East of England SUSE Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Novell SUSE Linux skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SUSE over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Novell SUSE Linux
Location Aldershot Barnsley Basildon Berkshire Canary Wharf Chichester City of London Docklands, London East of England England Essex Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Leeds London Portsmouth Potters Bar Solihull South East South Yorkshire Surrey Thames Valley UK West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	134	151
Rank change on same period last year	+17
Matching contract IT job ads	4	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	0.445 %	0.835 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£250
Average daily rate	-	£300
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£425	£289
% change on same period last year	+47.18 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.40	£35.25
% change on same period last year	-8.08 %
Operating Systems East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	899	1197
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.186 %	1.192 %
Daily rates quoted	274	263
Average minimum daily rate	£274	£321
Average daily rate	£290	£335
% change on same period last year	-13.36 %
Average maximum daily rate	£307	£349
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£336
% change on same period last year	-2.14 %
Hourly rates quoted	145	253
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.76	£22.92
Average hourly rate	£21.03	£24.01
% change on same period last year	-12.41 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.31	£25.11
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.93	£22.83
% change on same period last year	-3.96 %
SUSE England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

SUSE
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SUSE across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

SUSE
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SUSE across the East of England region.

SUSE
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SUSE across the East of England region.

SUSE
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SUSE within the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Essex	-	3	-	-
Hertfordshire	-	1	-	-

SUSE England

SUSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 8 (100.00 %) Linux 2 6 (75.00 %) UNIX 3 4 (50.00 %) Windows 3 4 (50.00 %) MS Exchange 3 4 (50.00 %) Red Hat 3 4 (50.00 %) Red Hat Linux 4 3 (37.50 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 3 (37.50 %) Subversion 4 3 (37.50 %) Firewall 4 3 (37.50 %) Bugzilla 4 3 (37.50 %) IBM 4 3 (37.50 %) Sun 4 3 (37.50 %) Active Directory 4 3 (37.50 %) AIX 4 3 (37.50 %) Solaris

4 3 (37.50 %) Apache 4 3 (37.50 %) Python 4 3 (37.50 %) Perl 4 3 (37.50 %) PHP 4 3 (37.50 %) MySQL 4 3 (37.50 %) CentOS 5 2 (25.00 %) Middleware 5 2 (25.00 %) Replication 5 2 (25.00 %) Validation 6 1 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 1 (12.50 %) RHCT 6 1 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 1 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 1 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 6 1 (12.50 %) DNS

SUSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 (25.00 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 4 (50.00 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (37.50 %) Apache 3 1 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 1 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2003
Communications & Networking 1 3 (37.50 %) Firewall 2 1 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (12.50 %) DNS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (37.50 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 3 (37.50 %) Subversion 1 3 (37.50 %) Bugzilla	Job Titles 1 3 (37.50 %) Support Engineer 1 3 (37.50 %) IT Support Engineer 2 2 (25.00 %) UNIX Engineer 2 2 (25.00 %) Implementation Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) Linux Administrator 3 1 (12.50 %) Administrator 3 1 (12.50 %) Linux Systems Administrator 3 1 (12.50 %) Author 3 1 (12.50 %) Technical Author 3 1 (12.50 %) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous 1 2 (25.00 %) Replication	Operating Systems 1 8 (100.00 %) Linux 2 6 (75.00 %) UNIX 3 4 (50.00 %) Windows 3 4 (50.00 %) Red Hat Linux 4 3 (37.50 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 3 (37.50 %) AIX 4 3 (37.50 %) Solaris 4 3 (37.50 %) CentOS 5 1 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (25.00 %) Validation	Programming Languages 1 3 (37.50 %) Python 1 3 (37.50 %) Perl 1 3 (37.50 %) PHP
Qualifications 1 1 (12.50 %) RHCT	System Software 1 3 (37.50 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 4 (50.00 %) Red Hat 2 3 (37.50 %) IBM 2 3 (37.50 %) Sun