The first table below looks at the demand for SUSE skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SUSE over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Hampshire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Novell SUSE Linux
Rank 98 - 102
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SUSE 3 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 0.187% - 0.106%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.648% - 0.391%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
Average daily rate £425 - £289
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £338 £340
% change year-on-year
-3.70% -0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.75 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-28.12% -5.88%
All Operating Systems
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
463 402 512
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 28.90% 25.85% 27.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 168 187
Average daily rate £325 £330 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £180 £213 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £465 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 85 104
Average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +4.16%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £42.50 £39.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +9.37%
SUSE
South East

SUSE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Basingstoke - 3 £425 -
SUSE
South East

SUSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (88.89%) Microsoft
2 8 (88.89%) Red Hat
2 8 (88.89%) VMware
2 8 (88.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (66.67%) Finance
3 6 (66.67%) Change Management
3 6 (66.67%) MS Excel
4 5 (55.56%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (55.56%) VMware Server
5 4 (44.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (44.44%) Configuration Management
5 4 (44.44%) Solaris
5 4 (44.44%) Oracle
6 2 (22.22%) ATM
6 2 (22.22%) Citrix
6 2 (22.22%) Unified Communications
7 1 (11.11%) WATIR
7 1 (11.11%) Selenium
7 1 (11.11%) FitNesse
7 1 (11.11%) WCF
7 1 (11.11%) Firebug
7 1 (11.11%) Fiddler
7 1 (11.11%) Performance Testing
7 1 (11.11%) Security Testing
7 1 (11.11%) Integration Testing
7 1 (11.11%) Manual Testing
7 1 (11.11%) soapUI
7 1 (11.11%) SpecFlow
7 1 (11.11%) GitHub

SUSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 1 (11.11%) WCF
1 1 (11.11%) soapUI
1 1 (11.11%) HTML5
1 1 (11.11%) Web Services
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) IIS
1 1 (11.11%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 6 (66.67%) MS Excel
2 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) ATM
1 2 (22.22%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) WATIR
1 1 (11.11%) Selenium
1 1 (11.11%) FitNesse
1 1 (11.11%) Firebug
1 1 (11.11%) Fiddler
1 1 (11.11%) SpecFlow
1 1 (11.11%) GitHub
1 1 (11.11%) WebDriver
1 1 (11.11%) Git (software)
1 1 (11.11%) JMeter
General
1 6 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Designer
2 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Design Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Technical Designer
3 2 (22.22%) Consultant
3 2 (22.22%) Solutions Designer
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Designer
4 1 (11.11%) Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Test Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Linux Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Test Team Leader
4 1 (11.11%) Team Leader
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (44.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (44.44%) Solaris
3 1 (11.11%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Change Management
2 5 (55.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (44.44%) Configuration Management
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Security Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Integration Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Manual Testing
4 1 (11.11%) SOA
4 1 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (11.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Python
1 1 (11.11%) C
1 1 (11.11%) C#
1 1 (11.11%) C++
1 1 (11.11%) Java
1 1 (11.11%) Perl
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (55.56%) VMware Server
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Microsoft
1 8 (88.89%) Red Hat
1 8 (88.89%) VMware
2 4 (44.44%) Oracle
3 2 (22.22%) Citrix