SUSE Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

SUSE Linux
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SUSE skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 389 349 386
Rank change year-on-year -40 +37 +104
Contract jobs citing SUSE 3 3 14
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.016% 0.020% 0.072%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.10% 0.12% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 6
10th Percentile - £415 £328
25th Percentile £358 £419 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year -14.12% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £373 £544 -
90th Percentile - £608 £488
UK median daily rate £500 £581 £400
% change year-on-year -13.98% +45.31% -25.65%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

SUSE falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,891 2,507 3,354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.82% 16.88% 17.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,905 1,499 2,194
10th Percentile £163 £180 £160
25th Percentile £213 £238 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £425 £428
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% -0.76% -4.83%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £620 £650 £655
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 299 150 263
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.95 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.94 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.38% +39.81% +22.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £69.99 £70.00 £75.97
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -38.66% +26.15% +34.02%

SUSE
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SUSE relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

SUSE job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

SUSE
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SUSE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SUSE

SUSE
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SUSE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SUSE

SUSE
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 December 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East -10 2 - -
West Midlands - 1 £365 -
Midlands - 1 £365 -
SUSE
UK

SUSE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (33.33%) AWS KMS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Route 53
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) iSCSI
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) VLAN
1 1 (33.33%) VSAN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SAP HANA
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (33.33%) PKI
2 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Re-Platforming
3 1 (33.33%) Reverse Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) PowerCLI
1 1 (33.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Veeam
2 1 (33.33%) VMware