The first table below looks at the demand for SUSE skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SUSE over the 3 months to 26 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 West Midlands 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
26 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Novell SUSE Linux
Rank 93 101 100
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -1
Contract jobs citing SUSE 2 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.122% 0.089% 0.106%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.621% 0.480% 0.625%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
Average daily rate £330 £215 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+53.48% -38.57%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £340 £340
% change year-on-year
+17.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-31.25% -5.88%
All Operating Systems
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
322 417 320
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 19.72% 18.60% 16.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 175 128
Average daily rate £300 £300 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £120 £165 £153
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 65 59
Average hourly rate £18.00 £14.50 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+24.13% +7.40%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £27.60 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
SUSE
England

SUSE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 26 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Birmingham +12 1 - -
SUSE
England

SUSE
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 26 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 4 (80.00%) UNIX
2 4 (80.00%) EMC
2 4 (80.00%) Veritas
2 4 (80.00%) VMware
3 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
3 3 (60.00%) SAN
3 3 (60.00%) AIX
3 3 (60.00%) Solaris
3 3 (60.00%) Oracle
3 3 (60.00%) Sybase
3 3 (60.00%) SLA
3 3 (60.00%) Sun
3 3 (60.00%) RDF
3 3 (60.00%) Investment Banking
3 3 (60.00%) Korn
3 3 (60.00%) Corporate Banking
3 3 (60.00%) Fund Management
3 3 (60.00%) Wealth Management
3 3 (60.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 3 (60.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 3 (60.00%) Symmetrix DMX
3 3 (60.00%) Business Transformation
3 3 (60.00%) Banking
4 1 (20.00%) Finance

SUSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 26 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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.

Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) SAN
General
1 3 (60.00%) Banking
1 3 (60.00%) Investment Banking
1 3 (60.00%) Corporate Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) UNIX Systems Administrator
2 2 (40.00%) Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) UNIX Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Linux Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (80.00%) UNIX
3 3 (60.00%) AIX
3 3 (60.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) RDF
1 3 (60.00%) Fund Management
1 3 (60.00%) Wealth Management
1 3 (60.00%) Business Transformation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
1 3 (60.00%) Korn
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 3 (60.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) EMC
1 4 (80.00%) Veritas
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 3 (60.00%) Sybase
2 3 (60.00%) Sun