The first table below looks at the demand for SUSE skills in IT jobs advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SUSE over the 3 months to 17 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 South East region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Novell SUSE Linux
Rank 344 432 391
Rank change year-on-year
+88 -41
Permanent jobs citing SUSE 92 11 30
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.418% 0.046% 0.132%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.442% 0.162% 0.487%
Number of salaries quoted 72 10 18
Average salary £40,000 £45,000 £37,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.11% +20.80%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £32,500 £27,800
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £55,250 £45,400
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +14.28%
All Operating Systems
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
6381 6790 6155
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 28.98% 28.58% 27.07%
Number of salaries quoted 5458 5904 5311
Average salary £38,500 £39,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.28% +4.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
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 South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

South 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 South East region.

South East SUSE Salary Trend

SUSE
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SUSE across the South East region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

South East SUSE Salary Histogram

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 South East region over the 3 months to 17 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
Berkshire +62 60 £37,500 -9.09%
Surrey +28 15 £40,500 -26.36%
Hampshire - 15 £67,500 -
Middlesex - 3 £72,500 -
Buckinghamshire - 3 £40,000 -
West Sussex - 1 - -
SUSE
England

SUSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South 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.

1 147 (94.84%) Linux
2 109 (70.32%) Red Hat
3 77 (49.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 72 (46.45%) UNIX
5 56 (36.13%) HPUX
6 55 (35.48%) Solaris
6 55 (35.48%) Windows
6 55 (35.48%) SAN
7 47 (30.32%) Sun
8 44 (28.39%) Oracle
9 43 (27.74%) Clustering
10 39 (25.16%) EMC
10 39 (25.16%) Shell Script
11 38 (24.52%) Cisco
11 38 (24.52%) TCP/IP
12 37 (23.87%) AIX
13 36 (23.23%) CentOS
14 34 (21.94%) Replication
14 34 (21.94%) Hitachi
14 34 (21.94%) Microsoft
15 32 (20.65%) HP
15 32 (20.65%) C
16 30 (19.35%) Veritas
17 28 (18.06%) Sybase
17 28 (18.06%) MySQL
17 28 (18.06%) Apache
18 27 (17.42%) DB2
18 27 (17.42%) Veritas Cluster Server
19 25 (16.13%) German Language
20 24 (15.48%) French Language

SUSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South 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 Development
1 16 (10.32%) LAMP
2 12 (7.742%) Web Services
3 10 (6.452%) XML
4 8 (5.161%) Middleware
5 6 (3.871%) HTML
5 6 (3.871%) .NET
6 5 (3.226%) J2EE
6 5 (3.226%) SOAP
7 4 (2.581%) J2ME
7 4 (2.581%) XSLT
7 4 (2.581%) HTML5
8 3 (1.935%) WebSphere
9 2 (1.290%) Ruby on Rails
9 2 (1.290%) WDK
9 2 (1.290%) DOM
9 2 (1.290%) soapUI
9 2 (1.290%) MapReduce
9 2 (1.290%) Application Packaging
9 2 (1.290%) WCF
9 2 (1.290%) CakePHP
Application Platforms
1 28 (18.06%) Apache
2 14 (9.032%) MS Exchange
3 11 (7.097%) Exchange Server 2007
3 11 (7.097%) Exchange Server 2010
4 10 (6.452%) IIS
4 10 (6.452%) SharePoint
5 9 (5.806%) nginx
6 8 (5.161%) Tomcat
7 4 (2.581%) Lync
8 3 (1.935%) WebSphere Application Server
8 3 (1.935%) WebLogic
9 2 (1.290%) Documentum
9 2 (1.290%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (1.290%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 11 (7.097%) MS Excel
2 8 (5.161%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.645%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 8 (5.161%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (2.581%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 55 (35.48%) SAN
2 38 (24.52%) TCP/IP
3 22 (14.19%) WAN
4 20 (12.90%) LAN
5 12 (7.742%) LDAP
5 12 (7.742%) ATM
6 11 (7.097%) DNS
7 7 (4.516%) SSH
8 6 (3.871%) Internet
9 5 (3.226%) VPN
9 5 (3.226%) NAS
10 4 (2.581%) IP Telephony
11 3 (1.935%) VoIP
11 3 (1.935%) HTTP
12 2 (1.290%) Firewall
12 2 (1.290%) HTTPS
12 2 (1.290%) SSL
12 2 (1.290%) DHCP
12 2 (1.290%) Cisco IPT
13 1 (0.645%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (18.06%) MySQL
2 27 (17.42%) DB2
3 13 (8.387%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.581%) Oracle 11g
4 4 (2.581%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.581%) GIS
5 2 (1.290%) dBASE
5 2 (1.290%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (1.290%) Ant
1 2 (1.290%) ClearCase
1 2 (1.290%) JMeter
1 2 (1.290%) WATIR
1 2 (1.290%) Selenium
1 2 (1.290%) FitNesse
1 2 (1.290%) Firebug
1 2 (1.290%) Fiddler
1 2 (1.290%) Git (software)
1 2 (1.290%) WebDriver
1 2 (1.290%) SpecFlow
1 2 (1.290%) GitHub
General
1 25 (16.13%) German Language
2 24 (15.48%) French Language
3 11 (7.097%) Finance
4 8 (5.161%) Banking
4 8 (5.161%) Retail
5 6 (3.871%) Italian Language
6 5 (3.226%) Spanish Language
7 4 (2.581%) Back Office
8 2 (1.290%) Advertising
9 1 (0.645%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.645%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.645%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 53 (34.19%) Administrator
2 50 (32.26%) Systems Administrator
3 42 (27.10%) Linux Administrator
4 40 (25.81%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 31 (20.00%) Support Engineer
6 30 (19.35%) Technical Support
7 17 (10.97%) UNIX Support
7 17 (10.97%) Linux Engineer
8 14 (9.032%) Technical Support Engineer
8 14 (9.032%) Technical Engineer
9 13 (8.387%) UNIX Engineer
10 12 (7.742%) Linux Support
11 11 (7.097%) UNIX Support Engineer
11 11 (7.097%) Support Specialist
12 10 (6.452%) Technical Specialist
12 10 (6.452%) Consultant
12 10 (6.452%) Linux Support Engineer
13 8 (5.161%) Linux Consultant
13 8 (5.161%) HPUX Systems Administrator
13 8 (5.161%) Technical Support Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 43 (27.74%) Clustering
2 34 (21.94%) Replication
3 8 (5.161%) CMDB
4 6 (3.871%) Fat Client
4 6 (3.871%) Thin Client
4 6 (3.871%) IVR
5 5 (3.226%) PKI
6 4 (2.581%) Blackberry
7 3 (1.935%) HACMP
7 3 (1.935%) Digital Media
8 2 (1.290%) Smartcard
9 1 (0.645%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.645%) SWIFT
Operating Systems
1 147 (94.84%) Linux
2 77 (49.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 72 (46.45%) UNIX
4 56 (36.13%) HPUX
5 55 (35.48%) Solaris
5 55 (35.48%) Windows
6 37 (23.87%) AIX
7 36 (23.23%) CentOS
8 22 (14.19%) Debian
9 19 (12.26%) Ubuntu
10 4 (2.581%) Windows Server 2003
10 4 (2.581%) Windows XP
11 3 (1.935%) OS/400
11 3 (1.935%) Windows Vista
12 2 (1.290%) Mac OS X Server
12 2 (1.290%) Fedora
12 2 (1.290%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.645%) FreeBSD
13 1 (0.645%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (10.97%) Performance Management
2 16 (10.32%) ITIL
3 15 (9.677%) E-Commerce
3 15 (9.677%) Data Protection
3 15 (9.677%) Agile Software Development
4 13 (8.387%) Change Management
5 11 (7.097%) Service Management
6 10 (6.452%) OOD
6 10 (6.452%) Scrum
6 10 (6.452%) Problem Management
6 10 (6.452%) Penetration Testing
7 9 (5.806%) OO
7 9 (5.806%) Disaster Recovery
8 8 (5.161%) ITSM
8 8 (5.161%) Change Control
9 6 (3.871%) Migration
9 6 (3.871%) SOA
10 4 (2.581%) Configuration Management
10 4 (2.581%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (2.581%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 39 (25.16%) Shell Script
2 32 (20.65%) C
3 24 (15.48%) PHP
4 10 (6.452%) Java
4 10 (6.452%) Perl
5 9 (5.806%) C++
6 8 (5.161%) SQL
7 6 (3.871%) C#
8 5 (3.226%) Python
9 4 (2.581%) Delphi
10 3 (1.935%) Ruby
11 2 (1.290%) XAML
11 2 (1.290%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.290%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.645%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.645%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 11 (7.097%) Degree
2 8 (5.161%) ISEB
3 3 (1.935%) Postgraduate
3 3 (1.935%) CITP
4 2 (1.290%) BC Cleared
4 2 (1.290%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.645%) CCNP
5 1 (0.645%) CCIP
5 1 (0.645%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.645%) ISO 9001
1 1 (0.645%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 27 (17.42%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 20 (12.90%) Active Directory
2 20 (12.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (7.097%) Oracle RAC
4 8 (5.161%) vSphere
5 4 (2.581%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.935%) VMware Server
6 3 (1.935%) VMware ESX
6 3 (1.935%) Oracle RMAN
6 3 (1.935%) PowerHA
7 2 (1.290%) Samba
Systems Management
1 12 (7.742%) Nagios
2 9 (5.806%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 7 (4.516%) SCCM
3 7 (4.516%) SCOM
4 3 (1.935%) SCVMM
4 3 (1.935%) NetBackup
4 3 (1.935%) Backup Exec
4 3 (1.935%) Tivoli
4 3 (1.935%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 3 (1.935%) Splunk
5 2 (1.290%) OpenView
5 2 (1.290%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.645%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.645%) Puppet
Vendors
1 109 (70.32%) Red Hat
2 47 (30.32%) Sun
3 44 (28.39%) Oracle
4 39 (25.16%) EMC
5 38 (24.52%) Cisco
6 34 (21.94%) Microsoft
6 34 (21.94%) Hitachi
7 32 (20.65%) HP
8 30 (19.35%) Veritas
9 28 (18.06%) Sybase
10 24 (15.48%) VMware
11 12 (7.742%) Novell
12 11 (7.097%) IBM
13 8 (5.161%) Citrix
13 8 (5.161%) Remedy
14 5 (3.226%) JBoss
15 4 (2.581%) Business Objects
16 3 (1.935%) Dell
16 3 (1.935%) Brocade
17 2 (1.290%) Apple
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