Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for BSS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited BSS over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the Bristol region.

 Base Station Subsystem (BSS)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank--132
Matching permanent IT job ads001
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol--0.034 %
As % of the Communications & Networking category--0.168 %
Salaries quoted000
Average salary---
UK excluding London average salary£50,000£54,250£45,000
% change year-on-year
-7.830 %+20.55 %
Bristol IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryAll Communications & Networking
Bristol
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
226332594
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol16.09 %18.60 %20.25 %
Salaries quoted213305537
Average salary£35,000£36,000£34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.770 %+5.880 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,500£26,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£51,700£45,000£54,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.140 %-
BSS South WestBSS
South West

BSS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing BSS across the Bristol region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Bristol BSS Demand Trend

BSS
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing BSS across the Bristol region.

Bristol BSS Salary Trend

BSS
Top 5 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Bristol 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 IT job ads sampled that cited BSS.

11 (100.00 %)GPRS
11 (100.00 %)GSM
11 (100.00 %)Regression Testing
11 (100.00 %)Actix
11 (100.00 %)Nokia Siemens Networks

BSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Bristol 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 IT job ads sampled that cited BSS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Bristol IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11 (100.00 %)GPRS
11 (100.00 %)GSM
Bristol IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11 (100.00 %)Design Engineer
Bristol IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11 (100.00 %)Regression Testing
Bristol IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11 (100.00 %)Actix
11 (100.00 %)Nokia Siemens Networks