The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term DLPAR in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DLPAR over the 3 months to 19 June 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 North West 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Dynamic Logical Partitioning
Rank 115 - 124
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing DLPAR 2 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.084% - 0.033%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.358% - 0.170%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £200 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £220 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
558 572 588
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 23.38% 18.83% 19.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 267 292
Average daily rate £325 £325 £321
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +1.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £180 £212 £201
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £471 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £328
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +5.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 54 76
Average hourly rate £17.21 £19.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.74% -2.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.75 £13.10 £9.74
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.63 £25.22 £38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.63 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-3.88% -10.00%
DLPAR
England

DLPAR
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West DLPAR Jobs Demand Trend

DLPAR
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West DLPAR Daily Rate Trend

DLPAR
Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing DLPAR 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 DLPAR.

1 2 (100.00%) AIX
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
1 2 (100.00%) HACMP
1 2 (100.00%) LPAR
2 1 (50.00%) UNIX
2 1 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script

DLPAR
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing DLPAR 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 DLPAR. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Administrator
1 2 (100.00%) AIX Administrator
2 1 (50.00%) AIX Consultant
2 1 (50.00%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) HACMP
1 2 (100.00%) LPAR
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) AIX
2 1 (50.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA