The first table below looks at the demand for BSS skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited BSS over the 3 months to 18 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 for the England region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Base Station Subsystem (BSS)
Rank 656 763 697
Rank change year-on-year
+107 -66
Permanent jobs citing BSS 196 120 182
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.190% 0.106% 0.149%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.985% 0.605% 0.915%
Number of salaries quoted 118 101 140
Average salary £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.34% -
90% offered a salary of more than £36,000 £35,000 £40,000
10% offered a salary of more than £82,500 £75,000 £90,250
UK excluding London average salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year
+4.34% -4.16%
All Communications & Networking
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
19894 19845 19898
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 19.29% 17.57% 16.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16223 16606 16611
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £64,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
BSS
UK

BSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England BSS Salary Trend

BSS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing BSS across the England region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

England BSS Salary Histogram

BSS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BSS within the England region over the 3 months to 18 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
London +91 114 £55,000 -4.34% 4
South East +26 61 £65,000 +18.18% 4
East Midlands - 8 £38,500 -
Yorkshire -12 6 £60,000 -11.11% 1
South West +5 4 £25,000 -58.33% 1
East of England - 3 £57,500 -
BSS
UK

BSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the England 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.

1 190 (59.38%) Telecoms
2 89 (27.81%) Billing
3 80 (25.00%) CRM
4 59 (18.44%) Project Management
5 57 (17.81%) Degree
6 51 (15.94%) Java
7 48 (15.00%) ITIL
8 47 (14.69%) Scrum
9 44 (13.75%) Web Services
10 43 (13.44%) .NET
11 41 (12.81%) Windows
11 41 (12.81%) SOA
11 41 (12.81%) JIRA
12 40 (12.50%) SQL
13 38 (11.88%) TOGAF
13 38 (11.88%) ESB
14 35 (10.94%) Linux
15 33 (10.31%) Selenium
16 32 (10.00%) eTOM
17 31 (9.688%) Oracle
18 30 (9.375%) UNIX
18 30 (9.375%) Agile Software Development
18 30 (9.375%) TDD
18 30 (9.375%) Continuous Integration
19 27 (8.438%) Huawei
20 26 (8.125%) Subversion
21 25 (7.813%) Business Analysis
22 24 (7.500%) Waterfall
22 24 (7.500%) Internet
22 24 (7.500%) MySQL

BSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the England 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 44 (13.75%) Web Services
2 43 (13.44%) .NET
3 21 (6.563%) ASP.NET
4 19 (5.938%) J2EE
5 17 (5.313%) Middleware
6 15 (4.688%) .NET Framework
7 14 (4.375%) ActiveMQ
8 13 (4.063%) WCF
9 12 (3.750%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 11 (3.438%) XML
10 11 (3.438%) SOAP
11 10 (3.125%) LAMP
12 9 (2.813%) Hibernate
12 9 (2.813%) Drools
13 8 (2.500%) JSP
13 8 (2.500%) Java EE
13 8 (2.500%) JSF
13 8 (2.500%) jBPM
13 8 (2.500%) XSLT
13 8 (2.500%) Struts
Application Platforms
1 38 (11.88%) ESB
2 12 (3.750%) Apache
3 7 (2.188%) IIS
4 3 (0.938%) WebLogic
4 3 (0.938%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.938%) Oracle Coherence
5 2 (0.625%) Mule
5 2 (0.625%) Windows Azure
5 2 (0.625%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 16 (5.000%) MS Office
2 6 (1.875%) MS Excel
3 1 (0.313%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.250%) Oracle BRM
2 3 (0.938%) Oracle Financials
2 3 (0.938%) SAP ERP
2 3 (0.938%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.313%) Oracle CRM
Communications & Networking
1 24 (7.500%) Internet
2 21 (6.563%) Broadband
3 14 (4.375%) 3G
4 12 (3.750%) INAP
4 12 (3.750%) SIGTRAN
5 10 (3.125%) Network Security
6 9 (2.813%) LTE
7 8 (2.500%) Radio Access Network
7 8 (2.500%) IPv6
7 8 (2.500%) VoIP
8 7 (2.188%) SMS
8 7 (2.188%) MGW
8 7 (2.188%) Wireless
9 6 (1.875%) Firewall
10 5 (1.563%) GSM
10 5 (1.563%) LDAP
11 4 (1.250%) SAN
11 4 (1.250%) MPLS
11 4 (1.250%) 4G
12 3 (0.938%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (7.500%) MySQL
2 15 (4.688%) RDBMS
3 12 (3.750%) SQL Server
4 6 (1.875%) Oracle 10g
5 4 (1.250%) Data Mining
6 3 (0.938%) Data Mart
6 3 (0.938%) Oracle 11g
6 3 (0.938%) Hadoop
6 3 (0.938%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.938%) Oracle Exadata
6 3 (0.938%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 41 (12.81%) JIRA
2 33 (10.31%) Selenium
3 26 (8.125%) Subversion
4 22 (6.875%) TeamCity
4 22 (6.875%) SpecFlow
5 15 (4.688%) MSBuild
5 15 (4.688%) Moq
5 15 (4.688%) NUnit
6 8 (2.500%) FitNesse
7 6 (1.875%) Jenkins
8 4 (1.250%) Hudson
8 4 (1.250%) CruiseControl
8 4 (1.250%) JUnit
8 4 (1.250%) JMeter
9 2 (0.625%) MSI
9 2 (0.625%) Maven
9 2 (0.625%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.313%) Rational Performance Tester
10 1 (0.313%) LoadRunner
General
1 190 (59.38%) Telecoms
2 89 (27.81%) Billing
3 20 (6.250%) Finance
4 9 (2.813%) Back Office
5 6 (1.875%) Advertising
5 6 (1.875%) Marketing
6 4 (1.250%) Retail
7 3 (0.938%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.625%) Electronics
8 2 (0.625%) Multimedia
8 2 (0.625%) Banking
8 2 (0.625%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.313%) Swedish Language
9 1 (0.313%) French Language
9 1 (0.313%) German Language
9 1 (0.313%) Italian Language
9 1 (0.313%) Norwegian Language
Job Titles
1 88 (27.50%) Architect
2 57 (17.81%) Solutions Architect
3 37 (11.56%) Developer
4 33 (10.31%) Project Manager
5 25 (7.813%) Consultant
6 24 (7.500%) Analyst
7 19 (5.938%) Test Manager
8 17 (5.313%) OSS Architect
9 15 (4.688%) Design Engineer
10 14 (4.375%) Integration Architect
11 13 (4.063%) Business Analyst
11 13 (4.063%) Senior Developer
11 13 (4.063%) .NET Developer
11 13 (4.063%) Systems Architect
11 13 (4.063%) Systems Integration Architect
12 12 (3.750%) Agile .NET Developer
13 11 (3.438%) Enterprise Architect
14 10 (3.125%) OSS Engineer
14 10 (3.125%) Senior Design Engineer
15 9 (2.813%) Senior Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.625%) PMI
1 18 (5.625%) Computer Science
2 13 (4.063%) SaaS
3 9 (2.813%) Management Information System
4 4 (1.250%) N-Tier
4 4 (1.250%) Firmware
4 4 (1.250%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (1.250%) Open Source
4 4 (1.250%) Mobile App
4 4 (1.250%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (0.938%) Data Integration
5 3 (0.938%) Digital Media
5 3 (0.938%) NGOSS
5 3 (0.938%) Mathematics
5 3 (0.938%) Physics
