The first table below looks at the demand for SUSE skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SUSE over the 3 months to 22 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 South East 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Novell SUSE Linux
Rank 213 242 226
Rank change year-on-year
+29 -16
Contract jobs citing SUSE 16 4 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.202% 0.039% 0.156%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.889% 0.187% 0.662%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 6
Average daily rate £400 £355 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.67% +12.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £351 £289
10% offered a daily rate of more than £440 £359 £410
UK excluding London average daily rate £413 £340 £350
% change year-on-year
+21.32% -2.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
Average hourly rate - £45.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +5.88%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.59 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-36.02% -5.88%
All Operating Systems
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
1799 2137 2416
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 22.71% 20.66% 23.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 824 866 856
Average daily rate £330 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.53% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £160 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £435
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 333 325
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.00 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.94% -5.55%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.75 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £42.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
SUSE
England

SUSE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 22 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
Berkshire - 9 £275 -
Hampshire - 7 £425 -
SUSE
England

SUSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 20 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 8 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (40.00%) HP
3 8 (40.00%) HPUX
3 8 (40.00%) VMware
3 8 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (30.00%) Change Management
4 6 (30.00%) Finance
4 6 (30.00%) MS Excel
4 6 (30.00%) ITIL
5 5 (25.00%) Oracle
5 5 (25.00%) Solaris
5 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (25.00%) Shell Script
5 5 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (25.00%) VMware Server
6 4 (20.00%) Configuration Management
6 4 (20.00%) UNIX
7 2 (10.00%) Degree
7 2 (10.00%) SQL
7 2 (10.00%) Java
7 2 (10.00%) ATM
7 2 (10.00%) Citrix
7 2 (10.00%) Unified Communications
7 2 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
7 2 (10.00%) Selenium
8 1 (5.000%) FitNesse
8 1 (5.000%) WCF
8 1 (5.000%) Git (software)

SUSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 (5.000%) WCF
1 1 (5.000%) soapUI
1 1 (5.000%) HTML5
1 1 (5.000%) Web Services
1 1 (5.000%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.000%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (5.000%) IIS
1 1 (5.000%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (30.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.000%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) ATM
1 2 (10.00%) Unified Communications
2 1 (5.000%) LAN
2 1 (5.000%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.000%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.000%) MySQL
1 1 (5.000%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (5.000%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Selenium
2 1 (5.000%) FitNesse
2 1 (5.000%) Git (software)
2 1 (5.000%) TestComplete
2 1 (5.000%) Firebug
2 1 (5.000%) Fiddler
2 1 (5.000%) SpecFlow
2 1 (5.000%) GitHub
2 1 (5.000%) WebDriver
2 1 (5.000%) QuickTest Pro
2 1 (5.000%) JMeter
2 1 (5.000%) WATIR
General
1 6 (30.00%) Finance
2 1 (5.000%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (5.000%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Analyst
2 4 (20.00%) Designer
2 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 4 (20.00%) Administrator
2 4 (20.00%) Linux Administrator
3 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Design Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Designer
4 2 (10.00%) Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) Solutions Designer
4 2 (10.00%) UNIX Administrator
4 2 (10.00%) Technical Designer
5 1 (5.000%) Linux Support Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) Automation Tester
5 1 (5.000%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (5.000%) Test Analyst
5 1 (5.000%) Tester
5 1 (5.000%) Linux Consultant
5 1 (5.000%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.000%) FMCG
1 1 (5.000%) Management Information System
1 1 (5.000%) Computer Science
1 1 (5.000%) Grid Computing
1 1 (5.000%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 20 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (40.00%) HPUX
3 5 (25.00%) Solaris
3 5 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (20.00%) UNIX
5 1 (5.000%) Windows
5 1 (5.000%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Change Management
1 6 (30.00%) ITIL
2 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 2 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (5.000%) Test Automation
5 1 (5.000%) Performance Testing
5 1 (5.000%) Security Testing
5 1 (5.000%) Integration Testing
5 1 (5.000%) Manual Testing
5 1 (5.000%) SOA
5 1 (5.000%) Project Management
5 1 (5.000%) Scrum
5 1 (5.000%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (10.00%) SQL
2 2 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (5.000%) Perl
3 1 (5.000%) C
3 1 (5.000%) C#
3 1 (5.000%) C++
3 1 (5.000%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.000%) QA
System Software
1 8 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (25.00%) VMware Server
3 1 (5.000%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (5.000%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (5.000%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 8 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (40.00%) HP
2 8 (40.00%) VMware
3 5 (25.00%) Oracle
4 2 (10.00%) Citrix
5 1 (5.000%) Cisco
5 1 (5.000%) IBM
Basingstoke, Hampshire
The successful Engineering Consultant/Technical Solution Designer (VMWare - Microsoft Server solutions - Linux) will need to have a broad understanding of networking, change management and development tools and techniques.
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Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013