The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Blackberry in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Blackberry over the 3 months to 21 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 Yorkshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
RIM Blackberry
Rank 98 111 83
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -28
Contract jobs citing Blackberry 13 5 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.682% 0.219% 0.785%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.242% 1.553% 3.867%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 8
Average daily rate £160 - £300
90% offered a daily rate of more than £132 - £170
10% offered a daily rate of more than £372 - £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £309 £300 £313
% change year-on-year
+2.91% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £12.50 - £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.83 £17.00 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-6.88% +6.25%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
401 322 362
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 21.03% 14.10% 20.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 173 150
Average daily rate £313 £338 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.40% +12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £203 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £460 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 9 30
Average hourly rate £14.75 £22.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-34.44% +12.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.23 £11.00 £9.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £30.00 £47.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-4.34% -13.20%
Blackberry
England

Blackberry
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire Blackberry Daily Rate Trend

Blackberry
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Blackberry across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Yorkshire Blackberry Daily Rate Histogram

Blackberry
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire Blackberry Hourly Rate Trend

Blackberry
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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
West Yorkshire +9 11 £275 -
South Yorkshire - 2 £160 -
Blackberry
England

Blackberry
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 25 (75.76%) Windows
2 17 (51.52%) Active Directory
3 15 (45.45%) Windows 2000
4 11 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 11 (33.33%) Windows 7
5 10 (30.30%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (30.30%) Windows Server 2003
6 8 (24.24%) MS Excel
6 8 (24.24%) GPRS
6 8 (24.24%) Windows XP
7 7 (21.21%) Internet
8 6 (18.18%) MCP
8 6 (18.18%) Windows Vista
9 5 (15.15%) Network Architecture
9 5 (15.15%) MS Office
10 4 (12.12%) Lotus
10 4 (12.12%) ITIL
10 4 (12.12%) Citrix
10 4 (12.12%) Apple iOS
11 3 (9.091%) Android
11 3 (9.091%) iPhone
11 3 (9.091%) Telecoms
11 3 (9.091%) Service Management
11 3 (9.091%) MS Exchange
11 3 (9.091%) Lotus Notes
11 3 (9.091%) TCP/IP
12 2 (6.061%) VPN
12 2 (6.061%) DNS
12 2 (6.061%) SLA
12 2 (6.061%) Cisco

Blackberry
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 1 (3.030%) HTML5
1 1 (3.030%) HTML5 Canvas
1 1 (3.030%) jQuery
1 1 (3.030%) JSON
1 1 (3.030%) CSS
1 1 (3.030%) XML
Application Platforms
1 3 (9.091%) MS Exchange
1 3 (9.091%) Lotus Notes
2 1 (3.030%) Lync
2 1 (3.030%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (3.030%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (3.030%) WorkSite
2 1 (3.030%) Exchange Server 5.5
2 1 (3.030%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (3.030%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (3.030%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (24.24%) MS Excel
2 5 (15.15%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 8 (24.24%) GPRS
2 7 (21.21%) Internet
3 3 (9.091%) TCP/IP
4 2 (6.061%) VPN
4 2 (6.061%) DNS
5 1 (3.030%) NAS
5 1 (3.030%) Firewall
5 1 (3.030%) SAN
5 1 (3.030%) 3G
5 1 (3.030%) VoIP
5 1 (3.030%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.030%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (9.091%) Telecoms
2 2 (6.061%) Finance
3 1 (3.030%) Interactive Media
3 1 (3.030%) Military
3 1 (3.030%) Electronics
3 1 (3.030%) Aerospace
3 1 (3.030%) Law
3 1 (3.030%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (36.36%) Support Engineer
2 9 (27.27%) 2nd Line Support
3 8 (24.24%) Technical Support
3 8 (24.24%) Desktop Support
3 8 (24.24%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 8 (24.24%) Desktop Engineer
4 7 (21.21%) IT Support
5 6 (18.18%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 6 (18.18%) IT Support Engineer
6 5 (15.15%) Blackberry Support
6 5 (15.15%) Technical Advisor
7 3 (9.091%) Service Analyst
7 3 (9.091%) Service Desk Analyst
7 3 (9.091%) Support Technician
7 3 (9.091%) Analyst
8 2 (6.061%) Developer
8 2 (6.061%) 3rd Line Support
9 1 (3.030%) Server Technician
9 1 (3.030%) Mobile Applications Developer
9 1 (3.030%) Mobile Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.091%) iPhone
2 2 (6.061%) Mobile App
2 2 (6.061%) iPad
3 1 (3.030%) EqualLogic
3 1 (3.030%) Fat Client
3 1 (3.030%) Celerra
3 1 (3.030%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (3.030%) CLARiiON
3 1 (3.030%) Clustering
3 1 (3.030%) NHS
3 1 (3.030%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 25 (75.76%) Windows
2 15 (45.45%) Windows 2000
3 11 (33.33%) Windows 7
4 10 (30.30%) Windows Server 2003
5 8 (24.24%) Windows XP
6 6 (18.18%) Windows Vista
7 4 (12.12%) Apple iOS
8 3 (9.091%) Android
9 1 (3.030%) Windows Phone
9 1 (3.030%) Windows 8
9 1 (3.030%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (3.030%) Mac OS X
9 1 (3.030%) UNIX
9 1 (3.030%) Windows NT
9 1 (3.030%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (15.15%) Network Architecture
2 4 (12.12%) ITIL
3 3 (9.091%) Service Management
4 2 (6.061%) Change Management
4 2 (6.061%) Incident Management
4 2 (6.061%) Problem Management
5 1 (3.030%) Security Architecture
5 1 (3.030%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (3.030%) Communications Security
5 1 (3.030%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (3.030%) Asset Management
5 1 (3.030%) Information Management
5 1 (3.030%) Penetration Testing
5 1 (3.030%) Information Security
5 1 (3.030%) ITSM
5 1 (3.030%) Migration
5 1 (3.030%) Service Delivery
5 1 (3.030%) Configuration Management
5 1 (3.030%) Project Management
5 1 (3.030%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.061%) C
2 1 (3.030%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.030%) Assembly Language
2 1 (3.030%) C++
2 1 (3.030%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.030%) SQL
2 1 (3.030%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 10 (30.30%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (18.18%) MCP
3 1 (3.030%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.030%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.061%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (51.52%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.030%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.030%) XenDesktop
2 1 (3.030%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1 (3.030%) DameWare
1 1 (3.030%) Unicenter
Vendors
1 11 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.12%) Lotus
2 4 (12.12%) Citrix
3 2 (6.061%) Cisco
3 2 (6.061%) VMware
4 1 (3.030%) Wyse
4 1 (3.030%) Apple
4 1 (3.030%) Avaya
4 1 (3.030%) CA
4 1 (3.030%) HP
4 1 (3.030%) Dell
4 1 (3.030%) EMC
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