SUSE Job Trends in the UK excluding London

SUSE Linux
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SUSE skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 683 517 606
Rank change year-on-year -166 +89 -48
Permanent jobs citing SUSE 1 3 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.001% 0.009% 0.030%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.020% 0.068% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £35,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £25,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £26,500 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +116.98% -48.54% +28.75%
75th Percentile £61,250 £27,250 £57,500
90th Percentile - - £57,900
UK median annual salary £57,500 £26,500 £53,250
% change year-on-year +116.98% -50.23% -18.08%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

SUSE falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,007 4,432 6,635
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.76% 12.89% 13.23%
Number of salaries quoted 3,725 2,795 3,670
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £38,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.84% -20.00% +1.06%
75th Percentile £61,250 £51,240 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £69,381 £77,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.43% -17.00% -4.76%

SUSE
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SUSE relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

SUSE job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

SUSE
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SUSE.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SUSE

SUSE
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SUSE within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 October 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -70 1 £57,500 -
North West - 1 £57,500 -
SUSE
UK

SUSE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (100.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Break/Fix
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Change Advisory Board
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) HP ASE
1 1 (100.00%) VCAP
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) EMC RecoverPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Broadcom
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Zerto