SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Jobs

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring SUSE Linux Enterprise Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SUSE Linux Enterprise Server over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 712 893 923
Rank change year-on-year +181 +30 +355
Permanent jobs citing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 14 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.015% 0.013% 0.007%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.12% 0.099% 0.041%
Number of salaries quoted 9 8 3
10th Percentile - £47,500 -
25th Percentile £47,000 £48,438 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,159 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.46% +7.39% +6.45%
75th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £53,125
90th Percentile - £58,875 £53,950
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,159 £49,500
% change year-on-year +3.46% +7.39% +41.43%

All Operating Systems
UK

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 7,260 14,180 14,752
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.42% 13.13% 16.53%
Number of salaries quoted 4,503 10,642 10,136
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £45,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.49% -13.33% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £81,050 £80,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% -

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server in the UK

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.

Salary trend for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server in the UK

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server within the UK over the 6 months to 2 July 2025. 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
UK excluding London +182 9 £55,000 +3.46% 27
England +145 9 £55,000 +3.46% 27
South East +91 5 £49,000 -8.95% 9
Midlands +67 4 £57,500 - 6
East Midlands +47 4 £57,500 - 6

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) SAP HANA
General
1 2 (22.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Administrator
2 7 (77.78%) Linux Administrator
2 7 (77.78%) Systems Administrator
3 5 (55.56%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 4 (44.44%) Junior
4 4 (44.44%) Junior Linux Systems Administrator
4 4 (44.44%) Junior Systems Administrator
5 2 (22.22%) VMWare Administrator
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (55.56%) SUSE
3 4 (44.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (22.22%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) High Availability
2 5 (55.56%) Containerisation
3 4 (44.44%) Tech Ops
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) ITIL
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (22.22%) PRINCE2
4 2 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Bash
2 5 (55.56%) Python
3 2 (22.22%) Korn
3 2 (22.22%) Shell Script
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) Docker
1 7 (77.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (55.56%) NFS
3 4 (44.44%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Kubernetes
2 4 (44.44%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (22.22%) Ansible
3 2 (22.22%) Grafana
3 2 (22.22%) Terraform
3 2 (22.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) VMware
2 7 (77.78%) SAP
3 4 (44.44%) IBM
3 4 (44.44%) Red Hat