The first table below looks at the demand for SUSE skills in IT jobs advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SUSE over the 3 months to 20 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 Hertfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Novell SUSE Linux
Rank 127 138 -
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -
Permanent jobs citing SUSE 17 10 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.700% 0.399% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.338% 1.269% -
Number of salaries quoted 12 3 0
Average salary £51,500 £52,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.90% -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +14.28%
All Operating Systems
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
727 788 947
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 29.94% 31.41% 29.19%
Number of salaries quoted 574 617 727
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £22,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,500 £56,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
SUSE
East of England

SUSE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Watford +17 14 £51,500 -1.90%
SUSE
East of England

SUSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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
1 43 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 29 (67.44%) AIX
2 29 (67.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 27 (62.79%) UNIX
3 27 (62.79%) Windows
4 21 (48.84%) Sun
5 19 (44.19%) IBM
5 19 (44.19%) WebSphere Application Server
5 19 (44.19%) Oracle
5 19 (44.19%) Tomcat
5 19 (44.19%) HP
5 19 (44.19%) WebSphere
6 17 (39.53%) Perl
6 17 (39.53%) Finance
7 16 (37.21%) IBM HTTP Server
7 16 (37.21%) Project Management
7 16 (37.21%) DB2
7 16 (37.21%) IIS
7 16 (37.21%) ITIL
7 16 (37.21%) Dell
7 16 (37.21%) MQSeries
7 16 (37.21%) E-Commerce
7 16 (37.21%) HTTP
7 16 (37.21%) Web Development
7 16 (37.21%) Retail
7 16 (37.21%) Bash shell
8 14 (32.56%) VMware
9 13 (30.23%) Debian
10 11 (25.58%) Service Delivery

SUSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 1 (2.326%) OpenMP
Application Platforms
1 19 (44.19%) WebSphere Application Server
1 19 (44.19%) Tomcat
2 16 (37.21%) MQSeries
2 16 (37.21%) IBM HTTP Server
2 16 (37.21%) IIS
3 5 (11.63%) Apache
Business Applications
1 5 (11.63%) Temenos Globus
Communications & Networking
1 16 (37.21%) HTTP
2 8 (18.60%) TCP/IP
3 6 (13.95%) Network Security
4 5 (11.63%) DNS
5 3 (6.977%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (37.21%) DB2
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 16 (37.21%) Administrator
1 16 (37.21%) Systems Administrator
1 16 (37.21%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 16 (37.21%) Linux Administrator
2 9 (20.93%) Services Delivery Manager
2 9 (20.93%) Service Manager
2 9 (20.93%) Technical Manager
2 9 (20.93%) Delivery Manager
2 9 (20.93%) Technical Delivery Manager
2 9 (20.93%) Technical Services Manager
3 7 (16.28%) Project Manager
4 4 (9.302%) Storage Systems Administrator
5 2 (4.651%) Junior Systems Administrator
5 2 (4.651%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 2 (4.651%) Junior
5 2 (4.651%) Analyst
5 2 (4.651%) Senior Consultant
5 2 (4.651%) Consultant
5 2 (4.651%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (4.651%) Senior Linux Administrator
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%) AIX
2 29 (67.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 27 (62.79%) UNIX
3 27 (62.79%) Windows
4 13 (30.23%) Debian
5 5 (11.63%) OpenBSD
5 5 (11.63%) CentOS
5 5 (11.63%) FreeBSD
6 3 (6.977%) OS/400
6 3 (6.977%) Solaris
7 2 (4.651%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (37.21%) ITIL
1 16 (37.21%) E-Commerce
1 16 (37.21%) Project Management
1 16 (37.21%) Web Development
2 11 (25.58%) Service Delivery
3 8 (18.60%) Parallel Computing
4 5 (11.63%) Performance Testing
4 5 (11.63%) Performance Management
4 5 (11.63%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (9.302%) Benchmarking
6 3 (6.977%) High Availability
7 2 (4.651%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (4.651%) CRM
7 2 (4.651%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (4.651%) Business Continuity
8 1 (2.326%) Parallel Programming
Programming Languages
1 17 (39.53%) Perl
2 16 (37.21%) Bash shell
3 5 (11.63%) Python
3 5 (11.63%) Ruby
4 1 (2.326%) C-shell
4 1 (2.326%) C
4 1 (2.326%) C++
4 1 (2.326%) Fortran
4 1 (2.326%) AWK
Qualifications
1 6 (13.95%) RHCE
2 4 (9.302%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (6.977%) VMware ESX
1 3 (6.977%) Oracle RMAN
1 3 (6.977%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (6.977%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 3 (6.977%) Tivoli
1 3 (6.977%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 3 (6.977%) Backup Exec
2 2 (4.651%) OpenView
2 2 (4.651%) Nagios
Vendors
1 43 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 21 (48.84%) Sun
3 19 (44.19%) HP
3 19 (44.19%) Oracle
3 19 (44.19%) IBM
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