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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 680 852 932
Rank change year-on-year +172 +80 +211
Permanent jobs citing SUSE 12 44 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.045% 0.055%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.18% 0.31% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 12 36 39
10th Percentile £34,554 £30,500 £47,250
25th Percentile £46,938 £47,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £50,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -31.03% +38.10%
75th Percentile £57,500 £67,500 £98,750
90th Percentile £69,875 - £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £50,000 £54,750
% change year-on-year -2.00% -8.68% +11.73%

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 6,568 14,138 16,643
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.62% 14.36% 16.01%
Number of salaries quoted 4,449 10,938 11,195
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,250 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -1.18% -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 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SUSE in the UK

SUSE
Top 5 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 1 May 2025. 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 +142 12 £49,000 -2.00% 16
UK excluding London +189 11 £49,000 -2.00% 18
South East +115 8 £52,000 - 4
Work from Home +189 4 £44,688 -3.38% 15
East of England +58 3 £34,377 -31.25%

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 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (83.33%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 2 (16.67%) OneDrive
3 2 (16.67%) PaaS
3 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 2 (16.67%) PowerApps
3 2 (16.67%) SaaS
4 1 (8.33%) AWS
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) DHCP
1 5 (41.67%) DNS
2 3 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (16.67%) VLAN
3 2 (16.67%) VoIP
4 1 (8.33%) Firewall
4 1 (8.33%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Power BI
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Administrator
1 6 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
2 5 (41.67%) Linux Administrator
2 5 (41.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 4 (33.33%) Junior
3 4 (33.33%) Junior Linux Systems Administrator
3 4 (33.33%) Junior Systems Administrator
4 2 (16.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Lead
5 1 (8.33%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Client/Server
2 1 (8.33%) Clustering
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (8.33%) Mainframe
2 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (41.67%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 3 (25.00%) Ubuntu
4 2 (16.67%) Debian
4 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (8.33%) AIX
5 1 (8.33%) CentOS
5 1 (8.33%) Rocky
5 1 (8.33%) Windows
5 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) High Availability
2 5 (41.67%) Containerisation
3 4 (33.33%) ITIL
4 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) Change Management
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (16.67%) CRM
5 2 (16.67%) Customer Service
5 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (16.67%) ETL
5 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 1 (8.33%) Agile
6 1 (8.33%) Analytics
6 1 (8.33%) DevOps
6 1 (8.33%) Migration
6 1 (8.33%) Open Source
6 1 (8.33%) Risk Management
6 1 (8.33%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Python
2 6 (50.00%) Bash
3 2 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (8.33%) Perl
System Software
1 9 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (50.00%) Docker
3 5 (41.67%) NFS
4 4 (33.33%) vSphere
5 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
5 2 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) SCCM
2 2 (16.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) VMware
2 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (41.67%) SAP
3 3 (25.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (16.67%) Ab Initio
4 2 (16.67%) arcserve
4 2 (16.67%) Aruba
4 2 (16.67%) Avaya
4 2 (16.67%) Cisco
4 2 (16.67%) Citrix
4 2 (16.67%) Dell
4 2 (16.67%) HP
4 2 (16.67%) Linksys
4 2 (16.67%) Oracle
4 2 (16.67%) Salesforce
5 1 (8.33%) IBM