Qwen Contract Job Trends

Qwen
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Qwen skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 679 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Qwen 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.006% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.025% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Qwen 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 11,770 8,376 9,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.80% 25.42% 24.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,748 5,653 6,407
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £432 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £634 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.32% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 185 197
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.45 £26.44
25th Percentile £45.00 £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 £88.51 £79.48 £74.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.73% -15.38% +8.33%

Qwen
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Qwen job vacancy trend in the UK

Qwen
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Qwen
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Qwen within the UK over the 6 months to 30 August 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
London - 2 £475 -
England - 2 £475 -
Work from Home - 1 - -

Qwen
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:

Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Anthropic Claude
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Milvus
2 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (66.67%) Pinecone
2 2 (66.67%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Claude Code
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) German Language
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) CrewAI
1 2 (66.67%) LangChain
1 2 (66.67%) LlamaIndex
1 2 (66.67%) PyTorch
1 2 (66.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) LLM
1 3 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Conversational UI
2 2 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Fintech
2 2 (66.67%) Generative AI
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) MLOps
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Python
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana