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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 867 923 1172
Rank change year-on-year +56 +249 -307
Permanent jobs citing SUSE 43 56 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.054% 0.041%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.30% 0.34% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 35 38 61
10th Percentile £29,350 £47,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £68,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +30.95% +16.67%
75th Percentile £67,500 £98,438 £70,000
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 14,103 16,511 29,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.28% 15.97% 18.92%
Number of salaries quoted 10,900 11,149 16,747
10th Percentile £25,760 £27,000 £26,450
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 6 May 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 6 May 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 +97 43 £50,000 -23.08% 4
UK excluding London -4 30 £50,000 -8.68% 4
Midlands +34 23 £50,000 -13.04% 1
East Midlands -1 16 £50,000 -13.04% 1
London +112 13 £65,000 -31.58%
Work from Home +70 10 £46,250 -28.85% 4
West Midlands - 7 £38,000 -
South West -33 3 £52,500 -2.33% 1
South East +17 2 - - 1
East of England +4 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 (13.95%) WebSphere
2 3 (6.98%) CloudStack
3 2 (4.65%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Abaqus
Cloud Services
1 25 (58.14%) Azure
2 20 (46.51%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (20.93%) Entra ID
4 7 (16.28%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (6.98%) AWS
5 3 (6.98%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (6.98%) OCI
6 2 (4.65%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 21 (48.84%) SAN
2 15 (34.88%) Firewall
3 13 (30.23%) VLAN
3 13 (30.23%) VPN
4 3 (6.98%) iSCSI
5 2 (4.65%) Ethernet
5 2 (4.65%) InfiniBand
5 2 (4.65%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.28%) Ingres
1 7 (16.28%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (16.28%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.65%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 10 (23.26%) Git
General
1 21 (48.84%) Social Skills
2 13 (30.23%) Billing
3 6 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.98%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (30.23%) Administrator
1 13 (30.23%) Architect
1 13 (30.23%) Infrastructure Architect
2 11 (25.58%) Systems Administrator
3 7 (16.28%) Linux Administrator
3 7 (16.28%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 6 (13.95%) Analyst
4 6 (13.95%) Linux Engineer
4 6 (13.95%) Senior
4 6 (13.95%) Senior Analyst
4 6 (13.95%) Senior Technical Analyst
4 6 (13.95%) Technical Analyst
5 4 (9.30%) DBA
5 4 (9.30%) Graduate
5 4 (9.30%) Graduate Systems Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Linux Support
5 4 (9.30%) Support Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Systems Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Systems Support
5 4 (9.30%) Systems Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.28%) EDI
2 2 (4.65%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (34.88%) Replication
2 13 (30.23%) Data Centre
2 13 (30.23%) Public Cloud
3 4 (9.30%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.65%) Beowulf
Operating Systems
1 43 (100.00%) Linux
2 20 (46.51%) Windows
3 19 (44.19%) Ubuntu
4 17 (39.53%) Windows Server
5 15 (34.88%) CentOS
5 15 (34.88%) Windows Server 2012
6 11 (25.58%) Debian
6 11 (25.58%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 3 (6.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (6.98%) VMS
8 2 (4.65%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (30.23%) Asset Management
1 13 (30.23%) Continuous Improvement
1 13 (30.23%) Mentoring
1 13 (30.23%) Network Monitoring
1 13 (30.23%) Presales
1 13 (30.23%) Project Delivery
1 13 (30.23%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 8 (18.60%) ITIL
3 7 (16.28%) DevOps
3 7 (16.28%) IT Strategy
3 7 (16.28%) Technology Strategy
4 6 (13.95%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (13.95%) PRINCE
4 6 (13.95%) PRINCE2
4 6 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (13.95%) Technical Architecture
4 6 (13.95%) Time Management
5 4 (9.30%) Computer Science
5 4 (9.30%) Mathematics
5 4 (9.30%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (55.81%) SQL
2 16 (37.21%) Python
3 13 (30.23%) Bash
3 13 (30.23%) PowerShell
4 5 (11.63%) Perl
5 3 (6.98%) AWK
5 3 (6.98%) Go
5 3 (6.98%) sed
6 2 (4.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (30.23%) MCSA
1 13 (30.23%) MCSE
1 13 (30.23%) Microsoft Certification
1 13 (30.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 6 (13.95%) Degree
3 2 (4.65%) DV Cleared
3 2 (4.65%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.65%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.65%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (37.21%) vSphere
2 15 (34.88%) Active Directory
3 13 (30.23%) vCloud
3 13 (30.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (6.98%) Ceph
4 3 (6.98%) Docker
4 3 (6.98%) Gluster
4 3 (6.98%) KVM
4 3 (6.98%) oVirt
4 3 (6.98%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (4.65%) Hyper-V
5 2 (4.65%) Lustre
5 2 (4.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 6 (13.95%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 3 (6.98%) Ansible
2 3 (6.98%) Graylog
2 3 (6.98%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.98%) Observium
2 3 (6.98%) Prometheus
2 3 (6.98%) Puppet
2 3 (6.98%) ZABBIX
3 2 (4.65%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 24 (55.81%) VMware
2 18 (41.86%) Veeam
3 17 (39.53%) Microsoft
4 13 (30.23%) Fujitsu
4 13 (30.23%) HP
5 8 (18.60%) IBM
5 8 (18.60%) Red Hat
6 3 (6.98%) Oracle
7 2 (4.65%) Citrix
7 2 (4.65%) EMC
7 2 (4.65%) Intel
7 2 (4.65%) Mellanox
7 2 (4.65%) NetApp
7 2 (4.65%) SolarWinds