The first table below looks at the demand for the OSS Engineer role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OSS Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 Job Titles currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
OSS Engineer
Rank 850 870 854
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -16
Permanent jobs requiring an OSS Engineer 12 29 27
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.011% 0.024% 0.022%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% 0.025% 0.023%
Number of salaries quoted 8 20 18
Average salary £61,250 £51,250 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+19.51% -6.81%
90% offered a salary of more than £53,000 £47,250 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £63,650 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £61,250 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -4.54%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102035 114410 117207
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.41% 94.80% 94.20%
Number of salaries quoted 84835 98106 99148
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

OSS Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing OSS Engineer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

OSS Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

OSS Engineer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing OSS Engineer within the UK.

OSS Engineer Salary Trend

OSS Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing OSS Engineer over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 within the UK.

OSS Engineer Salary Histogram

OSS Engineer
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OSS Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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
England +8 12 £61,250 +19.51%
South East -3 8 £61,250 +16.66%
London +47 4 - -
M4 Corridor +9 4 £62,500 -
Canary Wharf - 4 - -
Berkshire -8 3 £60,000 +14.28%
Surrey +7 1 £42,500 -10.52%
Slough -10 1 £57,500 +4.54%

OSS Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited OSS Engineer in their job title 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 with OSS Engineer in their job title.

1 14 (73.68%) Telecoms
2 9 (47.37%) BSS
3 7 (36.84%) Perl
3 7 (36.84%) SQL
4 6 (31.58%) Linux
5 5 (26.32%) Python
5 5 (26.32%) MySQL
5 5 (26.32%) PHP
5 5 (26.32%) Web Services
5 5 (26.32%) Windows
6 4 (21.05%) vSphere
6 4 (21.05%) Marketing
6 4 (21.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (21.05%) Puppet
6 4 (21.05%) Splunk
6 4 (21.05%) Product Management
6 4 (21.05%) Radio Access Network
6 4 (21.05%) ITIL
6 4 (21.05%) LDAP
6 4 (21.05%) SAN
6 4 (21.05%) Nokia
6 4 (21.05%) Internet
6 4 (21.05%) VMware
6 4 (21.05%) Snort
6 4 (21.05%) Ruby
7 3 (15.79%) 3G
7 3 (15.79%) Ericsson
7 3 (15.79%) UNIX
8 2 (10.53%) GSM

OSS Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited OSS Engineer in their job title 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 with OSS Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (26.32%) Web Services
2 1 (5.263%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.263%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Metrica
Communications & Networking
1 9 (47.37%) BSS
2 4 (21.05%) Radio Access Network
2 4 (21.05%) LDAP
2 4 (21.05%) SAN
2 4 (21.05%) Internet
3 3 (15.79%) 3G
4 2 (10.53%) GSM
4 2 (10.53%) INAP
4 2 (10.53%) SIGTRAN
4 2 (10.53%) MGW
5 1 (5.263%) 2G
5 1 (5.263%) UMTS
5 1 (5.263%) WCDMA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) MySQL
General
1 14 (73.68%) Telecoms
2 4 (21.05%) Marketing
3 1 (5.263%) Billing
3 1 (5.263%) Back Office
3 1 (5.263%) Electronics
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.263%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Linux
2 5 (26.32%) Windows
3 3 (15.79%) UNIX
4 1 (5.263%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (21.05%) Product Management
1 4 (21.05%) ITIL
2 2 (10.53%) Project Management
2 2 (10.53%) Validation
2 2 (10.53%) Network Design
2 2 (10.53%) Data Analysis
2 2 (10.53%) Integration Testing
2 2 (10.53%) Performance Management
2 2 (10.53%) Capacity Management
2 2 (10.53%) Software Architecture
3 1 (5.263%) Business Development
3 1 (5.263%) Software Deployment
3 1 (5.263%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (5.263%) Data Migration
3 1 (5.263%) Problem Management
3 1 (5.263%) Network Planning
3 1 (5.263%) Migration
3 1 (5.263%) Configuration Management
3 1 (5.263%) Service Management
3 1 (5.263%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) Perl
1 7 (36.84%) SQL
2 5 (26.32%) Python
2 5 (26.32%) PHP
3 4 (21.05%) Ruby
4 1 (5.263%) C
4 1 (5.263%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) vSphere
1 4 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (21.05%) Snort
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Puppet
1 4 (21.05%) Splunk
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Nokia
1 4 (21.05%) VMware
2 3 (15.79%) Ericsson
3 2 (10.53%) Cisco
3 2 (10.53%) IBM
3 2 (10.53%) Siemens
3 2 (10.53%) Huawei
3 2 (10.53%) Nokia Siemens Networks
4 1 (5.263%) Oracle