The first table below looks at the demand for BSS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited BSS over the 3 months to 22 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 Hertfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Base Station Subsystem (BSS)
Rank 142 150 -
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -
Permanent jobs citing BSS 3 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.122% 0.039% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.473% 0.175% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 0
Average salary £57,500 £57,500 -
UK excluding London average salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year
+4.34% -4.16%
All Communications & Networking
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
634 573 806
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 25.81% 22.17% 24.34%
Number of salaries quoted 471 423 578
Average salary £42,000 £42,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.17% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £27,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
BSS
East of England

BSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire BSS Salary Trend

BSS
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 5 (100.00%) CRM
1 5 (100.00%) Billing
2 3 (60.00%) Broadband
2 3 (60.00%) Project Management
3 2 (40.00%) Oracle
3 2 (40.00%) Linux
3 2 (40.00%) Service Management
3 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement

BSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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.

Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Broadband
General
1 5 (100.00%) Billing
2 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) IT Project Manager
1 3 (60.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (40.00%) BSS Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) OSS Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Administrator
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CRM
2 3 (60.00%) Project Management
3 2 (40.00%) Service Management
3 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle