The first table below looks at the demand for BSS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BSS over the 3 months to 24 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 Surrey 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Base Station Subsystem (BSS)
Rank - 94 102
Contract jobs citing BSS 0 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey - 0.062% 0.054%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 0.380% 0.332%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £225
UK excluding London average daily rate £439 £375 £338
% change year-on-year
+17.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £16.50 -
All Communications & Networking
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
189 263 301
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 16.39% 16.33% 16.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 114 148
Average daily rate £331 £320 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.51% -8.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £133 £150 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 35 20
Average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £15.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +129.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £15.10 £13.55
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £42.95 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
BSS
South East

BSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey BSS Daily Rate Trend

BSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 4 (100.00%) Silverlight
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle 11g
2 3 (75.00%) WCF
2 3 (75.00%) WPF
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (75.00%) Moq
2 3 (75.00%) Perl
2 3 (75.00%) .NET
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 3 (75.00%) XML
2 3 (75.00%) SOA
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle 10g
2 3 (75.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (75.00%) AWK
2 3 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (75.00%) NUnit
3 2 (50.00%) TDD
3 2 (50.00%) C#
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) WSO2
4 1 (25.00%) sed
4 1 (25.00%) User Stories
4 1 (25.00%) Product Management
4 1 (25.00%) Use Case
4 1 (25.00%) Release Management
4 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (25.00%) WSDL
4 1 (25.00%) XML Schema
4 1 (25.00%) RDBMS

BSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 4 (100.00%) Silverlight
2 3 (75.00%) WCF
2 3 (75.00%) WPF
2 3 (75.00%) .NET
2 3 (75.00%) XML
3 1 (25.00%) WSDL
3 1 (25.00%) XML Schema
3 1 (25.00%) XSLT
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Coherence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle 11g
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Moq
1 3 (75.00%) NUnit
2 1 (25.00%) Subversion
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior .NET Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Silverlight Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Silverlight Developer
3 1 (25.00%) SOA Developer
3 1 (25.00%) WPF Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Design Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (25.00%) Physics
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (75.00%) SOA
1 3 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) User Stories
3 1 (25.00%) Product Management
3 1 (25.00%) Use Case
3 1 (25.00%) Release Management
3 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) UML
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Perl
1 3 (75.00%) AWK
2 2 (50.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) sed
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) HND
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) WSO2
2 1 (25.00%) Teradata