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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 851 913 1169
Rank change year-on-year +62 +256 -314
Permanent jobs citing SUSE 45 57 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.054% 0.041%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.32% 0.34% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 37 39 60
10th Percentile £31,650 £47,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £72,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.03% +38.10% +16.67%
75th Percentile £67,500 £98,750 £70,625
90th Percentile - £107,500 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,750 £49,000
% change year-on-year -8.68% +11.73% +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 14,079 16,671 29,105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.36% 15.93% 18.88%
Number of salaries quoted 10,884 11,238 16,744
10th Percentile £25,760 £27,000 £26,398
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -

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 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SUSE in the UK

SUSE
Top 10 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 27 April 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 +108 45 £50,000 -23.08% 2
UK excluding London +21 31 £50,000 -8.68% 2
Midlands +28 24 £50,000 -13.04% 1
East Midlands -2 16 £50,000 -13.04% 1
London +118 14 £65,000 -31.58%
Work from Home +83 10 £46,250 -28.85% 3
West Midlands - 8 £38,000 -
South West -2 3 £52,500 -2.33% 1
South East +30 2 - -
East of England 0 2 £50,000 -8.26%

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 6 (13.33%) WebSphere
2 3 (6.67%) CloudStack
3 2 (4.44%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Abaqus
Cloud Services
1 27 (60.00%) Azure
2 21 (46.67%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (22.22%) Entra ID
4 7 (15.56%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (6.67%) AWS
5 3 (6.67%) Azure Stack
5 3 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (6.67%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 23 (51.11%) SAN
2 17 (37.78%) Firewall
3 14 (31.11%) VLAN
3 14 (31.11%) VPN
4 3 (6.67%) iSCSI
4 3 (6.67%) LAN
5 2 (4.44%) Ethernet
5 2 (4.44%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.56%) Ingres
1 7 (15.56%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (15.56%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.44%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 10 (22.22%) Git
General
1 22 (48.89%) Social Skills
2 14 (31.11%) Billing
3 6 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (31.11%) Architect
1 14 (31.11%) Infrastructure Architect
2 13 (28.89%) Administrator
3 11 (24.44%) Systems Administrator
4 7 (15.56%) Linux Administrator
4 7 (15.56%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 6 (13.33%) Analyst
5 6 (13.33%) Linux Engineer
5 6 (13.33%) Senior
5 6 (13.33%) Senior Analyst
5 6 (13.33%) Senior Technical Analyst
5 6 (13.33%) Technical Analyst
6 4 (8.89%) DBA
6 4 (8.89%) Graduate
6 4 (8.89%) Graduate Support Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Linux Support
6 4 (8.89%) Support Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Systems Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Systems Support
6 4 (8.89%) Systems Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.56%) EDI
2 2 (4.44%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (37.78%) Replication
2 14 (31.11%) Data Centre
2 14 (31.11%) Public Cloud
3 4 (8.89%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.44%) Beowulf
Operating Systems
1 45 (100.00%) Linux
2 22 (48.89%) Windows
3 21 (46.67%) Ubuntu
4 19 (42.22%) Windows Server
5 16 (35.56%) Windows Server 2012
6 15 (33.33%) CentOS
7 11 (24.44%) Debian
7 11 (24.44%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 3 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (6.67%) VMS
8 3 (6.67%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.11%) Asset Management
1 14 (31.11%) Continuous Improvement
1 14 (31.11%) Mentoring
1 14 (31.11%) Network Monitoring
1 14 (31.11%) Presales
1 14 (31.11%) Project Delivery
1 14 (31.11%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 8 (17.78%) ITIL
3 7 (15.56%) DevOps
3 7 (15.56%) IT Strategy
3 7 (15.56%) Technology Strategy
4 6 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (13.33%) PRINCE
4 6 (13.33%) PRINCE2
4 6 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (13.33%) Technical Architecture
4 6 (13.33%) Time Management
5 4 (8.89%) Computer Science
5 4 (8.89%) Mathematics
5 4 (8.89%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (55.56%) SQL
2 16 (35.56%) Python
3 14 (31.11%) PowerShell
4 13 (28.89%) Bash
5 5 (11.11%) Perl
6 3 (6.67%) AWK
6 3 (6.67%) Go
6 3 (6.67%) sed
7 2 (4.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (31.11%) MCSA
1 14 (31.11%) MCSE
1 14 (31.11%) Microsoft Certification
1 14 (31.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 6 (13.33%) Degree
3 2 (4.44%) DV Cleared
3 2 (4.44%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.44%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (37.78%) Active Directory
1 17 (37.78%) vSphere
2 14 (31.11%) vCloud
2 14 (31.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.67%) Ceph
3 3 (6.67%) Docker
3 3 (6.67%) Gluster
3 3 (6.67%) Hyper-V
3 3 (6.67%) KVM
3 3 (6.67%) oVirt
3 3 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (4.44%) Lustre
4 2 (4.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 6 (13.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 3 (6.67%) Ansible
2 3 (6.67%) Graylog
2 3 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.67%) Observium
2 3 (6.67%) Prometheus
2 3 (6.67%) Puppet
2 3 (6.67%) Trend Micro Deep Security
2 3 (6.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 25 (55.56%) VMware
2 20 (44.44%) Veeam
3 19 (42.22%) Microsoft
4 14 (31.11%) Fujitsu
4 14 (31.11%) HP
5 8 (17.78%) IBM
5 8 (17.78%) Red Hat
6 3 (6.67%) Citrix
6 3 (6.67%) Oracle
6 3 (6.67%) SolarWinds
7 2 (4.44%) EMC
7 2 (4.44%) Intel
7 2 (4.44%) Mellanox
7 2 (4.44%) NetApp