The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term LPAR in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited LPAR over the 3 months to 20 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LPAR
Rank 374 395 413
Rank change year-on-year
+21 +18
Contract jobs citing LPAR 7 7 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.032% 0.026% 0.068%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.097% 0.081% 0.180%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 7
Average daily rate £475 £544 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.64% +20.83%
UK excluding London average daily rate £438 £340 £365
% change year-on-year
+28.67% -6.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £21.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £67.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year
- +80.00%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
7183 8631 11636
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 33.11% 32.14% 37.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4988 5866 7862
Average daily rate £475 £475 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -13.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £283 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £343 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.18% +0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 207 196
Average hourly rate £24.00 £22.50 £20.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% +11.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £13.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £52.50 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £24.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year
-8.16% -9.25%
LPAR
England

LPAR
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing LPAR across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

London LPAR Jobs Demand Trend

LPAR
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing LPAR across the London region.

London LPAR Daily Rate Trend

LPAR
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing LPAR across the London region.

London LPAR Hourly Rate Trend

LPAR
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LPAR within the London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London - 6 £475 -
LPAR
England

LPAR
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing LPAR 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited LPAR.

1 18 (100.00%) AIX
2 13 (72.22%) Linux
2 13 (72.22%) Red Hat
3 12 (66.67%) HP
4 10 (55.56%) IBM
4 10 (55.56%) UNIX
4 10 (55.56%) DV Cleared
4 10 (55.56%) Security Cleared
5 8 (44.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (38.89%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (38.89%) HP Data Protector
6 7 (38.89%) VMware
6 7 (38.89%) HACMP
7 6 (33.33%) Active Directory
7 6 (33.33%) OpenView
7 6 (33.33%) NFS
7 6 (33.33%) Migration
7 6 (33.33%) Solaris
7 6 (33.33%) Intel
7 6 (33.33%) RHCE
7 6 (33.33%) Samba
7 6 (33.33%) VMware ESX
7 6 (33.33%) AWK
7 6 (33.33%) RHCT
7 6 (33.33%) sed
8 5 (27.78%) HPUX
8 5 (27.78%) SUSE
9 4 (22.22%) Banking
10 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
11 2 (11.11%) SAN

LPAR
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing LPAR also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited LPAR. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (5.556%) Web Services
1 1 (5.556%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.556%) MS Exchange
1 1 (5.556%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) SAN
General
1 4 (22.22%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) UNIX Administrator
2 5 (27.78%) Administrator
2 5 (27.78%) Consultant
2 5 (27.78%) AIX Consultant
3 4 (22.22%) Technical Consultant
4 3 (16.67%) Technical Specialist
4 3 (16.67%) AIX Specialist
5 2 (11.11%) UNIX Systems Administrator
5 2 (11.11%) UNIX Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
6 1 (5.556%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.556%) Architect
6 1 (5.556%) Server Engineer
6 1 (5.556%) Migration Consultant
6 1 (5.556%) Build Engineer
6 1 (5.556%) AIX Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) HACMP
2 1 (5.556%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 18 (100.00%) AIX
2 13 (72.22%) Linux
3 10 (55.56%) UNIX
4 8 (44.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (33.33%) Solaris
6 5 (27.78%) HPUX
6 5 (27.78%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Migration
2 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (5.556%) TOGAF
3 1 (5.556%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) AWK
1 6 (33.33%) sed
2 1 (5.556%) C
2 1 (5.556%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (55.56%) DV Cleared
1 10 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 6 (33.33%) RHCE
2 6 (33.33%) RHCT
3 2 (11.11%) IBM Certification
4 1 (5.556%) IBM AIX Certification
System Software
1 7 (38.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (33.33%) NFS
2 6 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 6 (33.33%) Samba
2 6 (33.33%) VMware ESX
3 1 (5.556%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) HP Data Protector
2 6 (33.33%) OpenView
Vendors
1 13 (72.22%) Red Hat
2 12 (66.67%) HP
3 10 (55.56%) IBM
4 7 (38.89%) VMware
5 6 (33.33%) Intel
6 2 (11.11%) Oracle
7 1 (5.556%) Hitachi
7 1 (5.556%) NetApp
7 1 (5.556%) Sun