SUSE Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for SUSE skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SUSE over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Novell SUSE Linux
Rank 429 496 470
Rank change year-on-year
+67 -26
Contract jobs citing SUSE 112 69 116
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.242% 0.118% 0.187%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.122% 0.582% 0.898%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 45 77
Average daily rate £408 £405 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.61% -4.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £300 £289
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £515
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £340 £350
% change year-on-year
+17.64% -2.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 6
Average hourly rate £25.75 £37.50 £37.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-31.33% -0.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.95 £29.00 £21.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £29.25 £42.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-31.25% -5.88%
All Operating Systems
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 9982 11864 12923
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 21.54% 20.33% 20.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 5365 5902 6319
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 £198 £195 £213
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 953 1188 1264
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 £11.31 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £40.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%

SUSE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

SUSE Daily Rate Trend

SUSE
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SUSE within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

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 within the UK.

SUSE Hourly Rate Trend

SUSE
Top 24 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 UK over the 3 months to 23 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 +88 112 £408 +0.61%
London +76 86 £408 -9.19%
City of London +29 20 £450 +0.55%
South East +32 16 £400 +12.67%
Berkshire - 9 £275 -
Hampshire - 7 £425 -
Docklands, London - 6 £450 -
Basingstoke - 6 £425 -
Reading - 5 £275 -
East of England +19 4 - -
Essex +4 4 - -
West Midlands +8 2 £330 +53.48%
Brentwood - 2 - -
Birmingham +11 1 - -
Manchester +11 1 £450 +32.35%
North West +9 1 £450 +32.35%
South Yorkshire -1 1 £335 +21.81%
Yorkshire -5 1 £335 +21.81%
Canary Wharf - 1 £425 -
Tyne and Wear - 1 - -
North East - 1 - -
Slough - 1 £500 -
Newcastle upon Tyne - 1 - -
Doncaster - 1 £335 -

SUSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 195 (99.49%) Linux
2 117 (59.69%) Red Hat
3 108 (55.10%) UNIX
4 99 (50.51%) Solaris
5 77 (39.29%) SAN
6 72 (36.73%) Shell Script
7 71 (36.22%) VMware
8 70 (35.71%) Oracle
9 67 (34.18%) Finance
10 61 (31.12%) Banking
11 59 (30.10%) Veritas
12 58 (29.59%) Perl
13 53 (27.04%) Veritas Volume Manager
14 49 (25.00%) AIX
15 44 (22.45%) EMC
16 42 (21.43%) Veritas Cluster Server
17 41 (20.92%) Investment Banking
18 38 (19.39%) Sun
19 36 (18.37%) IBM
20 35 (17.86%) Microsoft
20 35 (17.86%) Java
21 34 (17.35%) Change Management
22 33 (16.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
23 32 (16.33%) HP
24 31 (15.82%) VMware Infrastructure
25 30 (15.31%) Symmetrix DMX
25 30 (15.31%) RDF
25 30 (15.31%) Migration
25 30 (15.31%) Korn
26 29 (14.80%) DNS

SUSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 (4.082%) XML
2 4 (2.041%) Web Services
3 3 (1.531%) WebSphere
3 3 (1.531%) .NET
3 3 (1.531%) OSGi
4 2 (1.020%) HTML
4 2 (1.020%) COM
4 2 (1.020%) JDBC
4 2 (1.020%) CGI
4 2 (1.020%) Middleware
4 2 (1.020%) LAMP
5 1 (0.510%) WCF
5 1 (0.510%) jQuery
5 1 (0.510%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (0.510%) Spring
5 1 (0.510%) SOAP
5 1 (0.510%) CSS
5 1 (0.510%) J2EE
5 1 (0.510%) HTML5
5 1 (0.510%) GStreamer
Application Platforms
1 20 (10.20%) SharePoint
2 17 (8.673%) Tomcat
3 16 (8.163%) ESB
4 13 (6.633%) Apache
5 9 (4.592%) WebLogic
6 7 (3.571%) Amazon AWS
7 4 (2.041%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.020%) Rackspace Cloud
8 2 (1.020%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (1.020%) SAS
9 1 (0.510%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.510%) GlassFish
9 1 (0.510%) GroupWise
9 1 (0.510%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.510%) IIS
9 1 (0.510%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 11 (5.612%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.510%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.510%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.510%) SunGard Stream Clearvision
Communications & Networking
1 77 (39.29%) SAN
2 29 (14.80%) DNS
3 22 (11.22%) NAS
4 18 (9.184%) TCP/IP
5 16 (8.163%) LDAP
6 6 (3.061%) HTTP
6 6 (3.061%) SSH
7 5 (2.551%) HTTPS
7 5 (2.551%) SMTP
7 5 (2.551%) DHCP
8 4 (2.041%) SSL
9 2 (1.020%) Unified Communications
9 2 (1.020%) snoop
9 2 (1.020%) ATM
9 2 (1.020%) LAN
9 2 (1.020%) WAN
9 2 (1.020%) SNMP
9 2 (1.020%) Firewall
9 2 (1.020%) MPLS
10 1 (0.510%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.20%) SQL Server
2 19 (9.694%) Oracle Exadata
3 13 (6.633%) Oracle 8/8i
3 13 (6.633%) Oracle 11g
4 5 (2.551%) Oracle 10g
4 5 (2.551%) MySQL
5 2 (1.020%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 28 (14.29%) Subversion
2 18 (9.184%) Jenkins
3 14 (7.143%) Selenium
4 13 (6.633%) JIRA
4 13 (6.633%) Team Foundation Server
5 8 (4.082%) Hudson
6 5 (2.551%) Git (software)
7 3 (1.531%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.510%) FitNesse
8 1 (0.510%) WATIR
8 1 (0.510%) Firebug
8 1 (0.510%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.510%) QuickTest Pro
8 1 (0.510%) JMeter
8 1 (0.510%) TestComplete
8 1 (0.510%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.510%) GitHub
General
1 67 (34.18%) Finance
2 61 (31.12%) Banking
3 41 (20.92%) Investment Banking
4 5 (2.551%) Corporate Banking
5 3 (1.531%) Automotive
6 2 (1.020%) Law
6 2 (1.020%) Retail
7 1 (0.510%) Wholesale Banking
7 1 (0.510%) French Language
7 1 (0.510%) German Language
7 1 (0.510%) Advertising
7 1 (0.510%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.510%) Front Office
7 1 (0.510%) Back Office
7 1 (0.510%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 68 (34.69%) Administrator
2 59 (30.10%) Systems Administrator
3 48 (24.49%) UNIX Administrator
4 47 (23.98%) UNIX Systems Administrator
5 21 (10.71%) Analyst
5 21 (10.71%) Linux Administrator
6 15 (7.653%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 14 (7.143%) Consultant
8 13 (6.633%) Developer
9 11 (5.612%) UNIX Engineer
10 10 (5.102%) Perl Developer
11 9 (4.592%) Environment Analyst
11 9 (4.592%) AIX Consultant
12 8 (4.082%) Linux Engineer
12 8 (4.082%) Systems Engineer
13 6 (3.061%) Technical Consultant
13 6 (3.061%) Citrix Engineer
13 6 (3.061%) Solaris Administrator
14 5 (2.551%) Solaris Systems Administrator
14 5 (2.551%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.31%) Symmetrix DMX
2 20 (10.20%) Wiki
3 11 (5.612%) Equities
4 9 (4.592%) Thin Client
4 9 (4.592%) Fat Client
4 9 (4.592%) Open Source
4 9 (4.592%) LPAR
5 7 (3.571%) Oracle Exalogic
6 3 (1.531%) N-Tier
6 3 (1.531%) Digital Media
7 2 (1.020%) Video on Demand
7 2 (1.020%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.020%) Cryptography
7 2 (1.020%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.020%) IPTV
