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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 577 465 541
Rank change year-on-year -112 +76 +80
Contract jobs citing SUSE 10 7 4
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.025% 0.029% 0.011%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.25% 0.20% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 1
10th Percentile £448 - -
25th Percentile £463 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.64% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £500 - £650
90th Percentile £502 - -
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +10.09%

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 4,055 3,452 5,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.23% 14.07% 13.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,692 2,353 3,467
10th Percentile £185 £200 £180
25th Percentile £310 £313 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £453
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +4.86% -12.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £663 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £463
% change year-on-year -5.26% +2.70% -9.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 282 150 370
10th Percentile £15.65 £16.16 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.11 £14.72
Median hourly rate £35.68 £24.66 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.68% +12.09% -37.14%
75th Percentile £67.84 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.97 £68.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £24.18 £22.00
% change year-on-year +40.61% +9.91% -41.33%

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
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 22 April 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
London -49 5 £488 -11.36% 2
North West - 4 £497 -
North of England - 4 £497 - 1
South East - 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
1 4 (40.00%) Azure Stack
2 3 (30.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) VLAN
1 4 (40.00%) VSAN
2 3 (30.00%) Firewall
2 3 (30.00%) Network Security
2 3 (30.00%) VPN
3 1 (10.00%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (10.00%) SAP HANA
General
1 4 (40.00%) Banking
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Migration Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Unix Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Optimisation Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Unix Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Clustering
2 4 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (40.00%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (40.00%) Replication
3 3 (30.00%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (80.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (40.00%) AIX
3 4 (40.00%) HPUX
3 4 (40.00%) Oracle Linux
3 4 (40.00%) Solaris
3 4 (40.00%) Unix
3 4 (40.00%) Windows
4 3 (30.00%) VMS
5 2 (20.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Migration
2 5 (50.00%) High Availability
3 4 (40.00%) Change Management
3 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (40.00%) ITIL
3 4 (40.00%) Performance Management
3 4 (40.00%) RBAC
3 4 (40.00%) Remediation Plan
3 4 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (40.00%) Runbook
3 4 (40.00%) Security Hardening
3 4 (40.00%) Storage Management
3 4 (40.00%) Validation
3 4 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 4 (40.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 3 (30.00%) Converged Infrastructure
4 3 (30.00%) Server Management
5 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (10.00%) Clean Code
6 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) CISSP
1 4 (40.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 4 (40.00%) RHCE
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Hyper-V
1 4 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (40.00%) vSphere
2 3 (30.00%) Firmware
2 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Failover Clustering
1 4 (40.00%) vCenter Server
1 4 (40.00%) VxRail
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) HP
2 4 (40.00%) Dell
2 4 (40.00%) Oracle
2 4 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (40.00%) VMware
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (10.00%) SAP