The first table below looks at the demand for SUSE skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. 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.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Novell SUSE Linux
Rank 640 802 716
Rank change year-on-year
+162 -86
Permanent jobs citing SUSE 220 94 155
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.204% 0.078% 0.126%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.753% 0.292% 0.505%
Number of salaries quoted 176 74 134
Average salary £40,000 £42,500 £36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.88% +16.43%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,200 £30,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +14.28%
All Operating Systems
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
29230 32182 30672
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 27.12% 26.61% 24.84%
Number of salaries quoted 24647 27625 25831
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%

SUSE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

SUSE Jobs Demand Trend

SUSE
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SUSE within the UK.

SUSE Salary Trend

SUSE
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SUSE over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 within the UK.

SUSE Salary Histogram

SUSE
Top 30 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 UK 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
England +152 216 £40,000 -5.88%
South East +88 92 £40,000 -11.11%
Berkshire +62 60 £37,500 -9.09%
London +35 52 £47,500 -5.00%
Reading +44 46 £36,500 -23.15%
West Midlands -5 27 £36,500 +10.60%
East of England +13 21 £51,500 -1.90%
Hertfordshire +14 19 £51,500 -1.90%
Coventry -1 19 £36,500 +10.60%
City of London +18 17 £37,500 -33.33%
Watford +21 16 £51,500 -1.90%
Surrey +28 15 £40,500 -26.36%
North West +13 15 £40,000 -8.57%
Hampshire - 15 £67,500 -
Manchester -7 13 £40,000 -5.88%
Basingstoke - 11 £45,000 -
Guildford - 9 £40,500 -
Birmingham -18 8 £47,500 -
East Midlands +8 7 £28,500 -
Yorkshire -14 7 £31,000 +37.77%
Cambridgeshire - 5 £40,000 -
Feltham - 5 £57,000 -
Nottingham +3 4 £29,250 -
Nottinghamshire +3 4 £28,500 -
West Yorkshire +1 4 £27,500 +22.22%
Slough - 4 £48,750 -
Harrow - 3 £36,500 -
Sale - 3 - -
York - 3 £36,000 -
Buckinghamshire - 3 £40,000 -

SUSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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.

1 409 (96.46%) Linux
2 287 (67.69%) Red Hat
3 223 (52.59%) UNIX
4 184 (43.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 183 (43.16%) Oracle
6 163 (38.44%) Windows
7 155 (36.56%) Solaris
8 127 (29.95%) VMware
9 126 (29.72%) Sun
10 110 (25.94%) SAN
11 109 (25.71%) AIX
12 97 (22.88%) ITIL
13 94 (22.17%) Shell Script
14 91 (21.46%) HP
15 88 (20.75%) Apache
16 82 (19.34%) Microsoft
17 77 (18.16%) EMC
17 77 (18.16%) Perl
18 73 (17.22%) HPUX
19 72 (16.98%) TCP/IP
20 71 (16.75%) Active Directory
21 69 (16.27%) Tomcat
21 69 (16.27%) Finance
22 64 (15.09%) Veritas
22 64 (15.09%) Clustering
23 61 (14.39%) Cisco
24 57 (13.44%) DNS
24 57 (13.44%) DB2
25 56 (13.21%) CentOS
26 55 (12.97%) VMware Infrastructure

SUSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 36 (8.491%) WebSphere
2 32 (7.547%) J2EE
3 28 (6.604%) Middleware
4 24 (5.660%) Web Services
5 20 (4.717%) LAMP
6 17 (4.009%) XML
7 14 (3.302%) .NET
8 11 (2.594%) OLE
9 10 (2.358%) HTML
9 10 (2.358%) SOAP
10 8 (1.887%) XSLT
11 5 (1.179%) WDK
12 4 (0.943%) J2ME
12 4 (0.943%) HTML5
13 3 (0.708%) XSD
14 2 (0.472%) DOM
14 2 (0.472%) CSS
14 2 (0.472%) Ruby on Rails
14 2 (0.472%) SAP Basis
14 2 (0.472%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 88 (20.75%) Apache
2 69 (16.27%) Tomcat
3 45 (10.61%) IIS
4 30 (7.075%) WebSphere Application Server
5 27 (6.368%) Amazon EC2
5 27 (6.368%) Amazon AWS
6 26 (6.132%) Rackspace Cloud
7 24 (5.660%) SharePoint
8 22 (5.189%) MS Exchange
9 21 (4.953%) WebLogic
9 21 (4.953%) IBM HTTP Server
10 20 (4.717%) MQSeries
11 16 (3.774%) Exchange Server 2007
11 16 (3.774%) Exchange Server 2010
12 11 (2.594%) SAS
13 9 (2.123%) nginx
14 6 (1.415%) WebLogic Integration
15 5 (1.179%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
15 5 (1.179%) Documentum
16 4 (0.943%) CMS
Applications
1 28 (6.604%) MS Excel
2 9 (2.123%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.179%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 8 (1.887%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.179%) Temenos Globus
3 4 (0.943%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.472%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.472%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (0.472%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.236%) SAP xMII
Communications & Networking
1 110 (25.94%) SAN
2 72 (16.98%) TCP/IP
3 57 (13.44%) DNS
4 39 (9.198%) WAN
5 38 (8.962%) LAN
6 37 (8.726%) SSH
7 33 (7.783%) HTTP
8 25 (5.896%) LDAP
9 18 (4.245%) Firewall
10 14 (3.302%) VPN
10 14 (3.302%) FTP
11 13 (3.066%) DHCP
12 12 (2.830%) ATM
12 12 (2.830%) NAS
13 7 (1.651%) Network Security
13 7 (1.651%) iSCSI
13 7 (1.651%) Internet
13 7 (1.651%) SMTP
13 7 (1.651%) SSL
14 5 (1.179%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (13.44%) DB2
2 51 (12.03%) MySQL
2 51 (12.03%) SQL Server
3 18 (4.245%) Oracle 8/8i
4 13 (3.066%) Oracle Reports
5 12 (2.830%) SQL Server 2008
6 11 (2.594%) Oracle Exadata
7 10 (2.358%) Oracle 11g
8 6 (1.415%) SQL Server 2005
8 6 (1.415%) Oracle 10g
8 6 (1.415%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (1.415%) MS Access
9 4 (0.943%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.943%) Crystal Reports
9 4 (0.943%) SQLPlus
9 4 (0.943%) GIS
10 3 (0.708%) SQL Server 2000
11 2 (0.472%) dBASE
11 2 (0.472%) Ingres
11 2 (0.472%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (1.887%) Git (software)
1 8 (1.887%) Jenkins
2 7 (1.651%) Hudson
3 6 (1.415%) Eclipse
3 6 (1.415%) Selenium
4 5 (1.179%) Ant
5 4 (0.943%) Maven
6 3 (0.708%) JIRA
6 3 (0.708%) Oracle APEX
6 3 (0.708%) ClearCase
6 3 (0.708%) Subversion
7 2 (0.472%) JMeter
7 2 (0.472%) Xcode
7 2 (0.472%) CruiseControl
7 2 (0.472%) JUnit
7 2 (0.472%) WATIR
7 2 (0.472%) FitNesse
7 2 (0.472%) Firebug
7 2 (0.472%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.472%) SpecFlow
General
1 69 (16.27%) Finance
2 34 (8.019%) Banking
3 33 (7.783%) Retail
4 25 (5.896%) German Language
5 24 (5.660%) French Language
6 15 (3.538%) Investment Banking
7 9 (2.123%) Manufacturing
7 9 (2.123%) Games
8 6 (1.415%) Italian Language
9 5 (1.179%) Spanish Language
9 5 (1.179%) Advertising
10 4 (0.943%) Back Office
10 4 (0.943%) Marketing
11 3 (0.708%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (0.708%) Law
12 2 (0.472%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.472%) Local Government
13 1 (0.236%) Billing
13 1 (0.236%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 135 (31.84%) Administrator
2 118 (27.83%) Systems Administrator
3 100 (23.58%) Linux Administrator
4 87 (20.52%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 47 (11.08%) Support Engineer
6 42 (9.906%) Analyst
7 34 (8.019%) UNIX Systems Administrator
8 33 (7.783%) Technical Support
9 28 (6.604%) Linux Engineer
10 26 (6.132%) UNIX Administrator
11 23 (5.425%) Team Leader
12 21 (4.953%) UNIX Engineer
12 21 (4.953%) Systems Analyst
13 18 (4.245%) Consultant
13 18 (4.245%) Support Analyst
14 17 (4.009%) UNIX Support
14 17 (4.009%) Linux Support
15 15 (3.538%) Support Specialist
15 15 (3.538%) Linux Support Engineer
16 14 (3.302%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 64 (15.09%) Clustering
2 34 (8.019%) Replication
3 14 (3.302%) Symmetrix DMX
4 12 (2.830%) Fat Client
4 12 (2.830%) Thin Client
5 11 (2.594%) Wiki
6 9 (2.123%) CMDB
6 9 (2.123%) HACMP
7 8 (1.887%) Open Source
7 8 (1.887%) Digital Media
8 7 (1.651%) Blackberry
8 7 (1.651%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.415%) IVR
