The first table below looks at the demand for BSS skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BSS over the 3 months to 23 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 England 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Base Station Subsystem (BSS)
Rank 441 404 465
Rank change year-on-year
-37 +61
Contract jobs citing BSS 77 160 108
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.185% 0.300% 0.189%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.262% 1.906% 1.443%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 41 46
Average daily rate £445 £385 £395
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.58% -2.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £379 £275 £243
10% offered a daily rate of more than £509 £575 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £439 £375 £338
% change year-on-year
+17.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Average hourly rate - £16.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £16.50 -
All Communications & Networking
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6103 8393 7485
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 14.70% 15.72% 13.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3062 3926 3458
Average daily rate £350 £366 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.29% +4.49%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 498 565 757
Average hourly rate £22.00 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.00 £12.24
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.00 £45.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
BSS
UK

BSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England 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 England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

England 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 England region.

England BSS Hourly Rate Trend

BSS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BSS within the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
South East -18 56 £439 +13.96%
London +15 18 £463 +2.77%
South West +26 1 - -
BSS
UK

BSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

1 114 (74.51%) Telecoms
2 44 (28.76%) Billing
3 35 (22.88%) CRM
4 24 (15.69%) Business Analysis
5 23 (15.03%) Use Case
6 19 (12.42%) ITIL
7 18 (11.76%) UML
7 18 (11.76%) eTOM
8 16 (10.46%) Project Management
8 16 (10.46%) Migration
9 12 (7.843%) Oracle
9 12 (7.843%) GSM
9 12 (7.843%) Radio Access Network
10 11 (7.190%) Huawei
10 11 (7.190%) Degree
10 11 (7.190%) Service Delivery
10 11 (7.190%) 3G
11 10 (6.536%) PRINCE2
11 10 (6.536%) Siebel
11 10 (6.536%) Agile Software Development
12 9 (5.882%) Programme Management
13 8 (5.229%) ISEB
13 8 (5.229%) TOGAF
13 8 (5.229%) ESB
14 7 (4.575%) Network Planning
14 7 (4.575%) LTE
14 7 (4.575%) CBAP
14 7 (4.575%) B2B
14 7 (4.575%) Wireless
14 7 (4.575%) 2G

BSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 6 (3.922%) .NET
2 5 (3.268%) XML
3 4 (2.614%) WCF
3 4 (2.614%) Silverlight
4 3 (1.961%) WPF
5 2 (1.307%) J2EE
5 2 (1.307%) Web Services
6 1 (0.654%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.654%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.654%) XSLT
6 1 (0.654%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.654%) CSS
6 1 (0.654%) WSDL
6 1 (0.654%) XML Schema
6 1 (0.654%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 8 (5.229%) ESB
2 1 (0.654%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 4 (2.614%) MS Excel
2 3 (1.961%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.307%) Maya
3 2 (1.307%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (0.654%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.961%) SAP HCM
1 3 (1.961%) Remedy ITSM
1 3 (1.961%) CSG Singleview
2 2 (1.307%) Oracle BRM
3 1 (0.654%) Comverse ONE
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.843%) GSM
1 12 (7.843%) Radio Access Network
2 11 (7.190%) 3G
3 7 (4.575%) LTE
3 7 (4.575%) Wireless
3 7 (4.575%) 2G
4 6 (3.922%) GPRS
4 6 (3.922%) Internet
5 5 (3.268%) UMTS
5 5 (3.268%) Broadband
5 5 (3.268%) UTRAN
5 5 (3.268%) MPLS
6 3 (1.961%) RNC
6 3 (1.961%) CDMA
6 3 (1.961%) VoIP
7 2 (1.307%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.307%) VPN
7 2 (1.307%) WCDMA
7 2 (1.307%) Ethernet
7 2 (1.307%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.961%) Oracle 11g
1 3 (1.961%) Oracle 10g
2 2 (1.307%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.654%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.654%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (0.654%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.654%) MS Access
3 1 (0.654%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.654%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (1.961%) Moq
1 3 (1.961%) NUnit
2 2 (1.307%) Subversion
2 2 (1.307%) JIRA
3 1 (0.654%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.654%) Git (software)
General
1 114 (74.51%) Telecoms
2 44 (28.76%) Billing
3 4 (2.614%) Finance
4 3 (1.961%) Marketing
4 3 (1.961%) Retail
4 3 (1.961%) Games
5 2 (1.307%) Banking
6 1 (0.654%) General Ledger
6 1 (0.654%) Advertising
6 1 (0.654%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 61 (39.87%) Architect
2 45 (29.41%) Solutions Architect
3 25 (16.34%) Project Manager
4 24 (15.69%) Analyst
5 21 (13.73%) Business Analyst
6 12 (7.843%) OSS Architect
7 9 (5.882%) Test Leader
8 8 (5.229%) OSS Project Manager
8 8 (5.229%) Telecoms Project Manager
9 7 (4.575%) Senior Architect
9 7 (4.575%) Developer
9 7 (4.575%) Consultant
10 6 (3.922%) Designer
11 5 (3.268%) Senior Solutions Architect
11 5 (3.268%) Integration Manager
12 4 (2.614%) Test Manager
12 4 (2.614%) Solutions Designer
12 4 (2.614%) .NET Developer
12 4 (2.614%) Systems Architect
12 4 (2.614%) Network Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (2.614%) Management Information System
1 4 (2.614%) Digital Media
1 4 (2.614%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (1.961%) Computer Science
3 2 (1.307%) PMI
3 2 (1.307%) Client/Server
3 2 (1.307%) Mathematics
3 2 (1.307%) Physics
3 2 (1.307%) Data Integration
4 1 (0.654%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (0.654%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.654%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (0.654%) SecurID
4 1 (0.654%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.654%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (22.88%) CRM
2 24 (15.69%) Business Analysis
3 23 (15.03%) Use Case
4 19 (12.42%) ITIL
5 18 (11.76%) UML
5 18 (11.76%) eTOM
6 16 (10.46%) Project Management
6 16 (10.46%) Migration
7 11 (7.190%) Service Delivery
8 10 (6.536%) PRINCE2
8 10 (6.536%) Agile Software Development
9 9 (5.882%) Programme Management
10 8 (5.229%) TOGAF
11 7 (4.575%) Network Planning
11 7 (4.575%) B2B
12 6 (3.922%) Stakeholder Management
12 6 (3.922%) SOA
12 6 (3.922%) Business Transformation
12 6 (3.922%) Test Scripting
12 6 (3.922%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 5 (3.268%) C
1 5 (3.268%) C#
2 3 (1.961%) Perl
2 3 (1.961%) AWK
3 1 (0.654%) sed
3 1 (0.654%) XPath
3 1 (0.654%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (7.190%) Degree
2 8 (5.229%) ISEB
3 7 (4.575%) CBAP
4 4 (2.614%) PMI Certification
4 4 (2.614%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 3 (1.961%) PMP
6 2 (1.307%) HND
7 1 (0.654%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.654%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.654%) Siebel Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.614%) QA
2 1 (0.654%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 2 (1.307%) Netcool
2 1 (0.654%) OpenView
Vendors
1 12 (7.843%) Oracle
2 11 (7.190%) Huawei
3 10 (6.536%) Siebel
4 4 (2.614%) Nokia
4 4 (2.614%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.614%) HP
4 4 (2.614%) PeopleSoft
5 3 (1.961%) SAP
5 3 (1.961%) BMC
5 3 (1.961%) Ericsson
5 3 (1.961%) Remedy
6 2 (1.307%) BT
6 2 (1.307%) Cisco
6 2 (1.307%) Actix
6 2 (1.307%) Comverse
7 1 (0.654%) WSO2
7 1 (0.654%) Greenplum
7 1 (0.654%) Redknee
7 1 (0.654%) NetCracker
7 1 (0.654%) Citrix