Hampshire GPRS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) skills within the Hampshire region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited GPRS over the 3 months to 7 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)
Location Banbury Berkshire Borehamwood Bracknell Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire Chippenham City of London Coventry Dorset East Midlands East of England England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Liverpool London Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Norwich Oxfordshire Poole Reading Rugby Scotland Slough South East South Wales South West Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire West Midlands Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	82	108
Rank change on same period last year	+26
Matching contract IT job ads	20	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.026 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	4.525 %	3.830 %
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	£342	£332
% change on same period last year	+3.17 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£36.67
Average hourly rate	£30.00	£37.25
% change on same period last year	-19.46 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£37.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.72	£37.40
% change on same period last year	-20.52 %
Communications & Networking Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	442	470
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.582 %	0.498 %
Daily rates quoted	72	96
Average minimum daily rate	£363	£337
Average daily rate	£381	£355
% change on same period last year	+7.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£398	£372
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£343
% change on same period last year	-0.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	93	122
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.04	£31.26
Average hourly rate	£30.17	£33.09
% change on same period last year	-8.81 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.30	£34.91
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.55	£28.70
% change on same period last year	-10.97 %
GPRS South East

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 Hampshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

GPRS
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing GPRS across the Hampshire region.

GPRS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

GPRS
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing GPRS within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 7 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Farnborough	-	1	-	-

GPRS South East

GPRS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing GPRS 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited GPRS.

1 39 (97.50 %) GSM 2 18 (45.00 %) Telecoms 3 17 (42.50 %) Network Design 4 16 (40.00 %) C 5 14 (35.00 %) UMTS 6 10 (25.00 %) 3G 7 9 (22.50 %) WCDMA 8 7 (17.50 %) C++ 9 6 (15.00 %) CDMA 10 5 (12.50 %) ClearCase 10 5 (12.50 %) Embedded C 10 5 (12.50 %) Mathematics 10 5 (12.50 %) Configuration Management 10 5 (12.50 %) Handset 11 4 (10.00 %) VHDL

11 4 (10.00 %) LabVIEW 11 4 (10.00 %) UTRAN 11 4 (10.00 %) Ericsson 11 4 (10.00 %) Degree 12 3 (7.500 %) TCP/IP 12 3 (7.500 %) Wi-Fi 12 3 (7.500 %) Wireless 12 3 (7.500 %) Embedded C++ 12 3 (7.500 %) Bluetooth 12 3 (7.500 %) Windows 12 3 (7.500 %) Linux 12 3 (7.500 %) Embedded Linux 12 3 (7.500 %) Smartphone 12 3 (7.500 %) Multimedia 13 2 (5.000 %) ASN.1

GPRS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing GPRS also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited GPRS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (5.000 %) SOAP 1 2 (5.000 %) XML 2 1 (2.500 %) RSS 2 1 (2.500 %) WAP	Applications 1 1 (2.500 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 39 (97.50 %) GSM 2 14 (35.00 %) UMTS 3 10 (25.00 %) 3G 4 9 (22.50 %) WCDMA 5 6 (15.00 %) CDMA 6 4 (10.00 %) UTRAN 7 3 (7.500 %) Wi-Fi 7 3 (7.500 %) Wireless 7 3 (7.500 %) Bluetooth 7 3 (7.500 %) TCP/IP 8 2 (5.000 %) 3GPP 8 2 (5.000 %) ASN.1 8 2 (5.000 %) TETRA 8 2 (5.000 %) GGSN 8 2 (5.000 %) SGSN	Development Applications 1 5 (12.50 %) ClearCase 2 4 (10.00 %) LabVIEW
General 1 18 (45.00 %) Telecoms 2 3 (7.500 %) Multimedia 3 1 (2.500 %) Government	Job Titles 1 17 (42.50 %) Architect 2 14 (35.00 %) Network Architect 3 9 (22.50 %) Software Engineer 4 5 (12.50 %) Test Engineer 5 4 (10.00 %) Systems Engineer 5 4 (10.00 %) Software Test Engineer 5 4 (10.00 %) Systems Test Engineer 6 3 (7.500 %) Solutions Architect 7 2 (5.000 %) Embedded Software Engineer 7 2 (5.000 %) Embedded C Engineer 7 2 (5.000 %) Embedded C/C++ Engineer 7 2 (5.000 %) Embedded C++ Engineer 8 1 (2.500 %) Embedded C++ Software Engineer 8 1 (2.500 %) Embedded C/C++ Software Engineer 8 1 (2.500 %) C Software Engineer 8 1 (2.500 %) Linux Engineer 8 1 (2.500 %) GSM Engineer 8 1 (2.500 %) C++ Software Engineer 8 1 (2.500 %) DSP Engineer 8 1 (2.500 %) Embedded C Software Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 5 (12.50 %) Handset 1 5 (12.50 %) Mathematics 2 4 (10.00 %) VHDL 3 3 (7.500 %) Smartphone 4 2 (5.000 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 4 2 (5.000 %) Firmware 4 2 (5.000 %) ASIC 5 1 (2.500 %) Device Driver 5 1 (2.500 %) Streaming Video 5 1 (2.500 %) PDA 5 1 (2.500 %) Statistics 5 1 (2.500 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 3 (7.500 %) Windows 1 3 (7.500 %) Linux 1 3 (7.500 %) Embedded Linux 2 2 (5.000 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (2.500 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 17 (42.50 %) Network Design 2 5 (12.50 %) Configuration Management 3 2 (5.000 %) Project Management 3 2 (5.000 %) Software Testing 3 2 (5.000 %) Test Scripting 4 1 (2.500 %) Project Planning	Programming Languages 1 16 (40.00 %) C 2 7 (17.50 %) C++ 3 5 (12.50 %) Embedded C 4 3 (7.500 %) Embedded C++ 5 2 (5.000 %) Tcl 5 2 (5.000 %) Perl
Qualifications 1 4 (10.00 %) Degree 2 2 (5.000 %) HND	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.500 %) QA
Systems Management 1 1 (2.500 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 4 (10.00 %) Ericsson