SUSE Contract Job Trends in England

SUSE Linux
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring SUSE skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 622 514 521
Rank change year-on-year -108 +7 +45
Contract jobs citing SUSE 20 5 5
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.043% 0.018% 0.015%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.43% 0.13% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 3 4
10th Percentile - - £416
25th Percentile £400 £358 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £365 £469
Median % change year-on-year +30.14% -22.13% -2.34%
75th Percentile £500 £530 £552
90th Percentile £519 £625 £611
UK median daily rate £400 £365 £469
% change year-on-year +9.59% -22.13% -2.34%

All Operating Systems
England

SUSE falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,599 3,832 4,724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.88% 13.78% 14.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,930 2,527 3,010
10th Percentile £190 £189 £200
25th Percentile £313 £289 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.11% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £675 £680
UK median daily rate £470 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 352 253 231
10th Percentile £16.03 £15.50 £15.49
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.87 £20.40
Median hourly rate £38.61 £25.15 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.52% -56.26% +20.22%
75th Percentile £68.00 £62.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.45 £67.00 -
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £25.15 £50.00
% change year-on-year +9.34% -49.70% +5.26%

SUSE
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SUSE relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

SUSE job vacancy trend in England

SUSE
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SUSE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SUSE

SUSE
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SUSE in England over the 6 months to 19 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SUSE in England

SUSE
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SUSE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SUSE

SUSE
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SUSE within the England region over the 6 months to 19 September 2026. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands -43 7 £400 +9.59% 5
West Midlands -43 7 £400 +9.59% 5
London -75 7 £500 - 1
North of England -68 5 £494 +35.34%
North West - 5 £494 -
South West - 1 - -
SUSE
UK

SUSE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) Azure Stack
3 3 (15.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 3 (15.00%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (15.00%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (10.00%) AWS
5 1 (5.00%) GCP
5 1 (5.00%) Google Docs
5 1 (5.00%) Google Sheets
5 1 (5.00%) Google Workspace
5 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
5 1 (5.00%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) Firewall
2 4 (20.00%) Network Security
2 4 (20.00%) VLAN
2 4 (20.00%) VSAN
3 3 (15.00%) VPN
4 2 (10.00%) DHCP
4 2 (10.00%) DNS
4 2 (10.00%) SAN
4 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
5 1 (5.00%) Kerberos
5 1 (5.00%) NAS
5 1 (5.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Git
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (30.00%) Banking
1 6 (30.00%) Finance
2 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Retail
4 1 (5.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Unix Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Analyst
2 5 (25.00%) Asset Management Analyst
2 5 (25.00%) Migration Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Coordinator
5 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Optimisation Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Project Coordinator
5 1 (5.00%) Senior
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Unix Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Solaris Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (5.00%) LDAP
1 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 5 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (20.00%) Clustering
2 4 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (20.00%) Replication
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (10.00%) Virtual Team
4 1 (5.00%) FPGA
4 1 (5.00%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 20 (100.00%) Linux
2 15 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (45.00%) Unix
4 7 (35.00%) AIX
4 7 (35.00%) Solaris
5 6 (30.00%) HPUX
5 6 (30.00%) Oracle Linux
6 3 (15.00%) VMS
6 3 (15.00%) Windows
7 2 (10.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (5.00%) CentOS
8 1 (5.00%) Rocky
8 1 (5.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Migration
2 7 (35.00%) Change Management
3 6 (30.00%) ITIL
3 6 (30.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 6 (30.00%) Security Hardening
3 6 (30.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 5 (25.00%) Asset Management
4 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 5 (25.00%) High Availability
4 5 (25.00%) Performance Management
4 5 (25.00%) RBAC
4 5 (25.00%) Runbook
4 5 (25.00%) Storage Management
4 5 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (20.00%) Remediation Plan
5 4 (20.00%) Server Management
5 4 (20.00%) Validation
6 3 (15.00%) Converged Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (15.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (5.00%) Bash
2 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (25.00%) CISSP
2 5 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 5 (25.00%) RHCE
3 3 (15.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) GRC
2 1 (5.00%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 4 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (20.00%) vSphere
3 3 (15.00%) Firmware
4 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (5.00%) Docker
4 1 (5.00%) KVM
4 1 (5.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Failover Clustering
1 4 (20.00%) vCenter Server
1 4 (20.00%) VxRail
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (5.00%) Ansible
3 1 (5.00%) Grafana
3 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.00%) Nagios
3 1 (5.00%) NetBackup
3 1 (5.00%) Opsview
3 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 14 (70.00%) Red Hat
2 12 (60.00%) Oracle
3 9 (45.00%) Microsoft
4 6 (30.00%) HP
5 5 (25.00%) IBM
5 5 (25.00%) MathWorks
5 5 (25.00%) SAP
5 5 (25.00%) Siemens
5 5 (25.00%) VMware
6 4 (20.00%) Dell
7 2 (10.00%) Google
8 1 (5.00%) Mellanox
8 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
8 1 (5.00%) Solarflare
8 1 (5.00%) Splunk