The first table below looks at the demand for SUSE skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SUSE over the 3 months to 24 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 Berkshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Novell SUSE Linux
Rank 111 - 124
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SUSE 9 0 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.376% - 0.168%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.811% - 0.812%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
Average daily rate £275 - £340
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £340 £340
% change year-on-year
+17.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-31.25% -5.88%
All Operating Systems
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
497 530 616
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 20.75% 16.85% 20.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 202 209
Average daily rate £335 £325 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.07% -1.51%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £225 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £453 £450 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 53 41
Average hourly rate £20.50 £15.58 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+31.62% -22.12%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £14.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £45.00 £43.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
SUSE
South East

SUSE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire SUSE Jobs Demand Trend

SUSE
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire SUSE Daily Rate Trend

SUSE
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SUSE across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Berkshire SUSE Daily Rate Histogram

SUSE
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SUSE across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire SUSE Hourly Rate Trend

SUSE
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SUSE within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Reading - 5 £275 -
Slough - 1 £500 -
SUSE
South East

SUSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (72.73%) HP
2 8 (72.73%) HPUX
3 6 (54.55%) ITIL
4 5 (45.45%) Shell Script
5 3 (27.27%) UNIX
6 2 (18.18%) Red Hat
6 2 (18.18%) Degree
7 1 (9.091%) Computer Science
7 1 (9.091%) QA
7 1 (9.091%) Selenium
7 1 (9.091%) FMCG
7 1 (9.091%) TestComplete
7 1 (9.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (9.091%) Test Automation
7 1 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (9.091%) Automated Testing
7 1 (9.091%) Ubuntu
7 1 (9.091%) Management Information System
7 1 (9.091%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (9.091%) Grid Computing
7 1 (9.091%) Clustering
7 1 (9.091%) Project Management
7 1 (9.091%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (9.091%) Tivoli
7 1 (9.091%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (9.091%) QuickTest Pro
7 1 (9.091%) Apache
7 1 (9.091%) LAN
7 1 (9.091%) WAN

SUSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.091%) LAN
1 1 (9.091%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.091%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (9.091%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Selenium
1 1 (9.091%) TestComplete
1 1 (9.091%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 1 (9.091%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 4 (36.36%) Administrator
1 4 (36.36%) Analyst
1 4 (36.36%) Linux Administrator
2 2 (18.18%) UNIX Administrator
3 1 (9.091%) Linux Support Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Automation Tester
3 1 (9.091%) Support Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (9.091%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Linux Support
3 1 (9.091%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) Computer Science
1 1 (9.091%) FMCG
1 1 (9.091%) Management Information System
1 1 (9.091%) Grid Computing
1 1 (9.091%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (72.73%) HPUX
3 3 (27.27%) UNIX
4 1 (9.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (9.091%) Ubuntu
4 1 (9.091%) Windows
4 1 (9.091%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) ITIL
2 1 (9.091%) Test Automation
2 1 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (9.091%) Automated Testing
2 1 (9.091%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Shell Script
2 1 (9.091%) Java
2 1 (9.091%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.091%) QA
System Software
1 1 (9.091%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
1 1 (9.091%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (9.091%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) HP
2 2 (18.18%) Red Hat
3 1 (9.091%) Cisco
3 1 (9.091%) IBM
3 1 (9.091%) Oracle