Hampshire BSS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Base Station Subsystem (BSS) skills within the Hampshire 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Base Station Subsystem (BSS)
Location Bath Berkshire Bracknell Buckinghamshire City of London East Midlands East of England England Hampshire Hertfordshire London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury North West Northampton Northamptonshire Reading Salford Somerset South East South West Suffolk Thames Valley UK Watford West Midlands	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	103	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	3	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.714 %	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	£418	£356
% change on same period last year	+17.43 %
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	£36.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Communications & Networking Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	420	501
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.560 %	0.507 %
Daily rates quoted	72	89
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£322
Average daily rate	£345	£340
% change on same period last year	+1.59 %
Average maximum daily rate	£366	£358
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£344
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	92	125
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.90	£31.15
Average hourly rate	£29.71	£33.29
% change on same period last year	-10.72 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.53	£35.42
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.81	£28.58
% change on same period last year	-9.70 %
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 Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

BSS
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing BSS across the Hampshire region.

BSS
Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 6 (100.00 %) Telecoms 2 3 (50.00 %) 2G 2 3 (50.00 %) Migration 3 2 (33.33 %) GSM 3 2 (33.33 %) Ericsson 3 2 (33.33 %) Network Design 3 2 (33.33 %) RNC 4 1 (16.67 %) Data Migration

BSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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.

Communications & Networking 1 3 (50.00 %) 2G 2 2 (33.33 %) RNC 2 2 (33.33 %) GSM	General 1 6 (100.00 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 3 (50.00 %) Network Designer 1 3 (50.00 %) BSS Engineer 2 1 (16.67 %) Architect 2 1 (16.67 %) Network Architect	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (50.00 %) Migration 2 2 (33.33 %) Network Design 3 1 (16.67 %) Data Migration
Vendors 1 2 (33.33 %) Ericsson