SUSE Linux
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SUSE skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SUSE over the 6 months to 4 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 722 993 1030
Rank change year-on-year +271 +37 -296
Permanent jobs citing SUSE 19 83 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.036% 0.067% 0.053%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.21% 0.41% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 19 55 61
10th Percentile £48,600 £30,751 £38,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £44,375 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -12.50% +26.32%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £74,500
90th Percentile - £98,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £39,000 £50,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -22.00% +2.04% +8.89%

All Operating Systems
UK

SUSE is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 9,192 20,454 22,239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.27% 16.50% 17.34%
Number of salaries quoted 7,146 13,683 16,133
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £34,500 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £91,250 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000

SUSE
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SUSE in the UK

SUSE
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SUSE in the UK

SUSE
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SUSE over the 6 months to 4 December 2023.

Salary histogram for SUSE in the UK

SUSE
Top 7 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 4 December 2023. 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 +274 18 £65,000 +23.81% 9
London +256 17 £65,000 +20.93% 1
UK excluding London +199 2 £39,000 -22.00% 8
Work from Home +219 1 £40,000 -33.33% 6
West Midlands +122 1 £38,000 +20.63% 2
Midlands +104 1 £38,000 -19.45% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £40,000 -

SUSE
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 16 (84.21%) Azure
2 14 (73.68%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Stack
3 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 18 (94.74%) Firewall
2 15 (78.95%) SAN
3 14 (73.68%) VLAN
3 14 (73.68%) VPN
4 3 (15.79%) Wireless
5 1 (5.26%) LAN
General
1 14 (73.68%) Billing
1 14 (73.68%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (73.68%) Architect
1 14 (73.68%) Infrastructure Architect
2 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Applications Support
3 1 (5.26%) Applications Support Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 15 (78.95%) Replication
2 14 (73.68%) Data Centre
2 14 (73.68%) Public Cloud
3 3 (15.79%) Clustering
3 3 (15.79%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 19 (100.00%) Linux
1 19 (100.00%) Windows
2 17 (89.47%) Windows Server 2012
3 15 (78.95%) Ubuntu
3 15 (78.95%) Windows Server
4 4 (21.05%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (15.79%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (15.79%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (15.79%) Windows XP
6 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) Asset Management
1 14 (73.68%) Continuous Improvement
1 14 (73.68%) Mentoring
1 14 (73.68%) Network Monitoring
1 14 (73.68%) Presales
1 14 (73.68%) Project Delivery
1 14 (73.68%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (15.79%) Load Balancing
4 1 (5.26%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 17 (89.47%) PowerShell
2 15 (78.95%) SQL
3 3 (15.79%) VB
3 3 (15.79%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (73.68%) MCSA
1 14 (73.68%) MCSE
1 14 (73.68%) Microsoft Certification
1 14 (73.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 15 (78.95%) Active Directory
2 14 (73.68%) vCloud
2 14 (73.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (73.68%) vSphere
3 1 (5.26%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) HP SIM
1 3 (15.79%) OpenView
2 1 (5.26%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 17 (89.47%) HP
1 17 (89.47%) VMware
2 15 (78.95%) Microsoft
2 15 (78.95%) Veeam
3 14 (73.68%) Fujitsu
4 1 (5.26%) Citrix
4 1 (5.26%) Micro Focus
4 1 (5.26%) SolarWinds