The first table below looks at the demand for BSS skills in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 City of London region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Base Station Subsystem (BSS)
Rank 268 308 323
Rank change year-on-year
+40 +15
Permanent jobs citing BSS 53 15 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.454% 0.115% 0.052%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.511% 0.703% 0.424%
Number of salaries quoted 51 15 8
Average salary £57,500 £52,500 £56,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.52% -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £46,400 £49,500
10% offered a salary of more than £100,000 £75,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year
+4.34% -4.16%
All Communications & Networking
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
2111 2133 1886
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 18.10% 16.33% 12.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1880 1914 1722
Average salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
90% offered a salary of more than £34,000 £33,000 £31,000
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £77,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
BSS
London

BSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London BSS Jobs Demand Trend

BSS
Salary Trend

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

City of London BSS Salary Trend

BSS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing BSS across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London BSS Salary Histogram

BSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 38 (44.19%) Telecoms
2 35 (40.70%) CRM
3 31 (36.05%) Billing
4 23 (26.74%) SOA
4 23 (26.74%) .NET
5 22 (25.58%) JIRA
6 21 (24.42%) ESB
7 20 (23.26%) Cerillion
7 20 (23.26%) Scrum
7 20 (23.26%) Web Services
7 20 (23.26%) Windows
8 19 (22.09%) Continuous Integration
8 19 (22.09%) Selenium
8 19 (22.09%) Enterprise Architecture
9 18 (20.93%) TeamCity
9 18 (20.93%) SpecFlow
10 17 (19.77%) OO
11 16 (18.60%) Project Management
11 16 (18.60%) TDD
11 16 (18.60%) Subversion
12 15 (17.44%) C#
13 14 (16.28%) ASP.NET
13 14 (16.28%) Zachman Framework
13 14 (16.28%) TOGAF
13 14 (16.28%) WCF
14 13 (15.12%) Degree
14 13 (15.12%) MSBuild
14 13 (15.12%) MVC
14 13 (15.12%) UNIX
14 13 (15.12%) OOA/OOD

BSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 23 (26.74%) .NET
2 20 (23.26%) Web Services
3 14 (16.28%) ASP.NET
3 14 (16.28%) WCF
4 12 (13.95%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 12 (13.95%) .NET Framework
5 11 (12.79%) Middleware
6 4 (4.651%) LAMP
7 3 (3.488%) SOAP
7 3 (3.488%) Drools
7 3 (3.488%) jBPM
8 1 (1.163%) J2EE
8 1 (1.163%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (1.163%) REST
8 1 (1.163%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 21 (24.42%) ESB
2 12 (13.95%) ActiveMQ
3 4 (4.651%) Apache
4 1 (1.163%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (5.814%) MS Excel
2 4 (4.651%) MS Office
3 2 (2.326%) MS PowerPoint
3 2 (2.326%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.163%) Oracle BRM
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.140%) SMS
2 5 (5.814%) VoIP
2 5 (5.814%) Internet
3 4 (4.651%) SAN
3 4 (4.651%) GSM
4 2 (2.326%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.326%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (2.326%) Wireless
5 1 (1.163%) TCAP
5 1 (1.163%) ISUP
5 1 (1.163%) INAP
5 1 (1.163%) DSL
5 1 (1.163%) SS7
5 1 (1.163%) Frame Relay
5 1 (1.163%) UMTS
5 1 (1.163%) VPN
5 1 (1.163%) ISDN
5 1 (1.163%) LAN
5 1 (1.163%) ATM
5 1 (1.163%) CDMA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.95%) RDBMS
2 8 (9.302%) MySQL
3 5 (5.814%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (25.58%) JIRA
2 19 (22.09%) Selenium
3 18 (20.93%) TeamCity
3 18 (20.93%) SpecFlow
4 16 (18.60%) Subversion
5 13 (15.12%) MSBuild
6 12 (13.95%) Moq
6 12 (13.95%) NUnit
7 4 (4.651%) Jenkins
8 2 (2.326%) CruiseControl
8 2 (2.326%) Hudson
8 2 (2.326%) WebDriver
8 2 (2.326%) JMeter
General
1 38 (44.19%) Telecoms
2 31 (36.05%) Billing
3 5 (5.814%) Finance
3 5 (5.814%) Marketing
4 4 (4.651%) Back Office
5 1 (1.163%) Norwegian Language
5 1 (1.163%) Portuguese Language
5 1 (1.163%) Spanish Language
5 1 (1.163%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 23 (26.74%) Architect
2 15 (17.44%) Developer
3 14 (16.28%) .NET Developer
4 12 (13.95%) Solutions Architect
4 12 (13.95%) Agile .NET Developer
5 10 (11.63%) Project Manager
6 9 (10.47%) Enterprise Architect
7 7 (8.140%) Consultant
8 6 (6.977%) Analyst
9 5 (5.814%) Development Manager
9 5 (5.814%) Integration Consultant
10 4 (4.651%) Software Manager
10 4 (4.651%) Technical Manager
10 4 (4.651%) Software Development Manager
10 4 (4.651%) Quality Engineer
11 3 (3.488%) Business Process Analyst
11 3 (3.488%) Process Analyst
11 3 (3.488%) Support Engineer
11 3 (3.488%) Business Analyst
11 3 (3.488%) Technical Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.95%) Computer Science
2 8 (9.302%) PMI
3 3 (3.488%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.488%) SaaS
4 2 (2.326%) Open Source
4 2 (2.326%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.163%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.163%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 20 (23.26%) Windows
2 13 (15.12%) UNIX
3 9 (10.47%) Linux
4 5 (5.814%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (40.70%) CRM
2 23 (26.74%) SOA
3 20 (23.26%) Scrum
4 19 (22.09%) Continuous Integration
4 19 (22.09%) Enterprise Architecture
5 17 (19.77%) OO
6 16 (18.60%) Project Management
6 16 (18.60%) TDD
7 14 (16.28%) Zachman Framework
7 14 (16.28%) TOGAF
8 13 (15.12%) MVC
8 13 (15.12%) OOA/OOD
9 12 (13.95%) ITIL
10 11 (12.79%) Test Automation
10 11 (12.79%) PRINCE2
11 9 (10.47%) Waterfall
12 8 (9.302%) Test Scripting
13 7 (8.140%) ETL
13 7 (8.140%) Validation
13 7 (8.140%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (17.44%) C#
2 11 (12.79%) SQL
2 11 (12.79%) Java
3 8 (9.302%) Perl
4 4 (4.651%) Python
4 4 (4.651%) C
4 4 (4.651%) PHP
4 4 (4.651%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.163%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.163%) VB
5 1 (1.163%) C++
Qualifications
1 13 (15.12%) Degree
2 8 (9.302%) ISEB
2 8 (9.302%) PMI Certification
3 7 (8.140%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 2 (2.326%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.163%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.977%) QA
2 4 (4.651%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.651%) SLA
3 1 (1.163%) COBIT
Systems Management
1 2 (2.326%) Puppet
2 1 (1.163%) Nagios
Vendors
1 20 (23.26%) Cerillion
2 12 (13.95%) Nokia
2 12 (13.95%) Siemens
2 12 (13.95%) Nokia Siemens Networks
3 9 (10.47%) Salesforce.com
4 5 (5.814%) Oracle
5 4 (4.651%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.326%) TOWER Software
6 2 (2.326%) Amdocs
6 2 (2.326%) Convergys
7 1 (1.163%) webMethods
7 1 (1.163%) TIBCO
7 1 (1.163%) HP
7 1 (1.163%) Siebel
7 1 (1.163%) Comverse
City, London
Specific solution architecture experience in any one of: CRM ; Sales/Channel Management; Middleware Integration - ESB, ETL, BRE , BPM; Info Mngt - security/BI/COTs; SOA; Framework & Platform mngt; Billing/...
Truphone
Salary: From £70,000 to £90,000 per annum plus bonus & benefits
Posted: 30 April 2013
City of London
ERP, CRM, OSS, BSS) in support of a rapidly growing Telecoms company... ISEB / ITSQB certification would be helpful, and you'll also need to have had some formal...
Fulcrum Telecom
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per month + Pension, healthcare
Posted: 3 May 2013
City of London
If you have any questions feel free to get in touchKey Skills: 3rd line; 3rd line support; applications support; BSS; Unix; Linux; Oracle; Mysql; MSSQL; crm; billing; security;...
Claremont Consulting
Salary: £50000 per annum + Pension; healthcare
Posted: 11 May 2013
City, London
development, test, UI etc.) - Experience of delivering integration and middleware projects (Fuse/Camel/Servicemix ideally) - Experience of BPM and Rules (jBPM/Drools ideally) - Experience in representing software teams...
Truphone
Salary: From £50,000 to £55,000 per annum
Posted: 30 April 2013
City, London
Truphone's technology allows travellers in the UK and elsewhere to use a mobile to call, text and access the web at local rates without having to change...
Truphone
Salary: From £50,000 to £60,000 per annum plus benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
This is estimated to be a 60/40 split (Team Lead / Hands on) You will lead the team providing support for assigned services of the Business Support Systems (...
Lorien Resourcing
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
City, London
Ideal candidates will have experience with the following: *Leadership skills in a 3rd Line Systems Support role - preferably a Mobile or Telecommunications background *Problem Management *Incident Management *Service...
Claremont Consulting Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
City of London
Ideal candidates will have experience with the following:*Leadership skills in a 3rd Line Systems Support role - preferably a Mobile or Telecommunications background*Problem Management*Incident Management*Service...
Claremont Consulting
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
City of London
As the Billing Analyst you will be required to report into the Billing Manager and will require you to have worked in the Telecoms sector, preferably with experience...
Claremont Consulting
Salary: £35000 - £37000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013