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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 514 510 550
Rank change year-on-year -4 +40 +187
Contract jobs citing SUSE 5 9 31
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.017% 0.029% 0.079%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.12% 0.20% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 12
10th Percentile - £419 £356
25th Percentile £358 £445 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £581 £413
Median % change year-on-year -37.20% +40.91% -24.17%
75th Percentile £530 £650 £510
90th Percentile £625 - £663
UK median daily rate £365 £581 £480
% change year-on-year -37.20% +21.09% -8.57%

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 4,124 4,412 6,152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.00% 14.19% 15.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,701 2,722 4,223
10th Percentile £185 £203 £185
25th Percentile £263 £325 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -2.56% -4.40%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £623
90th Percentile £670 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -5.26% -2.56% -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 181 323
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £57.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +43.75% +60.00%
75th Percentile £43.75 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 - £76.53
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £52.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year -54.29% +54.41% +36.00%

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 6 November 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 6 November 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
South East +3 2 - - 1
North of England -34 1 £365 -14.12%
Yorkshire - 1 £365 -
Midlands - 1 £365 -
West Midlands - 1 £365 -
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 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 2 (40.00%) SAP HANA
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) Postman
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Linux Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Technical Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Clustering
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 3 (60.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
2 3 (60.00%) Windows
3 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (40.00%) Ubuntu
4 1 (20.00%) CentOS
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) High Availability
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%) 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 2 (40.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
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 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) PowerCLI
1 1 (20.00%) Puppet
1 1 (20.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) SAP
1 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) HP
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