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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Novell SUSE Linux
Rank 70 - 46
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing SUSE 1 0 23
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North East 0.145% - 3.142%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.546% - 11.50%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 23
Average salary - - £32,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £41,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-9.63% +18.57%
All Operating Systems
North East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
183 267 200
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North East 26.52% 31.01% 27.32%
Number of salaries quoted 163 228 168
Average salary £33,000 £28,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.85% -13.84%
90% offered a salary of more than £19,600 £22,500 £23,450
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £42,500 £40,000
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 North East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

North East 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 North East region.

North East 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 North East region over the 3 months to 24 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
Tyne and Wear - 1 - -
SUSE
England

SUSE
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North East 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 4 (100.00%) MySQL
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Clustering
2 3 (75.00%) SSH
2 3 (75.00%) SLA
2 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (75.00%) Xen
2 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (75.00%) CentOS
2 3 (75.00%) Bash shell
3 2 (50.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (50.00%) Release Management
4 1 (25.00%) Tivoli
4 1 (25.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (25.00%) IBM
4 1 (25.00%) Apache
4 1 (25.00%) UNIX
4 1 (25.00%) Solaris
4 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux

SUSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North East 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 1 (25.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) MySQL
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Support Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Support
1 2 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (25.00%) Solaris Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Clustering
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) CentOS
3 1 (25.00%) UNIX
3 1 (25.00%) Solaris
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
2 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (50.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (50.00%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Bash shell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Xen
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) IBM