City of London BSS Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Base Station Subsystem (BSS) skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited BSS over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Base Station Subsystem (BSS)
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Bristol Buckinghamshire City of London Coventry East of England England Hampshire Hertfordshire London Maidenhead Midlands Milton Keynes Newport Osterley Reading Solihull South East South Wales South West Stevenage Surrey Swindon Thames Valley UK Wales Watford West Midlands Wiltshire Windsor	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	317	325
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching permanent IT job ads	29	15
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	1.029 %	0.628 %
Salaries quoted	29	7
Average minimum salary	£43,655	£34,286
Average salary	£48,552	£45,000
% change on same period last year	+7.89 %
Average maximum salary	£53,448	£55,714
UK excluding London average salary	£55,583	£57,023
% change on same period last year	-2.52 %
Communications & Networking City of London
Matching permanent IT job ads	2818	2388
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.559 %	1.001 %
Salaries quoted	2459	1862
Average minimum salary	£45,013	£45,092
Average salary	£48,732	£48,138
% change on same period last year	+1.23 %
Average maximum salary	£52,451	£51,185
UK excluding London average salary	£37,602	£39,396
% change on same period last year	-4.55 %
BSS London

BSS
Demand Trend

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

BSS
Salary Trend

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

BSS
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing BSS across the City of London region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

BSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the City of London 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.

1 48 (94.12 %) Telecoms 2 31 (60.78 %) Billing 3 17 (33.33 %) CRM 4 14 (27.45 %) Marketing 5 13 (25.49 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 8 (15.69 %) Project Management 7 6 (11.76 %) PRINCE2 8 5 (9.804 %) SQL 9 4 (7.843 %) Finance 9 4 (7.843 %) Oracle 9 4 (7.843 %) IPTV 10 3 (5.882 %) LLU 10 3 (5.882 %) UNIX 10 3 (5.882 %) J2EE 10 3 (5.882 %) Perl

10 3 (5.882 %) ITIL 10 3 (5.882 %) ERP 10 3 (5.882 %) Amdocs 11 2 (3.922 %) Process Management 11 2 (3.922 %) Service Delivery 11 2 (3.922 %) Management Information System 11 2 (3.922 %) BT 11 2 (3.922 %) Education 11 2 (3.922 %) DTV 11 2 (3.922 %) X.500 11 2 (3.922 %) Internet 11 2 (3.922 %) Apache 11 2 (3.922 %) MQSeries 11 2 (3.922 %) LDAP 11 2 (3.922 %) MS Excel

BSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the City of London 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.

Application Development 1 3 (5.882 %) J2EE 2 1 (1.961 %) XML 2 1 (1.961 %) CPAN	Application Platforms 1 2 (3.922 %) WebLogic 1 2 (3.922 %) Apache 1 2 (3.922 %) MQSeries
Applications 1 2 (3.922 %) MS Excel 2 1 (1.961 %) AutoCAD	Business Applications 1 2 (3.922 %) Pivotal CRM
Communications & Networking 1 3 (5.882 %) LLU 2 2 (3.922 %) Internet 2 2 (3.922 %) LDAP 2 2 (3.922 %) VoIP 2 2 (3.922 %) X.500 3 1 (1.961 %) VPN 3 1 (1.961 %) ISDN 3 1 (1.961 %) SDH 3 1 (1.961 %) DWDM 3 1 (1.961 %) MPLS 3 1 (1.961 %) Network Security	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (3.922 %) SQL Server 2 1 (1.961 %) Datawarehouse 2 1 (1.961 %) MySQL
General 1 48 (94.12 %) Telecoms 2 31 (60.78 %) Billing 3 14 (27.45 %) Marketing 4 4 (7.843 %) Finance 5 2 (3.922 %) Education 6 1 (1.961 %) Pensions	Job Titles 1 27 (52.94 %) Business Analyst 1 27 (52.94 %) Analyst 2 7 (13.73 %) Project Manager 3 5 (9.804 %) Architect 4 4 (7.843 %) Delivery Manager 5 3 (5.882 %) OSS Architect 5 3 (5.882 %) Administrator 6 2 (3.922 %) Solutions Architect 6 2 (3.922 %) Applications Support 7 1 (1.961 %) Solutions Designer 7 1 (1.961 %) Consultant 7 1 (1.961 %) Systems Administrator 7 1 (1.961 %) Product Development Manager 7 1 (1.961 %) Business Manager 7 1 (1.961 %) Solaris Administrator 7 1 (1.961 %) Development Manager 7 1 (1.961 %) Systems Support 7 1 (1.961 %) Support Engineer 7 1 (1.961 %) Developer 7 1 (1.961 %) Systems Delivery Manager
Miscellaneous 1 4 (7.843 %) IPTV 2 2 (3.922 %) DTV 2 2 (3.922 %) Management Information System 3 1 (1.961 %) Video Conferencing 3 1 (1.961 %) PMI	Operating Systems 1 3 (5.882 %) UNIX 2 2 (3.922 %) Solaris 3 1 (1.961 %) AIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 17 (33.33 %) CRM 2 13 (25.49 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 8 (15.69 %) Project Management 4 6 (11.76 %) PRINCE2 5 3 (5.882 %) ERP 5 3 (5.882 %) ITIL 6 2 (3.922 %) Web Development 6 2 (3.922 %) Resource Management 6 2 (3.922 %) Fault Management 6 2 (3.922 %) Process Management 6 2 (3.922 %) Service Delivery 6 2 (3.922 %) Programme Management 6 2 (3.922 %) Supplier Management 7 1 (1.961 %) Project Planning 7 1 (1.961 %) Software Engineering 7 1 (1.961 %) Business Analysis 7 1 (1.961 %) E-business 7 1 (1.961 %) Migration 7 1 (1.961 %) Data Modelling 7 1 (1.961 %) Business Intelligence	Programming Languages 1 5 (9.804 %) SQL 2 3 (5.882 %) Perl 3 2 (3.922 %) VB 3 2 (3.922 %) C 3 2 (3.922 %) C++ 3 2 (3.922 %) Java
Systems Management 1 1 (1.961 %) OpenView 1 1 (1.961 %) Netcool	Vendors 1 4 (7.843 %) Oracle 2 3 (5.882 %) Amdocs 3 2 (3.922 %) BT 3 2 (3.922 %) Cisco 3 2 (3.922 %) IBM 4 1 (1.961 %) HP 4 1 (1.961 %) Convergys