General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring GPRS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited GPRS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 685 872 980
Rank change year-on-year +187 +108 +222
Permanent jobs citing GPRS 7 24 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.013% 0.024% 0.009%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.10% 0.18% 0.056%
Number of salaries quoted 4 19 7
10th Percentile £45,500 £27,550 £28,800
25th Percentile £50,000 £34,375 £33,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £38,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +44.74% +1.33% +18.11%
75th Percentile £60,000 - £81,250
90th Percentile £64,500 £42,250 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £38,000 £33,000
% change year-on-year +44.74% +15.15% +3.94%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

GPRS falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 6,964 13,635 16,044
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.38% 13.84% 15.44%
Number of salaries quoted 4,270 9,518 8,181
10th Percentile £23,731 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £30,063 £32,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,875 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year -0.78% -4.73% -4.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,715 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £43,625 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.31% -3.06% -

GPRS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GPRS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GPRS in the UK

GPRS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GPRS.

Salary trend for GPRS in the UK

GPRS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing GPRS over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for GPRS in the UK

GPRS
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GPRS within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +192 7 £55,000 +44.74% 1
England +154 4 £65,000 +71.05% 1
South East +99 3 - -
Wales - 3 £55,000 -
East of England +50 1 £65,000 +71.05% 1

GPRS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 3 (42.86%) GNU Octave
2 1 (14.29%) AutoCAD
2 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) LTE
1 4 (57.14%) Wireless
2 3 (42.86%) 3G
2 3 (42.86%) GSM
2 3 (42.86%) Modbus
3 1 (14.29%) 802.11
3 1 (14.29%) BGP
3 1 (14.29%) HSRP
3 1 (14.29%) ISDN
3 1 (14.29%) LAN
3 1 (14.29%) MPLS
3 1 (14.29%) Multicast
3 1 (14.29%) OSPF
3 1 (14.29%) SDH
3 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
3 1 (14.29%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (14.29%) SS7
3 1 (14.29%) TACACS
3 1 (14.29%) VRRP
3 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
General
1 6 (85.71%) Electronics
2 5 (71.43%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (71.43%) Manufacturing
2 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
3 3 (42.86%) Finance
3 3 (42.86%) Marketing
3 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
3 3 (42.86%) Telecoms
4 2 (28.57%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Electronics Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Engineering Manager
1 3 (42.86%) Product Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Electronics Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Network Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Voice Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Analogue Electronics
1 3 (42.86%) IoT
1 3 (42.86%) NB-IoT
2 2 (28.57%) Algorithms
2 2 (28.57%) CPLD
2 2 (28.57%) FPGA
2 2 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 1 (14.29%) Operational Technology
3 1 (14.29%) PKI
3 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
3 1 (14.29%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (57.14%) Customer Requirements
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
3 3 (42.86%) Digital Marketing
3 3 (42.86%) Feasibility Study
3 3 (42.86%) Innovative Thinking
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Metrics
3 3 (42.86%) Power Management
3 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (42.86%) Product Management
3 3 (42.86%) Product Requirements
3 3 (42.86%) Product Roadmap
3 3 (42.86%) Programme Management
3 3 (42.86%) Prototyping
3 3 (42.86%) Schematic Capture
3 3 (42.86%) Scrum
3 3 (42.86%) Strategic Thinking
3 3 (42.86%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) C
1 3 (42.86%) MATLAB
2 1 (14.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Embedded Firmware
1 3 (42.86%) Firmware
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) EMC
1 3 (42.86%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) Avaya
2 1 (14.29%) Extreme Networks
2 1 (14.29%) F5