SUSE Contracts in England

SUSE Linux
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring SUSE skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SUSE over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 491 551 587
Rank change year-on-year +60 +36 +163
Contract jobs citing SUSE 7 5 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.027% 0.013% 0.11%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.19% 0.096% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 22
10th Percentile - £511 £401
25th Percentile £358 £517 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £556 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.12% -3.26% +6.98%
75th Percentile - £617 £694
90th Percentile £633 £637 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £556 £498
% change year-on-year -1.12% +11.81% -5.24%

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 3,638 5,205 7,615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.93% 13.93% 16.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,435 3,439 5,328
10th Percentile £200 £190 £193
25th Percentile £313 £313 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £465 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 394 368
10th Percentile £15.25 £12.75 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.33 £16.00 £18.47
Median hourly rate £20.00 £24.68 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.95% -41.94% +88.89%
75th Percentile £49.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.70 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £22.53 £24.68 £42.50
% change year-on-year -8.70% -41.94% +88.89%

SUSE
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SUSE in England

SUSE
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SUSE in England.

Daily rate trend for SUSE in England

SUSE
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SUSE in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SUSE in England

SUSE
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SUSE in England.

Hourly rate trend for SUSE in England

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 3 July 2025. 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
London - 4 £550 - 4
Midlands +14 1 £365 - 4
West Midlands - 1 £365 -
North of England - 1 £365 - 6
Yorkshire - 1 £365 - 3
SUSE
UK

SUSE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (14.29%) AWS KMS
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Route 53
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) DHCP
1 3 (42.86%) DNS
1 3 (42.86%) TCP/IP
2 2 (28.57%) SSH
3 1 (14.29%) Firewall
3 1 (14.29%) iSCSI
3 1 (14.29%) LAN
3 1 (14.29%) VLAN
3 1 (14.29%) VSAN
3 1 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) MariaDB
1 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Postman
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Linux Systems Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Network Systems Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Principal Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Principal Systems Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Principal Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Technical Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (28.57%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (14.29%) PKI
2 1 (14.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (57.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (57.14%) Ubuntu
3 3 (42.86%) CentOS
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (14.29%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (14.29%) Windows
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Configuration Management
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
3 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 2 (28.57%) GitOps
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) API Development
4 1 (14.29%) API Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Change Management
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Re-Platforming
4 1 (14.29%) Reverse Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Service Management
4 1 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Bash
2 5 (71.43%) Python
3 2 (28.57%) Perl
4 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (28.57%) Docker
3 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (14.29%) Btrfs
3 1 (14.29%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (14.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Ansible
2 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
3 3 (42.86%) Puppet
4 2 (28.57%) Argo
4 2 (28.57%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (28.57%) Progress Chef
4 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (28.57%) Terraform
5 1 (14.29%) PowerCLI
5 1 (14.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) VMware
2 3 (42.86%) Red Hat
3 2 (28.57%) SAP
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (14.29%) MuleSoft
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle
4 1 (14.29%) Veeam