The first table below looks at the demand for SUSE skills in IT contracts advertised for the Belfast region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SUSE over the 3 months to 17 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 of the Operating Systems category for the Belfast 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Novell SUSE Linux
Rank - - 48
Contract jobs citing SUSE 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Belfast - - 0.298%
As % of the Operating Systems category - - 1.515%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £360 £350
% change year-on-year
-6.94% +2.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.59 £37.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-31.76% -11.76%
All Operating Systems
Belfast
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
33 42 66
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Belfast 15.71% 26.92% 19.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 12 19
Average daily rate £275 £260 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.76% -25.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £100 £120
10% offered a daily rate of more than £320 £400 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
Average hourly rate - £36.50 £12.42
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +193.88%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
SUSE
County Antrim

SUSE
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SUSE across the Belfast region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Belfast SUSE Jobs Demand Trend

SUSE
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast region citing SUSE 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 SUSE.

1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Django
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) GStreamer

SUSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast region citing SUSE 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 SUSE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Django
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) GStreamer
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Development Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) C Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Development Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared