QEMU Contracts

QEMU
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring QEMU skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited QEMU over the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 514 597 -
Rank change year-on-year +83 - -
Contract jobs citing QEMU 3 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% 0.005% -
As % of the System Software category 0.083% 0.042% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -
75th Percentile £575 £538 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 -
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -

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 3,607 4,725 7,280
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.30% 10.91% 13.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,395 3,274 5,128
10th Percentile £214 £205 £200
25th Percentile £388 £356 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £478
% change year-on-year - -0.52% +6.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 225 250
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.06 £15.19
25th Percentile £15.44 £15.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.21 £24.18 £54.70
Median % change year-on-year +16.65% -55.79% +173.48%
75th Percentile £66.00 £60.75 £67.13
90th Percentile £88.00 £79.20 £75.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.65 £27.50 £48.12
% change year-on-year +33.25% -42.85% +169.14%

QEMU
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing QEMU as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for QEMU in the UK

QEMU
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for QEMU in the UK

QEMU
Top 4 Contract 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 9 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
England +66 3 £550 +4.76% 17
UK excluding London +45 1 £550 +4.76% 17
Work from Home +39 1 £550 +4.76% 11
East of England +31 1 £550 +4.76% 7

QEMU
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:

Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Embedded Systems
1 2 (66.67%) RISC-V
1 2 (66.67%) SIMD
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Team
2 1 (33.33%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Code Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Memory Management
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C
2 2 (66.67%) Assembly Language
3 1 (33.33%) C++
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (33.33%) Firmware
1 1 (33.33%) KVM
1 1 (33.33%) Xen