The first table below looks at the demand for SUSE skills in IT jobs advertised for the East of England 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 East of England region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Novell SUSE Linux
Rank 246 264 250
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -14
Permanent jobs citing SUSE 19 10 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 0.229% 0.113% 0.160%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.746% 0.377% 0.569%
Number of salaries quoted 12 3 15
Average salary £51,500 £52,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.90% +61.53%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £41,250 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-9.09% +17.85%
All Operating Systems
East of England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
2548 2654 2638
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 30.72% 29.94% 28.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2189 2177 2214
Average salary £37,500 £38,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.31% +1.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
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 of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

East of England 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 of England region.

East of England SUSE Salary Trend

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 of England region over the 3 months to 22 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
Hertfordshire +13 17 £51,500 -1.90%
Cambridgeshire - 5 £40,000 -
SUSE
England

SUSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England 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 43 (100.00%) Linux
2 41 (95.35%) Red Hat
3 29 (67.44%) UNIX
3 29 (67.44%) AIX
3 29 (67.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 27 (62.79%) Windows
5 21 (48.84%) Sun
6 19 (44.19%) IBM
6 19 (44.19%) Tomcat
6 19 (44.19%) WebSphere Application Server
6 19 (44.19%) Oracle
6 19 (44.19%) HP
6 19 (44.19%) WebSphere
7 17 (39.53%) Finance
8 16 (37.21%) IBM HTTP Server
8 16 (37.21%) Dell
8 16 (37.21%) Project Management
8 16 (37.21%) DB2
8 16 (37.21%) IIS
8 16 (37.21%) ITIL
8 16 (37.21%) MQSeries
8 16 (37.21%) E-Commerce
8 16 (37.21%) HTTP
8 16 (37.21%) Web Development
8 16 (37.21%) Retail
9 15 (34.88%) Perl
10 14 (32.56%) VMware
10 14 (32.56%) Bash shell
11 11 (25.58%) Service Delivery
11 11 (25.58%) OLE

SUSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England 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 19 (44.19%) WebSphere
2 11 (25.58%) OLE
3 3 (6.977%) Middleware
4 2 (4.651%) .NET
5 1 (2.326%) OpenMP
Application Platforms
1 19 (44.19%) Tomcat
1 19 (44.19%) WebSphere Application Server
2 16 (37.21%) IBM HTTP Server
2 16 (37.21%) IIS
2 16 (37.21%) MQSeries
3 5 (11.63%) Apache
Business Applications
1 5 (11.63%) Temenos Globus
Communications & Networking
1 16 (37.21%) HTTP
2 6 (13.95%) TCP/IP
2 6 (13.95%) Network Security
3 3 (6.977%) SAN
3 3 (6.977%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (37.21%) DB2
2 2 (4.651%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (4.651%) Eclipse
1 2 (4.651%) Ant
1 2 (4.651%) JUnit
1 2 (4.651%) Xcode
1 2 (4.651%) CruiseControl
1 2 (4.651%) Subversion
General
1 17 (39.53%) Finance
2 16 (37.21%) Retail
3 9 (20.93%) Games
4 7 (16.28%) Manufacturing
5 4 (9.302%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 14 (32.56%) Systems Administrator
1 14 (32.56%) Administrator
1 14 (32.56%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 14 (32.56%) Linux Administrator
2 9 (20.93%) Services Delivery Manager
2 9 (20.93%) Technical Delivery Manager
2 9 (20.93%) Technical Services Manager
2 9 (20.93%) Service Manager
2 9 (20.93%) Technical Manager
2 9 (20.93%) Delivery Manager
3 7 (16.28%) Project Manager
4 2 (4.651%) Technical Consultant
4 2 (4.651%) Architect
4 2 (4.651%) Analyst
4 2 (4.651%) Senior Consultant
4 2 (4.651%) Consultant
4 2 (4.651%) Storage Systems Administrator
4 2 (4.651%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (4.651%) Senior Systems Administrator
4 2 (4.651%) UNIX Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.95%) Statistics
2 5 (11.63%) Management Information System
2 5 (11.63%) Grid Computing
3 3 (6.977%) HACMP
Operating Systems
1 43 (100.00%) Linux
2 29 (67.44%) UNIX
2 29 (67.44%) AIX
2 29 (67.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 27 (62.79%) Windows
4 11 (25.58%) Debian
5 3 (6.977%) CentOS
5 3 (6.977%) OpenBSD
5 3 (6.977%) Solaris
5 3 (6.977%) FreeBSD
5 3 (6.977%) OS/400
6 2 (4.651%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (37.21%) Project Management
1 16 (37.21%) ITIL
1 16 (37.21%) E-Commerce
1 16 (37.21%) Web Development
2 11 (25.58%) Service Delivery
3 8 (18.60%) Parallel Computing
4 5 (11.63%) Performance Management
4 5 (11.63%) Capacity Planning
4 5 (11.63%) Performance Testing
5 4 (9.302%) Benchmarking
6 3 (6.977%) High Availability
7 2 (4.651%) CRM
7 2 (4.651%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (4.651%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (4.651%) Waterfall
7 2 (4.651%) Business Continuity
8 1 (2.326%) Parallel Programming
Programming Languages
1 15 (34.88%) Perl
2 14 (32.56%) Bash shell
3 3 (6.977%) Ruby
3 3 (6.977%) Python
4 2 (4.651%) PHP
4 2 (4.651%) SQL
5 1 (2.326%) C-shell
5 1 (2.326%) AWK
5 1 (2.326%) C
5 1 (2.326%) C++
5 1 (2.326%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 6 (13.95%) RHCE
2 4 (9.302%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (6.977%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (6.977%) Oracle RMAN
1 3 (6.977%) PowerHA
1 3 (6.977%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 3 (6.977%) Backup Exec
1 3 (6.977%) Tivoli
1 3 (6.977%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 2 (4.651%) OpenView
2 2 (4.651%) Nagios
Vendors
1 41 (95.35%) Red Hat
2 21 (48.84%) Sun
3 19 (44.19%) IBM
3 19 (44.19%) Oracle
3 19 (44.19%) HP
4 16 (37.21%) Dell
5 14 (32.56%) VMware
6 7 (16.28%) Intel
7 3 (6.977%) Brocade
7 3 (6.977%) JBoss