The first table below looks at the demand for GPRS skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited GPRS over the 3 months to 21 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 London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)
Rank 386 394 420
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +26
Contract jobs citing GPRS 3 11 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.014% 0.041% 0.033%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.104% 0.298% 0.300%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
Average daily rate £300 £275 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% -21.42%
UK excluding London average daily rate £308 £345 £313
% change year-on-year
-10.86% +10.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 5
Average hourly rate £23.25 £13.50 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+72.22% +12.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.25 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-14.70% +21.42%
All Communications & Networking
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
2881 3690 3332
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 13.08% 13.68% 10.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1759 2243 1927
Average daily rate £400 £400 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +3.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £238 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 149 212
Average hourly rate £23.50 £22.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.44% +12.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £15.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
GPRS
England

GPRS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London GPRS Jobs Demand Trend

GPRS
Daily Rate Trend

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

London GPRS Daily Rate Trend

GPRS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London GPRS Hourly Rate Trend

GPRS
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing GPRS across the London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

London GPRS Hourly Rate Histogram

GPRS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 4 (80.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (60.00%) Wireless
2 3 (60.00%) UMTS
2 3 (60.00%) GSM
3 2 (40.00%) ISDN
3 2 (40.00%) LAN
3 2 (40.00%) Solaris
3 2 (40.00%) Linux
3 2 (40.00%) CRM
3 2 (40.00%) ATM
3 2 (40.00%) SAN
3 2 (40.00%) 3G
3 2 (40.00%) OSPF
3 2 (40.00%) BGP
3 2 (40.00%) EIGRP
3 2 (40.00%) IGRP
3 2 (40.00%) WAN
3 2 (40.00%) IBM
3 2 (40.00%) IP Telephony
3 2 (40.00%) Network Design
3 2 (40.00%) Network Planning
3 2 (40.00%) Cisco IPCC
3 2 (40.00%) Degree
3 2 (40.00%) Network Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (40.00%) Network Management
3 2 (40.00%) GGSN
3 2 (40.00%) SGSN
3 2 (40.00%) Frame Relay
4 1 (20.00%) QA

GPRS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 1 (20.00%) WAP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Wireless
1 3 (60.00%) UMTS
1 3 (60.00%) GSM
2 2 (40.00%) ISDN
2 2 (40.00%) LAN
2 2 (40.00%) ATM
2 2 (40.00%) SAN
2 2 (40.00%) 3G
2 2 (40.00%) OSPF
2 2 (40.00%) BGP
2 2 (40.00%) EIGRP
2 2 (40.00%) IGRP
2 2 (40.00%) WAN
2 2 (40.00%) IP Telephony
2 2 (40.00%) GGSN
2 2 (40.00%) SGSN
2 2 (40.00%) Frame Relay
3 1 (20.00%) ISUP
3 1 (20.00%) Bluetooth
General
1 4 (80.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (20.00%) Music
2 1 (20.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) IP Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Development Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Product Development Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Field Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Solaris
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) CRM
1 2 (40.00%) Network Design
1 2 (40.00%) Network Planning
1 2 (40.00%) Network Architecture
1 2 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (40.00%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Embedded C
1 1 (20.00%) Embedded C++
1 1 (20.00%) C
1 1 (20.00%) C++
1 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco IPCC
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) BT