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 15 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 351 424
Rank change year-on-year +50 +73 +183
Contract jobs citing SUSE 5 1 34
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.049% 0.007% 0.14%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.43% 0.063% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 23
10th Percentile - - £415
25th Percentile - £506 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £513 £493
Median % change year-on-year - +4.06% -10.45%
75th Percentile - £519 £584
90th Percentile - - £738
UK median daily rate £365 £556 £500
% change year-on-year -34.38% +11.25% -9.09%

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 1,153 1,585 3,141
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.28% 11.06% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 737 1,067 2,199
10th Percentile £289 £231 £240
25th Percentile £378 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £493 £520
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -5.19% -0.95%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £638
90th Percentile £675 £675 £738
UK median daily rate £465 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 43 118
10th Percentile £14.69 £12.75 £19.70
25th Percentile £49.13 £14.00 £25.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £17.64 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +268.59% -66.41% +8.07%
75th Percentile £67.50 £46.88 £67.50
90th Percentile £68.00 £68.50 £74.13
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £24.86 £42.50
% change year-on-year -7.46% -41.52% +88.89%

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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

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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 (20.00%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) GitLab
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) SAP Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) GitOps
3 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
5 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Bash
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
1 4 (80.00%) Argo
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) CrowdStrike