Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for GPRS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited GPRS over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the Scotland region.

 General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank100-177
Rank change year-on-year
New entry-No change0
Matching permanent IT job ads201
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland0.107 %-0.019 %
As % of the Communications & Networking category1.227 %-0.136 %
Salaries quoted201
Average salary£27,750-£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£34,250£34,000
% change year-on-year
+2.180 %+0.730 %
Scotland IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryAll Communications & Networking
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
163253736
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland8.754 %12.31 %13.83 %
Salaries quoted116192410
Average salary£31,000£35,000£35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.42 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£22,034£22,500£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£49,000£56,625£50,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.140 %-
GPRS UKGPRS
UK

GPRS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing GPRS across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Scotland GPRS Demand Trend

GPRS
Salary Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EdinburghNew entry-2£27,750-
GPRS UKGPRS
UK

GPRS
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Scotland 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.

12 (100.00 %)Windows
12 (100.00 %)Linux
12 (100.00 %)C
12 (100.00 %)C++
21 (50.00 %)SQL
21 (50.00 %)XML
21 (50.00 %)VC++
21 (50.00 %)Broadband
21 (50.00 %)Symbian
21 (50.00 %)UMTS
21 (50.00 %)Mac OS X
21 (50.00 %)Motif
21 (50.00 %)X-Windows
21 (50.00 %)Telecoms
21 (50.00 %)Health
21 (50.00 %)Device Driver
21 (50.00 %)PostgreSQL
21 (50.00 %)Scrum
21 (50.00 %)WiMAX
21 (50.00 %)Software Engineering
21 (50.00 %)Insurance
21 (50.00 %)Pensions
21 (50.00 %)Degree
21 (50.00 %)Computer Science
21 (50.00 %)iPhone
21 (50.00 %)LTE
21 (50.00 %)GTK+

GPRS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Scotland 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.

Scotland IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11 (50.00 %)XML
11 (50.00 %)Motif
11 (50.00 %)X-Windows
11 (50.00 %)GTK+
Scotland IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11 (50.00 %)Broadband
11 (50.00 %)UMTS
11 (50.00 %)WiMAX
11 (50.00 %)LTE
Scotland IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11 (50.00 %)PostgreSQL
Scotland IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11 (50.00 %)Telecoms
11 (50.00 %)Health
11 (50.00 %)Insurance
11 (50.00 %)Pensions
Scotland IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11 (50.00 %)Developer
11 (50.00 %)Programmer
11 (50.00 %)C++ Developer
11 (50.00 %)C++ Programmer
11 (50.00 %)C Developer
11 (50.00 %)C Programmer
Scotland IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11 (50.00 %)Device Driver
11 (50.00 %)Computer Science
11 (50.00 %)iPhone
Scotland IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
12 (100.00 %)Windows
12 (100.00 %)Linux
21 (50.00 %)Mac OS X
Scotland IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11 (50.00 %)Scrum
11 (50.00 %)Software Engineering
Scotland IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
12 (100.00 %)C
12 (100.00 %)C++
21 (50.00 %)SQL
21 (50.00 %)VC++
Scotland IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11 (50.00 %)Degree
Scotland IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11 (50.00 %)Symbian