The first table below looks at the demand for SUSE skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SUSE over the 3 months to 17 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 Reading 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Novell SUSE Linux
Rank 65 - 76
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SUSE 5 0 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.602% - 0.378%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.632% - 1.220%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
Average daily rate £275 - £340
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £360 £350
% change year-on-year
-6.94% +2.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.59 £37.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-31.76% -11.76%
All Operating Systems
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
190 245 328
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 22.89% 23.03% 31.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 94 121
Average daily rate £335 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.28% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 21 10
Average hourly rate £20.25 £15.13 £13.13
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+33.88% +15.23%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £14.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £22.25 £23.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
SUSE
Berkshire

SUSE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading SUSE Hourly Rate Trend

SUSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) HP
2 3 (60.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) HPUX
3 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (20.00%) Automated Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Ubuntu
4 1 (20.00%) Degree
4 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (20.00%) QA
4 1 (20.00%) Selenium
4 1 (20.00%) FMCG
4 1 (20.00%) TestComplete
4 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (20.00%) Solaris
4 1 (20.00%) UNIX
4 1 (20.00%) Windows
4 1 (20.00%) Java
4 1 (20.00%) SQL
4 1 (20.00%) MySQL
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle
4 1 (20.00%) QuickTest Pro
4 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (20.00%) Tivoli
4 1 (20.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (20.00%) Apache

SUSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) LAN
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) QuickTest Pro
1 1 (20.00%) Selenium
1 1 (20.00%) TestComplete
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Support
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) UNIX Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (20.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (20.00%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) HPUX
3 1 (20.00%) Solaris
3 1 (20.00%) UNIX
3 1 (20.00%) Windows
3 1 (20.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (20.00%) Automated Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) HP
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
Reading, Berkshire
Selenium, QTP, TestComplete) Experience of working within an Agile environment... Strong SQL knowledge and experience (Postgresql an advantage) Experience of Server OS (Linux, Windows Server, Suse and Ubuntu)...
Experis IT
Rate: £275 - £375 per day
Posted: 13 May 2013