SUSE Contracts

SUSE Linux
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 508 596 661
Rank change year-on-year +88 +65 +122
Contract jobs citing SUSE 11 4 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.038% 0.009% 0.087%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.27% 0.069% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 25
10th Percentile - - £405
25th Percentile - £550 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £540
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile - £650 £600
90th Percentile - - £738
UK excluding London median daily rate - £600 £475
% change year-on-year - +26.32% -2.56%

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 4,075 5,812 9,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.94% 13.33% 16.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,687 3,913 6,831
10th Percentile £200 £183 £190
25th Percentile £319 £300 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £468 £505
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -7.33% +1.00%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £638
90th Percentile £699 £700 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 397 416
10th Percentile £16.25 £12.75 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.50 £17.75
Median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
Median % change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £22.00 £31.25
% change year-on-year +4.55% -29.60% +56.25%

SUSE
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SUSE in the UK

SUSE
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SUSE.

Daily rate trend for SUSE in the UK

SUSE
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SUSE.

Hourly rate trend for SUSE in the UK

SUSE
Top 3 Contract 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 30 April 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 +66 7 £550 -8.33% 15
Work from Home - 7 £550 - 15
London - 7 £550 -

SUSE
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) OpenStack
2 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Fidessa
1 1 (9.09%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) GitHub
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) DHCP
1 2 (18.18%) DNS
1 2 (18.18%) SSH
1 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
2 1 (9.09%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (9.09%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) MariaDB
1 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) GitLab
2 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) German Language
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Linux Systems Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Network Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Network Systems Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) SAP Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) FIX Support Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Principal Security Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) SQL Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) SQL Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) .NET
1 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET
1 1 (9.09%) Bootstrap
1 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (9.09%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (9.09%) Node.js
1 1 (9.09%) React
1 1 (9.09%) RESTful
1 1 (9.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Cloud Native
1 4 (36.36%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (9.09%) Equities
2 1 (9.09%) Eurex
2 1 (9.09%) Fixed Income
2 1 (9.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (45.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (36.36%) Ubuntu
4 3 (27.27%) CentOS
5 1 (9.09%) Debian
5 1 (9.09%) Fedora
5 1 (9.09%) Solaris
5 1 (9.09%) Unix
5 1 (9.09%) Windows
5 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
5 1 (9.09%) Windows 8
5 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
5 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
1 7 (63.64%) DevOps
2 5 (45.45%) GitOps
2 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (36.36%) Computer Science
3 4 (36.36%) Containerisation
3 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
5 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
5 2 (18.18%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 2 (18.18%) High Availability
6 1 (9.09%) Data Analysis
6 1 (9.09%) Electronic Trading
6 1 (9.09%) ITIL
6 1 (9.09%) Project Management
6 1 (9.09%) Service Delivery
6 1 (9.09%) Software Testing
6 1 (9.09%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Bash
1 9 (81.82%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) Perl
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
4 1 (9.09%) C#
4 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (36.36%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
2 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (81.82%) Ansible
2 7 (63.64%) Kubernetes
2 7 (63.64%) Terraform
3 4 (36.36%) Argo
4 2 (18.18%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (18.18%) Progress Chef
4 2 (18.18%) Puppet
4 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (9.09%) Rancher
5 1 (9.09%) Rundeck
5 1 (9.09%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) SAP
2 3 (27.27%) Red Hat
3 2 (18.18%) VMware
4 1 (9.09%) Bloomberg
4 1 (9.09%) CQG
4 1 (9.09%) ION Trading
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 1 (9.09%) Patsystems
4 1 (9.09%) Reuters
4 1 (9.09%) Trayport