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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 848 928 1178
Rank change year-on-year +80 +250 -311
Permanent jobs citing SUSE 42 49 66
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.042% 0.049% 0.041%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.30% 0.31% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 34 34 58
10th Percentile £27,450 £47,325 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £45,875
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 £97,500 £71,875
90th Percentile - £107,500 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £56,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +14.29% +15.29%

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 13,973 15,925 30,406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.99% 16.06% 18.92%
Number of salaries quoted 10,731 10,713 16,468
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £26,450
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,750
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 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SUSE in the UK

SUSE
Top 12 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 18 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 +87 42 £50,000 -23.08% 7
UK excluding London -20 31 £50,000 -10.71% 6
Midlands +10 23 £50,000 -13.04% 1
East Midlands +4 16 £50,000 -13.04% 1
London +96 11 £65,000 -18.75%
Work from Home +66 10 £46,250 -36.21% 9
West Midlands - 7 £38,000 -
South West -27 3 £52,500 -2.33% 2
South East +2 2 - - 2
East of England -7 2 £50,000 -8.26% 2
North of England +51 1 £37,500 -
North East - 1 £37,500 -

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 (14.29%) WebSphere
2 3 (7.14%) CloudStack
3 2 (4.76%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Abaqus
Cloud Services
1 23 (54.76%) Azure
2 18 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (21.43%) Entra ID
4 7 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (7.14%) AWS
5 3 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (7.14%) OCI
6 2 (4.76%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 19 (45.24%) SAN
2 13 (30.95%) Firewall
3 11 (26.19%) VLAN
3 11 (26.19%) VPN
4 3 (7.14%) iSCSI
5 2 (4.76%) Ethernet
5 2 (4.76%) InfiniBand
5 2 (4.76%) LAN
6 1 (2.38%) DHCP
6 1 (2.38%) DNS
6 1 (2.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.67%) Ingres
1 7 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.76%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 10 (23.81%) Git
General
1 19 (45.24%) Social Skills
2 11 (26.19%) Billing
3 6 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.14%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.38%) Police
Job Titles
1 13 (30.95%) Administrator
2 11 (26.19%) Architect
2 11 (26.19%) Infrastructure Architect
2 11 (26.19%) Systems Administrator
3 7 (16.67%) Linux Administrator
3 7 (16.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 6 (14.29%) Analyst
4 6 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
4 6 (14.29%) Senior
4 6 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
4 6 (14.29%) Senior Technical Analyst
4 6 (14.29%) Technical Analyst
5 4 (9.52%) DBA
5 4 (9.52%) Graduate
5 4 (9.52%) Linux Support
5 4 (9.52%) Linux Support Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Support Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Systems Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Systems Support
5 4 (9.52%) Systems Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.67%) EDI
2 2 (4.76%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (30.95%) Replication
2 12 (28.57%) Data Centre
3 11 (26.19%) Public Cloud
4 4 (9.52%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.76%) Beowulf
6 1 (2.38%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 42 (100.00%) Linux
2 19 (45.24%) Windows
3 17 (40.48%) Ubuntu
4 16 (38.10%) Windows Server
5 15 (35.71%) CentOS
6 14 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
7 11 (26.19%) Debian
7 11 (26.19%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 4 (9.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (7.14%) VMS
10 2 (4.76%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (28.57%) Mentoring
2 11 (26.19%) Asset Management
2 11 (26.19%) Continuous Improvement
2 11 (26.19%) Network Monitoring
2 11 (26.19%) Presales
2 11 (26.19%) Project Delivery
2 11 (26.19%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 8 (19.05%) ITIL
4 7 (16.67%) DevOps
4 7 (16.67%) IT Strategy
4 7 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
5 6 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (14.29%) PRINCE
5 6 (14.29%) PRINCE2
5 6 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
5 6 (14.29%) Time Management
6 4 (9.52%) Computer Science
6 4 (9.52%) Mathematics
6 4 (9.52%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (52.38%) SQL
2 16 (38.10%) Python
3 13 (30.95%) Bash
4 12 (28.57%) PowerShell
5 5 (11.90%) Perl
6 3 (7.14%) AWK
6 3 (7.14%) Go
6 3 (7.14%) sed
7 2 (4.76%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.38%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (26.19%) MCSA
1 11 (26.19%) MCSE
1 11 (26.19%) Microsoft Certification
1 11 (26.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 6 (14.29%) Degree
3 3 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.14%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.76%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 14 (33.33%) vSphere
2 11 (26.19%) vCloud
2 11 (26.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (7.14%) Ceph
3 3 (7.14%) Docker
3 3 (7.14%) Gluster
3 3 (7.14%) KVM
3 3 (7.14%) oVirt
3 3 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (4.76%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.76%) Lustre
4 2 (4.76%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (14.29%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 3 (7.14%) Ansible
2 3 (7.14%) Graylog
2 3 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.14%) Observium
2 3 (7.14%) Prometheus
2 3 (7.14%) Puppet
2 3 (7.14%) ZABBIX
3 2 (4.76%) Trend Micro Deep Security
4 1 (2.38%) SCCM
4 1 (2.38%) SCOM
4 1 (2.38%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (54.76%) VMware
2 16 (38.10%) Veeam
3 15 (35.71%) Microsoft
4 11 (26.19%) Fujitsu
4 11 (26.19%) HP
5 8 (19.05%) IBM
5 8 (19.05%) Red Hat
6 3 (7.14%) Oracle
7 2 (4.76%) Citrix
7 2 (4.76%) EMC
7 2 (4.76%) Intel
7 2 (4.76%) Mellanox
7 2 (4.76%) NetApp
7 2 (4.76%) SolarWinds