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 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 718 866 851
Rank change year-on-year +148 -15 +373
Permanent jobs citing SUSE 10 27 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% 0.027% 0.036%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.13% 0.20% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 10 21 20
10th Percentile £44,875 £24,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,000 £36,250 £50,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -23.08% +23.81%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £72,875 £67,500 £100,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £50,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -2.00% -8.26% +17.91%

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 7,423 13,202 14,119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.29% 13.26% 16.82%
Number of salaries quoted 4,661 9,814 9,901
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,250 £27,250
25th Percentile £31,750 £31,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £46,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.60% -11.43% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% -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 19 July 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 19 July 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 +101 10 £52,000 +4.00% 11
UK excluding London +114 9 £49,000 -2.00% 13
South East - 8 £52,000 -
Work from Home +77 2 £55,000 +29.41% 4
East of England +11 1 £26,500 -47.00% 2

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 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DHCP
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
1 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (20.00%) VLAN
General
1 1 (10.00%) Retail
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Administrator
1 5 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
1 5 (50.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 5 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
2 4 (40.00%) Junior
2 4 (40.00%) Junior Linux Systems Administrator
2 4 (40.00%) Junior Systems Administrator
3 2 (20.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Service Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Clustering
1 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (10.00%) IBM Mainframe
1 1 (10.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (50.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 3 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (30.00%) Ubuntu
4 2 (20.00%) Debian
5 1 (10.00%) AIX
5 1 (10.00%) Windows
5 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
5 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) High Availability
2 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (30.00%) ITIL
4 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (10.00%) Agile
5 1 (10.00%) Customer Service
5 1 (10.00%) DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) ITSM
5 1 (10.00%) Migration
5 1 (10.00%) Open Source
5 1 (10.00%) Risk Management
5 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
5 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 5 (50.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) Perl
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (60.00%) Docker
3 5 (50.00%) NFS
4 2 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (20.00%) vSphere
5 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) VMware
2 5 (50.00%) SAP
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (20.00%) Dell
4 2 (20.00%) HP
4 2 (20.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (20.00%) Salesforce
5 1 (10.00%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (10.00%) IBM
5 1 (10.00%) Oracle
5 1 (10.00%) Proofpoint