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 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 459 367 375
Rank change year-on-year -92 +8 +25
Contract jobs citing SUSE 13 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.048% 0.013% 0.016%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.42% 0.081% 0.097%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 1
10th Percentile £378 - -
25th Percentile - £358 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £365 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% -39.17% +25.00%
75th Percentile £489 £373 £650
90th Percentile £499 - -
UK median daily rate £425 £365 £556
% change year-on-year +16.44% -34.38% +12.09%

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 3,127 2,467 3,079
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.50% 16.24% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,935 1,565 1,996
10th Percentile £185 £178 £183
25th Percentile £270 £250 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £450 £473
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% -4.91% +5.17%
75th Percentile £556 £556 £575
90th Percentile £638 £625 £675
UK median daily rate £470 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +1.62% -2.63% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 212 286
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.35 £12.25
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.44 £16.36
Median hourly rate £27.27 £22.53 £39.25
Median % change year-on-year +21.04% -42.60% +33.96%
75th Percentile £65.00 £57.80 £68.56
90th Percentile £73.10 £68.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £24.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +8.33% -12.73% -35.29%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SUSE in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SUSE in the UK excluding London

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 5 August 2026. 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
Midlands -52 5 £400 +9.59%
West Midlands -53 5 £400 +9.59%
North of England -56 5 £494 +35.34% 1
North West - 5 £494 - 1
Scotland - 2 £375 - 1
South West - 1 - -
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 (7.69%) AWS
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) Azure Stack
1 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) DHCP
1 1 (7.69%) DNS
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) Kerberos
1 1 (7.69%) NAS
1 1 (7.69%) SAN
1 1 (7.69%) SSH
1 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) MariaDB
1 1 (7.69%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
General
1 5 (38.46%) Banking
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Investment Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Analyst
1 5 (38.46%) Asset Management Analyst
1 5 (38.46%) Unix Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Administrator
2 2 (15.38%) Linux Administrator
2 2 (15.38%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 2 (15.38%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Optimisation Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (7.69%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Data Centre
1 4 (30.77%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (15.38%) Virtual Team
3 1 (7.69%) FPGA
3 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (7.69%) Grid Computing
3 1 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (46.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (38.46%) AIX
3 5 (38.46%) HPUX
3 5 (38.46%) Oracle Linux
3 5 (38.46%) Solaris
3 5 (38.46%) Unix
4 1 (7.69%) CentOS
4 1 (7.69%) Rocky
4 1 (7.69%) Ubuntu
4 1 (7.69%) Windows
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Asset Management
1 5 (38.46%) Change Management
1 5 (38.46%) Cost Optimisation
1 5 (38.46%) Security Hardening
1 5 (38.46%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (30.77%) ITIL
2 4 (30.77%) Migration
2 4 (30.77%) Performance Management
2 4 (30.77%) RBAC
2 4 (30.77%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (30.77%) Runbook
2 4 (30.77%) Storage Management
2 4 (30.77%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (7.69%) Low Latency
4 1 (7.69%) Server Building
4 1 (7.69%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Bash
1 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) CISSP
1 4 (30.77%) CompTIA Security+
1 4 (30.77%) RHCE
2 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
2 1 (7.69%) KVM
2 1 (7.69%) NFS
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Ansible
1 1 (7.69%) Grafana
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) Nagios
1 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
1 1 (7.69%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) Oracle
2 10 (76.92%) Red Hat
3 8 (61.54%) Microsoft
4 5 (38.46%) HP
4 5 (38.46%) IBM
4 5 (38.46%) MathWorks
4 5 (38.46%) SAP
4 5 (38.46%) Siemens
5 1 (7.69%) Mellanox
5 1 (7.69%) SaltStack
5 1 (7.69%) Solarflare
5 1 (7.69%) Splunk
5 1 (7.69%) VMware