8 1 (0.510%) Derivative
8 1 (0.510%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.510%) Freedom of Information Act
8 1 (0.510%) Computer Science
8 1 (0.510%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 195 (99.49%) Linux
2 108 (55.10%) UNIX
3 99 (50.51%) Solaris
4 49 (25.00%) AIX
5 33 (16.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 29 (14.80%) Windows
7 19 (9.694%) HPUX
8 11 (5.612%) Windows Server 2008
9 8 (4.082%) Ubuntu
10 4 (2.041%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (1.020%) Debian
11 2 (1.020%) Fedora
12 1 (0.510%) Slackware
12 1 (0.510%) NetWare
12 1 (0.510%) VMS
12 1 (0.510%) openSUSE
12 1 (0.510%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.510%) CentOS
12 1 (0.510%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (17.35%) Change Management
2 30 (15.31%) RDF
2 30 (15.31%) Migration
3 28 (14.29%) ITIL
4 20 (10.20%) Problem Management
5 11 (5.612%) E-Commerce
6 10 (5.102%) OO
7 8 (4.082%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (2.551%) Fund Management
8 5 (2.551%) Configuration Management
8 5 (2.551%) Business Transformation
8 5 (2.551%) Wealth Management
9 4 (2.041%) Agile Software Development
9 4 (2.041%) Technical Architecture
10 3 (1.531%) Service Delivery
10 3 (1.531%) Release Management
10 3 (1.531%) Electronic Trading
11 2 (1.020%) Infrastructure Management
11 2 (1.020%) Data Protection
11 2 (1.020%) Memory Management
Programming Languages
1 72 (36.73%) Shell Script
2 58 (29.59%) Perl
3 35 (17.86%) Java
4 30 (15.31%) Korn
5 18 (9.184%) C++
6 15 (7.653%) C
7 13 (6.633%) Bash shell
8 12 (6.122%) SQL
9 9 (4.592%) Python
10 4 (2.041%) Ruby
11 3 (1.531%) PHP
12 2 (1.020%) C-shell
12 2 (1.020%) C#
12 2 (1.020%) Tcl
13 1 (0.510%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.510%) JavaScript
13 1 (0.510%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (4.592%) CCA
1 9 (4.592%) Citrix Certification
1 9 (4.592%) CCEE
2 8 (4.082%) Degree
2 8 (4.082%) Linux+ Certification
2 8 (4.082%) MCSE
2 8 (4.082%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (2.041%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.041%) IBM AIX Certification
4 2 (1.020%) Sun Certification
4 2 (1.020%) PMP
4 2 (1.020%) PMI Certification
4 2 (1.020%) IBM Certification
5 1 (0.510%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (0.510%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.510%) VCP4
5 1 (0.510%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.551%) SLA
2 1 (0.510%) QA
System Software
1 53 (27.04%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 42 (21.43%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 31 (15.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (8.673%) Oracle RAC
5 16 (8.163%) NFS
6 11 (5.612%) Active Directory
7 6 (3.061%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (2.551%) IAG
8 5 (2.551%) UAG
8 5 (2.551%) VMware Server
9 2 (1.020%) Sendmail
9 2 (1.020%) XenApp
9 2 (1.020%) vSphere
9 2 (1.020%) Samba
10 1 (0.510%) Squid
10 1 (0.510%) Novell eDirectory
10 1 (0.510%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 1 (0.510%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.510%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (5.102%) Puppet
2 6 (3.061%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 5 (2.551%) SCCM
4 3 (1.531%) Tivoli
4 3 (1.531%) Nagios
5 2 (1.020%) Red Hat Spacewalk
5 2 (1.020%) Cobbler
6 1 (0.510%) WMI
6 1 (0.510%) Novell Identity Manager
6 1 (0.510%) HP SIM
6 1 (0.510%) SCOM
Vendors
1 117 (59.69%) Red Hat
2 71 (36.22%) VMware
3 70 (35.71%) Oracle
4 59 (30.10%) Veritas
5 44 (22.45%) EMC
6 38 (19.39%) Sun
7 36 (18.37%) IBM
8 35 (17.86%) Microsoft
9 32 (16.33%) HP
10 26 (13.27%) Sybase
11 12 (6.122%) ATG
11 12 (6.122%) Citrix
12 10 (5.102%) Software AG
12 10 (5.102%) webMethods
13 7 (3.571%) JBoss
14 6 (3.061%) AppSense
15 5 (2.551%) Serena
16 4 (2.041%) Cisco
17 3 (1.531%) NetApp
17 3 (1.531%) Akamai
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