North West SUSE Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Novell SUSE Linux skills within the North West region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SUSE over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Novell SUSE Linux
Location Aylesbury Barnsley Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cardiff Carlisle Cheshire City of London Cumbria Docklands, London East Midlands East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Hammersmith Hampshire Hull Leeds London Manchester Marlow North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Reading Scotland Sheffield Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Surrey UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Weybridge Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	264	271
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching permanent IT job ads	5	7
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.208 %	0.235 %
Salaries quoted	2	7
Average minimum salary	£35,000	£31,000
Average salary	£37,500	£32,929
% change on same period last year	+13.88 %
Average maximum salary	£40,000	£34,857
UK excluding London average salary	£38,260	£36,953
% change on same period last year	+3.53 %
Operating Systems North West
Matching permanent IT job ads	2403	2973
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.312 %	1.248 %
Salaries quoted	2045	2591
Average minimum salary	£28,490	£29,708
Average salary	£30,984	£32,125
% change on same period last year	-3.55 %
Average maximum salary	£33,478	£34,542
UK excluding London average salary	£34,018	£34,611
% change on same period last year	-1.71 %
SUSE England

SUSE
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing SUSE across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

SUSE
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SUSE across the North West region.

SUSE
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SUSE within the North West region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Manchester	+24	3	-	-
Cumbria	-	1	£25,000	-
Cheshire	-3	1	£50,000	+72.41 %

SUSE England

SUSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the North West 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 8 (100.00 %) Linux 2 7 (87.50 %) Red Hat 2 7 (87.50 %) Red Hat Linux 3 6 (75.00 %) Debian 4 5 (62.50 %) Solaris 5 4 (50.00 %) Java 5 4 (50.00 %) Tomcat 6 3 (37.50 %) J2EE 6 3 (37.50 %) Apache 6 3 (37.50 %) Business Continuity 6 3 (37.50 %) Disaster Recovery 6 3 (37.50 %) Content Management 6 3 (37.50 %) Wiki 6 3 (37.50 %) Statistics 7 2 (25.00 %) MySQL

7 2 (25.00 %) Perl 7 2 (25.00 %) Windows 8 1 (12.50 %) AIX 8 1 (12.50 %) C# 8 1 (12.50 %) HTML 8 1 (12.50 %) OS/400 8 1 (12.50 %) IBM 8 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft 8 1 (12.50 %) Sun 8 1 (12.50 %) VB 8 1 (12.50 %) .NET 8 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 8 1 (12.50 %) IIS 8 1 (12.50 %) Visual Studio 8 1 (12.50 %) CSS

SUSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the North West 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 (37.50 %) J2EE 2 1 (12.50 %) CSS 2 1 (12.50 %) JSP 2 1 (12.50 %) HTML 2 1 (12.50 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 4 (50.00 %) Tomcat 2 3 (37.50 %) Apache 3 1 (12.50 %) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (25.00 %) MySQL 2 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2000 2 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) Visual Studio
General 1 1 (12.50 %) Publishing	Job Titles 1 3 (37.50 %) Systems Administrator 1 3 (37.50 %) Administrator 2 2 (25.00 %) Technical Manager 2 2 (25.00 %) Linux Systems Administrator 2 2 (25.00 %) Linux Administrator 2 2 (25.00 %) Web Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) Coordinator 3 1 (12.50 %) Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) Web Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 3 (37.50 %) Statistics 1 3 (37.50 %) Wiki 2 1 (12.50 %) AS400	Operating Systems 1 8 (100.00 %) Linux 2 7 (87.50 %) Red Hat Linux 3 6 (75.00 %) Debian 4 5 (62.50 %) Solaris 5 2 (25.00 %) Windows 6 1 (12.50 %) AIX 6 1 (12.50 %) OS/400 6 1 (12.50 %) Gentoo 6 1 (12.50 %) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (37.50 %) Disaster Recovery 1 3 (37.50 %) Business Continuity 1 3 (37.50 %) Content Management 2 1 (12.50 %) Resource Management	Programming Languages 1 4 (50.00 %) Java 2 2 (25.00 %) Perl 3 1 (12.50 %) VB 3 1 (12.50 %) Shell Script 3 1 (12.50 %) C#
Vendors 1 7 (87.50 %) Red Hat 2 1 (12.50 %) IBM 2 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft 2 1 (12.50 %) Sun