East Midlands BSS Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Base Station Subsystem (BSS) skills within the East Midlands 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 Midlands 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	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
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	£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 East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	183	275
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.288 %	0.295 %
Daily rates quoted	32	46
Average minimum daily rate	£287	£326
Average daily rate	£296	£332
% change on same period last year	-10.82 %
Average maximum daily rate	£305	£339
UK excluding London average daily rate	£347	£332
% change on same period last year	+4.47 %
Hourly rates quoted	28	36
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.76	£21.13
Average hourly rate	£16.00	£21.49
% change on same period last year	-25.51 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.24	£21.84
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.93	£29.11
% change on same period last year	-4.05 %
BSS England

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 East Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

BSS
Top 3 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 (100.00 %) Java 1 1 (100.00 %) Perl 1 1 (100.00 %) PHP

BSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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.

Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Applications Support

Programming Languages 1 1 (100.00 %) Java 1 1 (100.00 %) Perl 1 1 (100.00 %) PHP