The first table below looks at the demand for BSS skills in IT jobs advertised for the South East 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 South East region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Base Station Subsystem (BSS)
Rank 382 402 389
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -13
Permanent jobs citing BSS 53 42 36
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.239% 0.174% 0.160%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.008% 0.792% 0.852%
Number of salaries quoted 18 31 30
Average salary £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.04% -4.16%
90% offered a salary of more than £59,500 £42,500 £40,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £65,000 £90,000
UK excluding London average salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year
+4.34% -4.16%
All Communications & Networking
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
5260 5301 4226
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 23.68% 21.97% 18.78%
Number of salaries quoted 4220 4497 3526
Average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
BSS
England

BSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East BSS Salary Trend

BSS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing BSS across the South East region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 22 May 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
Berkshire +15 37 £65,000 +13.04%
Hampshire +4 7 £60,000 +41.17%
Surrey +18 4 - -
M4 Corridor +5 3 £65,000 -3.70%
Thames Valley +3 3 £70,000 -6.66%
BSS
England

BSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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 75 (77.32%) Telecoms
2 30 (30.93%) ITIL
3 26 (26.80%) Billing
3 26 (26.80%) eTOM
3 26 (26.80%) Degree
4 22 (22.68%) Project Management
5 19 (19.59%) CRM
6 17 (17.53%) Business Analysis
7 14 (14.43%) Network Planning
8 13 (13.40%) Huawei
8 13 (13.40%) Network Security
9 12 (12.37%) ESB
10 11 (11.34%) 3G
10 11 (11.34%) IPv6
10 11 (11.34%) Broadband
11 10 (10.31%) Oracle
11 10 (10.31%) INAP
11 10 (10.31%) SIGTRAN
12 9 (9.278%) Use Case
12 9 (9.278%) Product Management
12 9 (9.278%) Network Architecture
12 9 (9.278%) Capacity Management
12 9 (9.278%) Network Design
12 9 (9.278%) Validation
13 8 (8.247%) Amdocs
13 8 (8.247%) SOA
13 8 (8.247%) Nokia Siemens Networks
14 7 (7.216%) User Acceptance Testing
14 7 (7.216%) Revenue Management
14 7 (7.216%) LTE

BSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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 6 (6.186%) XML
2 3 (3.093%) .NET Framework
2 3 (3.093%) MapReduce
2 3 (3.093%) XSLT
2 3 (3.093%) .NET
2 3 (3.093%) WSDL
2 3 (3.093%) XML Schema
3 2 (2.062%) J2EE
3 2 (2.062%) JDBC
3 2 (2.062%) SOAP
3 2 (2.062%) Web Services
3 2 (2.062%) REST
3 2 (2.062%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.031%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 12 (12.37%) ESB
2 3 (3.093%) Oracle Coherence
3 2 (2.062%) WebLogic
3 2 (2.062%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 2 (2.062%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.031%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (1.031%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.093%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.40%) Network Security
2 11 (11.34%) 3G
2 11 (11.34%) IPv6
2 11 (11.34%) Broadband
3 10 (10.31%) INAP
3 10 (10.31%) SIGTRAN
4 7 (7.216%) LTE
5 6 (6.186%) Wireless
6 5 (5.155%) Radio Access Network
7 4 (4.124%) Internet
7 4 (4.124%) MGW
8 3 (3.093%) 4G
8 3 (3.093%) MPLS
9 2 (2.062%) DSL
9 2 (2.062%) SNMP
9 2 (2.062%) VoIP
9 2 (2.062%) Unified Communications
10 1 (1.031%) FCAPS
10 1 (1.031%) HTTP
10 1 (1.031%) GSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.155%) Oracle 10g
2 4 (4.124%) Data Mining
3 3 (3.093%) Oracle 11g
3 3 (3.093%) Data Mart
3 3 (3.093%) Hadoop
3 3 (3.093%) Big Data
3 3 (3.093%) Oracle Exadata
3 3 (3.093%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.093%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (3.093%) JIRA
1 3 (3.093%) Moq
1 3 (3.093%) NUnit
1 3 (3.093%) Subversion
General
1 75 (77.32%) Telecoms
2 26 (26.80%) Billing
3 5 (5.155%) Marketing
3 5 (5.155%) Advertising
4 2 (2.062%) Multimedia
4 2 (2.062%) Back Office
5 1 (1.031%) Finance
5 1 (1.031%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 34 (35.05%) Architect
2 18 (18.56%) Solutions Architect
3 17 (17.53%) Consultant
4 13 (13.40%) Design Engineer
4 13 (13.40%) Integration Architect
5 12 (12.37%) Systems Integration Architect
5 12 (12.37%) Systems Architect
6 11 (11.34%) Principal Consultant
7 10 (10.31%) Project Manager
8 8 (8.247%) Senior Design Engineer
9 6 (6.186%) Test Manager
10 5 (5.155%) OSS Architect
10 5 (5.155%) Voice Engineer
10 5 (5.155%) Designer
10 5 (5.155%) Analyst
11 4 (4.124%) 3G Engineer
11 4 (4.124%) Solutions Designer
12 3 (3.093%) OSS Engineer
12 3 (3.093%) Senior Voice Engineer
12 3 (3.093%) Core Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.186%) Computer Science
2 5 (5.155%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (3.093%) Mathematics
3 3 (3.093%) Physics
3 3 (3.093%) Digital Media
4 2 (2.062%) N-Tier
4 2 (2.062%) Streaming Video
4 2 (2.062%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.062%) IaaS
4 2 (2.062%) SaaS
4 2 (2.062%) PaaS
4 2 (2.062%) Web 2.0
4 2 (2.062%) Social Network
5 1 (1.031%) IPTV
5 1 (1.031%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.031%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.093%) Linux
2 2 (2.062%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (30.93%) ITIL
2 26 (26.80%) eTOM
3 22 (22.68%) Project Management
4 19 (19.59%) CRM
5 17 (17.53%) Business Analysis
6 14 (14.43%) Network Planning
7 9 (9.278%) Use Case
7 9 (9.278%) Product Management
7 9 (9.278%) Network Architecture
7 9 (9.278%) Capacity Management
7 9 (9.278%) Network Design
7 9 (9.278%) Validation
8 8 (8.247%) SOA
9 7 (7.216%) User Acceptance Testing
9 7 (7.216%) Revenue Management
10 6 (6.186%) UML
11 5 (5.155%) Migration
11 5 (5.155%) Agile Software Development
12 4 (4.124%) Configuration Management
12 4 (4.124%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.216%) Java
2 3 (3.093%) XPath
2 3 (3.093%) C#
2 3 (3.093%) Python
3 2 (2.062%) PL/SQL
3 2 (2.062%) SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (26.80%) Degree
2 4 (4.124%) HND
3 3 (3.093%) CBAP
3 3 (3.093%) ISEB
4 2 (2.062%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.062%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.062%) MBA
5 1 (1.031%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.031%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.093%) QA
2 1 (1.031%) ISO 9001
Systems Management
1 3 (3.093%) Netcool
1 3 (3.093%) BMC PATROL
1 3 (3.093%) OpenView
2 1 (1.031%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 13 (13.40%) Huawei
2 10 (10.31%) Oracle
3 8 (8.247%) Amdocs
3 8 (8.247%) Nokia Siemens Networks
4 5 (5.155%) Comverse
4 5 (5.155%) Cramer
5 4 (4.124%) BMC
5 4 (4.124%) Convergys
5 4 (4.124%) ZTE
6 3 (3.093%) Teradata
6 3 (3.093%) Remedy
6 3 (3.093%) Nokia
7 2 (2.062%) Cisco
7 2 (2.062%) HP
7 2 (2.062%) Siebel
8 1 (1.031%) NetCracker
8 1 (1.031%) Juniper
8 1 (1.031%) Alcatel-Lucent
8 1 (1.031%) Ericsson
8 1 (1.031%) IBM
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