Hybrid/Remote SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Contract Job Trends

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring SUSE Linux Enterprise Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 - 330
Rank change year-on-year - - +101
Contract jobs citing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.030% - 0.015%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.35% - 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £463
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.65%
75th Percentile £438 - £469
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £425 £625 £463
% change year-on-year -32.00% +35.14% -3.65%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,158 1,130 1,508
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 8.65% 11.17% 11.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 736 714 1,024
10th Percentile £221 £289 £245
25th Percentile £400 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.03% -3.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £663 £675
UK median daily rate £470 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +1.62% -2.63% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 46 30
10th Percentile £17.60 £15.41 £12.75
25th Percentile £28.30 £52.56 £13.51
Median hourly rate £52.50 £65.00 £17.85
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +264.25% -66.01%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.00 £63.44
90th Percentile £71.00 £68.00 £67.63
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £23.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year +10.64% -12.96% -36.47%

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 2 (50.00%) IBM HTTP Server
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (50.00%) WebSphere
1 2 (50.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 2 (50.00%) WebSphere Portal
2 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Google Docs
1 1 (25.00%) Google Sheets
1 1 (25.00%) Google Workspace
1 1 (25.00%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) HTTP
1 2 (50.00%) SSL
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
2 2 (50.00%) GitLab
2 2 (50.00%) Introscope
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Back Office
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Middleware Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Middleware Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Coordinator
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) JDBC
1 2 (50.00%) JMS
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
1 2 (50.00%) Middleware
1 2 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (50.00%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Clustering
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (50.00%) SUSE
3 2 (50.00%) Unix
3 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Security Management
2 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
3 1 (25.00%) Prototyping
3 1 (25.00%) Rapid Prototyping
3 1 (25.00%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) Jython
1 2 (50.00%) Perl
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) PMO
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) CA Wily
1 2 (50.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
1 3 (75.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (50.00%) AppDynamics
2 2 (50.00%) IBM
3 1 (25.00%) Google
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow