SUSE Contract Job Trends in the North West

SUSE Linux
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring SUSE skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SUSE 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.063% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.52% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £467 - -
25th Percentile £473 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 - -
75th Percentile £501 - -
90th Percentile £504 - -
England median daily rate £488 £550 £385
% change year-on-year -11.36% +42.86% -33.04%

All Operating Systems
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 388 286 362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 12.19% 14.77% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 195 225
10th Percentile £133 £156 £170
25th Percentile £166 £211 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £393 £438
Median % change year-on-year -5.85% -10.17% -7.89%
75th Percentile £500 £524 £550
90th Percentile £618 £625 £825
England median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -12.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 9 63
10th Percentile £21.46 - -
25th Percentile £41.94 £17.44 £10.95
Median hourly rate £61.00 £24.18 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +152.27% +51.13% -45.39%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.18 £17.89
90th Percentile £178.75 £81.63 £25.25
England median hourly rate £26.00 £28.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -7.14% +30.23% -25.86%

SUSE
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

SUSE job vacancy trend in the North West

SUSE
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing SUSE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing SUSE

SUSE
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing SUSE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing SUSE

SUSE
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SUSE within the North West region over the 6 months to 9 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
Manchester - 1 £475 -
Cheshire - 1 £506 -
SUSE
England

SUSE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Unix Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Unix Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) AIX
1 2 (100.00%) HPUX
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Solaris
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 2 (100.00%) RBAC
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
1 2 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 2 (100.00%) Storage Management
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (100.00%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GRC
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft