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

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 846 940 1173
Rank change year-on-year +94 +233 -311
Permanent jobs citing SUSE 42 55 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.042% 0.054% 0.039%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.30% 0.34% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 34 38 58
10th Percentile £28,200 £47,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £68,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +30.95% +16.67%
75th Percentile £67,500 £98,438 £71,875
90th Percentile - £107,500 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,750 £49,000
% change year-on-year -8.68% +11.73% +8.89%

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 14,045 16,217 29,865
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.16% 15.97% 18.97%
Number of salaries quoted 10,807 10,941 16,610
10th Percentile £25,760 £27,000 £26,450
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 £92,500 £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 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SUSE in the UK

SUSE
Top 10 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 8 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 +72 42 £50,000 -23.08% 5
UK excluding London -3 30 £50,000 -8.68% 5
Midlands +23 23 £50,000 -13.04% 1
East Midlands -1 16 £50,000 -13.04% 1
London +109 12 £65,000 -31.58%
Work from Home +62 10 £46,250 -28.85% 5
West Midlands - 7 £38,000 -
South West -26 3 £52,500 -2.33% 1
South East +16 2 - - 1
East of England -1 2 £50,000 -8.26%

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
Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Abaqus
Cloud Services
1 24 (57.14%) Azure
2 19 (45.24%) 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 20 (47.62%) SAN
2 14 (33.33%) Firewall
3 12 (28.57%) VLAN
3 12 (28.57%) VPN
4 3 (7.14%) iSCSI
5 2 (4.76%) Ethernet
5 2 (4.76%) InfiniBand
5 2 (4.76%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.67%) Ingres
1 7 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.76%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 10 (23.81%) Git
General
1 20 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 12 (28.57%) Billing
3 6 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (30.95%) Administrator
2 12 (28.57%) Architect
2 12 (28.57%) Infrastructure Architect
3 11 (26.19%) Systems Administrator
4 7 (16.67%) Linux Administrator
4 7 (16.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 6 (14.29%) Analyst
5 6 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
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 4 (9.52%) DBA
6 4 (9.52%) Graduate
6 4 (9.52%) Linux Support
6 4 (9.52%) Linux Support Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Support Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Systems Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Systems Support
6 4 (9.52%) Systems Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.67%) EDI
2 2 (4.76%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (33.33%) Replication
2 12 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 12 (28.57%) Public Cloud
3 4 (9.52%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.76%) Beowulf
Operating Systems
1 42 (100.00%) Linux
2 19 (45.24%) Windows
3 18 (42.86%) Ubuntu
4 16 (38.10%) Windows Server
5 15 (35.71%) CentOS
6 14 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
7 11 (26.19%) Debian
7 11 (26.19%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 3 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (7.14%) VMS
9 2 (4.76%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (28.57%) Asset Management
1 12 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
1 12 (28.57%) Mentoring
1 12 (28.57%) Network Monitoring
1 12 (28.57%) Presales
1 12 (28.57%) Project Delivery
1 12 (28.57%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 8 (19.05%) ITIL
3 7 (16.67%) DevOps
3 7 (16.67%) IT Strategy
3 7 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
4 6 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (14.29%) PRINCE
4 6 (14.29%) PRINCE2
4 6 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
4 6 (14.29%) Time Management
5 4 (9.52%) Computer Science
5 4 (9.52%) Mathematics
5 4 (9.52%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (54.76%) SQL
2 16 (38.10%) Python
3 13 (30.95%) Bash
4 12 (28.57%) 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
Qualifications
1 12 (28.57%) MCSA
1 12 (28.57%) MCSE
1 12 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
1 12 (28.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 6 (14.29%) Degree
3 2 (4.76%) DV Cleared
3 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (35.71%) vSphere
2 14 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 12 (28.57%) vCloud
3 12 (28.57%) 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
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
Vendors
1 23 (54.76%) VMware
2 17 (40.48%) Veeam
3 16 (38.10%) Microsoft
4 12 (28.57%) Fujitsu
4 12 (28.57%) HP
5 8 (19.05%) IBM
5 8 (19.05%) Red Hat
6 3 (7.14%) 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