QML Contract Job Trends

QML
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring QML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 663 - 579
Rank change year-on-year - - +82
Contract jobs citing QML 4 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.007% - 0.008%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.034% - 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £431 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.00%
75th Percentile £444 - £538
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £525

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

QML 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 11,695 8,332 9,493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.80% 25.44% 24.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,693 5,628 6,415
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £433 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £630 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.37% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 185 196
10th Percentile £29.26 £30.45 £26.30
25th Percentile £45.63 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -1.44%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £89.75 £79.48 £74.68
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.73% -15.38% +8.33%

QML
Job Vacancy Trend

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

QML job vacancy trend in the UK

QML
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

QML
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing QML.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing QML

QML
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QML within the UK over the 6 months to 1 September 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
England - 3 £438 - 3
Midlands - 2 - -
West Midlands - 2 - -
Work from Home - 2 £438 - 2
UK excluding London - 2 - - 2
London - 1 £438 - 1

QML
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Figma
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Qt Software Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Quantitative Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Quantitative Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Qt
2 2 (50.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) 3D Graphics
1 2 (50.00%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Embedded Linux
1 2 (50.00%) FreeRTOS
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Cross-Platform Development
1 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (50.00%) Open Source
1 2 (50.00%) Software Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C
1 2 (50.00%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) ISO 26262
1 2 (50.00%) MISRA
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) QNX