Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the prevalence of the term Blackberry in IT jobs advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Blackberry over the 3 months to 18 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 for the Kent region.

 RIM Blackberry
Location
3 months to
18 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank606499
Rank change year-on-year
Up+4Up+35
Matching permanent IT job ads314
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent0.463 %0.151 %0.256 %
As % of the Miscellaneous category2.459 %0.952 %1.732 %
Salaries quoted214
Average salary£31,000£40,000£20,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-22.50 %+100.00 %
UK excluding London average salary£32,500£31,000£29,500
% change year-on-year
+4.830 %+5.080 %
Kent IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryAll Miscellaneous Category
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
122105231
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent18.83 %15.84 %14.81 %
Salaries quoted11893209
Average salary£30,000£38,500£35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-22.07 %+10.00 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£21,500£22,500£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£48,500£52,500
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£37,000£36,000
% change year-on-year
+1.350 %+2.770 %
Blackberry South EastBlackberry
South East

Blackberry
Demand Trend

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

Kent Blackberry Demand Trend

Blackberry
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Blackberry across the Kent region.

Kent Blackberry Salary Trend

Blackberry
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Blackberry within the Kent region over the 3 months to 18 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
CanterburyNew entry-1£27,500-
SevenoaksNew entry-1--
West MallingNew entry-1£34,500-
Blackberry South EastBlackberry
South East

Blackberry
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 March 2010, IT jobs across the Kent 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Blackberry.

111 (91.67 %)Windows
29 (75.00 %)MS Exchange
38 (66.67 %)Active Directory
38 (66.67 %)Exchange Server 2003
47 (58.33 %)ITIL
47 (58.33 %)Microsoft
47 (58.33 %)MS Excel
47 (58.33 %)MS Office
47 (58.33 %)MS PowerPoint
56 (50.00 %)Remedy
65 (41.67 %)SAP
73 (25.00 %)Windows Mobile
82 (16.67 %)Cocoa
82 (16.67 %)Xcode
82 (16.67 %)Objective-C
82 (16.67 %)VMware
82 (16.67 %)GIS
82 (16.67 %)C++
82 (16.67 %)Java
82 (16.67 %)J2ME
82 (16.67 %)Symbian
82 (16.67 %)Exchange Server 2007
82 (16.67 %)VMware Infrastructure
82 (16.67 %)Android
91 (8.333 %)Windows Server 2008
91 (8.333 %)Windows 2000 Server
91 (8.333 %)Windows Vista
91 (8.333 %)SharePoint Server 2007
91 (8.333 %)Problem Management
91 (8.333 %)TCP/IP

Blackberry
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 March 2010, IT jobs across the Kent 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Blackberry. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Kent IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
12 (16.67 %)Cocoa
12 (16.67 %)J2ME
Kent IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
19 (75.00 %)MS Exchange
28 (66.67 %)Exchange Server 2003
32 (16.67 %)Exchange Server 2007
41 (8.333 %)SharePoint Server 2007
41 (8.333 %)SharePoint
41 (8.333 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
Kent IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
17 (58.33 %)MS Excel
17 (58.33 %)MS Office
17 (58.33 %)MS PowerPoint
21 (8.333 %)MS Visio
Kent IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11 (8.333 %)TCP/IP
11 (8.333 %)DNS
Kent IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
12 (16.67 %)GIS
Kent IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
12 (16.67 %)Xcode
Kent IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
17 (58.33 %)Analyst
26 (50.00 %)Service Desk Analyst
32 (16.67 %)Developer
32 (16.67 %)Mac Developer
41 (8.333 %)2nd Line Support Engineer
41 (8.333 %)Messaging Engineer
41 (8.333 %)Consultant
41 (8.333 %)Support Analyst
41 (8.333 %)Support Engineer
41 (8.333 %)2nd Line Support
41 (8.333 %)Enterprise Consultant
41 (8.333 %)Blackberry Consultant
Kent IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11 (8.333 %)Clustering
Kent IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
111 (91.67 %)Windows
23 (25.00 %)Windows Mobile
32 (16.67 %)Android
41 (8.333 %)Windows Server 2008
41 (8.333 %)Windows 2000 Server
41 (8.333 %)Windows Vista
41 (8.333 %)Windows Server 2003
Kent IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
17 (58.33 %)ITIL
21 (8.333 %)Problem Management
21 (8.333 %)Migration
Kent IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
12 (16.67 %)Objective-C
12 (16.67 %)C++
12 (16.67 %)Java
Kent IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (8.333 %)SLA
Kent IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
18 (66.67 %)Active Directory
22 (16.67 %)VMware Infrastructure
Kent IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
17 (58.33 %)Microsoft
26 (50.00 %)Remedy
35 (41.67 %)SAP
42 (16.67 %)VMware
42 (16.67 %)Symbian