South West BSS Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Base Station Subsystem (BSS) skills within the South West 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 of England England Hampshire Hertfordshire Leamington Spa London Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands Newbury North East North West Reading Rugby Scotland Slough South East South West Surrey Tyne and Wear UK Warwickshire West Midlands	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	158
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.617 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£500
Average daily rate	-	£500
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£500
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 South West
Matching contract IT job ads	583	811
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.918 %	0.869 %
Daily rates quoted	117	151
Average minimum daily rate	£338	£307
Average daily rate	£358	£326
% change on same period last year	+9.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£377	£345
UK excluding London average daily rate	£347	£332
% change on same period last year	+4.47 %
Hourly rates quoted	114	127
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.77	£27.64
Average hourly rate	£28.48	£29.48
% change on same period last year	-3.38 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.19	£31.32
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 South West 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 South West 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 South West region.

BSS
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 2 (66.67 %) Telecoms 2 1 (33.33 %) CMMI 2 1 (33.33 %) Migration 2 1 (33.33 %) Amdocs 2 1 (33.33 %) Billing 2 1 (33.33 %) LLU 2 1 (33.33 %) Test Management 2 1 (33.33 %) Data Migration 2 1 (33.33 %) CRM 2 1 (33.33 %) Broadband 2 1 (33.33 %) ISEB 2 1 (33.33 %) Ericsson 2 1 (33.33 %) PRINCE 2 1 (33.33 %) Project Management

BSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 1 (33.33 %) Broadband 1 1 (33.33 %) LLU	General 1 2 (66.67 %) Telecoms 2 1 (33.33 %) Billing
Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Test Manager	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) CRM 1 1 (33.33 %) PRINCE 1 1 (33.33 %) Project Management 1 1 (33.33 %) CMMI 1 1 (33.33 %) Migration 1 1 (33.33 %) Test Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Data Migration
Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) ISEB	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Ericsson 1 1 (33.33 %) Amdocs