The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term LPAR in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester 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 Manchester 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 73 78 72
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -6
Contract jobs citing LPAR 1 6 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.109% 0.460% 0.099%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.452% 2.222% 0.476%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 0
Average daily rate £450 £340 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+32.35% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £438 £340 £365
% change year-on-year
+28.67% -6.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £67.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year
- +80.00%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
221 270 210
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 24.05% 20.69% 20.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 107 86
Average daily rate £300 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £173 £175 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £431 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £343 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.18% +0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 19 21
Average hourly rate £13.50 £20.50 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-34.14% +57.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.08 £17.00 £9.74
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.75 £25.00 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £24.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year
-8.16% -9.25%
LPAR
North West

LPAR
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester LPAR Daily Rate Trend

LPAR
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 4 (100.00%) AIX
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) UNIX
2 3 (75.00%) SAN
2 3 (75.00%) HACMP
2 3 (75.00%) Shell Script
2 3 (75.00%) QA
2 3 (75.00%) DLPAR
3 1 (25.00%) HPUX
3 1 (25.00%) Solaris
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (25.00%) SUSE

LPAR
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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.

Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Systems Administrator
1 3 (75.00%) Administrator
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Administrator
1 3 (75.00%) AIX Administrator
1 3 (75.00%) Storage Systems Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) AIX Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) HACMP
1 3 (75.00%) DLPAR
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) AIX
2 3 (75.00%) UNIX
3 1 (25.00%) HPUX
3 1 (25.00%) Solaris
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) HP
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat