SUSE Linux
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring SUSE skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SUSE over the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 754 748 1083
Rank change year-on-year -6 +335 -73
Permanent jobs citing SUSE 24 16 82
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.027% 0.058%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.26% 0.15% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 8 15 52
10th Percentile £35,500 £51,750 £30,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £57,500 £41,675
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,250 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.08% +23.81% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57,750 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £60,975 £105,000 £62,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £40,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +28.75% -20.00% +11.11%

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 9,239 10,352 23,928
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.21% 17.41% 17.03%
Number of salaries quoted 5,285 7,679 14,323
10th Percentile £28,388 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,800 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £46,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +3.26% +2.22% -

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 23 October 2024.

Salary histogram for SUSE in the UK

SUSE
Top 12 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 23 October 2024. 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 -22 24 £53,250 -18.08% 2
Work from Home +52 16 £51,500 -39.41% 4
UK excluding London -29 15 £51,500 +28.75% 2
London +3 8 - -
North of England -26 5 £37,500 - 1
East Midlands - 5 £55,000 -
Midlands - 5 £55,000 -
Yorkshire - 4 - -
South East - 3 £37,500 - 1
North East - 1 £37,500 -
East of England - 1 £51,500 -
South West - 1 - -

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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (16.67%) OpenStack
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (8.33%) SharePoint
4 1 (4.17%) Apache
4 1 (4.17%) CloudStack
4 1 (4.17%) IBM Domino
4 1 (4.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (50.00%) Azure
2 10 (41.67%) AWS
2 10 (41.67%) GCP
3 6 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (20.83%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.17%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (33.33%) DHCP
1 8 (33.33%) DNS
2 7 (29.17%) Firewall
3 5 (20.83%) TCP/IP
4 3 (12.50%) SAN
5 2 (8.33%) VoIP
5 2 (8.33%) Wireless
6 1 (4.17%) IPv4
6 1 (4.17%) iSCSI
6 1 (4.17%) SD-WAN
6 1 (4.17%) VPN
6 1 (4.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Git
General
1 11 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Retail
3 1 (4.17%) Police
3 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (45.83%) Systems Engineer
2 9 (37.50%) Linux Engineer
3 8 (33.33%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Administrator
4 4 (16.67%) Managing Director
5 2 (8.33%) IT Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Linux Administrator
5 2 (8.33%) Linux Support
5 2 (8.33%) Linux Support Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 2 (8.33%) Support Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (8.33%) Systems Support
5 2 (8.33%) Systems Support Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Graduate Support Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) IT Support
6 1 (4.17%) Junior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Trainee Support Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Trainee Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) .NET
1 1 (4.17%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 8 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 5 (20.83%) Clustering
2 5 (20.83%) Public Cloud
3 4 (16.67%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.17%) Client/Server
4 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 24 (100.00%) Linux
2 11 (45.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 11 (45.83%) Ubuntu
3 8 (33.33%) Unix
3 8 (33.33%) Windows
4 6 (25.00%) CentOS
5 5 (20.83%) Solaris
5 5 (20.83%) Windows Server
6 4 (16.67%) AIX
6 4 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (8.33%) Debian
9 1 (4.17%) NetWare
9 1 (4.17%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (4.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) DevOps
1 9 (37.50%) High Availability
2 8 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (20.83%) Agile
4 5 (20.83%) Containerisation
4 5 (20.83%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (20.83%) ERP
4 5 (20.83%) Open Source
4 5 (20.83%) Patch Management
4 5 (20.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (16.67%) Change Management
5 4 (16.67%) Customer Experience
5 4 (16.67%) Information Security
5 4 (16.67%) Machine Learning
5 4 (16.67%) Parallel Computing
5 4 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) Python
2 8 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 6 (25.00%) Perl
4 4 (16.67%) Bash
4 4 (16.67%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.17%) ActionScript
5 1 (4.17%) C++
5 1 (4.17%) Go
5 1 (4.17%) Java
5 1 (4.17%) VBScript
5 1 (4.17%) VC++
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
3 4 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 10 (41.67%) Docker
2 5 (20.83%) Active Directory
3 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 3 (12.50%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (8.33%) vSphere
5 1 (4.17%) Ceph
5 1 (4.17%) Gluster
5 1 (4.17%) KVM
5 1 (4.17%) oVirt
5 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (58.33%) Kubernetes
2 10 (41.67%) Ansible
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (8.33%) vCenter Server
3 2 (8.33%) WSUS
4 1 (4.17%) Graylog
4 1 (4.17%) Observium
4 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.17%) Puppet
4 1 (4.17%) SCCM
4 1 (4.17%) SCOM
4 1 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (4.17%) ZABBIX
4 1 (4.17%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 20 (83.33%) Red Hat
2 11 (45.83%) Oracle
3 7 (29.17%) HP
4 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 6 (25.00%) VMware
5 5 (20.83%) SAP
6 3 (12.50%) Cisco
6 3 (12.50%) Dell
6 3 (12.50%) Meraki
6 3 (12.50%) NetApp
7 1 (4.17%) Google
7 1 (4.17%) Lotus
7 1 (4.17%) Novell
7 1 (4.17%) Palo Alto
7 1 (4.17%) Sun