The first table below looks at the demand for BSS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Northampton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited BSS over the 3 months to 17 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 Northampton region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Base Station Subsystem (BSS)
Rank 48 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing BSS 8 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northampton 2.036% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.756% - -
Number of salaries quoted 8 0 0
Average salary £38,500 - -
UK excluding London average salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year
+4.34% -4.16%
All Communications & Networking
Northampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
82 62 78
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northampton 20.87% 13.63% 16.32%
Number of salaries quoted 73 58 71
Average salary £39,000 £28,250 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+38.05% -5.83%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £22,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £54,000 £39,064
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
BSS
Northamptonshire

BSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northampton 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 Northampton region.

Northampton BSS Salary Trend

BSS
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northampton 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 8 (88.89%) Java
1 8 (88.89%) SQL
1 8 (88.89%) J2EE
1 8 (88.89%) JSP
1 8 (88.89%) Struts
1 8 (88.89%) OOP
1 8 (88.89%) JBoss
1 8 (88.89%) OOD
1 8 (88.89%) MVC
1 8 (88.89%) Hibernate
1 8 (88.89%) Scrum
1 8 (88.89%) Agile Software Development
1 8 (88.89%) TDD
1 8 (88.89%) JSF
1 8 (88.89%) Java EE
1 8 (88.89%) Selenium
1 8 (88.89%) FitNesse
2 4 (44.44%) Web Development
2 4 (44.44%) JUnit
2 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) Project Planning
3 1 (11.11%) QA

BSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northampton 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 8 (88.89%) J2EE
1 8 (88.89%) JSP
1 8 (88.89%) Struts
1 8 (88.89%) Hibernate
1 8 (88.89%) JSF
1 8 (88.89%) Java EE
Development Applications
1 8 (88.89%) Selenium
1 8 (88.89%) FitNesse
2 4 (44.44%) JUnit
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Developer
1 8 (88.89%) Java Developer
1 8 (88.89%) Java/J2EE Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Senior Java Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Senior Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Head of Infrastructure
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) OOP
1 8 (88.89%) OOD
1 8 (88.89%) MVC
1 8 (88.89%) Scrum
1 8 (88.89%) Agile Software Development
1 8 (88.89%) TDD
2 4 (44.44%) Web Development
3 1 (11.11%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Java
1 8 (88.89%) SQL
2 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) JBoss