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire Chichester City of London County Antrim Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dudley Durham East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Gatwick Glasgow Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Kingston Upon Thames Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Redditch Scotland South Coast South East South Shields South West Staffordshire Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Sussex Teesside Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Walton-on-Thames Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Woking Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	41	44
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	4	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	8.511 %	7.792 %
Daily rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum daily rate	£168	£390
Average daily rate	£168	£400
% change on same period last year	-58.12 %
Average maximum daily rate	£168	£410
UK excluding London average daily rate	£255	£365
% change on same period last year	-30.22 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.65	£26.00
Average hourly rate	£13.65	£26.25
% change on same period last year	-48.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£13.65	£26.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.29	£16.30
% change on same period last year	+6.05 %
Miscellaneous West Sussex
Matching contract IT job ads	47	77
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.063 %	0.078 %
Daily rates quoted	6	15
Average minimum daily rate	£318	£349
Average daily rate	£360	£381
% change on same period last year	-5.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£402	£412
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£354
% change on same period last year	-0.56 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.43	£28.33
Average hourly rate	£17.93	£31.57
% change on same period last year	-43.19 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.43	£34.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.44	£29.20
% change on same period last year	-16.30 %
Blackberry South East

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 West Sussex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Blackberry across the West Sussex region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Blackberry within the West Sussex region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Crawley	-1	1	£150	-62.50 %
Gatwick	+5	1	£185	-
Chichester	-	1	-	-

Blackberry South East

Blackberry
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 4 (44.44 %) Lotus Notes 1 4 (44.44 %) Lotus 2 3 (33.33 %) Windows 2 3 (33.33 %) Active Directory 2 3 (33.33 %) Lotus Domino 3 2 (22.22 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 2 (22.22 %) TCP/IP 3 2 (22.22 %) Windows 2000 3 2 (22.22 %) Internet 3 2 (22.22 %) Migration 3 2 (22.22 %) VMware 4 1 (11.11 %) Backup Exec 4 1 (11.11 %) Retail 4 1 (11.11 %) Insurance 4 1 (11.11 %) ISA Server

4 1 (11.11 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 4 1 (11.11 %) Citrix 4 1 (11.11 %) Novell 4 1 (11.11 %) VPN 4 1 (11.11 %) DNS 4 1 (11.11 %) Cisco 4 1 (11.11 %) LAN 4 1 (11.11 %) WAN 4 1 (11.11 %) NetWare 4 1 (11.11 %) SQL Server 4 1 (11.11 %) LANDesk 4 1 (11.11 %) FMCG 4 1 (11.11 %) Firewall 4 1 (11.11 %) DameWare 4 1 (11.11 %) Finance

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 4 (44.44 %) Lotus Notes 2 3 (33.33 %) Lotus Domino 3 2 (22.22 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 1 (11.11 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server	Communications & Networking 1 2 (22.22 %) TCP/IP 1 2 (22.22 %) Internet 2 1 (11.11 %) Firewall 2 1 (11.11 %) VPN 2 1 (11.11 %) DNS 2 1 (11.11 %) LAN 2 1 (11.11 %) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (11.11 %) SQL Server	General 1 1 (11.11 %) Finance 1 1 (11.11 %) Retail 1 1 (11.11 %) Insurance 1 1 (11.11 %) FMCG
Job Titles 1 3 (33.33 %) Administrator 1 3 (33.33 %) Domino Administrator 2 2 (22.22 %) Analyst 2 2 (22.22 %) Support Analyst 2 2 (22.22 %) Support Engineer 3 1 (11.11 %) 3rd Line Support 3 1 (11.11 %) 2nd Line Support 3 1 (11.11 %) Technical Support 3 1 (11.11 %) Server Support 3 1 (11.11 %) Customer Engineer 3 1 (11.11 %) Support Technician 3 1 (11.11 %) Technical Support Analyst 3 1 (11.11 %) Technical Analyst 3 1 (11.11 %) IT Support Analyst 3 1 (11.11 %) IT Support Technician 3 1 (11.11 %) IT Support Engineer 3 1 (11.11 %) Lotus Notes Administrator 3 1 (11.11 %) Server Engineer 3 1 (11.11 %) Senior Support Engineer 3 1 (11.11 %) Server Support Engineer	Operating Systems 1 3 (33.33 %) Windows 2 2 (22.22 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (11.11 %) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (22.22 %) Migration	System Software 1 3 (33.33 %) Active Directory 2 1 (11.11 %) ISA Server 2 1 (11.11 %) Backup Exec
Systems Management 1 1 (11.11 %) DameWare	Vendors 1 4 (44.44 %) Lotus 2 2 (22.22 %) VMware 3 1 (11.11 %) LANDesk 3 1 (11.11 %) Cisco 3 1 (11.11 %) Citrix 3 1 (11.11 %) Novell