The first table below looks at the demand for SUSE skills in IT jobs advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SUSE over the 3 months to 23 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 West region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Novell SUSE Linux
Rank - 213 193
Permanent jobs citing SUSE 0 1 25
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West - 0.018% 0.409%
As % of the Operating Systems category - 0.070% 1.550%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 21
Average salary - £31,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -37.00%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £41,250 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-9.09% +17.85%
All Operating Systems
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
1462 1430 1613
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 27.86% 25.75% 26.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1306 1219 1392
Average salary £36,750 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.00% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £23,500 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
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 West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

South West 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 West region.

South West SUSE Salary Trend

SUSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the South 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 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (60.00%) Windows
3 5 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 5 (50.00%) Firewall
3 5 (50.00%) Migration
4 4 (40.00%) Ubuntu
4 4 (40.00%) Apache
4 4 (40.00%) Tomcat
5 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
5 3 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (30.00%) Hudson
5 3 (30.00%) Cisco
5 3 (30.00%) VLAN
5 3 (30.00%) Maven
5 3 (30.00%) JIRA
6 2 (20.00%) Data Migration
6 2 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
6 2 (20.00%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (20.00%) Oracle
6 2 (20.00%) Oracle 8/8i
6 2 (20.00%) Oracle 11i
6 2 (20.00%) Siebel
6 2 (20.00%) Project Management
6 2 (20.00%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (10.00%) UNIX
7 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
7 1 (10.00%) Finance
7 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (10.00%) CentOS
7 1 (10.00%) SCCM

SUSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the South 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 Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) Apache
1 4 (40.00%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle 11i
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) Firewall
2 3 (30.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (30.00%) Hudson
1 3 (30.00%) Maven
1 3 (30.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 4 (40.00%) Linux Administrator
1 4 (40.00%) Junior
1 4 (40.00%) Administrator
1 4 (40.00%) Systems Administrator
1 4 (40.00%) Junior Systems Administrator
2 2 (20.00%) Build Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Configuration Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle Technical Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (60.00%) Windows
3 4 (40.00%) Ubuntu
4 3 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (10.00%) UNIX
5 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (10.00%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (20.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (20.00%) Project Management
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) SCCM
1 1 (10.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (30.00%) Cisco
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle
3 2 (20.00%) Siebel
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft