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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 438 - 385
Rank change year-on-year - - +50
Contract jobs citing SUSE 4 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.017% - 0.015%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.14% - 0.092%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £472 - -
25th Percentile £486 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.00%
75th Percentile £502 - £650
90th Percentile £504 - -
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +10.09%

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 2,869 2,200 3,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.84% 17.21% 15.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,834 1,414 2,159
10th Percentile £163 £178 £175
25th Percentile £263 £243 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £432 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £649 £675
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £470
% change year-on-year -5.26% +1.06% -6.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 286 161 319
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.33 £12.25
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.44 £14.22
Median hourly rate £47.50 £22.88 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +107.65% +1.67% -24.11%
75th Percentile £67.69 £62.50 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.84 £68.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £24.09 £22.08
% change year-on-year +97.18% +9.13% -42.66%

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 6 May 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
North West - 4 £497 -
North of England - 4 £497 - 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:

General
1 4 (100.00%) Banking
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Unix Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Optimisation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Unix Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 4 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) AIX
1 4 (100.00%) HPUX
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Solaris
1 4 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Change Management
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 4 (100.00%) RBAC
1 4 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 4 (100.00%) Runbook
1 4 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 4 (100.00%) Storage Management
1 4 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 4 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) CISSP
1 4 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 4 (100.00%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) GRC
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) HP
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft