Qt Contracts in the UK excluding London

Qt
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Qt skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Qt over the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 335 365 412
Rank change year-on-year +30 +47 +72
Contract jobs citing Qt 16 25 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.12% 0.088%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.65% 0.74% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £401
25th Percentile £463 £66 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £68 £450
Median % change year-on-year +603.70% -85.00% +5.88%
75th Percentile £488 £69 £478
90th Percentile - - £529
UK median daily rate £475 £68 £463
% change year-on-year +603.70% -85.41% -13.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 21 7
10th Percentile £62.25 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

Qt falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,448 3,377 4,143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.59% 16.04% 18.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,693 2,193 3,093
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £569 £606 £600
90th Percentile £638 £690 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -3.26% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 221 88
10th Percentile £33.91 £22.75 £22.42
25th Percentile £50.00 £43.00 £52.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +18.18%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £74.63
90th Percentile £81.01 £74.50 £78.36
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £48.43 £65.00
% change year-on-year +29.05% -25.49% +23.81%

Qt
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Qt as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Qt in the UK excluding London

Qt
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Qt in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Qt in the UK excluding London

Qt
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Qt in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Qt in the UK excluding London

Qt
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 Qt within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 June 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 West +28 11 - - 16
South East - 4 £475 - 27
North West - 1 - - 6
North of England - 1 - - 11
Qt
UK

Qt
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 2 (12.50%) Law
2 1 (6.25%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Architect
1 7 (43.75%) Software Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Developer
3 3 (18.75%) C++ Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Software Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) C++ Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Control Systems Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Python Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) Middleware
2 1 (6.25%) PyQt
2 1 (6.25%) QML
2 1 (6.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.25%) GNSS
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (6.25%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Unix
2 1 (6.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Software Engineering
2 4 (25.00%) Multithreading
2 4 (25.00%) Software Architecture
3 3 (18.75%) Data Protection
4 2 (12.50%) Agile
5 1 (6.25%) Clean Code
5 1 (6.25%) Design Patterns
5 1 (6.25%) Front End Development
5 1 (6.25%) Inertial Navigation
5 1 (6.25%) Machine Learning
5 1 (6.25%) OOP
5 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (6.25%) Robotic Control
5 1 (6.25%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (93.75%) C++
2 11 (68.75%) Ada
3 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 8 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (68.75%) Def Stans
1 11 (68.75%) IEC 61508
1 11 (68.75%) MISRA
1 11 (68.75%) MISRA C