Bristol BSS Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Base Station Subsystem (BSS) skills within the Bristol region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited BSS over the 3 months to 3 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Base Station Subsystem (BSS)
Location Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cheshire City of London Croydon East of England England Hampshire Hertfordshire Leamington Spa London Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands Newbury North East North West Reading Rugby Scotland Slough South East Surrey Tyne and Wear UK Warwickshire West Midlands	3 months to 3 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	64
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	1.550 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£371	£405
% change on same period last year	-8.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	£60.00
% change on same period last year	-
Communications & Networking Bristol
Matching contract IT job ads	106	129
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.171 %	0.141 %
Daily rates quoted	23	33
Average minimum daily rate	£281	£293
Average daily rate	£305	£311
% change on same period last year	-1.73 %
Average maximum daily rate	£329	£328
UK excluding London average daily rate	£345	£336
% change on same period last year	+2.62 %
Hourly rates quoted	33	31
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.82	£24.75
Average hourly rate	£31.56	£26.43
% change on same period last year	+19.38 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.29	£28.11
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.93	£28.33
% change on same period last year	-1.39 %
BSS South West

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.

BSS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing BSS across the Bristol region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

BSS
Daily Rate Trend

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