9 6 (1.415%) Statistics
9 6 (1.415%) N-Tier
9 6 (1.415%) Computer Science
10 5 (1.179%) Grid Computing
10 5 (1.179%) Mathematics
10 5 (1.179%) Physics
10 5 (1.179%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 409 (96.46%) Linux
2 223 (52.59%) UNIX
3 184 (43.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 163 (38.44%) Windows
5 155 (36.56%) Solaris
6 109 (25.71%) AIX
7 73 (17.22%) HPUX
8 56 (13.21%) CentOS
9 51 (12.03%) Debian
10 48 (11.32%) Windows Server 2003
11 39 (9.198%) Ubuntu
12 32 (7.547%) Windows Server 2008
13 12 (2.830%) Windows 7
14 7 (1.651%) Windows XP
15 6 (1.415%) FreeBSD
15 6 (1.415%) OpenBSD
16 5 (1.179%) Fedora
16 5 (1.179%) Mac OS X
16 5 (1.179%) Windows 8
16 5 (1.179%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (22.88%) ITIL
2 47 (11.08%) Problem Management
3 37 (8.726%) E-Commerce
4 34 (8.019%) Change Management
5 33 (7.783%) Service Management
6 27 (6.368%) Project Management
6 27 (6.368%) Performance Management
7 25 (5.896%) Migration
7 25 (5.896%) Service Delivery
8 23 (5.425%) Disaster Recovery
9 20 (4.717%) Integration Testing
10 19 (4.481%) Root Cause Analysis
11 17 (4.009%) Web Development
12 15 (3.538%) Performance Testing
12 15 (3.538%) Data Protection
12 15 (3.538%) SOA
12 15 (3.538%) Agile Software Development
13 14 (3.302%) RDF
14 12 (2.830%) Risk Analysis
15 11 (2.594%) Knowledge Management
Programming Languages
1 94 (22.17%) Shell Script
2 77 (18.16%) Perl
3 53 (12.50%) SQL
4 44 (10.38%) Java
4 44 (10.38%) Bash shell
5 33 (7.783%) C
6 29 (6.840%) PHP
7 24 (5.660%) Python
8 23 (5.425%) Korn
9 10 (2.358%) Ruby
9 10 (2.358%) C++
10 8 (1.887%) AWK
11 7 (1.651%) C#
12 6 (1.415%) VB
12 6 (1.415%) FoxPro (VFP)
12 6 (1.415%) sed
12 6 (1.415%) Bourne shell
13 4 (0.943%) Delphi
14 3 (0.708%) JavaScript
14 3 (0.708%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 48 (11.32%) Degree
2 29 (6.840%) MCSE
2 29 (6.840%) Microsoft Certification
3 19 (4.481%) RHCE
4 18 (4.245%) ISEB
5 10 (2.358%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 10 (2.358%) ISTQB
6 6 (1.415%) CCEE
6 6 (1.415%) Linux+ Certification
6 6 (1.415%) ISEB Practitioner
6 6 (1.415%) CCA
6 6 (1.415%) Citrix Certification
7 5 (1.179%) Security Cleared
8 4 (0.943%) RHCT
9 3 (0.708%) CITP
9 3 (0.708%) VCP4
9 3 (0.708%) MCITP
9 3 (0.708%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.708%) Sun Certification
9 3 (0.708%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (7.075%) SLA
2 2 (0.472%) QA
3 1 (0.236%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (0.236%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 71 (16.75%) Active Directory
2 55 (12.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (10.38%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 26 (6.132%) NFS
4 26 (6.132%) Samba
5 22 (5.189%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 21 (4.953%) Sendmail
7 18 (4.245%) vSphere
8 15 (3.538%) VMware ESX
9 12 (2.830%) Oracle RAC
9 12 (2.830%) Veritas File System
10 7 (1.651%) Oracle RMAN
11 6 (1.415%) Microsoft App-V
11 6 (1.415%) IAG
11 6 (1.415%) UAG
12 5 (1.179%) Xen
13 4 (0.943%) Squid
13 4 (0.943%) VMware Server
13 4 (0.943%) XenApp
13 4 (0.943%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 19 (4.481%) Nagios
2 14 (3.302%) SCCM
3 9 (2.123%) Veritas Storage Foundation
4 8 (1.887%) SCOM
4 8 (1.887%) Backup Exec
4 8 (1.887%) Tivoli
5 6 (1.415%) Data Guard
5 6 (1.415%) HP Quality Center
5 6 (1.415%) Puppet
6 5 (1.179%) Control-M
7 3 (0.708%) NetBackup
7 3 (0.708%) ARCserve
7 3 (0.708%) ZENworks
7 3 (0.708%) OpenView
7 3 (0.708%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 3 (0.708%) Splunk
7 3 (0.708%) HP SIM
7 3 (0.708%) SCVMM
8 2 (0.472%) Netcool
8 2 (0.472%) Netcool/OMNIbus
Vendors
1 287 (67.69%) Red Hat
2 183 (43.16%) Oracle
3 127 (29.95%) VMware
4 126 (29.72%) Sun
5 91 (21.46%) HP
6 82 (19.34%) Microsoft
7 77 (18.16%) EMC
8 64 (15.09%) Veritas
9 61 (14.39%) Cisco
10 54 (12.74%) IBM
11 44 (10.38%) Sybase
12 37 (8.726%) NetApp
13 35 (8.255%) Hitachi
14 29 (6.840%) Dell
15 27 (6.368%) Rackspace
16 20 (4.717%) StorageTek
17 19 (4.481%) Citrix
18 18 (4.245%) Novell
19 14 (3.302%) Isilon
20 8 (1.887%) Remedy
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Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
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Salary: £60000 - £70000 per annum + Bens + Bonus
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Salary: £18000.00 - £25000.00 per annum + BENEFITS + TRAINING
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Posted: 16 May 2013
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Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum + Health, Pension + 20% Bonus
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