Slough GPRS Jobs

This section looks at the demand for General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) skills within the Slough 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 last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)
Location Altrincham Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire Chippenham City of London Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh Egham England Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Ilkley Ipswich Leatherhead Leeds Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newbury North West North Yorkshire Northwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Rugby Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	63	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching permanent IT job ads	27	0
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	8.157 %	0.000 %
Salaries quoted	27	0
Average minimum salary	£34,907	-
Average salary	£35,519	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	£36,130	-
UK excluding London average salary	£38,184	£41,089
% change on same period last year	-7.06 %
Communications & Networking Slough
Matching permanent IT job ads	331	190
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.162 %	0.084 %
Salaries quoted	287	168
Average minimum salary	£37,844	£42,608
Average salary	£40,620	£45,919
% change on same period last year	-11.54 %
Average maximum salary	£43,395	£49,231
UK excluding London average salary	£37,693	£39,086
% change on same period last year	-3.56 %
GPRS Berkshire

GPRS
Demand Trend

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

GPRS
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing GPRS across the Slough region over the past 3 months.

GPRS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Slough region citing GPRS also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing GPRS.

1 31 (73.81 %) GSM 2 27 (64.29 %) Handset 3 25 (59.52 %) Wireless 4 24 (57.14 %) CDMA 5 23 (54.76 %) Software Engineering 6 18 (42.86 %) Telecoms 7 12 (28.57 %) Cisco Certification 8 10 (23.81 %) UMTS 9 9 (21.43 %) WAP 9 9 (21.43 %) 3G 10 7 (16.67 %) Internet 11 6 (14.29 %) CCNA 11 6 (14.29 %) Cisco 12 5 (11.90 %) Billing 12 5 (11.90 %) CCNP

12 5 (11.90 %) CCIP 12 5 (11.90 %) TCP/IP 12 5 (11.90 %) WAN 12 5 (11.90 %) LAN 12 5 (11.90 %) ATM 12 5 (11.90 %) Unix 12 5 (11.90 %) MPLS 13 3 (7.143 %) ISEB 13 3 (7.143 %) Solaris 13 3 (7.143 %) Linux 13 3 (7.143 %) Broadband 13 3 (7.143 %) ISEB Practitioner 13 3 (7.143 %) Marketing 14 2 (4.762 %) SMPP 15 1 (2.381 %) Wi-Fi

GPRS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Slough region citing GPRS also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing GPRS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 9 (21.43 %) WAP	Application Platforms 1 1 (2.381 %) LiveLink
Communications & Networking 1 31 (73.81 %) GSM 2 25 (59.52 %) Wireless 3 24 (57.14 %) CDMA 4 10 (23.81 %) UMTS 5 9 (21.43 %) 3G 6 7 (16.67 %) Internet 7 5 (11.90 %) WAN 7 5 (11.90 %) TCP/IP 7 5 (11.90 %) LAN 7 5 (11.90 %) ATM 7 5 (11.90 %) MPLS 8 3 (7.143 %) Broadband 9 2 (4.762 %) SMPP 10 1 (2.381 %) Wi-Fi 10 1 (2.381 %) HSDPA 10 1 (2.381 %) 2G 10 1 (2.381 %) 2.5G 10 1 (2.381 %) 3GPP	General 1 18 (42.86 %) Telecoms 2 5 (11.90 %) Billing 3 3 (7.143 %) Marketing
Job Titles 1 25 (59.52 %) Test Engineer 2 23 (54.76 %) Field Engineer 3 22 (52.38 %) Tester 4 7 (16.67 %) Analyst 4 7 (16.67 %) Test Analyst 5 6 (14.29 %) Network Engineer 5 6 (14.29 %) Integration Test Analyst 5 6 (14.29 %) Integration Analyst 6 3 (7.143 %) Data Manager 7 1 (2.381 %) Network Specialist	Miscellaneous 1 27 (64.29 %) Handset 2 1 (2.381 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 5 (11.90 %) Unix 2 3 (7.143 %) Solaris 2 3 (7.143 %) Linux 3 1 (2.381 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 23 (54.76 %) Software Engineering 2 1 (2.381 %) Software Testing 2 1 (2.381 %) Time Management 2 1 (2.381 %) ITIL 2 1 (2.381 %) Automated Testing
Qualifications 1 12 (28.57 %) Cisco Certification 2 6 (14.29 %) CCNA 3 5 (11.90 %) CCNP 3 5 (11.90 %) CCIP 4 3 (7.143 %) ISEB 4 3 (7.143 %) ISEB Practitioner 5 1 (2.381 %) Degree	Vendors 1 6 (14.29 %) Cisco 2 1 (2.381 %) HP 2 1 (2.381 %) Compaq 2 1 (2.381 %) Remedy 2 1 (2.381 %) Anite 2 1 (2.381 %) Agilent