SUSE Linux
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SUSE skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SUSE over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 863 902 1199
Rank change year-on-year +39 +297 -303
Permanent jobs citing SUSE 42 44 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.040% 0.046% 0.038%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.30% 0.28% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 33 31 55
10th Percentile £26,550 £47,250 £44,511
25th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £97,500 £66,875
90th Percentile - £130,000 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £56,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +14.29% +15.29%

All Operating Systems
UK

SUSE is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 14,112 15,500 31,737
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.41% 16.35% 18.77%
Number of salaries quoted 10,734 10,456 16,364
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £91,250 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -

SUSE
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SUSE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SUSE in the UK

SUSE
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SUSE.

Salary trend for SUSE in the UK

SUSE
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SUSE over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for SUSE in the UK

SUSE
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SUSE within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +67 42 £50,000 -18.37% 4
UK excluding London -27 33 £50,000 -10.71% 4
Midlands +9 24 £50,000 -13.04%
East Midlands -2 17 £50,000 -13.04%
Work from Home +45 12 £50,000 -31.03% 3
London +95 9 £65,000 -10.34%
West Midlands - 7 £38,000 -
East of England -15 3 £50,000 -8.26% 2
South West -29 3 £52,500 -2.33%
South East -12 2 - - 2
North of England +31 1 £37,500 - 1
North East - 1 £37,500 -

SUSE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (14.29%) WebSphere
2 3 (7.14%) CloudStack
3 2 (4.76%) OpenStack
4 1 (2.38%) Apache
4 1 (2.38%) IBM Domino
4 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Abaqus
Cloud Services
1 21 (50.00%) Azure
2 16 (38.10%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (21.43%) Entra ID
4 7 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (7.14%) AWS
5 3 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (7.14%) OCI
6 2 (4.76%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 17 (40.48%) SAN
2 11 (26.19%) Firewall
3 9 (21.43%) VLAN
3 9 (21.43%) VPN
4 3 (7.14%) iSCSI
5 2 (4.76%) Ethernet
5 2 (4.76%) InfiniBand
5 2 (4.76%) LAN
6 1 (2.38%) DHCP
6 1 (2.38%) DNS
6 1 (2.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (19.05%) SQL Server
2 7 (16.67%) Ingres
2 7 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.76%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 10 (23.81%) Git
General
1 17 (40.48%) Social Skills
2 9 (21.43%) Billing
3 6 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.14%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.38%) Police
Job Titles
1 14 (33.33%) Administrator
2 11 (26.19%) Systems Administrator
3 9 (21.43%) Architect
3 9 (21.43%) Infrastructure Architect
4 7 (16.67%) Linux Administrator
4 7 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
4 7 (16.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 6 (14.29%) Analyst
5 6 (14.29%) Senior
5 6 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
5 6 (14.29%) Senior Technical Analyst
5 6 (14.29%) Technical Analyst
6 5 (11.90%) DBA
6 5 (11.90%) Graduate
6 5 (11.90%) Linux Support
6 5 (11.90%) Linux Support Engineer
6 5 (11.90%) Support Engineer
6 5 (11.90%) Systems Engineer
6 5 (11.90%) Systems Support
6 5 (11.90%) Systems Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.67%) EDI
2 2 (4.76%) OpenMP
3 1 (2.38%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 11 (26.19%) Replication
2 10 (23.81%) Data Centre
3 9 (21.43%) Public Cloud
4 6 (14.29%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.76%) Beowulf
6 1 (2.38%) Client/Server
6 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 42 (100.00%) Linux
2 18 (42.86%) Windows
3 16 (38.10%) CentOS
3 16 (38.10%) Ubuntu
4 14 (33.33%) Windows Server
5 12 (28.57%) Windows Server 2012
6 11 (26.19%) Debian
6 11 (26.19%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 4 (9.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (7.14%) VMS
9 2 (4.76%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (2.38%) NetWare
10 1 (2.38%) Solaris
10 1 (2.38%) Unix
10 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (23.81%) Mentoring
2 9 (21.43%) Asset Management
2 9 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
2 9 (21.43%) Network Monitoring
2 9 (21.43%) Presales
2 9 (21.43%) Project Delivery
2 9 (21.43%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 8 (19.05%) ITIL
4 7 (16.67%) DevOps
4 7 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (16.67%) IT Strategy
4 7 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
5 6 (14.29%) PRINCE
5 6 (14.29%) PRINCE2
5 6 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
5 6 (14.29%) Time Management
6 5 (11.90%) Computer Science
6 5 (11.90%) Mathematics
6 5 (11.90%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (47.62%) SQL
2 16 (38.10%) Python
3 13 (30.95%) Bash
4 10 (23.81%) PowerShell
5 5 (11.90%) Perl
6 3 (7.14%) AWK
6 3 (7.14%) Go
6 3 (7.14%) sed
7 2 (4.76%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.38%) ActionScript
8 1 (2.38%) C++
8 1 (2.38%) Java
8 1 (2.38%) VBScript
8 1 (2.38%) VC++
Qualifications
1 9 (21.43%) MCSA
1 9 (21.43%) MCSE
1 9 (21.43%) Microsoft Certification
1 9 (21.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 6 (14.29%) Degree
3 3 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.14%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.76%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (30.95%) Active Directory
2 12 (28.57%) vSphere
3 9 (21.43%) vCloud
3 9 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (7.14%) Ceph
4 3 (7.14%) Docker
4 3 (7.14%) Gluster
4 3 (7.14%) KVM
4 3 (7.14%) oVirt
4 3 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (4.76%) Hyper-V
5 2 (4.76%) Lustre
5 2 (4.76%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (14.29%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 3 (7.14%) Ansible
2 3 (7.14%) Graylog
2 3 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.14%) Observium
2 3 (7.14%) Prometheus
2 3 (7.14%) Puppet
2 3 (7.14%) ZABBIX
3 2 (4.76%) Trend Micro Deep Security
4 1 (2.38%) SCCM
4 1 (2.38%) SCOM
4 1 (2.38%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.38%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 21 (50.00%) VMware
2 14 (33.33%) Veeam
3 13 (30.95%) Microsoft
4 9 (21.43%) Fujitsu
4 9 (21.43%) HP
4 9 (21.43%) Red Hat
5 8 (19.05%) IBM
6 4 (9.52%) Oracle
7 2 (4.76%) Citrix
7 2 (4.76%) EMC
7 2 (4.76%) Intel
7 2 (4.76%) Mellanox
7 2 (4.76%) NetApp
7 2 (4.76%) SolarWinds
8 1 (2.38%) Lotus
8 1 (2.38%) Novell
8 1 (2.38%) Sun