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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)
Rank 240 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing GPRS 3 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.042% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.262% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
Average salary £30,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £29,037 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-27.40% +6.66%
All Communications & Networking
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
1145 1037 1017
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 15.94% 14.61% 14.81%
Number of salaries quoted 926 908 866
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £24,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £75,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
GPRS
England

GPRS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West GPRS Salary Trend

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 North West 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
Cumbria - 2 £30,000 -
Manchester - 1 £41,500 -
GPRS
England

GPRS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 7 (87.50%) C
1 7 (87.50%) Linux
1 7 (87.50%) GSM
1 7 (87.50%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (62.50%) SVG
2 5 (62.50%) MPEG
2 5 (62.50%) UMTS
2 5 (62.50%) VoIP
2 5 (62.50%) WLAN
2 5 (62.50%) OpenGL
2 5 (62.50%) Middleware
2 5 (62.50%) Mobile Commerce
2 5 (62.50%) DRM
2 5 (62.50%) DVB
2 5 (62.50%) Flash
2 5 (62.50%) J2ME
2 5 (62.50%) E-Commerce
2 5 (62.50%) Bluetooth
2 5 (62.50%) C++
2 5 (62.50%) Java
2 5 (62.50%) Electronics
2 5 (62.50%) Device Driver
2 5 (62.50%) Multimedia
2 5 (62.50%) Speech Recognition
2 5 (62.50%) BREW
2 5 (62.50%) Windows Mobile
2 5 (62.50%) Nucleus RTOS
2 5 (62.50%) NFC
2 5 (62.50%) Android
2 5 (62.50%) iPhone

GPRS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 5 (62.50%) SVG
1 5 (62.50%) OpenGL
1 5 (62.50%) Middleware
1 5 (62.50%) Flash
1 5 (62.50%) J2ME
1 5 (62.50%) BREW
1 5 (62.50%) Qt
1 5 (62.50%) OpenAL
2 2 (25.00%) CSS3
2 2 (25.00%) Sass
2 2 (25.00%) LESS
2 2 (25.00%) jQuery
2 2 (25.00%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) GSM
1 7 (87.50%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (62.50%) UMTS
2 5 (62.50%) VoIP
2 5 (62.50%) WLAN
2 5 (62.50%) DVB
2 5 (62.50%) Bluetooth
2 5 (62.50%) NFC
3 2 (25.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MySQL
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (62.50%) Electronics
1 5 (62.50%) Multimedia
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Developer
2 5 (62.50%) Software Developer
3 2 (25.00%) PHP MySQL Developer
3 2 (25.00%) PHP Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) MPEG
1 5 (62.50%) Device Driver
1 5 (62.50%) Speech Recognition
1 5 (62.50%) iPhone
2 2 (25.00%) Firmware
3 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Linux
2 5 (62.50%) Windows Mobile
2 5 (62.50%) Nucleus RTOS
2 5 (62.50%) Android
2 5 (62.50%) Windows 7
2 5 (62.50%) Windows Phone 7
2 5 (62.50%) Windows 8
2 5 (62.50%) Windows Phone 8
2 5 (62.50%) Windows Phone
2 5 (62.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Mobile Commerce
1 5 (62.50%) DRM
1 5 (62.50%) E-Commerce
2 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
2 1 (12.50%) Project Management
2 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2
2 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) C
2 5 (62.50%) C++
2 5 (62.50%) Java
3 2 (25.00%) PHP5
3 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (25.00%) PHP
3 2 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) ISO 9000