Hampshire BSS Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Base Station Subsystem (BSS) skills within the Hampshire 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 last 3 months to 20 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Base Station Subsystem (BSS)
Location Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Buckingham Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London East Midlands East of England England Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Leeds London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newport North West Northamptonshire Potters Bar Reading Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West Staffordshire Surrey Swindon Thames Valley UK Wales Warrington West Midlands West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 20 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	232	195
Rank change on same period last year	-37
Matching permanent IT job ads	7	6
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.364 %	0.441 %
Salaries quoted	7	6
Average minimum salary	£46,857	£46,083
Average salary	£48,429	£49,917
% change on same period last year	-2.98 %
Average maximum salary	£50,000	£53,750
UK excluding London average salary	£51,933	£54,000
% change on same period last year	-3.82 %
Communications & Networking Hampshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	1923	1361
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.936 %	0.602 %
Salaries quoted	1519	1025
Average minimum salary	£35,614	£35,735
Average salary	£38,822	£38,507
% change on same period last year	+0.81 %
Average maximum salary	£42,030	£41,278
UK excluding London average salary	£37,723	£39,102
% change on same period last year	-3.52 %
BSS South East

BSS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing BSS across the Hampshire 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 ads citing BSS across the Hampshire region.

BSS
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing BSS across the Hampshire region over the past 3 months.

BSS
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BSS within the Hampshire region over the past 3 months.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Basingstoke	-	4	£50,000	-

BSS South East

BSS
Top 19 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Hampshire region citing BSS also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing BSS.

1 7 (87.50 %) Telecoms 2 4 (50.00 %) Microsoft 2 4 (50.00 %) Security Cleared 3 3 (37.50 %) BC Cleared 3 3 (37.50 %) Linux 3 3 (37.50 %) Cisco 3 3 (37.50 %) PRINCE2 3 3 (37.50 %) Unix 3 3 (37.50 %) Windows 3 3 (37.50 %) SAN 4 2 (25.00 %) VERITAS 4 2 (25.00 %) Internet 4 2 (25.00 %) Solaris 4 2 (25.00 %) Sun 4 2 (25.00 %) Firewall

5 1 (12.50 %) Remedy 5 1 (12.50 %) Billing 5 1 (12.50 %) eTOM 5 1 (12.50 %) SC Cleared

BSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Hampshire region citing BSS also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing BSS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 3 (37.50 %) SAN 2 2 (25.00 %) Internet 2 2 (25.00 %) Firewall	General 1 7 (87.50 %) Telecoms 2 1 (12.50 %) Billing
Job Titles 1 4 (50.00 %) Systems Administrator 1 4 (50.00 %) Administrator 2 1 (12.50 %) OSS Architect 2 1 (12.50 %) Architect	Operating Systems 1 3 (37.50 %) Unix 1 3 (37.50 %) Windows 1 3 (37.50 %) Linux 2 2 (25.00 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (50.00 %) Security Cleared 2 3 (37.50 %) BC Cleared 2 3 (37.50 %) PRINCE2 3 1 (12.50 %) eTOM 3 1 (12.50 %) SC Cleared	Vendors 1 4 (50.00 %) Microsoft 2 3 (37.50 %) Cisco 3 2 (25.00 %) Sun 3 2 (25.00 %) VERITAS 4 1 (12.50 %) Remedy