SUSE Linux
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for SUSE skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SUSE over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 581 642 781
Rank change year-on-year +61 +139 -127
Contract jobs citing SUSE 4 51 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.088% 0.077%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.070% 0.54% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 24 37
10th Percentile - £416 £388
25th Percentile £550 £493 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £545 £520
Median % change year-on-year +10.09% +4.81% +30.00%
75th Percentile £650 £603 £550
90th Percentile - £738 £640
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £500 £488
% change year-on-year +20.00% +2.56% +30.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £44.01
25th Percentile - - £44.77
Median hourly rate - - £46.79
75th Percentile - - £48.06
90th Percentile - - £48.37
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,693 9,494 13,226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.29% 16.34% 15.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,848 6,655 8,981
10th Percentile £185 £193 £175
25th Percentile £300 £340 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.84% +2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £613
90th Percentile £700 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 389 420 621
10th Percentile £12.70 £14.00 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £17.72 £15.93
Median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +71.11% +26.76%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.50 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.25 £29.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year -24.06% +46.50% +21.21%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SUSE.

Daily rate trend for SUSE in the UK

SUSE
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SUSE.

Hourly rate trend for SUSE in the UK

SUSE
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SUSE within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +67 4 £600 +4.35% 5
UK excluding London +58 3 £600 +20.00% 5
South West - 2 £600 - 1
Midlands +29 1 - - 1
East Midlands +20 1 - - 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SAP HANA
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Administrator
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (25.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Security Patching
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) SAP