SUSE Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

SUSE Linux
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring SUSE skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SUSE 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.24% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.30% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £468 - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile £533 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £365 -
% change year-on-year +9.59% - -

All Operating Systems
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 87 36 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 10.48% 17.39% 22.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 22 21
10th Percentile £358 £328 £298
25th Percentile £413 £429 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £475 £378
Median % change year-on-year -2.32% +25.66% -30.00%
75th Percentile £510 £539 £440
90th Percentile £538 £552 £469
West Midlands median daily rate £459 £450 £448
% change year-on-year +2.00% +0.45% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £57.82 £22.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +162.81% +15.79% -24.00%

SUSE
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

SUSE job vacancy trend in Shropshire

SUSE
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing SUSE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing SUSE

SUSE
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SUSE within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Telford - 2 £500 - 3
SUSE
West Midlands

SUSE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 2 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
2 1 (50.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) Google