SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Job Trends

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring SUSE Linux Enterprise Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 752 668 865
Rank change year-on-year -84 +197 +10
Permanent jobs citing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 1 9 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.001% 0.018% 0.014%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.016% 0.13% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1 9 8
10th Percentile - - £47,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £47,000 £48,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £53,159
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% +3.46% +7.39%
75th Percentile £68,750 £58,750 £56,250
90th Percentile - - £58,875
UK excluding London median annual salary - £55,000 £53,159
% change year-on-year - +3.46% +7.39%

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 6,133 6,903 13,545
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.26% 14.10% 13.27%
Number of salaries quoted 4,601 4,602 10,373
10th Percentile £27,694 £27,000 £26,043
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £45,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -6.59% -13.33%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,150 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -5.56%

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server job vacancy trend in the UK

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Top 2 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 10 July 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
England -77 1 £67,500 +22.73% 1
London - 1 £67,500 -

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SAP HANA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) SAP