Somerset GPRS Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) skills within the Somerset 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 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Bracknell Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire Chester City of London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England England Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties London M4 Corridor Middlesex Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West Norwich Reading Salisbury Scotland Somerset South East South West Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Wiltshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
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	£341	£340
% change on same period last year	+0.48 %
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	£28.39	£35.40
% change on same period last year	-19.80 %
Communications & Networking Somerset
Matching contract IT job ads	38	52
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.051 %	0.051 %
Daily rates quoted	10	12
Average minimum daily rate	£362	£245
Average daily rate	£377	£276
% change on same period last year	+36.62 %
Average maximum daily rate	£392	£307
UK excluding London average daily rate	£346	£341
% change on same period last year	+1.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	18
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.40	£20.20
Average hourly rate	£23.74	£22.09
% change on same period last year	+7.47 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.09	£23.98
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.70	£28.54
% change on same period last year	-9.93 %
GPRS South West

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 Somerset 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 Somerset region.