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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 871 905 1172
Rank change year-on-year +34 +267 -301
Permanent jobs citing SUSE 43 47 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.042% 0.048% 0.039%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.31% 0.30% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 34 33 55
10th Percentile £27,450 £47,300 -
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% +10.53%
75th Percentile £67,500 £97,500 £66,875
90th Percentile - £125,500 £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 13,986 15,669 31,425
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.63% 16.10% 18.82%
Number of salaries quoted 10,693 10,509 16,510
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,750
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 £92,000 £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 28 May 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 28 May 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 +73 43 £50,000 -23.08% 3
UK excluding London -10 33 £50,000 -10.71% 3
Midlands +15 24 £50,000 -13.04%
East Midlands -2 17 £50,000 -13.04%
Work from Home +62 12 £50,000 -31.03% 4
London +131 10 £65,000 -18.75%
West Midlands - 7 £38,000 -
East of England -14 3 £50,000 -8.26% 1
South West -27 3 £52,500 -2.33% 1
South East +1 2 - - 2
North of England +47 1 £37,500 -
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 (13.95%) WebSphere
2 3 (6.98%) CloudStack
3 2 (4.65%) OpenStack
4 1 (2.33%) Apache
4 1 (2.33%) IBM Domino
4 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Abaqus
Cloud Services
1 22 (51.16%) Azure
2 17 (39.53%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (20.93%) Entra ID
4 7 (16.28%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (6.98%) AWS
5 3 (6.98%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (6.98%) OCI
6 2 (4.65%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 18 (41.86%) SAN
2 12 (27.91%) Firewall
3 10 (23.26%) VLAN
3 10 (23.26%) VPN
4 3 (6.98%) iSCSI
5 2 (4.65%) Ethernet
5 2 (4.65%) InfiniBand
5 2 (4.65%) LAN
6 1 (2.33%) DHCP
6 1 (2.33%) DNS
6 1 (2.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (18.60%) SQL Server
2 7 (16.28%) Ingres
2 7 (16.28%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.65%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 10 (23.26%) Git
General
1 18 (41.86%) Social Skills
2 10 (23.26%) Billing
3 6 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.98%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.33%) Police
Job Titles
1 14 (32.56%) Administrator
2 11 (25.58%) Systems Administrator
3 10 (23.26%) Architect
3 10 (23.26%) Infrastructure Architect
4 7 (16.28%) Linux Administrator
4 7 (16.28%) Linux Engineer
4 7 (16.28%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 6 (13.95%) Analyst
5 6 (13.95%) Senior
5 6 (13.95%) Senior Analyst
5 6 (13.95%) Senior Technical Analyst
5 6 (13.95%) Technical Analyst
6 5 (11.63%) DBA
6 5 (11.63%) Graduate
6 5 (11.63%) Graduate Support Engineer
6 5 (11.63%) Linux Systems Engineer
6 5 (11.63%) Support Engineer
6 5 (11.63%) Systems Engineer
6 5 (11.63%) Systems Support
6 5 (11.63%) Systems Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.28%) EDI
2 2 (4.65%) OpenMP
3 1 (2.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 12 (27.91%) Replication
2 11 (25.58%) Data Centre
3 10 (23.26%) Public Cloud
4 6 (13.95%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.65%) Beowulf
6 1 (2.33%) Client/Server
6 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 43 (100.00%) Linux
2 19 (44.19%) Windows
3 17 (39.53%) Ubuntu
4 16 (37.21%) CentOS
5 15 (34.88%) Windows Server
6 13 (30.23%) Windows Server 2012
7 11 (25.58%) Debian
7 11 (25.58%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 4 (9.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (6.98%) VMS
10 2 (4.65%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (2.33%) NetWare
11 1 (2.33%) Solaris
11 1 (2.33%) Unix
11 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (25.58%) Mentoring
2 10 (23.26%) Asset Management
2 10 (23.26%) Continuous Improvement
2 10 (23.26%) Network Monitoring
2 10 (23.26%) Presales
2 10 (23.26%) Project Delivery
2 10 (23.26%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 8 (18.60%) ITIL
4 7 (16.28%) DevOps
4 7 (16.28%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (16.28%) IT Strategy
4 7 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (16.28%) Technology Strategy
5 6 (13.95%) PRINCE
5 6 (13.95%) PRINCE2
5 6 (13.95%) Technical Architecture
5 6 (13.95%) Time Management
6 5 (11.63%) Computer Science
6 5 (11.63%) Mathematics
6 5 (11.63%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (48.84%) SQL
2 16 (37.21%) Python
3 13 (30.23%) Bash
4 11 (25.58%) PowerShell
5 5 (11.63%) Perl
6 3 (6.98%) AWK
6 3 (6.98%) Go
6 3 (6.98%) sed
7 2 (4.65%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.33%) ActionScript
8 1 (2.33%) C++
8 1 (2.33%) Java
8 1 (2.33%) VBScript
8 1 (2.33%) VC++
Qualifications
1 10 (23.26%) MCSA
1 10 (23.26%) MCSE
1 10 (23.26%) Microsoft Certification
1 10 (23.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 6 (13.95%) Degree
3 3 (6.98%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.98%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.65%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.65%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (32.56%) Active Directory
2 13 (30.23%) vSphere
3 10 (23.26%) vCloud
3 10 (23.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (6.98%) Ceph
4 3 (6.98%) Docker
4 3 (6.98%) Gluster
4 3 (6.98%) KVM
4 3 (6.98%) oVirt
4 3 (6.98%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (4.65%) Hyper-V
5 2 (4.65%) Lustre
5 2 (4.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (2.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (13.95%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 3 (6.98%) Ansible
2 3 (6.98%) Graylog
2 3 (6.98%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.98%) Observium
2 3 (6.98%) Prometheus
2 3 (6.98%) Puppet
2 3 (6.98%) ZABBIX
3 2 (4.65%) Trend Micro Deep Security
4 1 (2.33%) SCCM
4 1 (2.33%) SCOM
4 1 (2.33%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.33%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 22 (51.16%) VMware
2 15 (34.88%) Veeam
3 14 (32.56%) Microsoft
4 10 (23.26%) Fujitsu
4 10 (23.26%) HP
5 9 (20.93%) Red Hat
6 8 (18.60%) IBM
7 4 (9.30%) Oracle
8 2 (4.65%) Citrix
8 2 (4.65%) EMC
8 2 (4.65%) Intel
8 2 (4.65%) Mellanox
8 2 (4.65%) NetApp
8 2 (4.65%) SolarWinds
9 1 (2.33%) Lotus
9 1 (2.33%) Novell
9 1 (2.33%) Sun