QEMU Contract Job Trends in the East of England

QEMU
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring QEMU skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 85 108
Rank change year-on-year -20 +23 -
Contract jobs citing QEMU 5 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.23% 0.099% 0.10%
As % of the System Software category 2.73% 0.59% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £681 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +23.82% +4.76% -
75th Percentile - £575 £538
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £591 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +7.36% +4.76% -

All System Software Skills
East of England

QEMU falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 183 170 140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 8.30% 16.90% 7.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 81 81
10th Percentile £163 £179 £181
25th Percentile £240 £300 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% +15.29% -5.56%
75th Percentile £515 £575 £554
90th Percentile £575 - £700
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 29 35
10th Percentile £19.00 - £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £14.99 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £19.27 £14.16
Median % change year-on-year +237.31% +36.09% -76.40%
75th Percentile £71.00 £88.00 £15.44
90th Percentile £75.00 £92.50 £77.30
England median hourly rate £52.50 £28.00 £22.23
% change year-on-year +87.50% +25.98% -57.37%

QEMU
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing QEMU relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

QEMU job vacancy trend in the East of England

QEMU
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing QEMU.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing QEMU

QEMU
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QEMU in the East of England over the 6 months to 10 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for QEMU in the East of England

QEMU
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QEMU within the East of England region over the 6 months to 10 June 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
Hertfordshire - 5 £681 -
QEMU
England

QEMU
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Git
General
1 3 (60.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (40.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Administrator
1 2 (40.00%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Hardware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Acoustics
1 3 (60.00%) Derivative
2 2 (40.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Debian
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Ubuntu
2 3 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (60.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) BPSS Clearance
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
1 5 (100.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) NVIDIA
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat