The first table below looks at the demand for SUSE skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England 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 East of England 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 110 129 126
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -3
Contract jobs citing SUSE 4 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.187% 0.102% 0.038%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.705% 0.412% 0.149%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £338 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £340 £340
% change year-on-year
+17.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Average hourly rate £27.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-31.25% -5.88%
All Operating Systems
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
567 729 671
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 26.51% 24.67% 25.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 299 243
Average daily rate £310 £325 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.61% +12.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £110 £170 £165
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £424
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 124 164
Average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% +37.93%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £40.00 £35.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
SUSE
England

SUSE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England 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 East of England 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
Essex 0 4 - -
SUSE
England

SUSE
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 6 (100.00%) Perl
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) IBM
1 6 (100.00%) SAN
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 6 (100.00%) NAS
1 6 (100.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 3 (50.00%) Automotive
3 1 (16.67%) Tivoli

SUSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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.

Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) SAN
1 6 (100.00%) NAS
General
1 3 (50.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Backup Engineer
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Perl
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) IBM
1 6 (100.00%) VMware