The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term LPAR in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited LPAR 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 South East 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
LPAR
Rank 218 243 231
Rank change year-on-year
+25 -12
Contract jobs citing LPAR 2 4 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.025% 0.040% 0.142%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.120% 0.201% 0.769%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
Average daily rate £375 - £375
90% offered a daily rate of more than £335 - £347
10% offered a daily rate of more than £415 - £395
UK excluding London average daily rate £269 £350 £365
% change year-on-year
-23.21% -4.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £67.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £67.50 -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
1672 1993 1951
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 20.88% 19.94% 18.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 792 808 819
Average daily rate £375 £345 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.69% +1.47%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £220 £209
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £328
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +5.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 173 186
Average hourly rate £21.50 £31.00 £26.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.64% +16.98%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £50.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.63 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-3.88% -10.00%
LPAR
England

LPAR
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Hampshire -4 1 £325 -
Berkshire - 1 £425 -
Buckinghamshire - - - -
Home Counties - - - -
LPAR
England

LPAR
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 2 (100.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) AIX
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) Tivoli
2 1 (50.00%) Solaris
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) Sun
2 1 (50.00%) EMC
2 1 (50.00%) HACMP
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) CLARiiON
2 1 (50.00%) Clustering
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Korn
2 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) DLPAR
2 1 (50.00%) Fibre Channel

LPAR
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 (50.00%) WebSphere
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) HACMP
1 1 (50.00%) CLARiiON
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) DLPAR
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) AIX
2 1 (50.00%) Solaris
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (50.00%) Korn
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) Sun
2 1 (50.00%) EMC