SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Contract Job Trends

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs 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 560 559 620
Rank change year-on-year -1 +61 +233
Contract jobs citing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 5 4 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.015% 0.010% 0.036%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.11% 0.074% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 8
10th Percentile £419 £441 £430
25th Percentile £447 £447 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £463 £480
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% -3.65% +23.87%
75th Percentile £659 £469 £495
90th Percentile £676 - £523
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £463 £528
% change year-on-year +2.70% -12.32% +36.13%

All Operating Systems
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,472 5,434 7,713
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.54% 14.09% 15.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,860 3,510 5,258
10th Percentile £190 £200 £186
25th Percentile £305 £331 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £585 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £447 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -0.67% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 281 358
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £15.18
25th Percentile £18.82 £20.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.05% +5.57% +88.18%
75th Percentile £58.75 £68.00 £64.50
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £76.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year -49.70% +14.29% +98.86%

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server in the UK

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server in the UK

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

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 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
England +23 5 £550 +18.92% 3
UK excluding London -5 4 £475 +2.70% 2
North of England - 3 £525 - 1
Yorkshire - 3 £525 -
East of England - 1 £475 - 1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (60.00%) Firewall
1 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (60.00%) Postman
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Linux Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
1 3 (60.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Technical Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Linux Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (60.00%) AIX
3 3 (60.00%) Solaris
3 3 (60.00%) Unix
4 1 (20.00%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (60.00%) Data Management
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (40.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (20.00%) API Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Security Hardening
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) Korn
3 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) Btrfs
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
2 3 (60.00%) Puppet
3 1 (20.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) MuleSoft
2 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (20.00%) IBM