QEMU Contract Job Trends

QEMU
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring QEMU skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 577 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing QEMU 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.011% - -
As % of the System Software category 0.089% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All System Software Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,474 4,138 5,621
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.28% 11.97% 12.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,960 2,675 3,828
10th Percentile £213 £205 £198
25th Percentile £400 £369 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £599 £619 £613
90th Percentile £685 £710 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £468 £475
% change year-on-year +1.44% -1.42% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 89 232
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £15.50
25th Percentile £20.82 £21.46 £18.27
Median hourly rate £45.09 £29.00 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year +55.49% -33.85% +75.35%
75th Percentile £74.26 £64.50 £66.00
90th Percentile £91.35 £75.00 £77.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.75 £31.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year +97.64% -20.63% +92.17%

QEMU
Job Vacancy Trend

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

QEMU job vacancy trend in the UK

QEMU
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing QEMU.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing QEMU

QEMU
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QEMU within the UK over the 6 months to 14 December 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
England - 4 - -
Work from Home - 3 - -
UK excluding London - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -

QEMU
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) VLAN
1 1 (25.00%) VXLAN
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Validation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) FPGA
1 3 (75.00%) RISC-V
2 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Unix
3 1 (25.00%) CentOS
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Open Source
2 3 (75.00%) Regression Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Test Planning
2 3 (75.00%) Validation
2 3 (75.00%) Verification and Validation
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Bash
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Assembly Language
2 3 (75.00%) Perl
2 3 (75.00%) SystemVerilog
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Ceph
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
1 1 (25.00%) KVM
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform