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 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 383 356 394
Rank change year-on-year -27 +38 +108
Contract jobs citing SUSE 3 3 29
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.018% 0.018% 0.14%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.11% 0.11% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 12
10th Percentile - £415 £356
25th Percentile £358 £419 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £425 £413
Median % change year-on-year -14.12% +3.03% -25.00%
75th Percentile £373 £544 £510
90th Percentile - £608 £573
UK median daily rate £365 £581 £480
% change year-on-year -37.20% +21.09% -8.57%

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 2,779 2,857 3,725
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.04% 16.80% 17.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,770 1,693 2,441
10th Percentile £170 £185 £163
25th Percentile £220 £275 £228
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £447 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.04% -0.67% -
75th Percentile £538 £570 £575
90th Percentile £603 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £493
% change year-on-year -5.26% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 279 206 294
10th Percentile £14.84 £16.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.33 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.50 £55.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -59.09% +100.00% +24.55%
75th Percentile £43.75 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £52.50 £39.60
% change year-on-year -54.29% +32.58% +65.00%

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 October 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 +5 1 - - 1
North of England -34 1 £365 -14.12%
West Midlands - 1 £365 -
Yorkshire - 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%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) iSCSI
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VLAN
1 1 (33.33%) VSAN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) SAP HANA
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) Postman
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Technical Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Ubuntu
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) CentOS
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (33.33%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) API Development
2 1 (33.33%) API Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Re-Platforming
2 1 (33.33%) Reverse Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) PowerCLI
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
1 1 (33.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) MuleSoft
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) Veeam