The first table below looks at the demand for SUSE skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SUSE over the 3 months to 24 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 Bristol region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Novell SUSE Linux
Rank - 112 98
Permanent jobs citing SUSE 0 1 18
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol - 0.058% 0.974%
As % of the Operating Systems category - 0.242% 3.888%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 17
Average salary - £31,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -37.00%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £41,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-9.63% +18.57%
All Operating Systems
Bristol
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
428 414 463
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 24.83% 23.93% 25.05%
Number of salaries quoted 389 369 408
Average salary £36,000 £35,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.85% -2.77%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £23,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £51,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
SUSE
South West

SUSE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol SUSE Jobs Demand Trend

SUSE
Salary Trend

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

Bristol SUSE Salary Trend

SUSE
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol 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.

1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) Apache
2 4 (80.00%) Tomcat
2 4 (80.00%) Ubuntu
3 3 (60.00%) VLAN
3 3 (60.00%) Cisco
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (20.00%) SCCM
4 1 (20.00%) SCOM
4 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (20.00%) CentOS
4 1 (20.00%) UNIX
4 1 (20.00%) Finance

SUSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol 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.

Application Platforms
1 4 (80.00%) Apache
1 4 (80.00%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
2 3 (60.00%) VLAN
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Junior Systems Administrator
1 4 (80.00%) Junior
1 4 (80.00%) Systems Administrator
1 4 (80.00%) Administrator
1 4 (80.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 4 (80.00%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (20.00%) CentOS
3 1 (20.00%) UNIX
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
1 1 (20.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft