The first table below looks at the demand for SUSE skills in IT contracts advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SUSE over the 3 months to 20 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 Essex 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Novell SUSE Linux
Rank 43 48 -
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -
Contract jobs citing SUSE 5 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 1.214% 0.489% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.950% 1.681% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £368 £340 £350
% change year-on-year
+8.08% -2.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Average hourly rate £25.59 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.59 £37.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-31.76% -11.76%
All Operating Systems
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
101 119 111
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 24.51% 29.10% 28.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 56 51
Average daily rate £305 £265 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.09% +17.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £180 £110 £156
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £400 £433
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 22 31
Average hourly rate £23.68 £21.00 £17.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.76% +21.73%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.80 £13.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.70 £30.00 £30.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +4.93%
SUSE
East of England

SUSE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex SUSE Jobs Demand 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 Essex region.

Essex 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 Essex region over the 3 months to 20 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
Brentwood - 2 - -
SUSE
East of England

SUSE
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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