Cheshire GPRS Jobs

This section looks at the demand for General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) skills within the Cheshire region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited GPRS over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)
Location Altrincham Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire Chippenham City of London Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh Egham England Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Ilkley Ipswich Leatherhead Leeds Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newbury North West North Yorkshire Northwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Rugby Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	126	131
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching permanent IT job ads	19	18
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	3.130 %	3.255 %
Salaries quoted	17	18
Average minimum salary	£29,353	£23,778
Average salary	£34,412	£29,528
% change on same period last year	+16.54 %
Average maximum salary	£39,471	£35,278
UK excluding London average salary	£38,184	£41,089
% change on same period last year	-7.06 %
Communications & Networking Cheshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	607	553
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.298 %	0.245 %
Salaries quoted	558	512
Average minimum salary	£29,907	£31,336
Average salary	£32,475	£33,835
% change on same period last year	-4.02 %
Average maximum salary	£35,043	£36,335
UK excluding London average salary	£37,693	£39,086
% change on same period last year	-3.56 %
GPRS North West

GPRS
Demand Trend

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

GPRS
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs ads citing GPRS across the Cheshire region.

GPRS
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing GPRS across the Cheshire region over the past 3 months.

GPRS
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GPRS within the Cheshire region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	Northwich	-	4	£27,500	-

GPRS North West

GPRS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing GPRS also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing GPRS.

1 27 (84.38 %) C++ 1 27 (84.38 %) GSM 2 25 (78.13 %) Symbian 3 23 (71.88 %) UML 4 15 (46.88 %) UIQ 5 14 (43.75 %) Windows 6 13 (40.63 %) OOA/OOD 6 13 (40.63 %) OO 6 13 (40.63 %) SMS 6 13 (40.63 %) TCP/IP 6 13 (40.63 %) Windows Mobile 7 12 (37.50 %) Microsoft 8 10 (31.25 %) WAP 8 10 (31.25 %) Rational Rose 9 9 (28.13 %) Degree

10 7 (21.88 %) C 11 6 (18.75 %) C# 11 6 (18.75 %) Java 11 6 (18.75 %) .NET 11 6 (18.75 %) Pocket PC 11 6 (18.75 %) OOD 11 6 (18.75 %) Symbian OS 12 5 (15.63 %) SQL Server 13 4 (12.50 %) VB 13 4 (12.50 %) VB.NET 13 4 (12.50 %) VC++ 13 4 (12.50 %) MS Excel 13 4 (12.50 %) Windows NT 13 4 (12.50 %) Telecoms 13 4 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2005

GPRS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing GPRS also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing GPRS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 15 (46.88 %) UIQ 2 10 (31.25 %) WAP 3 6 (18.75 %) .NET 4 4 (12.50 %) .NET Framework 5 3 (9.375 %) ADO.NET 6 2 (6.250 %) XML 6 2 (6.250 %) Series 60 7 1 (3.125 %) BREW 7 1 (3.125 %) XSD 7 1 (3.125 %) XSLT	Applications 1 4 (12.50 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 27 (84.38 %) GSM 2 13 (40.63 %) SMS 2 13 (40.63 %) TCP/IP 3 3 (9.375 %) 3G 4 2 (6.250 %) Wi-Fi 4 2 (6.250 %) Wireless 5 1 (3.125 %) Bluetooth 5 1 (3.125 %) 802.11 5 1 (3.125 %) RFID	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (15.63 %) SQL Server 2 4 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (3.125 %) MySQL 3 1 (3.125 %) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications 1 10 (31.25 %) Rational Rose 2 3 (9.375 %) Visual Studio	General 1 4 (12.50 %) Telecoms 1 4 (12.50 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 23 (71.88 %) Software Engineer 2 8 (25.00 %) C++ Software Engineer 3 6 (18.75 %) Developer 4 3 (9.375 %) Applications Developer 4 3 (9.375 %) .NET Developer 4 3 (9.375 %) Software Developer 4 3 (9.375 %) Senior Software Engineer 4 3 (9.375 %) .NET Applications Developer 5 2 (6.250 %) Symbian Developer 5 2 (6.250 %) C++ Software Developer 5 2 (6.250 %) C++ Developer 6 1 (3.125 %) Development Manager 6 1 (3.125 %) Helpdesk Engineer 6 1 (3.125 %) Technical Lead 6 1 (3.125 %) Senior C++ Software Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 6 (18.75 %) Pocket PC 2 3 (9.375 %) PDA 3 2 (6.250 %) Device Driver 3 2 (6.250 %) Smartphone 4 1 (3.125 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 14 (43.75 %) Windows 2 13 (40.63 %) Windows Mobile 3 6 (18.75 %) Symbian OS 4 4 (12.50 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 23 (71.88 %) UML 2 13 (40.63 %) OOA/OOD 2 13 (40.63 %) OO 3 6 (18.75 %) OOD 4 4 (12.50 %) Software Engineering 5 2 (6.250 %) DRM
Programming Languages 1 27 (84.38 %) C++ 2 7 (21.88 %) C 3 6 (18.75 %) C# 3 6 (18.75 %) Java 4 4 (12.50 %) VB 4 4 (12.50 %) VB.NET 4 4 (12.50 %) VC++ 5 2 (6.250 %) JavaScript 5 2 (6.250 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 9 (28.13 %) Degree 2 2 (6.250 %) Microsoft Certification
Vendors 1 25 (78.13 %) Symbian 2 12 (37.50 %) Microsoft 3 2 (6.250 %) Oracle 4 1 (3.125 %) Sybase