The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term LPAR in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited LPAR over the 3 months to 22 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 Reading 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LPAR
Rank 70 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing LPAR 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.116% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.490% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £425 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £438 £340 £370
% change year-on-year
+28.67% -8.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £67.50 -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
204 192 213
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 23.69% 16.87% 20.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 76 96
Average daily rate £375 £350 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +2.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £214 £235 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £484 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 8
Average hourly rate £17.50 £15.79 £15.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.84% +3.52%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £13.53 £12.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.50 £50.00 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.66
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -12.31%
LPAR
Berkshire

LPAR
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading LPAR Daily Rate Trend

LPAR
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 3 (100.00%) UNIX
1 3 (100.00%) AIX
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) IBM
1 3 (100.00%) EMC
1 3 (100.00%) SAN
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (100.00%) Tivoli
1 3 (100.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 3 (100.00%) HACMP
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Clustering
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (100.00%) DLPAR
1 3 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (66.67%) CLARiiON

LPAR
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 (100.00%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) SAN
1 3 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) HACMP
1 3 (100.00%) Clustering
1 3 (100.00%) DLPAR
2 2 (66.67%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
1 3 (100.00%) AIX
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Tivoli
1 3 (100.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) IBM
1 3 (100.00%) EMC
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat