The first table below looks at the demand for SUSE skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SUSE 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 of the Operating Systems category for the City of London 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
Novell SUSE Linux
Rank 186 204 229
Rank change year-on-year
+18 +25
Contract jobs citing SUSE 19 11 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.296% 0.138% 0.124%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.519% 0.697% 0.647%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 9 8
Average daily rate £450 £448 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.55% -0.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £420 £303
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £480 £521
UK excluding London average daily rate £413 £340 £350
% change year-on-year
+21.32% -2.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Average hourly rate - £29.00 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +34.88%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.59 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-36.02% -5.88%
All Operating Systems
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
1251 1579 1855
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 19.46% 19.79% 19.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 855 983 1239
Average daily rate £400 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 97 108
Average hourly rate £31.25 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+56.25% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £13.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £37.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
SUSE
London

SUSE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London SUSE Daily Rate Trend

SUSE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London SUSE Hourly Rate Trend

SUSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 29 (100.00%) Linux
2 25 (86.21%) Red Hat
3 23 (79.31%) Solaris
4 16 (55.17%) UNIX
5 14 (48.28%) SAN
6 12 (41.38%) Banking
7 10 (34.48%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 10 (34.48%) Shell Script
8 9 (31.03%) Finance
8 9 (31.03%) Perl
9 8 (27.59%) Java
10 7 (24.14%) HP
10 7 (24.14%) C++
11 6 (20.69%) Equities
11 6 (20.69%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 6 (20.69%) C
11 6 (20.69%) Oracle
11 6 (20.69%) AIX
11 6 (20.69%) NFS
11 6 (20.69%) Veritas
11 6 (20.69%) IBM
12 5 (17.24%) DNS
12 5 (17.24%) Migration
12 5 (17.24%) LDAP
12 5 (17.24%) HPUX
12 5 (17.24%) LPAR
12 5 (17.24%) NAS
12 5 (17.24%) Investment Banking
13 4 (13.79%) Windows
14 3 (10.34%) Microsoft

SUSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 2 (6.897%) OSGi
2 1 (3.448%) COM
2 1 (3.448%) FIX Protocol
Application Platforms
1 3 (10.34%) ESB
2 1 (3.448%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.448%) SAS
2 1 (3.448%) Apache
2 1 (3.448%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (3.448%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.448%) SunGard Stream Clearvision
Communications & Networking
1 14 (48.28%) SAN
2 5 (17.24%) DNS
2 5 (17.24%) LDAP
2 5 (17.24%) NAS
3 1 (3.448%) HTTP
3 1 (3.448%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.897%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.448%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (3.448%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 2 (6.897%) Hudson
1 2 (6.897%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.448%) JIRA
2 1 (3.448%) Subversion
2 1 (3.448%) Selenium
2 1 (3.448%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (3.448%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (41.38%) Banking
2 9 (31.03%) Finance
3 5 (17.24%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.448%) Advertising
4 1 (3.448%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Systems Administrator
2 9 (31.03%) Administrator
3 7 (24.14%) UNIX Systems Administrator
3 7 (24.14%) UNIX Administrator
4 5 (17.24%) Consultant
4 5 (17.24%) AIX Consultant
5 4 (13.79%) Technical Consultant
5 4 (13.79%) Analyst
6 3 (10.34%) Technical Specialist
6 3 (10.34%) AIX Specialist
7 2 (6.897%) Java Developer
7 2 (6.897%) UNIX Engineer
7 2 (6.897%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (6.897%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 2 (6.897%) Senior Developer
7 2 (6.897%) Systems Analyst
7 2 (6.897%) Developer
8 1 (3.448%) Project Manager
8 1 (3.448%) Support Analyst
8 1 (3.448%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Equities
2 5 (17.24%) LPAR
3 2 (6.897%) Open Source
3 2 (6.897%) Symmetrix DMX
4 1 (3.448%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.448%) Thin Client
4 1 (3.448%) Fat Client
4 1 (3.448%) Wiki
4 1 (3.448%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 29 (100.00%) Linux
2 23 (79.31%) Solaris
3 16 (55.17%) UNIX
4 6 (20.69%) AIX
5 5 (17.24%) HPUX
6 4 (13.79%) Windows
7 3 (10.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (3.448%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (17.24%) Migration
2 3 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (10.34%) Electronic Trading
3 2 (6.897%) Problem Management
3 2 (6.897%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (6.897%) RDF
3 2 (6.897%) ITIL
4 1 (3.448%) PRINCE2
4 1 (3.448%) Project Management
4 1 (3.448%) Service Delivery
4 1 (3.448%) Change Management
4 1 (3.448%) Risk Management
4 1 (3.448%) Risk Analysis
Programming Languages
1 10 (34.48%) Shell Script
2 9 (31.03%) Perl
3 8 (27.59%) Java
4 7 (24.14%) C++
5 6 (20.69%) C
6 3 (10.34%) Korn
7 2 (6.897%) Bash shell
8 1 (3.448%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.448%) CCA
1 1 (3.448%) Citrix Certification
1 1 (3.448%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (3.448%) PMP
1 1 (3.448%) PMI Certification
1 1 (3.448%) IBM AIX Certification
1 1 (3.448%) MCSE
1 1 (3.448%) Linux+ Certification
1 1 (3.448%) Degree
1 1 (3.448%) CCEE
System Software
1 10 (34.48%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 6 (20.69%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 6 (20.69%) NFS
3 2 (6.897%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (3.448%) Active Directory
4 1 (3.448%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (3.448%) IAG
4 1 (3.448%) UAG
4 1 (3.448%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (3.448%) Nagios
1 1 (3.448%) SCCM
Vendors
1 25 (86.21%) Red Hat
2 7 (24.14%) HP
3 6 (20.69%) Oracle
3 6 (20.69%) Veritas
3 6 (20.69%) IBM
4 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
4 3 (10.34%) VMware
5 2 (6.897%) Serena
5 2 (6.897%) Sun
5 2 (6.897%) EMC
6 1 (3.448%) Citrix
6 1 (3.448%) JBoss
6 1 (3.448%) EasyScreen
6 1 (3.448%) ATG
6 1 (3.448%) FFastFill
6 1 (3.448%) AppSense
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