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The first table below looks at the demand for BSS skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BSS over the 3 months to 19 June 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.

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
19 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Base Station Subsystem (BSS)
Rank 458 390 497
Rank change year-on-year
-68 +107
Contract jobs citing BSS 83 184 105
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.173% 0.317% 0.169%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.201% 2.036% 1.295%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 52 37
Average daily rate £425 £390 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.97% +4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £276 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £495 £550 £610
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £378 £338
% change year-on-year
+12.58% +11.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £16.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £16.50 -
All Communications & Networking
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 6909 9038 8107
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 14.36% 15.57% 13.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3471 4041 3676
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £208 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £488 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 510 605 809
Average hourly rate £23.75 £24.38 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.56% +1.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.75 £13.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00

BSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

BSS Daily Rate Trend

BSS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing BSS within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

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 within the UK.

BSS Hourly Rate Trend

BSS
Top 28 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 UK over the 3 months to 19 June 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		 Find
Job
Vacancies
England -81 70 £425 +9.32% 10
South East -9 52 £431 +12.01% 4
Berkshire -23 33 £438 +12.90% 1
London -3 14 £425 -2.85% 4
Hampshire +6 12 - - 3
City of London 0 4 £425 +1.49% 1
Reading -13 4 - -
Bracknell - 3 £438 -
South West +25 2 - - 1
Surrey +20 1 £370 -
Basingstoke -7 1 - -
Wiltshire - 1 - -
Yorkshire - - - - 1
West Lothian - - - - 2
Hertfordshire - - - -
Northamptonshire - - - -
South Yorkshire - - - -
Guildford - - - -
Leatherhead - - - -
Livingston - - - - 2
Sheffield - - - -
Northampton - - - -
Oxted - - - -
Thames Valley - - - -
East Midlands - - - -
Scotland - - - - 2
Canary Wharf - - - -
East of England - - - -

BSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 131 (66.84%) Telecoms
2 55 (28.06%) Billing
3 47 (23.98%) CRM
4 24 (12.24%) Project Management
4 24 (12.24%) Business Analysis
5 23 (11.73%) Use Case
6 22 (11.22%) Degree
7 20 (10.20%) 3G
8 19 (9.694%) ITIL
8 19 (9.694%) Oracle
8 19 (9.694%) eTOM
8 19 (9.694%) Migration
9 17 (8.673%) GSM
10 16 (8.163%) Huawei
11 15 (7.653%) UML
12 14 (7.143%) Siebel
12 14 (7.143%) Service Delivery
12 14 (7.143%) 2G
12 14 (7.143%) Radio Access Network
13 13 (6.633%) LTE
14 12 (6.122%) PRINCE2
15 11 (5.612%) Programme Management
15 11 (5.612%) TOGAF
16 9 (4.592%) Network Planning
16 9 (4.592%) Wireless
16 9 (4.592%) Finance
16 9 (4.592%) GPRS
16 9 (4.592%) B2B
16 9 (4.592%) Ericsson
16 9 (4.592%) ISEB

BSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 5 (2.551%) .NET
1 5 (2.551%) XML
2 2 (1.020%) MapReduce
2 2 (1.020%) WSDL
2 2 (1.020%) XML Schema
2 2 (1.020%) XSLT
2 2 (1.020%) Web Services
2 2 (1.020%) J2EE
2 2 (1.020%) WCF
2 2 (1.020%) Silverlight
2 2 (1.020%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.510%) WPF
3 1 (0.510%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.510%) CSS
3 1 (0.510%) MAPI
3 1 (0.510%) Middleware
3 1 (0.510%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 6 (3.061%) ESB
Applications
1 8 (4.082%) MS Excel
2 3 (1.531%) Maya
2 3 (1.531%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.020%) MS Office
3 2 (1.020%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (0.510%) PrintSoft PReS
4 1 (0.510%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.041%) Oracle BRM
2 3 (1.531%) CSG Singleview
2 3 (1.531%) SAP HCM
3 2 (1.020%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.510%) Comverse ONE
Communications & Networking
1 20 (10.20%) 3G
2 17 (8.673%) GSM
3 14 (7.143%) 2G
3 14 (7.143%) Radio Access Network
4 13 (6.633%) LTE
5 9 (4.592%) Wireless
5 9 (4.592%) GPRS
6 8 (4.082%) UMTS
6 8 (4.082%) Broadband
6 8 (4.082%) RNC
7 7 (3.571%) Internet
8 6 (3.061%) UTRAN
8 6 (3.061%) MPLS
9 5 (2.551%) HSPA
10 4 (2.041%) CDMA
10 4 (2.041%) Ethernet
11 3 (1.531%) HTTP
11 3 (1.531%) VoIP
11 3 (1.531%) WAN
12 2 (1.020%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.551%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (2.041%) MS Access
3 3 (1.531%) Oracle 8/8i
4 2 (1.020%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.020%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.020%) DataStage
4 2 (1.020%) Oracle 10g
4 2 (1.020%) Star Schema
4 2 (1.020%) DB2
4 2 (1.020%) Oracle 11g
4 2 (1.020%) Data Mart
5 1 (0.510%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.510%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.510%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.510%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.510%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (1.020%) JIRA
1 2 (1.020%) Subversion
2 1 (0.510%) NUnit
2 1 (0.510%) Git (software)
2 1 (0.510%) Moq
2 1 (0.510%) SpecFlow
General
1 131 (66.84%) Telecoms
2 55 (28.06%) Billing
3 9 (4.592%) Finance
4 4 (2.041%) Retail
5 3 (1.531%) Games
5 3 (1.531%) Marketing
6 2 (1.020%) German Language
6 2 (1.020%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.020%) Multimedia
7 1 (0.510%) Banking
7 1 (0.510%) Back Office
7 1 (0.510%) Legal
7 1 (0.510%) Advertising
7 1 (0.510%) General Ledger
7 1 (0.510%) Spanish Language
7 1 (0.510%) Arabic Language
7 1 (0.510%) French Language
Job Titles
1 67 (34.18%) Architect
2 50 (25.51%) Solutions Architect
3 30 (15.31%) Project Manager
4 28 (14.29%) Analyst
5 23 (11.73%) Business Analyst
6 12 (6.122%) OSS Architect
7 11 (5.612%) Test Leader
7 11 (5.612%) Senior Architect
8 9 (4.592%) OSS Project Manager
9 8 (4.082%) Consultant
9 8 (4.082%) Telecoms Project Manager
9 8 (4.082%) Senior Solutions Architect
10 6 (3.061%) Designer
10 6 (3.061%) Integration Manager
11 5 (2.551%) Systems Architect
11 5 (2.551%) Developer
12 4 (2.041%) Systems Integration Architect
12 4 (2.041%) Solutions Designer
12 4 (2.041%) Test Manager
12 4 (2.041%) Integration Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (2.551%) Management Information System
2 4 (2.041%) Digital Media
2 4 (2.041%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (2.041%) NGOSS
3 2 (1.020%) Data Integration
3 2 (1.020%) PMI
3 2 (1.020%) Client/Server
3 2 (1.020%) Computer Science
3 2 (1.020%) Statistics
3 2 (1.020%) SecurID
4 1 (0.510%) Handset
4 1 (0.510%) Mathematics
4 1 (0.510%) Physics
4 1 (0.510%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (0.510%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.510%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.531%) UNIX
2 1 (0.510%) Windows
2 1 (0.510%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (23.98%) CRM
2 24 (12.24%) Project Management
2 24 (12.24%) Business Analysis
3 23 (11.73%) Use Case
4 19 (9.694%) ITIL
4 19 (9.694%) eTOM
4 19 (9.694%) Migration
5 15 (7.653%) UML
6 14 (7.143%) Service Delivery
7 12 (6.122%) PRINCE2
8 11 (5.612%) Programme Management
8 11 (5.612%) TOGAF
9 9 (4.592%) Network Planning
9 9 (4.592%) B2B
10 8 (4.082%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (4.082%) Agile Software Development
11 7 (3.571%) Network Design
11 7 (3.571%) Business Transformation
12 6 (3.061%) Test Scripting
12 6 (3.061%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (2.551%) C
1 5 (2.551%) C#
1 5 (2.551%) SQL
2 4 (2.041%) PL/SQL
3 2 (1.020%) XPath
4 1 (0.510%) AWK
4 1 (0.510%) RPG
4 1 (0.510%) Java
4 1 (0.510%) Perl
Qualifications
1 22 (11.22%) Degree
2 9 (4.592%) ISEB
3 7 (3.571%) CBAP
4 5 (2.551%) PMI Certification
5 4 (2.041%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 4 (2.041%) PMP
6 2 (1.020%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.020%) CCNA
7 1 (0.510%) ISEB Practitioner
7 1 (0.510%) GIAC
7 1 (0.510%) HND
7 1 (0.510%) CCNP
7 1 (0.510%) CISSP
7 1 (0.510%) Siebel Certification
7 1 (0.510%) CNA
7 1 (0.510%) Novell Certification
7 1 (0.510%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.510%) SSCP
7 1 (0.510%) CISA
7 1 (0.510%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.551%) QA
2 4 (2.041%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.020%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.510%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.510%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (1.020%) Netcool
2 1 (0.510%) OpenView
Vendors
1 19 (9.694%) Oracle
2 16 (8.163%) Huawei
3 14 (7.143%) Siebel
4 9 (4.592%) Ericsson
5 6 (3.061%) Microsoft
5 6 (3.061%) PeopleSoft
6 5 (2.551%) HP
6 5 (2.551%) Mapinfo
6 5 (2.551%) Actix
7 4 (2.041%) Nokia
8 3 (1.531%) SAP
8 3 (1.531%) Cisco
8 3 (1.531%) Remedy
9 2 (1.020%) Comverse
9 2 (1.020%) BMC
9 2 (1.020%) Amdocs
9 2 (1.020%) BT
10 1 (0.510%) NetCracker
10 1 (0.510%) Redknee
10 1 (0.510%) Teradata
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Hook, Hampshire
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Posted: 12 June 2013
OSS / BSS Architect System Integration
Hampshire
The System Integration Solution Architect for the OSS / BSS system will be responsible for the end to end technical solution, including integration between the two companies as well...
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Posted: 12 June 2013
BSS/OSS Application Analyst
Bath, Avon
You will be focused on customer satisfaction, and derive personal fulfilment from helping our end users achieve their aims through the use of the Product Suite, knowing that...
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Rate: Competitive
Posted: 12 June 2013
Project Manager / Third Party Manager - BSS / OSS
Hampshire
The successful candidate will be experienced in OSS / BSS Projects and managing system integration... The BSS Third Party Manager will also be required to drive service improvement in...
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Posted: 17 June 2013
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