QEMU Job Trends in the North of England

QEMU
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring QEMU skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing QEMU 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.021% - -
As % of the System Software category 0.13% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £83,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,000 - -
75th Percentile £89,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £86,000 £50,000 -
% change year-on-year +72.00% - -

All System Software Skills
North of England

QEMU falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,516 1,145 1,473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.12% 8.09% 15.83%
Number of salaries quoted 550 744 1,209
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,500 £32,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -8.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,184 £69,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.04% -1.82% -

QEMU
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing QEMU as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for QEMU in the North of England

QEMU
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing QEMU.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing QEMU

QEMU
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QEMU within the North of England region over the 6 months to 13 September 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West - 2 £86,000 - 1
QEMU
England

QEMU
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (100.00%) OpenStack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
1 2 (100.00%) SSL
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) DPDK
1 2 (100.00%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) KVM
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) SaltStack