The first table below looks at the demand for GPRS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited GPRS over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Reading region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)
Rank 134 133 120
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -13
Permanent jobs citing GPRS 2 4 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 0.089% 0.171% 0.052%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.258% 0.634% 0.250%
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 1
Average salary - £50,000 £53,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -6.54%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -
All Communications & Networking
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
774 631 400
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 34.38% 26.95% 20.91%
Number of salaries quoted 605 469 327
Average salary £40,000 £45,000 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.11% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
GPRS
Berkshire

GPRS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading GPRS Salary Trend

GPRS
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 5 (83.33%) Telecoms
2 4 (66.67%) GSM
2 4 (66.67%) UMTS
2 4 (66.67%) SS7
3 3 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (33.33%) Wireless
4 2 (33.33%) Integration Testing
4 2 (33.33%) INAP
4 2 (33.33%) DSL
4 2 (33.33%) Oracle
4 2 (33.33%) UNIX
4 2 (33.33%) Oracle 8/8i
4 2 (33.33%) LDAP
4 2 (33.33%) Broadband
4 2 (33.33%) CDMA
4 2 (33.33%) Network Design
4 2 (33.33%) Huawei
4 2 (33.33%) NGN
4 2 (33.33%) SIGTRAN
4 2 (33.33%) GGSN
4 2 (33.33%) SGSN
5 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
5 1 (16.67%) Nokia Siemens Networks
5 1 (16.67%) Back Office

GPRS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 4 (66.67%) GSM
1 4 (66.67%) UMTS
1 4 (66.67%) SS7
2 2 (33.33%) INAP
2 2 (33.33%) Wireless
2 2 (33.33%) NGN
2 2 (33.33%) SIGTRAN
2 2 (33.33%) GGSN
2 2 (33.33%) SGSN
2 2 (33.33%) DSL
2 2 (33.33%) LDAP
2 2 (33.33%) Broadband
2 2 (33.33%) CDMA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 5 (83.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (16.67%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) UNIX Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) UNIX Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Technical Support
2 2 (33.33%) UNIX Support
2 2 (33.33%) Senior UNIX Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior UNIX Support
2 2 (33.33%) Senior UNIX Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Technical Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Support
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Network Design
3 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
1 2 (33.33%) Huawei
2 1 (16.67%) Nokia Siemens Networks