The first table below looks at the demand for openSUSE skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited openSUSE over the 3 months to 21 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.

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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
openSUSE Linux
Rank 539 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing openSUSE 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.002% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.010% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £24.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Operating Systems
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
10166 11887 12510
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 21.53% 20.33% 20.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 5449 5933 6113
Average daily rate £360 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £195 £200 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 994 1185 1236
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.28 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.50 £40.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%

openSUSE
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing openSUSE within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

openSUSE Jobs Demand Trend

openSUSE
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing openSUSE within the UK.

openSUSE Daily Rate Trend

openSUSE
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing openSUSE within the UK over the 3 months to 21 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
England - 1 - -
London - 1 - -

openSUSE
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing openSUSE 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 openSUSE.

1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) NetWare
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Novell
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) Novell Identity Manager
2 1 (50.00%) GroupWise
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) SUSE
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) Novell eDirectory
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) CentOS
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) CSS

openSUSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing openSUSE 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 openSUSE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) Ajax
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) GroupWise
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Support
1 1 (50.00%) Novell Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) NetWare
2 1 (50.00%) SUSE
2 1 (50.00%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Novell eDirectory
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Novell Identity Manager
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Novell
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) VMware