The first table below looks at the demand for GPRS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)
Rank 105 87 86
Rank change year-on-year
-18 -1
Permanent jobs citing GPRS 1 3 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 0.077% 0.293% 0.208%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.483% 1.579% 1.681%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 1
Average salary £45,000 £21,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+109.30% -38.57%
UK excluding London average salary £29,037 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-27.40% +6.66%
All Communications & Networking
Milton Keynes
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
207 190 119
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 15.98% 18.57% 12.37%
Number of salaries quoted 158 156 94
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,550 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £64,000 £50,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
GPRS
Buckinghamshire

GPRS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes GPRS Salary Trend

GPRS
Top 7 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 3 (100.00%) C
1 3 (100.00%) C++
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 3 (100.00%) GSM
1 3 (100.00%) Embedded C
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development

GPRS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Milton Keynes 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.

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) GSM
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Embedded C Software Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Embedded C Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) C Software Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C
1 3 (100.00%) C++
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Embedded C