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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 507 523 553
Rank change year-on-year +16 +30 +193
Contract jobs citing SUSE 5 5 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.018% 0.015% 0.088%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.13% 0.11% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 11
10th Percentile - £416 £363
25th Percentile £358 £422 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £469 £480
Median % change year-on-year -22.13% -2.34% -12.73%
75th Percentile £530 £552 £584
90th Percentile £625 £611 £675
UK median daily rate £365 £469 £480
% change year-on-year -22.13% -2.34% -12.73%

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 3,829 4,729 6,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.78% 14.36% 15.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,523 3,019 4,565
10th Percentile £190 £200 £186
25th Percentile £294 £329 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £631
90th Percentile £675 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 235 332
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.83 £20.15 £18.90
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.25 £47.67
Median % change year-on-year -56.07% +20.11% +99.35%
75th Percentile £60.94 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 - £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £49.75 £47.50
% change year-on-year -49.45% +4.74% +98.66%

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
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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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 +22 2 - -
North of England -15 1 £365 -14.12% 1
Yorkshire - 1 £365 - 1
Midlands - 1 £365 -
West Midlands - 1 £365 -
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 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (20.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Route 53
1 1 (20.00%) Serverless
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (20.00%) LAN
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (20.00%) VLAN
1 1 (20.00%) VSAN
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) Postman
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Technical Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (40.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (20.00%) PKI
2 1 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (20.00%) CentOS
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (20.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 1 (20.00%) Windows
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (40.00%) GitOps
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) API Development
3 1 (20.00%) API Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Re-Platforming
3 1 (20.00%) Reverse Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Bash
2 3 (60.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Btrfs
1 1 (20.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (20.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Argo
2 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) PowerCLI
3 1 (20.00%) Puppet
3 1 (20.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) SAP
1 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) MuleSoft
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) Veeam