The first table below looks at the demand for SUSE skills in IT jobs advertised for the East Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SUSE over the 3 months to 17 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 East Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Novell SUSE Linux
Rank 157 165 170
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +5
Permanent jobs citing SUSE 7 1 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.229% 0.029% 0.055%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.868% 0.126% 0.278%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 2
Average salary £28,500 - £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +14.28%
All Operating Systems
East Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
806 791 719
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East Midlands 26.35% 23.20% 19.85%
Number of salaries quoted 677 710 636
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £31,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +12.90%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £21,500 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £48,000 £45,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
SUSE
England

SUSE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands SUSE Salary Trend

SUSE
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SUSE across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

East Midlands SUSE Salary Histogram

SUSE
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SUSE within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Nottinghamshire +3 4 £28,500 -
Northamptonshire - 3 £40,000 -
Lincolnshire - 1 £28,500 -
SUSE
England

SUSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the East 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 IT job ads sampled that cited SUSE.

1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (80.00%) VMware
2 8 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (70.00%) HP
4 6 (60.00%) SAN
4 6 (60.00%) TCP/IP
4 6 (60.00%) Red Hat
5 5 (50.00%) VMware ESX
5 5 (50.00%) Solaris
5 5 (50.00%) Oracle
6 4 (40.00%) UNIX
6 4 (40.00%) Windows
6 4 (40.00%) IBM
6 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (30.00%) VCP4
7 3 (30.00%) High Availability
7 3 (30.00%) PowerHA
7 3 (30.00%) Brocade
7 3 (30.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (30.00%) WebSphere
7 3 (30.00%) Backup Exec
7 3 (30.00%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (30.00%) Tivoli
7 3 (30.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 3 (30.00%) HACMP
7 3 (30.00%) Novell
7 3 (30.00%) Dell
7 3 (30.00%) Active Directory

SUSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the East 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 IT job ads sampled that cited SUSE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (30.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) Tomcat
1 3 (30.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (10.00%) IIS
2 1 (10.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (10.00%) OpenROAD
2 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) TCP/IP
1 6 (60.00%) SAN
2 2 (20.00%) VLAN
2 2 (20.00%) iSCSI
2 2 (20.00%) FTP
2 2 (20.00%) VPN
3 1 (10.00%) LAN
3 1 (10.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 2 (20.00%) Ingres
1 2 (20.00%) RDBMS
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Senior Consultant
1 2 (20.00%) Consultant
1 2 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
1 2 (20.00%) Technical Consultant
1 2 (20.00%) Administrator
1 2 (20.00%) Senior Technical Consultant
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Server Administrator
2 1 (10.00%) Network Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) HACMP
2 1 (10.00%) Clustering
2 1 (10.00%) Open Source
2 1 (10.00%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (50.00%) Solaris
3 4 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (40.00%) UNIX
3 4 (40.00%) Windows
3 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (30.00%) OS/400
5 2 (20.00%) CentOS
5 2 (20.00%) Debian
5 2 (20.00%) AIX
5 2 (20.00%) HPUX
6 1 (10.00%) Fedora
6 1 (10.00%) Ubuntu
6 1 (10.00%) Mandriva Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) High Availability
2 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (20.00%) CRM
2 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (20.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (10.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (10.00%) Migration
3 1 (10.00%) Software Deployment
3 1 (10.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 3 (30.00%) VCP4
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (50.00%) VMware ESX
3 3 (30.00%) Oracle RMAN
3 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (30.00%) PowerHA
4 2 (20.00%) vSphere
5 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Tivoli
1 3 (30.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 3 (30.00%) Backup Exec
2 2 (20.00%) OpenView
2 2 (20.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) VMware
2 7 (70.00%) HP
3 6 (60.00%) Red Hat
4 5 (50.00%) Oracle
5 4 (40.00%) IBM
6 3 (30.00%) JBoss
6 3 (30.00%) Dell
6 3 (30.00%) Novell
6 3 (30.00%) Brocade
7 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
7 2 (20.00%) Sun
8 1 (10.00%) ProCurve
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