The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term LPAR 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 LPAR over the 3 months to 23 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LPAR
Rank 117 120 125
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +5
Contract jobs citing LPAR 1 9 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.043% 0.288% 0.064%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.185% 1.438% 0.316%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 1
Average daily rate £450 £340 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+32.35% -9.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £340 £365
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -6.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £67.50 -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
541 626 633
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 23.08% 20.05% 20.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 302 316
Average daily rate £300 £325 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +1.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £207 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £470 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 57 72
Average hourly rate £15.00 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £13.35 £10.48
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.66 £25.00 £38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%
LPAR
England

LPAR
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 23 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
Manchester +7 1 £450 +32.35%
LPAR
England

LPAR
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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%) Shell Script
3 2 (50.00%) HACMP
3 2 (50.00%) UNIX
3 2 (50.00%) SAN
3 2 (50.00%) QA
3 2 (50.00%) DLPAR
4 1 (25.00%) SUSE
4 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (25.00%) Tivoli
4 1 (25.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (25.00%) HPUX
4 1 (25.00%) Solaris
4 1 (25.00%) Linux
4 1 (25.00%) IBM
4 1 (25.00%) HP
4 1 (25.00%) SQL

LPAR
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 2 (50.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) AIX Administrator
1 3 (75.00%) Systems Administrator
1 3 (75.00%) Administrator
2 2 (50.00%) Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Administrator
2 2 (50.00%) Storage Systems Administrator
3 1 (25.00%) AIX Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) HACMP
1 2 (50.00%) DLPAR
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) AIX
2 2 (50.00%) UNIX
3 1 (25.00%) SUSE
3 1 (25.00%) HPUX
3 1 (25.00%) Solaris
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (25.00%) IBM
1 1 (25.00%) HP