The first table below looks at the demand for GPRS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited GPRS over the 3 months to 24 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 Hertfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)
Rank 132 145 163
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +18
Permanent jobs citing GPRS 8 5 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.325% 0.198% 0.089%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.258% 0.906% 0.364%
Number of salaries quoted 8 5 2
Average salary £72,500 £50,000 £23,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+45.00% +112.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £41,000 £21,900
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £51,500 £25,100
UK excluding London average salary £29,037 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-27.40% +6.66%
All Communications & Networking
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
636 552 825
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 25.80% 21.91% 24.46%
Number of salaries quoted 466 409 583
Average salary £42,000 £42,500 £42,450
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.17% +0.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £27,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
GPRS
East of England

GPRS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire GPRS Jobs Demand Trend

GPRS
Salary Trend

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

Hertfordshire GPRS Salary Trend

GPRS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing GPRS across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Hertfordshire GPRS Salary Histogram

GPRS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GPRS within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Watford - 2 £72,500 -
Harpenden - 1 £22,500 -
GPRS
East of England

GPRS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited GPRS.

1 9 (64.29%) ADSL
1 9 (64.29%) Cisco
1 9 (64.29%) VPN
2 8 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 8 (57.14%) Windows
3 6 (42.86%) UMTS
3 6 (42.86%) Firewall
4 5 (35.71%) Finance
4 5 (35.71%) Network Design
4 5 (35.71%) Load Balancing
4 5 (35.71%) Cisco IOS
4 5 (35.71%) VSAT
4 5 (35.71%) Cisco UCCE
4 5 (35.71%) Broadband
4 5 (35.71%) IPv6
4 5 (35.71%) CCIE
4 5 (35.71%) DHCP
4 5 (35.71%) FTP
4 5 (35.71%) HTTP
4 5 (35.71%) SNMP
4 5 (35.71%) DNS
4 5 (35.71%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (35.71%) Verint
4 5 (35.71%) HSRP
5 4 (28.57%) Trapeze
5 4 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (28.57%) Nagios
5 4 (28.57%) 3G
5 4 (28.57%) Blackberry
5 4 (28.57%) Active Directory

GPRS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited GPRS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (7.143%) COM
Application Platforms
1 4 (28.57%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 4 (28.57%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 9 (64.29%) ADSL
1 9 (64.29%) VPN
2 6 (42.86%) UMTS
2 6 (42.86%) Firewall
3 5 (35.71%) Cisco IOS
3 5 (35.71%) VSAT
3 5 (35.71%) Broadband
3 5 (35.71%) IPv6
3 5 (35.71%) DHCP
3 5 (35.71%) FTP
3 5 (35.71%) HTTP
3 5 (35.71%) SNMP
3 5 (35.71%) DNS
3 5 (35.71%) HSRP
4 4 (28.57%) 3G
4 4 (28.57%) Bluetooth
4 4 (28.57%) WAN
4 4 (28.57%) LAN
5 1 (7.143%) LTE
5 1 (7.143%) WCDMA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
2 1 (7.143%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Network Manager
2 4 (28.57%) IT Support
2 4 (28.57%) Support Manager
2 4 (28.57%) IT Support Manager
2 4 (28.57%) Help Desk Support
2 4 (28.57%) Technical Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Technical Support Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Help Desk Manager
2 4 (28.57%) Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) IT Manager
2 4 (28.57%) Support Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Technical Support
3 3 (21.43%) Operations Manager
3 3 (21.43%) Network Operations Manager
4 2 (14.29%) Network Services Manager
4 2 (14.29%) Service Manager
5 1 (7.143%) Test Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) Senior Test Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) Test and Integration Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) Integration Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 8 (57.14%) Windows
2 4 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (28.57%) Linux
2 4 (28.57%) Windows XP
2 4 (28.57%) Windows 7
2 4 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Network Design
1 5 (35.71%) Load Balancing
2 4 (28.57%) ITIL
3 3 (21.43%) Strategic Planning
3 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (14.29%) E-Commerce
4 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (14.29%) Information Security
5 1 (7.143%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) CCIE
1 5 (35.71%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) PCI DSS
1 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Active Directory
1 4 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Cisco UCCE
2 4 (28.57%) Nagios
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Cisco
2 8 (57.14%) Microsoft
3 5 (35.71%) Verint
4 4 (28.57%) Trapeze
4 4 (28.57%) Citrix
4 4 (28.57%) Oracle
4 4 (28.57%) VMware
5 3 (21.43%) Juniper
6 1 (7.143%) Agilent
6 1 (7.143%) Nokia Siemens Networks