The first table below looks at the demand for GPRS skills in IT jobs advertised for the South Wales region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited GPRS over the 3 months to 17 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 South Wales region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing GPRS 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Wales - - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £27,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-31.25% +6.66%
All Communications & Networking
South Wales
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
227 232 110
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Wales 21.64% 24.34% 12.26%
Number of salaries quoted 217 195 102
Average salary £35,500 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.42% -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,100 £27,000 £25,300
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
GPRS
Wales

GPRS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Wales 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 South Wales region.

South Wales GPRS Salary Trend

GPRS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Wales 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 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 1 (100.00%) Bluetooth
1 1 (100.00%) UMTS
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) SNMP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded C
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded C++
1 1 (100.00%) Assembly Language
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
1 1 (100.00%) TELNET
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics
1 1 (100.00%) SSH
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (100.00%) Physics
1 1 (100.00%) ZigBee

GPRS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Wales 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 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) Bluetooth
1 1 (100.00%) UMTS
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) SNMP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) TELNET
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) SSH
1 1 (100.00%) ZigBee
1 1 (100.00%) HSPA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Development Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (100.00%) Physics
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded C
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded C++
1 1 (100.00%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) JTAG
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Atmel