QEMU Job Trends

QEMU
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring QEMU skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 668 747 752
Rank change year-on-year +79 +5 +418
Permanent jobs citing QEMU 3 1 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.006% 0.001% 0.004%
As % of the System Software category 0.056% 0.013% 0.022%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £73,100 - -
25th Percentile £74,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £50,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +65.00% - -
75th Percentile £88,250 - -
90th Percentile £88,700 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £82,500 - -

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 permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 5,360 7,443 9,195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.95% 10.68% 16.23%
Number of salaries quoted 3,354 4,376 7,552
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £37,112
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,287 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.21% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,675 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% - -

QEMU
Job Vacancy Trend

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

QEMU job vacancy trend in the UK

QEMU
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing QEMU.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing QEMU

QEMU
Top 4 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QEMU within the UK over the 6 months to 18 October 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
England +114 3 £82,500 +65.00% 6
UK excluding London - 3 £82,500 - 6
North of England - 3 £82,500 - 3
North West - 3 £82,500 - 3

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 3 (100.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) HTTP
1 2 (66.67%) SSL
General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) DPDK
1 3 (100.00%) eBPF
2 1 (33.33%) NETCONF
2 1 (33.33%) RESTCONF
2 1 (33.33%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (66.67%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (33.33%) NVMe
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Open Source
1 3 (100.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Zero Trust
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) KVM
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) SaltStack