Buckinghamshire BSS Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Base Station Subsystem (BSS) skills within the Buckinghamshire 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 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Base Station Subsystem (BSS)
Location Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell 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 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	78	86
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	1	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.418 %	0.373 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£350
Average daily rate	-	£350
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£390	£372
% change on same period last year	+4.83 %
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 Buckinghamshire
Matching contract IT job ads	239	268
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.376 %	0.287 %
Daily rates quoted	86	56
Average minimum daily rate	£328	£319
Average daily rate	£338	£340
% change on same period last year	-0.52 %
Average maximum daily rate	£349	£362
UK excluding London average daily rate	£347	£332
% change on same period last year	+4.47 %
Hourly rates quoted	27	75
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.44	£23.41
Average hourly rate	£23.15	£24.74
% change on same period last year	-6.41 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.86	£26.07
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.93	£29.11
% change on same period last year	-4.05 %
BSS 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.

BSS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing BSS across the Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

BSS
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing BSS 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 BSS.

1 1 (33.33 %) Java 1 1 (33.33 %) Perl 1 1 (33.33 %) PHP 1 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 1 1 (33.33 %) Solaris 1 1 (33.33 %) FreeBSD 1 1 (33.33 %) CRM 1 1 (33.33 %) ERP 1 1 (33.33 %) Telecoms 1 1 (33.33 %) Billing 1 1 (33.33 %) Network Design 1 1 (33.33 %) Business Analysis 1 1 (33.33 %) Technical Architecture

BSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing BSS 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 BSS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

General 1 1 (33.33 %) Telecoms 1 1 (33.33 %) Billing	Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Programme Manager 1 1 (33.33 %) Applications Specialist 1 1 (33.33 %) Support Specialist 1 1 (33.33 %) Applications Support 1 1 (33.33 %) Solutions Designer 1 1 (33.33 %) Applications Support Specialist 1 1 (33.33 %) Head Of IT
Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 1 1 (33.33 %) Solaris 1 1 (33.33 %) FreeBSD	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) CRM 1 1 (33.33 %) ERP 1 1 (33.33 %) Network Design 1 1 (33.33 %) Business Analysis 1 1 (33.33 %) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) Java 1 1 (33.33 %) Perl 1 1 (33.33 %) PHP