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 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 518 580 636
Rank change year-on-year +62 +56 +150
Contract jobs citing SUSE 10 4 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% 0.009% 0.11%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.24% 0.068% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 29
10th Percentile £415 - £410
25th Percentile £502 £550 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £540
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £584 £650 £613
90th Percentile £646 - £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £365 £600 £450
% change year-on-year -39.17% +33.33% -13.96%

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 4,122 5,874 8,969
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.94% 13.45% 16.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,695 3,894 6,233
10th Percentile £200 £188 £190
25th Percentile £313 £310 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £585 £588 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £463
% change year-on-year - -2.70% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 413 394
10th Percentile £15.19 £12.75 £14.08
25th Percentile £17.36 £15.76 £18.28
Median hourly rate £21.95 £23.00 £46.75
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% -50.80% +110.11%
75th Percentile £41.93 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £24.18 £40.59
% change year-on-year -21.96% -40.43% +102.95%

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
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SUSE over the 6 months to 13 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 6 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 13 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
England +67 6 £550 -8.33% 8
Work from Home - 6 £550 - 7
London - 4 £550 -
UK excluding London +57 1 £365 -39.17% 10
North of England - 1 £365 - 4
Yorkshire - 1 £365 - 2

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 (20.00%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (20.00%) DHCP
2 2 (20.00%) DNS
2 2 (20.00%) SSH
3 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) MariaDB
1 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Postman
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) German Language
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Linux Systems Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Network Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Network Systems Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) SAP Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Linux Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Principal Security Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Technical Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (30.00%) CentOS
3 3 (30.00%) Ubuntu
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (10.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) DevOps
2 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 4 (40.00%) GitOps
3 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) Configuration Management
4 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 2 (20.00%) High Availability
5 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 1 (10.00%) API Development
6 1 (10.00%) API Testing
6 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
6 1 (10.00%) Service Management
6 1 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Bash
2 9 (90.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (20.00%) Docker
3 1 (10.00%) Btrfs
3 1 (10.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 9 (90.00%) Ansible
2 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (60.00%) Terraform
3 4 (40.00%) Argo
4 3 (30.00%) Puppet
5 2 (20.00%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (20.00%) Progress Chef
5 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) SAP
2 3 (30.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (30.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) MuleSoft
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle