SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SUSE Linux Enterprise Server skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 368 419
Rank change year-on-year -5 +51 +95
Contract jobs citing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 4 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.026% 0.017% 0.023%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.16% 0.10% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £413 £441 £475
25th Percentile £431 £447 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £528
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -12.32% +36.13%
75th Percentile £569 £469 £564
90th Percentile £618 - £578
UK median daily rate £550 £463 £480
% change year-on-year +18.92% -3.65% +23.87%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,570 2,941 3,805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.62% 16.37% 17.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,641 1,849 2,500
10th Percentile £178 £183 £163
25th Percentile £250 £300 £237
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% - -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £625 £672 £675
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 243 287
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.18 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £18.39 £17.74
Median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -49.70% +14.29% +98.86%
75th Percentile £62.81 £69.22 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £75.20
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -47.05% +5.57% +88.18%

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server in the UK excluding London

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server in the UK excluding London

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 September 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
North of England - 3 £525 - 1
Yorkshire - 3 £525 -
East of England - 1 £475 - 1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
UK

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (75.00%) Postman
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Linux Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Technical Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (75.00%) AIX
2 3 (75.00%) Solaris
2 3 (75.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (75.00%) Data Management
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (25.00%) API Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Security Hardening
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Korn
2 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
2 3 (75.00%) Puppet
3 1 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (25.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) MuleSoft
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (25.00%) IBM