Farnborough GPRS Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) skills within the Farnborough region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited GPRS over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)
Location Bedfordshire Berkshire Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Channel Islands City of London East Midlands East of England England Farnborough Feltham Guildford Hertfordshire Home Counties Jersey Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West Reading Salisbury Scotland Somerset South East South Wales South West Stockport Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Wiltshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	25
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	3.846 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£367	£306
% change on same period last year	+19.89 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.94	£32.97
% change on same period last year	+9.00 %
Communications & Networking Farnborough
Matching contract IT job ads	20	26
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.032 %	0.028 %
Daily rates quoted	6	12
Average minimum daily rate	£216	£380
Average daily rate	£236	£387
% change on same period last year	-38.93 %
Average maximum daily rate	£256	£393
UK excluding London average daily rate	£347	£332
% change on same period last year	+4.47 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	£27.00
Average hourly rate	£38.85	£28.00
% change on same period last year	+38.73 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£42.69	£29.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.93	£29.11
% change on same period last year	-4.05 %
GPRS Hampshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

GPRS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing GPRS across the Farnborough region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

GPRS
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing GPRS across the Farnborough region.