The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Blackberry in IT jobs advertised for the Lancaster region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Blackberry over the 3 months to 17 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 Lancaster region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
RIM Blackberry
Rank 23 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Blackberry 1 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancaster 1.538% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.167% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Average salary £35,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
-14.28% +2.94%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Lancaster
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
24 3 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancaster 36.92% 5.000% 28.57%
Number of salaries quoted 24 3 7
Average salary £42,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.33% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £36,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £44,000 £42,500 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,815 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.96% +6.66%
Blackberry
Lancashire

Blackberry
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancaster Blackberry Jobs Demand Trend

Blackberry
Salary Trend

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

Lancaster Blackberry Salary Trend

Blackberry
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancaster 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.

1 10 (100.00%) Java
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
1 10 (100.00%) Android
1 10 (100.00%) Mobile App
2 9 (90.00%) Symbian
2 9 (90.00%) C#
2 9 (90.00%) C++
3 8 (80.00%) Objective-C
3 8 (80.00%) Windows Phone
3 8 (80.00%) HTML5
3 8 (80.00%) Apple iOS
4 7 (70.00%) Qt
4 7 (70.00%) ActionScript 3.0
4 7 (70.00%) Flash
4 7 (70.00%) ActionScript
5 6 (60.00%) XML
5 6 (60.00%) OOD
5 6 (60.00%) JSON
6 5 (50.00%) Games
7 4 (40.00%) Mobile Application Development
8 3 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
8 3 (30.00%) OO
8 3 (30.00%) Nokia
8 3 (30.00%) OpenGL
9 2 (20.00%) Xcode
10 1 (10.00%) Social Network
10 1 (10.00%) TDD
10 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
10 1 (10.00%) Finance
10 1 (10.00%) PHP

Blackberry
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancaster 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.

Application Development
1 8 (80.00%) HTML5
2 7 (70.00%) Qt
2 7 (70.00%) Flash
3 6 (60.00%) XML
3 6 (60.00%) JSON
4 3 (30.00%) OpenGL
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Xcode
General
1 5 (50.00%) Games
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Developer
2 7 (70.00%) Applications Developer
2 7 (70.00%) Mobile Developer
3 6 (60.00%) Mobile Applications Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Software Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Android Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Java Mobile Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
5 1 (10.00%) C++ Developer
5 1 (10.00%) C# Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Symbian Developer
5 1 (10.00%) PHP Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Blackberry Developer
5 1 (10.00%) C++/Java Developer
5 1 (10.00%) C++/C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (10.00%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
1 10 (100.00%) Android
2 8 (80.00%) Apple iOS
2 8 (80.00%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) OOD
2 4 (40.00%) Mobile Application Development
3 3 (30.00%) OO
3 3 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (10.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Java
2 9 (90.00%) C#
2 9 (90.00%) C++
3 8 (80.00%) Objective-C
4 7 (70.00%) ActionScript 3.0
4 7 (70.00%) ActionScript
5 1 (10.00%) PHP
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Symbian
2 3 (30.00%) Nokia