BSS Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for BSS skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BSS over the 3 months to 24 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 of the Communications & Networking category for the City of London 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Base Station Subsystem (BSS)
Rank 198 214 243
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +29
Contract jobs citing BSS 5 4 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.078% 0.051% 0.020%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.606% 0.397% 0.201%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 1
Average daily rate £475 £513 £538
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.31% -4.65%
UK excluding London average daily rate £439 £375 £338
% change year-on-year
+17.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £16.50 -
Search 10 BSS jobs in the City of London
All Communications & Networking
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 825 1008 997
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 12.93% 12.82% 10.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 541 686 637
Average daily rate £400 £413 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.03% +3.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £256 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 38 76
Average hourly rate £43.75 £22.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+98.86% +4.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £17.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
BSS
London

BSS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing BSS across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

City of London BSS Jobs Demand Trend

BSS
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing BSS across the City of London region.

City of London BSS Daily Rate Trend

BSS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing BSS across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London BSS Daily Rate Histogram

BSS
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing BSS across the City of London region.

City of London BSS Hourly Rate Trend

BSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 5 (71.43%) Telecoms
1 5 (71.43%) Billing
2 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 2 (28.57%) CRM
2 2 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (28.57%) Zachman Framework
2 2 (28.57%) TOGAF
2 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
3 1 (14.29%) LTE
3 1 (14.29%) 4G
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (14.29%) ESB
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA
3 1 (14.29%) Mathematics
3 1 (14.29%) Physics
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 1 (14.29%) QA
3 1 (14.29%) TDD
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Subversion
3 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
3 1 (14.29%) SOA
3 1 (14.29%) Data Mining
3 1 (14.29%) ETL
3 1 (14.29%) Broadband
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) .NET

BSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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.

Application Development
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) ESB
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) LTE
1 1 (14.29%) 4G
1 1 (14.29%) Broadband
1 1 (14.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (14.29%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
1 1 (14.29%) Subversion
General
1 5 (71.43%) Telecoms
1 5 (71.43%) Billing
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (28.57%) OSS Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Designer
3 1 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Telecoms Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
3 1 (14.29%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Designer
3 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
1 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
2 1 (14.29%) Mathematics
2 1 (14.29%) Physics
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) CRM
1 2 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (28.57%) Zachman Framework
1 2 (28.57%) TOGAF
1 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (14.29%) TDD
2 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
2 1 (14.29%) SOA
2 1 (14.29%) ETL
2 1 (14.29%) UML
2 1 (14.29%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
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