We found 6,811 companies that use SLES. 839 of them name it in their own job posts, and the rest through employees' public profiles. Hiring for it is steady, with 523 job posts naming it from October 2025 to August 2026. It comes up most in Systems Engineer job posts.
Among the companies with the most job posts naming SLES are NVIDIA (94), Hewlett Packard Enterprise (84) and Lockheed Martin (64). Of the five companies in the table, IBM has the most employees who list it on their profiles: 177.
CompanyPostsPeopleRecent job post
NVIDIAScientific and Technical Services · first seen Dec 20229434
"2+ years of experience in Linux distributions (CentOS, Ubuntu, SLES, RedHat)."devops engineer, Oct 22, 2026
Hewlett Packard EnterpriseScientific and Technical Services · first seen Jul 202284149
"Strong working knowledge of Linux operating systems, including Red Hat, SLES, Ubuntu, and related certification or validation processes."systems test engineer, hpc & ai systems, Nov 7, 2026
Lockheed MartinManufacturing · first seen Aug 20226433
"Linux Server Administration (RedHat or SLES)"Senior Systems Engineer – Information Technology, Jun 26, 2026
AMDManufacturing · first seen Nov 20226421
"Perform functional, integration, and system-level testing across different Linux distributions (e.g., Ubuntu, RHEL, SLES, etc.)"Sr. Staff/Principal Validation Engineer- AI/ML, Jun 9, 2026
IBMInformation · first seen Sep 202349177
"Strong experience in Linux deployment, administration and troubleshooting across enterprise environments(Redhat, Sles and Ubuntu)."hardware developer, Jul 21, 2026
Demand for SLES is steady: 0.27 in every 10,000 job posts from June to August 2026, close to the 0.30 of March to May. From October to December 2025 it was 0.26.
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Month
Job posts naming SLES
All job posts
Per 10,000
Oct 2025
25
1,413,673
0.18
Nov 2025
61
1,822,119
0.33
Dec 2025
29
1,236,103
0.23
Jan 2026
46
1,828,002
0.25
Feb 2026
51
1,856,647
0.27
Mar 2026
51
1,850,711
0.28
Apr 2026
62
1,728,886
0.36
May 2026
47
1,821,509
0.26
Jun 2026
68
1,909,496
0.36
Jul 2026
54
1,815,180
0.30
Aug 2026
29
1,835,698
0.16
How many companies named SLES in a job post for the first time in recent months?
SLES showed up in job posts at 34 companies for the first time from June to August 2026, and 37 in the three months before. The 34 from June to August are 4.1% of all 839 companies whose job posts name it.
March to May 202637
June to August 202634
October 2025 to August 2026118
Companies whose first job post naming it appeared in that period. Recruiters, staffing firms and job boards are left out.
How do we know which companies use SLES?
Of the 6,811 companies here, 5,972 are known from what employees list on their profiles. 281 show up in both job posts and employees' profiles.
How we knowCompaniesShare
Job posts name SLES
83912%
Employees' profiles list SLES
5,97288%
6,811 companies. Each is counted once, under the strongest evidence we have for it.
What size are the companies that use SLES?
42% of SLES users are companies with 50 to 999 employees, the largest size group. 1,087 of its companies have fewer than 50 employees.
Share of its companies
Typical tech page
ShareTypical
Under 50 employees
16%22%
50 to 999
42%38%
1,000 to 5,000
22%17%
Over 5,000
20%23%
Where are SLES companies based?
SLES has an unusually large following in Germany: 11% of its companies, against 4.4% on the typical tech page. Its companies are based in 128 countries and territories.
ShareTypical
United States
30%43%
Germany
11%4.4%
India
6.9%6.9%
United Kingdom
5%6.4%
France
3.5%4.6%
Canada
3.2%3.6%
Companies in 128 countries and territories. Shares are of companies with a known headquarters country.
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Country
Companies
Share
Typical tech page
United States
1,974
30%
43%
Germany
726
11%
4.4%
India
455
6.9%
6.9%
United Kingdom
326
5%
6.4%
France
233
3.5%
4.6%
Canada
208
3.2%
3.6%
Which teams work with SLES?
SLES work is spread across teams. IT leads, at 13 companies.
TeamCompanies
IT
13
Infrastructure
10
Application development
6
Network security
6
Operations
6
SAP basis
6
What else do SLES companies use?
SUSE Linux and CheckMK are the tools most closely tied to SLES. Icinga comes third, 25 times as common as usual, at 8%.
Share of the 437 SLES companies counted here whose job posts also name the tool
Typical for companies the same size
Which companies started naming SLES in job posts recently?
44 companies with 50 or more employees picked up SLES in their job posts from April to August 2026. Among the new mid-market companies, Cartrack posted the most jobs naming it: 5.
Companies that named SLES in a job post for the first time between April and August 2026, ranked by their job posts in those months. AI-native companies get a group of their own, whatever their size. Recruiters and job boards are left out.
Which roles mention SLES most?
SLES shows up across many roles. The top one, Systems Engineer, has 10% of the job posts. The top four roles cover 34% of these job posts.
RoleSharePosts
Systems Engineer
10%53
Software Engineer
8.4%44
IT Support
8.2%43
Administrator
7.3%38
SAP Administrator
5%26
Solutions Architect
5%26
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Role
Share
Oct 2025 to Aug 2026
Mar to May 2026
Jun to Aug 2026
Systems Engineer
10%
53
12
19
Software Engineer
8.4%
44
11
10
IT Support
8.2%
43
5
16
Administrator
7.3%
38
10
14
SAP Administrator
5%
26
6
4
Solutions Architect
5%
26
8
9
Which project themes come up in SLES job posts?
After broad digital transformation work, teams hiring for SLES most often mention Data Infrastructure Migration, in 67 job posts. After that comes Cloud Migration, with 63.
Project themeJob posts
Digital Transformation273
Data Infrastructure Migration67
Cloud Migration63
Cloud Cost Optimization28
"migrar servidores RHEL, SLES y AIX"
América Virtual, administrador/a unix / aix / linux sr .rhel, suse, aix, Oct 24, 2026
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