Oxfordshire GPRS Jobs

This section looks at the demand for General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) skills within the Oxfordshire 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 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)
Location Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Dunfermline Ealing East Midlands East of England Egham England Epsom Essex Fife Guildford Hampshire Harlow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newbury Newport North East North West Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Rugby Scotland Sheffield Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Surrey Swindon Thames Valley UK Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Woking Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	130	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching permanent IT job ads	8	0
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	1.643 %	0.000 %
Salaries quoted	4	0
Average minimum salary	£38,000	-
Average salary	£45,500	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	£53,000	-
UK excluding London average salary	£42,277	£39,923
% change on same period last year	+5.89 %
Communications & Networking Oxfordshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	487	657
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.266 %	0.276 %
Salaries quoted	410	505
Average minimum salary	£30,562	£35,778
Average salary	£33,636	£37,926
% change on same period last year	-11.30 %
Average maximum salary	£36,711	£40,073
UK excluding London average salary	£37,625	£39,458
% change on same period last year	-4.64 %
GPRS South East

GPRS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing GPRS across the Oxfordshire 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 citing GPRS across the Oxfordshire region.

GPRS
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing GPRS across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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 Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

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
Banbury	-	2	£50,000	-
Oxford	-	1	£45,000	-

GPRS South East

GPRS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 8 (100.00 %) GSM 2 6 (75.00 %) TCP/IP 3 5 (62.50 %) Bluetooth 3 5 (62.50 %) C# 3 5 (62.50 %) Automotive 4 4 (50.00 %) .NET 4 4 (50.00 %) Electronics 5 3 (37.50 %) UMTS 5 3 (37.50 %) Windows CE 5 3 (37.50 %) SQL Server 5 3 (37.50 %) ASP.NET 5 3 (37.50 %) C++ 5 3 (37.50 %) C 5 3 (37.50 %) Windows 6 2 (25.00 %) OO

6 2 (25.00 %) LAN 6 2 (25.00 %) WAN 6 2 (25.00 %) EMC 6 2 (25.00 %) SQL Server 2005 6 2 (25.00 %) French Language 6 2 (25.00 %) German Language 6 2 (25.00 %) Portuguese Language 7 1 (12.50 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 1 (12.50 %) Windows Mobile 7 1 (12.50 %) .NET Framework 7 1 (12.50 %) Device Driver 7 1 (12.50 %) Telecoms 7 1 (12.50 %) Internet 7 1 (12.50 %) MATLAB 7 1 (12.50 %) SMS

GPRS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 4 (50.00 %) .NET 2 3 (37.50 %) ASP.NET 3 1 (12.50 %) XML 3 1 (12.50 %) .NET Framework 3 1 (12.50 %) HTML	Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) MATLAB
Communications & Networking 1 8 (100.00 %) GSM 2 6 (75.00 %) TCP/IP 3 5 (62.50 %) Bluetooth 4 3 (37.50 %) UMTS 5 2 (25.00 %) WAN 5 2 (25.00 %) LAN 6 1 (12.50 %) SMS 6 1 (12.50 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (37.50 %) SQL Server 2 2 (25.00 %) SQL Server 2005
General 1 5 (62.50 %) Automotive 2 4 (50.00 %) Electronics 3 1 (12.50 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 3 (37.50 %) Developer 2 2 (25.00 %) Systems Engineer 2 2 (25.00 %) .NET Developer 2 2 (25.00 %) Lead Systems Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) Embedded Software Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) ASP.NET Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) .NET Web Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) Lead Software Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) Test Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) Web Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) Software Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (25.00 %) French Language 1 2 (25.00 %) German Language 1 2 (25.00 %) Portuguese Language 2 1 (12.50 %) Device Driver	Operating Systems 1 3 (37.50 %) Windows 1 3 (37.50 %) Windows CE 2 1 (12.50 %) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (25.00 %) OO 2 1 (12.50 %) OOD 2 1 (12.50 %) User Acceptance Testing	Programming Languages 1 5 (62.50 %) C# 2 3 (37.50 %) C++ 2 3 (37.50 %) C 3 1 (12.50 %) Java
Qualifications 1 1 (12.50 %) PhD	Vendors 1 2 (25.00 %) EMC