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The table below looks at the demand for Novell SUSE Linux skills within the Birmingham region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SUSE over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkNovell SUSE Linux
Location
3 months to
10 Oct 2008
Same period last year
Rank104132
Rank change on same period last yearUp+28
Matching permanent IT job ads182
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.010 %0.001 %
As % of the category below3.854 %0.358 %
Salaries quoted182
Average minimum salary£34,889£38,000
Average salary£35,972£41,000
% change on same period last year-12.26 %
Average maximum salary£37,056£44,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,240£38,176
% change on same period last year-2.45 %
Birmingham IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
Birmingham
Matching permanent IT job ads467559
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.270 %0.241 %
Salaries quoted444439
Average minimum salary£31,540£28,982
Average salary£33,991£31,083
% change on same period last year+9.35 %
Average maximum salary£36,441£33,184
UK excluding London average salary£34,285£34,402
% change on same period last year-0.34 %
SUSE West MidlandsSUSE
West Midlands

SUSE
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing SUSE across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Birmingham SUSE Demand Trend

SUSE
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SUSE across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham SUSE Salary Trend

SUSE
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SUSE across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

Birmingham SUSE Salary Histogram

SUSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 IT job ads sampled that cited SUSE.

117 (94.44 %)UNIX
117 (94.44 %)Solaris
117 (94.44 %)Linux
210 (55.56 %)VERITAS
37 (38.89 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
37 (38.89 %)Auditing
45 (27.78 %)Clustering
45 (27.78 %)Red Hat
45 (27.78 %)SAN
45 (27.78 %)Legato
45 (27.78 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
45 (27.78 %)Shell Script
45 (27.78 %)TCP/IP
45 (27.78 %)IBM
45 (27.78 %)Sun
45 (27.78 %)AIX
45 (27.78 %)HPUX
45 (27.78 %)Perl
45 (27.78 %)Problem Management
54 (22.22 %)Red Hat Linux
54 (22.22 %)Project Management
54 (22.22 %)Service Delivery
63 (16.67 %)NetBackup
63 (16.67 %)BMC PATROL
63 (16.67 %)BMC
63 (16.67 %)HP
71 (5.556 %)QA
71 (5.556 %)Windows
71 (5.556 %)Firmware
71 (5.556 %)Firewall

SUSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 IT job ads sampled that cited SUSE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Birmingham IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
15 (27.78 %)TCP/IP
15 (27.78 %)SAN
21 (5.556 %)Firewall
Birmingham IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
17 (38.89 %)Auditing
21 (5.556 %)Finance
Birmingham IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
17 (38.89 %)Auditor
26 (33.33 %)Analyst
34 (22.22 %)Network Engineer
42 (11.11 %)Technical Support
51 (5.556 %)Technical Support Analyst
51 (5.556 %)Technical Analyst
51 (5.556 %)Server Support Analyst
51 (5.556 %)Server Analyst
51 (5.556 %)UNIX Support
51 (5.556 %)Linux Support
51 (5.556 %)Server Support
51 (5.556 %)Support Analyst
Birmingham IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
15 (27.78 %)Clustering
21 (5.556 %)Firmware
Birmingham IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
117 (94.44 %)UNIX
117 (94.44 %)Solaris
117 (94.44 %)Linux
25 (27.78 %)AIX
25 (27.78 %)HPUX
34 (22.22 %)Red Hat Linux
41 (5.556 %)Slackware
41 (5.556 %)Windows
Birmingham IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
15 (27.78 %)Problem Management
24 (22.22 %)Project Management
24 (22.22 %)Service Delivery
Birmingham IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
15 (27.78 %)Perl
15 (27.78 %)Shell Script
Birmingham IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
17 (38.89 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
21 (5.556 %)QA
Birmingham IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
13 (16.67 %)NetBackup
Birmingham IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
15 (27.78 %)Legato
15 (27.78 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
23 (16.67 %)BMC PATROL
Birmingham IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
110 (55.56 %)VERITAS
25 (27.78 %)Red Hat
25 (27.78 %)IBM
25 (27.78 %)Sun
33 (16.67 %)HP
33 (16.67 %)BMC