6 2 (0.625%) Social Network
6 2 (0.625%) Streaming Video
6 2 (0.625%) IPTV
6 2 (0.625%) Web 2.0
6 2 (0.625%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 41 (12.81%) Windows
2 35 (10.94%) Linux
3 30 (9.375%) UNIX
4 10 (3.125%) Solaris
5 2 (0.625%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (25.00%) CRM
2 59 (18.44%) Project Management
3 48 (15.00%) ITIL
4 47 (14.69%) Scrum
5 41 (12.81%) SOA
6 38 (11.88%) TOGAF
7 32 (10.00%) eTOM
8 30 (9.375%) Agile Software Development
8 30 (9.375%) TDD
8 30 (9.375%) Continuous Integration
9 25 (7.813%) Business Analysis
10 24 (7.500%) PRINCE2
10 24 (7.500%) Waterfall
11 23 (7.188%) Test Automation
11 23 (7.188%) Enterprise Architecture
11 23 (7.188%) User Acceptance Testing
12 21 (6.563%) MVC
13 20 (6.250%) Performance Testing
14 19 (5.938%) Zachman Framework
14 19 (5.938%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 51 (15.94%) Java
2 40 (12.50%) SQL
3 24 (7.500%) Perl
3 24 (7.500%) PHP
3 24 (7.500%) C#
4 19 (5.938%) Python
5 10 (3.125%) Shell Script
5 10 (3.125%) C
6 7 (2.188%) Ruby
6 7 (2.188%) PL/SQL
7 4 (1.250%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.938%) C++
8 3 (0.938%) VB
8 3 (0.938%) XPath
Qualifications
1 57 (17.81%) Degree
2 18 (5.625%) PMI Certification
3 15 (4.688%) ISEB
3 15 (4.688%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 5 (1.563%) MBA
5 4 (1.250%) ISTQB
5 4 (1.250%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (1.250%) HND
6 3 (0.938%) Security Cleared
6 3 (0.938%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.688%) QA
2 13 (4.063%) SLA
3 6 (1.875%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.313%) COBIT
System Software
1 5 (1.563%) Snort
2 4 (1.250%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (1.250%) vSphere
3 1 (0.313%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (3.125%) Puppet
2 8 (2.500%) Nagios
3 5 (1.563%) Splunk
4 4 (1.250%) OpenView
5 3 (0.938%) Netcool
5 3 (0.938%) BMC PATROL
6 1 (0.313%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 1 (0.313%) Cacti
Vendors
1 31 (9.688%) Oracle
2 27 (8.438%) Huawei
3 23 (7.188%) Cerillion
3 23 (7.188%) Nokia Siemens Networks
4 19 (5.938%) Salesforce.com
5 17 (5.313%) Nokia
6 14 (4.375%) Amdocs
7 12 (3.750%) Siemens
8 9 (2.813%) JBoss
9 7 (2.188%) Siebel
9 7 (2.188%) Microsoft
9 7 (2.188%) Comverse
10 6 (1.875%) BMC
10 6 (1.875%) Convergys
10 6 (1.875%) BT
10 6 (1.875%) Cramer
11 4 (1.250%) ZTE
11 4 (1.250%) VMware
12 3 (0.938%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.938%) Remedy
Leeds, Yorkshire
Customer Analyst, Customer Architect, Solutions Architect, Telecoms software, Billing software, Business Analyst, Solutions Analyst, Solutions Architect, Business Systems Analyst, Pre-sales, Software, Telecoms, BSS, Mobile... Your background may...
Salary: £55000 - £70000 per annum + Bonus
Posted: 18 June 2013
South West London
Think Sky, a FTSE TOP 30 and the UK's favourite triple play provider- TV, broadband and telephony... 1 choice in entertainment and communications.As the UK's...
British Sky Broadcasting
Salary: Salary + Benefits
Posted: 29 May 2013
Isleworth, Middlesex
Think Sky, a FTSE TOP 30 and the UK's favourite triple play provider- TV, broadband and telephony... As the UK's fastest growing Broadband service provider with...
Sky
Salary: Salary + Benefits
Posted: 10 June 2013
West London
Think Sky, a FTSE TOP 30 and the UK's favourite triple play provider- TV, broadband and telephony... As the UK's fastest growing Broadband service provider with...
Sky
Posted: 13 June 2013
City, London
Responsible for detailed documentation of test scripts... Good knowledge of writing SQL queries. Develop/execute SQL queries to test Data intensive functionality... Scripting - UNIX shell or Perl... Experience...
Truphone
Salary: From £35,000 to £40,000 per annum Excellent plus benefits
Posted: 7 June 2013
Hungerford, Berkshire
ADP Dealer Services
Salary: competitive salary and attractive benefits package
Posted: 31 May 2013
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