SUSE Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

SUSE Linux
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 - 448
Rank change year-on-year - - +140
Contract jobs citing SUSE 7 0 29
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.071% - 0.11%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.59% - 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 14
10th Percentile - - £408
25th Percentile - - £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £520
75th Percentile - - £706
90th Percentile - - £738
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £540
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% +3.85%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

SUSE 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 1,177 1,597 3,543
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.88% 10.41% 13.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 792 1,113 2,503
10th Percentile £288 £218 £250
25th Percentile £388 £350 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -8.65% +4.00%
75th Percentile £581 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £680 £718
UK median daily rate £475 £469 £505
% change year-on-year +1.28% -7.13% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 49 101
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.15 £19.00
25th Percentile £32.19 £14.27 £40.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £18.30 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +241.53% -68.17% +35.29%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.53 £73.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
% change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%

SUSE
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing SUSE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SUSE trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

SUSE
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing SUSE.

SUSE daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SUSE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DHCP
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
1 2 (28.57%) SSH
1 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) MariaDB
1 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) GitLab
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Linux Systems Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Network Systems Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) SAP Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Principal Security Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Ubuntu
3 2 (28.57%) CentOS
4 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 4 (57.14%) Computer Science
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
1 4 (57.14%) GitOps
2 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Transformation
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Bash
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Ansible
1 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 4 (57.14%) Argo
2 4 (57.14%) Terraform
3 2 (28.57%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (28.57%) Progress Chef
3 2 (28.57%) Puppet
3 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) SAP
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
2 2 (28.57%) VMware
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft