BSS Contracts in Reading
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for BSS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BSS over the 3 months to 20 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 Reading 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Base Station Subsystem (BSS)
Rank 61 43 79
Rank change year-on-year
-18 +36
Contract jobs citing BSS 10 37 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 1.183% 3.471% 0.097%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.181% 8.315% 0.488%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 0
Average daily rate £395 £375 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.33% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £439 £375 £338
% change year-on-year
+17.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Average hourly rate - £16.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £16.50 -
All Communications & Networking
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 193 445 205
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 22.84% 41.74% 19.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 104 69
Average daily rate £275 £280 £370
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.78% -24.32%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £133 £160 £197
10% offered a daily rate of more than £434 £400 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.40% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 14 5
Average hourly rate £17.00 £16.04 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.00% -8.35%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.30 £14.50 £12.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.50 £44.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
BSS
Berkshire

BSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading BSS Daily Rate Trend

BSS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading BSS Hourly Rate Trend

BSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 21 (87.50%) Telecoms
2 8 (33.33%) Project Management
3 4 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 4 (16.67%) GSM
4 3 (12.50%) UMTS
4 3 (12.50%) CDMA
4 3 (12.50%) GPRS
4 3 (12.50%) HP
4 3 (12.50%) SAP
4 3 (12.50%) PRINCE2
4 3 (12.50%) Siebel
4 3 (12.50%) ERP
4 3 (12.50%) Data Management
4 3 (12.50%) eTOM
4 3 (12.50%) SAP HCM
4 3 (12.50%) Performance Testing
4 3 (12.50%) Business Transformation
4 3 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (8.333%) Stress Testing
5 2 (8.333%) Integration Testing
5 2 (8.333%) Time Management
5 2 (8.333%) Billing
5 2 (8.333%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (8.333%) Migration
5 2 (8.333%) Release Management
5 2 (8.333%) MS PowerPoint
5 2 (8.333%) QA
5 2 (8.333%) Management Information System
5 2 (8.333%) MS Visio
5 2 (8.333%) ITIL

BSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 2 (8.333%) J2EE
1 2 (8.333%) Web Services
2 1 (4.167%) XML
2 1 (4.167%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.167%) ESB
Applications
1 2 (8.333%) MS Excel
1 2 (8.333%) MS Visio
1 2 (8.333%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (12.50%) SAP HCM
2 1 (4.167%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) GSM
2 3 (12.50%) UMTS
2 3 (12.50%) CDMA
2 3 (12.50%) GPRS
3 1 (4.167%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.167%) Data Warehouse
General
1 21 (87.50%) Telecoms
2 2 (8.333%) Billing
3 1 (4.167%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Project Manager
2 6 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
2 6 (25.00%) Architect
3 5 (20.83%) OSS Architect
4 3 (12.50%) OSS Project Manager
4 3 (12.50%) Integration Manager
4 3 (12.50%) Integration Project Manager
5 2 (8.333%) Tester
5 2 (8.333%) Performance Tester
5 2 (8.333%) Test Manager
5 2 (8.333%) Testing Manager
6 1 (4.167%) Consultant
6 1 (4.167%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 1 (4.167%) Designer
6 1 (4.167%) Test Leader
6 1 (4.167%) Performance Test Leader
6 1 (4.167%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (4.167%) .NET Developer
6 1 (4.167%) C# Developer
6 1 (4.167%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (8.333%) Client/Server
2 2 (8.333%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.167%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Project Management
2 4 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 3 (12.50%) Data Management
3 3 (12.50%) PRINCE2
3 3 (12.50%) ERP
3 3 (12.50%) eTOM
3 3 (12.50%) Performance Testing
3 3 (12.50%) Business Transformation
4 2 (8.333%) Stress Testing
4 2 (8.333%) Integration Testing
4 2 (8.333%) Time Management
4 2 (8.333%) Release Management
4 2 (8.333%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (8.333%) B2B
4 2 (8.333%) ITIL
4 2 (8.333%) Configuration Management
4 2 (8.333%) Migration
5 1 (4.167%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (4.167%) Information Security
5 1 (4.167%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.167%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (4.167%) PMP
1 1 (4.167%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.333%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (4.167%) Netcool
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) HP
1 3 (12.50%) SAP
1 3 (12.50%) Siebel
2 2 (8.333%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.333%) Oracle
3 1 (4.167%) Citrix
3 1 (4.167%) BMC
3 1 (4.167%) Remedy
3 1 (4.167%) OPNET
3 1 (4.167%) Cramer
3 1 (4.167%) NetCracker
3 1 (4.167%) Huawei
3 1 (4.167%) Greenplum
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