SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring SUSE Linux Enterprise Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 - 111
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Contract jobs citing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.056% - 0.16%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.63% - 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £468 - £441
25th Percentile £475 - £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £463
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.32%
75th Percentile £525 - £469
90th Percentile £533 - -
England median daily rate £525 £550 £463
% change year-on-year -4.55% +18.92% -3.65%

All Operating Systems
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 315 278 292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 8.90% 15.17% 15.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 204 184
10th Percentile £202 £160 £188
25th Percentile £313 £220 £257
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £450 £448
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +0.45% +12.00%
75th Percentile £538 £540 £585
90th Percentile £588 £613 £705
England median daily rate £469 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.11% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 5 8
10th Percentile £16.70 £15.93 £14.63
25th Percentile £21.13 £17.14 £17.88
Median hourly rate £57.82 £22.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +162.81% +15.79% -24.00%
75th Percentile £69.46 £25.00 £23.10
90th Percentile £70.59 £31.00 £39.13
England median hourly rate £38.61 £25.15 £57.50
% change year-on-year +53.52% -56.26% +20.22%

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Shropshire - 2 £500 - 6
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
England

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Backup Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) AIX
2 1 (50.00%) Solaris
2 1 (50.00%) SUSE
2 1 (50.00%) Unix
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) Veritas
1 1 (50.00%) VMware