The first table below looks at the demand for SUSE skills in IT jobs advertised for the Northamptonshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SUSE over the 3 months to 21 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 Northamptonshire region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Novell SUSE Linux
Rank 67 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing SUSE 3 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 0.455% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.829% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Average salary £40,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +14.28%
All Operating Systems
Northamptonshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
164 194 155
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 24.85% 25.23% 19.38%
Number of salaries quoted 145 178 148
Average salary £32,500 £37,500 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.33% +36.36%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,100 £23,150 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £44,000 £43,200 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
SUSE
East Midlands

SUSE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region.

Northamptonshire SUSE Salary Trend

SUSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
1 3 (100.00%) Solaris
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) JBoss
1 3 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 3 (100.00%) HP
1 3 (100.00%) SAN
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (100.00%) Tivoli
1 3 (100.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 3 (100.00%) HACMP
1 3 (100.00%) OS/400
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (100.00%) IBM
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
1 3 (100.00%) VMware ESX
1 3 (100.00%) Backup Exec
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle RMAN
1 3 (100.00%) Brocade
1 3 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
1 3 (100.00%) PowerHA
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Business Continuity
2 2 (66.67%) OpenView
2 2 (66.67%) Nagios

SUSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 (100.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 3 (100.00%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) SAN
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Technical Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) HACMP
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
1 3 (100.00%) Solaris
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) OS/400
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (66.67%) AIX
2 2 (66.67%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Business Continuity
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) CRM
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware ESX
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle RMAN
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (100.00%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Tivoli
1 3 (100.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 3 (100.00%) Backup Exec
2 2 (66.67%) OpenView
2 2 (66.67%) Nagios
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) JBoss
1 3 (100.00%) HP
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (100.00%) IBM
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
1 3 (100.00%) Brocade