The first table below looks at the demand for BSS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Slough region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited BSS over the 3 months to 19 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 Slough region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Base Station Subsystem (BSS)
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing BSS 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Slough - - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year
+4.34% -4.16%
All Communications & Networking
Slough
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
129 257 119
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Slough 19.75% 38.94% 22.58%
Number of salaries quoted 103 176 78
Average salary £45,000 £42,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88% +13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £32,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
BSS
Berkshire

BSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Slough 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 Slough region.

Slough BSS Salary Trend

BSS
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Slough 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 3 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (66.67%) Business Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) J2EE
2 2 (66.67%) SOAP
2 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 2 (66.67%) CRM
2 2 (66.67%) N-Tier
2 2 (66.67%) SOA
2 2 (66.67%) Billing
2 2 (66.67%) Service Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
3 1 (33.33%) NetCracker
3 1 (33.33%) IBM
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Alcatel-Lucent
3 1 (33.33%) Ericsson
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) Huawei
3 1 (33.33%) Comverse
3 1 (33.33%) Amdocs

BSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Slough 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 2 (66.67%) J2EE
1 2 (66.67%) SOAP
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
General
1 3 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (66.67%) Billing
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) OSS Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Business Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) CRM
1 2 (66.67%) SOA
1 2 (66.67%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) NetCracker
1 1 (33.33%) IBM
1 1 (33.33%) Alcatel-Lucent
1 1 (33.33%) Ericsson
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Huawei
1 1 (33.33%) Comverse
1 1 (33.33%) Amdocs