SUSE Linux
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for SUSE skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SUSE over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 575 641 797
Rank change year-on-year +66 +156 -134
Contract jobs citing SUSE 4 53 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.093% 0.075%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.070% 0.57% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 24 35
10th Percentile - £404 £380
25th Percentile £550 £486 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £540 £523
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +3.25% +30.75%
75th Percentile £650 £594 £575
90th Percentile - £738 £648
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £450 £512
% change year-on-year +33.33% -12.02% +36.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £44.01
25th Percentile - - £44.77
Median hourly rate - - £46.79
75th Percentile - - £48.06
90th Percentile - - £48.37
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,687 9,251 13,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.37% 16.16% 14.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,850 6,458 8,915
10th Percentile £185 £190 £175
25th Percentile £300 £338 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £503 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.33% +0.57% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £613
90th Percentile £700 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 393 404 594
10th Percentile £12.75 £14.08 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.74 £15.89
Median hourly rate £22.15 £39.05 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.28% +73.56% +28.57%
75th Percentile £60.75 £64.13 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £30.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% +50.00% +21.21%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SUSE.

Daily rate trend for SUSE in the UK

SUSE
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SUSE.

Hourly rate trend for SUSE in the UK

SUSE
Top 5 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 20 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +77 4 £600 +4.35% 5
UK excluding London +38 3 £600 +33.33% 5
South West - 2 £600 - 2
East Midlands +17 1 - - 1
Midlands +14 1 - - 1

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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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SAP HANA
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Administrator
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (25.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Security Patching
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) SAP