SUSE Linux
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring SUSE skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 771 673 794
Rank change year-on-year -98 +121 -24
Permanent jobs citing SUSE 4 4 22
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.004% 0.008% 0.026%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.063% 0.058% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 13
10th Percentile - £33,775 -
25th Percentile £26,265 £45,813 £24,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,883 £61,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.62% +22.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £63,125 £75,313 £56,250
90th Percentile £66,500 £82,625 £63,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £26,265 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -52.25% +10.00% -8.26%

All Operating Systems
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 6,382 6,953 10,337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.94% 13.93% 12.42%
Number of salaries quoted 4,774 4,639 7,324
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,000 £48,925
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -14.15% -6.81%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £38,325 £45,000
% change year-on-year +10.89% -14.83% -2.17%

SUSE
Job Vacancy Trend

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

SUSE job vacancy trend in the UK

SUSE
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SUSE.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SUSE

SUSE
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SUSE over the 6 months to 19 August 2026.

Salary histogram for SUSE in the UK

SUSE
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SUSE within the UK over the 6 months to 19 August 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 -86 4 £41,883 -31.62% 3
UK excluding London -84 3 £26,265 -52.25% 3
Work from Home -18 2 £26,265 -52.25% 1
East Midlands - 2 £26,265 -
Midlands - 2 £26,265 -
North West - 1 £57,500 -
London - 1 £67,500 - 1
North of England - 1 £57,500 - 1

SUSE
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 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) SAN
1 1 (25.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SAP HANA
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Graduate
2 2 (50.00%) Graduate Support Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Graduate Systems Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Linux Support
2 2 (50.00%) Linux Support Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Linux Systems Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Systems Support
2 2 (50.00%) Systems Support Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) CentOS
2 2 (50.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
2 2 (50.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 2 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Ticket Management
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Break/Fix
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Management
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Bicep
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) HP ASE
1 1 (25.00%) VCAP
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) EMC RecoverPoint
1 1 (25.00%) Firmware
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (25.00%) VMware NSX
1 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) Broadcom
2 1 (25.00%) Dell
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Veeam
2 1 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Zerto