The first table below looks at the demand for SUSE skills in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SUSE over the 3 months to 22 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 City of London region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Novell SUSE Linux
Rank 295 324 314
Rank change year-on-year
+29 -10
Permanent jobs citing SUSE 18 9 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.153% 0.068% 0.086%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.593% 0.269% 0.353%
Number of salaries quoted 18 9 13
Average salary £37,500 £67,500 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-44.44% +28.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £41,000 £41,700
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £41,250 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-9.09% +17.85%
All Operating Systems
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
3034 3341 3681
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 25.84% 25.18% 24.26%
Number of salaries quoted 2700 3104 3269
Average salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% -5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £29,000 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £80,000 £72,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
SUSE
London

SUSE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London SUSE Salary Trend

SUSE
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SUSE across the City of London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

City of London SUSE Salary Histogram

SUSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 32 (96.97%) Linux
2 31 (93.94%) Red Hat
3 17 (51.52%) Finance
4 16 (48.48%) UNIX
4 16 (48.48%) Solaris
5 11 (33.33%) Shell Script
6 10 (30.30%) VMware
6 10 (30.30%) Oracle
6 10 (30.30%) Degree
7 9 (27.27%) WebSphere
7 9 (27.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (27.27%) Windows
7 9 (27.27%) SAN
7 9 (27.27%) Banking
7 9 (27.27%) Middleware
8 8 (24.24%) Sun
8 8 (24.24%) EMC
8 8 (24.24%) Apache
8 8 (24.24%) J2EE
8 8 (24.24%) Perl
8 8 (24.24%) VMware Infrastructure
8 8 (24.24%) Bash shell
9 7 (21.21%) Computer Science
9 7 (21.21%) Web Services
9 7 (21.21%) RHCE
10 6 (18.18%) Clustering
10 6 (18.18%) Active Directory
10 6 (18.18%) TCP/IP
10 6 (18.18%) Korn
10 6 (18.18%) Mathematics

SUSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 Development
1 9 (27.27%) WebSphere
1 9 (27.27%) Middleware
2 8 (24.24%) J2EE
3 7 (21.21%) Web Services
4 3 (9.091%) XML
4 3 (9.091%) XSLT
5 2 (6.061%) WDK
6 1 (3.030%) Symfony
6 1 (3.030%) CodeIgniter
6 1 (3.030%) jQuery
6 1 (3.030%) Ajax
6 1 (3.030%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (3.030%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (3.030%) REST
6 1 (3.030%) CSS3
6 1 (3.030%) ASP.NET MVC 3
6 1 (3.030%) .NET
6 1 (3.030%) HTML
6 1 (3.030%) ASP
6 1 (3.030%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 8 (24.24%) Apache
2 4 (12.12%) Tomcat
3 3 (9.091%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (9.091%) WebSphere Application Server
3 3 (9.091%) MQSeries
3 3 (9.091%) IBM HTTP Server
4 2 (6.061%) SharePoint
4 2 (6.061%) Documentum
4 2 (6.061%) WebLogic
4 2 (6.061%) Liferay
5 1 (3.030%) WordPress
5 1 (3.030%) Drupal
5 1 (3.030%) Joomla!
5 1 (3.030%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.030%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.030%) Amazon AWS
5 1 (3.030%) Facebook Platform
5 1 (3.030%) IIS
5 1 (3.030%) CMS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (27.27%) SAN
2 6 (18.18%) TCP/IP
3 5 (15.15%) HTTP
4 4 (12.12%) LDAP
4 4 (12.12%) NAS
5 3 (9.091%) DHCP
5 3 (9.091%) DNS
6 2 (6.061%) SMTP
6 2 (6.061%) SNMP
6 2 (6.061%) iSCSI
7 1 (3.030%) LAN
7 1 (3.030%) WAN
7 1 (3.030%) SSH
7 1 (3.030%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) MySQL
1 4 (12.12%) SQL Server
2 3 (9.091%) DB2
2 3 (9.091%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.030%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (3.030%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Git (software)
2 3 (9.091%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.061%) Hudson
4 1 (3.030%) PHPUnit
4 1 (3.030%) Maven
4 1 (3.030%) Subversion
General
1 17 (51.52%) Finance
2 9 (27.27%) Banking
3 1 (3.030%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (63.64%) Administrator
2 19 (57.58%) Systems Administrator
3 13 (39.39%) Linux Administrator
4 11 (33.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 7 (21.21%) Graduate
5 7 (21.21%) UNIX Administrator
6 6 (18.18%) UNIX Systems Administrator
6 6 (18.18%) Network Administrator
7 4 (12.12%) 2nd Line Support
8 2 (6.061%) Architect
8 2 (6.061%) Software Architect
8 2 (6.061%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (6.061%) Linux Engineer
8 2 (6.061%) Senior Linux Administrator
8 2 (6.061%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
8 2 (6.061%) Storage Systems Administrator
8 2 (6.061%) Senior Systems Administrator
9 1 (3.030%) Citrix Engineer
9 1 (3.030%) Junior Systems Administrator
9 1 (3.030%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Computer Science
2 6 (18.18%) Clustering
2 6 (18.18%) Mathematics
2 6 (18.18%) Physics
3 2 (6.061%) CLARiiON
3 2 (6.061%) Open Source
4 1 (3.030%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.030%) CMDB
4 1 (3.030%) Fat Client
4 1 (3.030%) SaaS
4 1 (3.030%) Social Media
4 1 (3.030%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 32 (96.97%) Linux
2 16 (48.48%) UNIX
2 16 (48.48%) Solaris
3 9 (27.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (27.27%) Windows
4 5 (15.15%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (15.15%) CentOS
4 5 (15.15%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (12.12%) Debian
5 4 (12.12%) Windows 7
5 4 (12.12%) Ubuntu
6 3 (9.091%) Windows 8
6 3 (9.091%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (6.061%) AIX
8 1 (3.030%) Gentoo
8 1 (3.030%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (6.061%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (6.061%) Content Management
1 2 (6.061%) E-Commerce
1 2 (6.061%) Software Architecture
2 1 (3.030%) Risk Analysis
2 1 (3.030%) OO
2 1 (3.030%) ITIL
2 1 (3.030%) PRINCE2
2 1 (3.030%) CRM
2 1 (3.030%) Asset Management
2 1 (3.030%) Service Management
2 1 (3.030%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 11 (33.33%) Shell Script
2 8 (24.24%) Perl
2 8 (24.24%) Bash shell
3 6 (18.18%) Korn
4 4 (12.12%) Python
4 4 (12.12%) Java
5 3 (9.091%) AWK
6 2 (6.061%) PHP
6 2 (6.061%) SQL
6 2 (6.061%) sed
6 2 (6.061%) Bourne shell
6 2 (6.061%) C-shell
6 2 (6.061%) Ruby
7 1 (3.030%) PHP5
7 1 (3.030%) PHP4
7 1 (3.030%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.030%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (30.30%) Degree
2 7 (21.21%) RHCE
3 5 (15.15%) RHCT
4 3 (9.091%) LPIC
5 1 (3.030%) CCEE
5 1 (3.030%) MCSE
5 1 (3.030%) CCNP
5 1 (3.030%) CCNA
5 1 (3.030%) CCA
5 1 (3.030%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (3.030%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.030%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.030%) Linux+ Certification
System Software
1 8 (24.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (18.18%) Active Directory
3 5 (15.15%) VMware ESX
4 4 (12.12%) vSphere
4 4 (12.12%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 3 (9.091%) NFS
6 2 (6.061%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 2 (6.061%) Squid
6 2 (6.061%) Postfix
7 1 (3.030%) XenApp
7 1 (3.030%) XenDesktop
7 1 (3.030%) IAG
7 1 (3.030%) UAG
7 1 (3.030%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (3.030%) Samba
Systems Management
1 3 (9.091%) Puppet
1 3 (9.091%) Nagios
2 1 (3.030%) SCCM
2 1 (3.030%) Red Hat Spacewalk
2 1 (3.030%) OpenView
2 1 (3.030%) Unicenter
2 1 (3.030%) Tivoli
2 1 (3.030%) BMC PATROL
Vendors
1 31 (93.94%) Red Hat
2 10 (30.30%) VMware
2 10 (30.30%) Oracle
3 8 (24.24%) Sun
3 8 (24.24%) EMC
4 5 (15.15%) HP
4 5 (15.15%) Veritas
4 5 (15.15%) IBM
4 5 (15.15%) Patsystems
4 5 (15.15%) GL TRADE
4 5 (15.15%) Reuters
4 5 (15.15%) Bloomberg
4 5 (15.15%) NYFIX
4 5 (15.15%) EasyScreen
4 5 (15.15%) EccoWare
4 5 (15.15%) CQG
5 4 (12.12%) ION Trading
5 4 (12.12%) Fidessa
6 3 (9.091%) Microsoft
7 2 (6.061%) NetApp
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