The first table below looks at the demand for SUSE skills in IT contracts advertised for the London 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Novell SUSE Linux
Rank 331 352 373
Rank change year-on-year
+21 +21
Contract jobs citing SUSE 53 58 70
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.232% 0.218% 0.222%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.117% 1.036% 1.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 40 58
Average daily rate £400 £405 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.23% -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £334 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £478 £515
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £338 £340
% change year-on-year
-3.70% -0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 2
Average hourly rate £24.00 £34.50 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.43% +60.46%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.75 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-28.12% -5.88%
All Operating Systems
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
4746 5597 6528
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 20.81% 21.05% 20.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3122 3306 3943
Average daily rate £400 £375 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -11.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £200 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £598
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 325 324
Average hourly rate £19.00 £19.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.56% +2.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.35 £13.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £37.95 £34.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +9.37%
SUSE
England

SUSE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 London region.

London SUSE Daily Rate Trend

SUSE
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SUSE across the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

London SUSE Daily Rate Histogram

SUSE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London 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 London 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
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Job
Vacancies
City of London +1 15 £450 +12.50% 2
Ealing - - - -
Kingston Upon Thames - - - -
SUSE
England

SUSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

1 131 (98.50%) Linux
2 90 (67.67%) UNIX
3 82 (61.65%) Red Hat
4 78 (58.65%) Solaris
5 58 (43.61%) Shell Script
6 57 (42.86%) SAN
6 57 (42.86%) Finance
7 55 (41.35%) Banking
8 53 (39.85%) Veritas
9 50 (37.59%) VMware
9 50 (37.59%) Perl
10 49 (36.84%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 48 (36.09%) Oracle
12 40 (30.08%) EMC
13 37 (27.82%) Veritas Cluster Server
14 36 (27.07%) Investment Banking
15 33 (24.81%) Sun
16 30 (22.56%) AIX
17 29 (21.80%) Java
18 28 (21.05%) DNS
18 28 (21.05%) Change Management
19 26 (19.55%) RDF
19 26 (19.55%) Korn
19 26 (19.55%) Symmetrix DMX
20 24 (18.05%) Migration
21 22 (16.54%) Sybase
21 22 (16.54%) VMware Infrastructure
22 21 (15.79%) ITIL
23 20 (15.04%) IBM
23 20 (15.04%) SharePoint

SUSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 8 (6.015%) XML
2 4 (3.008%) Web Services
3 3 (2.256%) OSGi
4 2 (1.504%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.504%) CGI
4 2 (1.504%) .NET
4 2 (1.504%) SOAP
4 2 (1.504%) COM
5 1 (0.752%) CSS
5 1 (0.752%) JDBC
5 1 (0.752%) J2EE
5 1 (0.752%) HTML
5 1 (0.752%) Middleware
5 1 (0.752%) Spring
5 1 (0.752%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (0.752%) RESTful
5 1 (0.752%) REST
Application Platforms
1 20 (15.04%) SharePoint
2 15 (11.28%) Tomcat
3 8 (6.015%) ESB
3 8 (6.015%) WebLogic
3 8 (6.015%) Apache
4 6 (4.511%) Amazon AWS
5 3 (2.256%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.504%) Rackspace Cloud
6 2 (1.504%) SAS
7 1 (0.752%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.752%) GroupWise
Applications
1 3 (2.256%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.752%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.752%) SunGard Stream Clearvision
Communications & Networking
1 57 (42.86%) SAN
2 28 (21.05%) DNS
3 16 (12.03%) TCP/IP
4 15 (11.28%) LDAP
5 11 (8.271%) NAS
6 6 (4.511%) SSH
6 6 (4.511%) HTTP
7 5 (3.759%) SMTP
7 5 (3.759%) HTTPS
8 4 (3.008%) DHCP
9 3 (2.256%) SSL
10 2 (1.504%) snoop
10 2 (1.504%) SNMP
11 1 (0.752%) Firewall
11 1 (0.752%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (14.29%) Oracle Exadata
2 10 (7.519%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.008%) Oracle 10g
3 4 (3.008%) Oracle 8/8i
4 3 (2.256%) MySQL
4 3 (2.256%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (0.752%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 18 (13.53%) Subversion
2 10 (7.519%) Jenkins
3 8 (6.015%) Hudson
4 5 (3.759%) JIRA
4 5 (3.759%) Team Foundation Server
5 4 (3.008%) Git (software)
5 4 (3.008%) Selenium
6 2 (1.504%) WebDriver
General
1 57 (42.86%) Finance
2 55 (41.35%) Banking
3 36 (27.07%) Investment Banking
4 2 (1.504%) Law
5 1 (0.752%) Advertising
5 1 (0.752%) Front Office
5 1 (0.752%) Retail
5 1 (0.752%) Wholesale Banking
5 1 (0.752%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 59 (44.36%) Administrator
2 55 (41.35%) Systems Administrator
3 46 (34.59%) UNIX Administrator
4 44 (33.08%) UNIX Systems Administrator
5 13 (9.774%) Developer
5 13 (9.774%) Linux Administrator
6 12 (9.023%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 11 (8.271%) UNIX Engineer
8 10 (7.519%) Perl Developer
9 7 (5.263%) Consultant
10 6 (4.511%) Solaris Administrator
10 6 (4.511%) Citrix Engineer
10 6 (4.511%) Analyst
11 5 (3.759%) Solaris Systems Administrator
11 5 (3.759%) AIX Consultant
12 4 (3.008%) Linux Engineer
12 4 (3.008%) Technical Support Engineer
12 4 (3.008%) Technical Engineer
12 4 (3.008%) Technical Consultant
12 4 (3.008%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 26 (19.55%) Symmetrix DMX
2 20 (15.04%) Wiki
3 11 (8.271%) Equities
4 8 (6.015%) Fat Client
4 8 (6.015%) Open Source
4 8 (6.015%) Thin Client
5 7 (5.263%) Oracle Exalogic
6 5 (3.759%) LPAR
7 3 (2.256%) N-Tier
8 2 (1.504%) Cryptography
8 2 (1.504%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.752%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.752%) Freedom of Information
9 1 (0.752%) Derivative
9 1 (0.752%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.752%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.752%) Freedom of Information Act
9 1 (0.752%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (0.752%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 131 (98.50%) Linux
2 90 (67.67%) UNIX
3 78 (58.65%) Solaris
4 30 (22.56%) AIX
5 20 (15.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (6.015%) Windows
7 6 (4.511%) HPUX
8 5 (3.759%) Ubuntu
9 3 (2.256%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (1.504%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (1.504%) Debian
11 1 (0.752%) NetWare
11 1 (0.752%) Fedora
11 1 (0.752%) Slackware
11 1 (0.752%) openSUSE
11 1 (0.752%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.752%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (21.05%) Change Management
2 26 (19.55%) RDF
3 24 (18.05%) Migration
4 21 (15.79%) ITIL
5 20 (15.04%) Problem Management
6 10 (7.519%) OO
7 3 (2.256%) Service Delivery
7 3 (2.256%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (2.256%) Electronic Trading
8 2 (1.504%) Memory Management
8 2 (1.504%) Data Protection
8 2 (1.504%) Release Management
8 2 (1.504%) Risk Analysis
8 2 (1.504%) Information Security
8 2 (1.504%) Agile Software Development
8 2 (1.504%) E-Commerce
9 1 (0.752%) PRINCE2
9 1 (0.752%) SOA
9 1 (0.752%) Regression Testing
9 1 (0.752%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 58 (43.61%) Shell Script
2 50 (37.59%) Perl
3 29 (21.80%) Java
4 26 (19.55%) Korn
5 16 (12.03%) C++
6 13 (9.774%) C
7 10 (7.519%) Bash shell
8 9 (6.767%) SQL
9 5 (3.759%) Python
10 3 (2.256%) PHP
11 2 (1.504%) Ruby
11 2 (1.504%) Tcl
12 1 (0.752%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.752%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.752%) C#
12 1 (0.752%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (6.767%) CCA
1 9 (6.767%) Citrix Certification
1 9 (6.767%) CCEE
2 8 (6.015%) Linux+ Certification
2 8 (6.015%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (6.015%) MCSE
3 3 (2.256%) Degree
4 2 (1.504%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.504%) IBM Certification
4 2 (1.504%) Sun Certification
5 1 (0.752%) PMP
5 1 (0.752%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.752%) IBM AIX Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.752%) SLA
1 1 (0.752%) QA
System Software
1 49 (36.84%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 37 (27.82%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 22 (16.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (11.28%) NFS
5 9 (6.767%) Active Directory
6 6 (4.511%) Microsoft App-V
7 5 (3.759%) IAG
7 5 (3.759%) UAG
8 4 (3.008%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (1.504%) Sendmail
9 2 (1.504%) Samba
10 1 (0.752%) Novell eDirectory
10 1 (0.752%) XenApp
10 1 (0.752%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.752%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (5.263%) Puppet
2 5 (3.759%) SCCM
3 2 (1.504%) Nagios
4 1 (0.752%) Novell Identity Manager
4 1 (0.752%) BladeLogic
4 1 (0.752%) WMI
4 1 (0.752%) SCOM
4 1 (0.752%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 82 (61.65%) Red Hat
2 53 (39.85%) Veritas
3 50 (37.59%) VMware
4 48 (36.09%) Oracle
5 40 (30.08%) EMC
6 33 (24.81%) Sun
7 22 (16.54%) Sybase
8 20 (15.04%) IBM
9 17 (12.78%) HP
10 16 (12.03%) Microsoft
11 9 (6.767%) Citrix
12 6 (4.511%) AppSense
13 5 (3.759%) Serena
14 3 (2.256%) JBoss
14 3 (2.256%) ATG
14 3 (2.256%) NetApp
14 3 (2.256%) Akamai
15 2 (1.504%) Rackspace
15 2 (1.504%) Atlassian
15 2 (1.504%) Brocade
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