SUSE Contract Job Trends in the South West

SUSE Linux
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring SUSE skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 - 145
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SUSE 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.030% - 0.063%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.27% - 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £600
75th Percentile - - £650
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £497 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.64% -8.33% +4.35%

All Operating Systems
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 366 320 496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 11.01% 18.86% 15.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 222 357
10th Percentile £205 £200 £172
25th Percentile £350 £250 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £623 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
England median daily rate £450 £475 £465
% change year-on-year -5.26% +2.15% -9.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 40 71
10th Percentile £16.62 £18.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.51 £40.00
Median hourly rate £63.14 £66.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.06% +6.40% -3.85%
75th Percentile £68.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.75 - -
England median hourly rate £47.50 £24.09 £22.08
% change year-on-year +97.18% +9.13% -41.13%

SUSE
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

SUSE job vacancy trend in the South West

SUSE
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

SUSE
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

SUSE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Stack
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Kerberos
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) SSH
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Rocky
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (100.00%) Server Building
1 1 (100.00%) Server Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) KVM
1 1 (100.00%) NFS
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Nagios
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) VMware