SUSE Contracts in the UK excluding London

SUSE Linux
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SUSE skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SUSE over the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 353 383 416
Rank change year-on-year +30 +33 +84
Contract jobs citing SUSE 1 3 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.007% 0.014% 0.11%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.043% 0.089% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - £398
25th Percentile £358 £550 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £600 £490
Median % change year-on-year -39.17% +22.45% -6.31%
75th Percentile £373 £650 £561
90th Percentile - - £613
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £538
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.52% +2.48%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,337 3,365 4,251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.39% 15.78% 18.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,493 2,177 2,909
10th Percentile £181 £177 £165
25th Percentile £250 £280 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year - -2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £565 £575 £588
90th Percentile £625 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £465 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 349 306
10th Percentile £15.12 £12.35 £13.29
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.50 £17.72
Median hourly rate £18.87 £25.25 £40.10
Median % change year-on-year -25.27% -37.02% +100.48%
75th Percentile £41.25 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £21.90 £23.98 £47.50
% change year-on-year -8.65% -49.53% +111.11%

SUSE
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SUSE in the UK excluding London

SUSE
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SUSE in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SUSE in the UK excluding London

SUSE
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SUSE in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SUSE in the UK excluding London

SUSE
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 June 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
Yorkshire - 1 £365 - 3
North of England - 1 £365 - 7
SUSE
UK

SUSE
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 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Technical Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) MuleSoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) VMware