SUSE Contract Job Trends

SUSE Linux
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring SUSE skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 622 511 586
Rank change year-on-year -111 +75 +49
Contract jobs citing SUSE 16 11 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.032% 0.038% 0.009%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.33% 0.27% 0.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 1
10th Percentile £403 £415 -
25th Percentile £463 £502 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile - £584 £650
90th Percentile - £646 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £365 £600
% change year-on-year +35.34% -39.17% +33.33%

All Operating Systems
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,805 4,052 5,850
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.71% 13.84% 13.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,062 2,654 3,914
10th Percentile £188 £200 £185
25th Percentile £315 £313 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £465 £470
Median % change year-on-year -1.08% -1.06% -6.00%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £450
% change year-on-year - - -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 192 408
10th Percentile £14.80 £15.13 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.13 £17.33 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £22.25 £22.51
Median % change year-on-year +46.07% -1.16% -48.55%
75th Percentile £64.38 £41.48 £62.13
90th Percentile £71.70 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £18.94 £24.18
% change year-on-year +71.64% -21.69% -38.08%

SUSE
Job Vacancy Trend

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

SUSE job vacancy trend in the UK

SUSE
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

SUSE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

SUSE
Top 9 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 8 June 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
England -121 12 £494 -10.18% 3
London -65 6 £488 -11.36%
UK excluding London -94 6 £494 +35.34% 3
Work from Home -53 5 £500 -9.09% 1
North of England -73 4 £497 +36.16%
North West - 4 £497 -
South West - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £400 - 3
Midlands - 1 £400 - 3

SUSE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
1 5 (31.25%) Azure Stack
2 3 (18.75%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 3 (18.75%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (6.25%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) Google Docs
3 1 (6.25%) Google Sheets
3 1 (6.25%) Google Workspace
3 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
3 1 (6.25%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) Firewall
1 4 (25.00%) VLAN
1 4 (25.00%) VSAN
2 3 (18.75%) Network Security
2 3 (18.75%) VPN
3 1 (6.25%) DHCP
3 1 (6.25%) DNS
3 1 (6.25%) Kerberos
3 1 (6.25%) MQTT
3 1 (6.25%) NAS
3 1 (6.25%) SAN
3 1 (6.25%) SSH
3 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 4 (25.00%) Banking
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Back Office
3 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Migration Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Unix Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Consultant
3 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Asset Management Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Coordinator
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Java Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Optimisation Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Project Coordinator
5 1 (6.25%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) YAML
2 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (6.25%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Clustering
1 4 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 4 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Replication
2 3 (18.75%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (62.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (25.00%) AIX
3 4 (25.00%) HPUX
3 4 (25.00%) Oracle Linux
3 4 (25.00%) Solaris
3 4 (25.00%) Unix
4 3 (18.75%) VMS
4 3 (18.75%) Windows
5 2 (12.50%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (6.25%) CentOS
6 1 (6.25%) Rocky
6 1 (6.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Migration
2 5 (31.25%) Change Management
2 5 (31.25%) High Availability
2 5 (31.25%) Security Hardening
2 5 (31.25%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (25.00%) ITIL
3 4 (25.00%) Performance Management
3 4 (25.00%) RBAC
3 4 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
3 4 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (25.00%) Runbook
3 4 (25.00%) Server Management
3 4 (25.00%) Storage Management
3 4 (25.00%) Validation
3 4 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (18.75%) CAPI
4 3 (18.75%) GitOps
4 3 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.25%) Bash
2 1 (6.25%) Java
2 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) CISSP
1 4 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 4 (25.00%) RHCE
2 3 (18.75%) Azure Certification
2 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) GRC
2 1 (6.25%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (43.75%) vSphere
2 5 (31.25%) Hyper-V
3 4 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (18.75%) Firmware
5 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
5 1 (6.25%) Docker
5 1 (6.25%) KVM
5 1 (6.25%) NFS
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Failover Clustering
1 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (25.00%) vCenter Server
1 4 (25.00%) VxRail
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Clustering
2 3 (18.75%) Rancher
3 1 (6.25%) Ansible
3 1 (6.25%) Grafana
3 1 (6.25%) Nagios
3 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
3 1 (6.25%) Terraform
3 1 (6.25%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) VMware
2 7 (43.75%) Oracle
2 7 (43.75%) Red Hat
3 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
4 4 (25.00%) Dell
4 4 (25.00%) HP
5 2 (12.50%) IBM
5 2 (12.50%) MathWorks
5 2 (12.50%) SAP
5 2 (12.50%) Siemens
6 1 (6.25%) Google
6 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
6 1 (6.25%) Splunk