Virtual Team Contracts in the North West

Virtual Team (including Distributed Team, Remote Team, Dispersed Team)
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Virtual Team in contract job vacancies advertised in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Team over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 78 137 142
Rank change year-on-year +59 +5 -24
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 61 21 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.19% 0.65% 0.90%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.07% 1.92% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 17 33
10th Percentile £438 £326 £409
25th Percentile £466 £343 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% - +13.15%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £588
90th Percentile £637 £667 £638
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £13.00 - -
75th Percentile £26.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £26.00 £44.00 £39.55
% change year-on-year -40.91% +11.25% -9.08%

All Generic Skills
North West

Virtual Team is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 756 1,095 1,386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 27.16% 33.99% 34.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 739 1,060
10th Percentile £297 £295 £213
25th Percentile £417 £400 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £469
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% +22.07%
75th Percentile £581 £626 £586
90th Percentile £668 £680 £670
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 50 63
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.77 £11.36
25th Percentile £15.00 £20.48 £12.27
Median hourly rate £25.25 £31.49 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.82% +70.22% +3.35%
75th Percentile £37.50 £65.00 £39.14
90th Percentile £46.18 £70.00 £48.19
England median hourly rate £28.50 £22.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year +26.67% -15.09% +1.92%

Virtual Team
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Virtual Team as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Team in the North West

Virtual Team
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Team in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Team in the North West

Virtual Team
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Team in the North West over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Team in the North West

Virtual Team
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Team in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Team in the North West

Virtual Team
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Virtual Team in the North West over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Virtual Team in the North West

Virtual Team
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Team within the North West region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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
Cumbria - 30 £493 - 4
Cheshire +14 19 £582 +68.70% 3
Manchester +19 9 £550 +4.76% 8
Lancashire +7 3 £638 +58.39% 1
Virtual Team
England

Virtual Team
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 7 (11.48%) CMS
2 4 (6.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (16.39%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (13.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (6.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (18.03%) AWS
2 9 (14.75%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (13.11%) Azure
4 4 (6.56%) Google Workspace
4 4 (6.56%) IaaS
4 4 (6.56%) PaaS
4 4 (6.56%) SaaS
5 2 (3.28%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.64%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.11%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.56%) Big Data
2 2 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.28%) Hadoop
2 2 (3.28%) Power BI
2 2 (3.28%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (1.64%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.64%) Data Vault
3 1 (1.64%) DataStage
3 1 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.64%) SAP HANA
3 1 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (16.39%) JIRA
2 8 (13.11%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.92%) Mockito
4 1 (1.64%) ERwin
General
1 44 (72.13%) Social Skills
2 16 (26.23%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (22.95%) Public Sector
4 8 (13.11%) Finance
5 7 (11.48%) Retail
6 5 (8.20%) Banking
7 4 (6.56%) Legal
8 3 (4.92%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (4.92%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (4.92%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (3.28%) Health Technology
9 2 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (3.28%) Local Government
9 2 (3.28%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.64%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 13 (21.31%) Problem Manager
2 8 (13.11%) Software Asset Manager
2 8 (13.11%) Software Manager
3 7 (11.48%) IT Support
3 7 (11.48%) Windows Engineer
4 6 (9.84%) Analyst
5 5 (8.20%) Integration Analyst
5 5 (8.20%) SAP Analyst
6 4 (6.56%) Consultant
7 3 (4.92%) Asset and Configuration Manager
7 3 (4.92%) Configuration Manager
7 3 (4.92%) Developer
7 3 (4.92%) Integration Specialist
7 3 (4.92%) React Developer
7 3 (4.92%) Security Consultant
8 2 (3.28%) Principal Consultant
8 2 (3.28%) Senior
8 2 (3.28%) Software Configuration Manager
8 2 (3.28%) UI Designer
8 2 (3.28%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.20%) React Native
2 3 (4.92%) Android Jetpack
2 3 (4.92%) Jetpack Compose
2 3 (4.92%) XML
3 1 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.64%) Lucene
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.75%) CMDB
1 9 (14.75%) Management Information System
2 8 (13.11%) Public Cloud
3 7 (11.48%) EPoS
4 4 (6.56%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (4.92%) Mobile App
6 2 (3.28%) NHS
6 2 (3.28%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.11%) Linux
1 8 (13.11%) Unix
1 8 (13.11%) Windows
2 3 (4.92%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (55.74%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (45.90%) Virtual Team Management
3 23 (37.70%) Quality Management
4 22 (36.07%) Mentoring
4 22 (36.07%) Service Management
4 22 (36.07%) Statistics
5 14 (22.95%) Problem Management
6 13 (21.31%) Root Cause Analysis
7 12 (19.67%) ITIL
7 12 (19.67%) Proactive Monitoring
8 11 (18.03%) CI/CD
9 9 (14.75%) DevOps
9 9 (14.75%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
10 8 (13.11%) Knowledge Transfer
10 8 (13.11%) Project Delivery
10 8 (13.11%) Server Building
10 8 (13.11%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (11.48%) Asset Management
11 7 (11.48%) CRM
11 7 (11.48%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (13.11%) Ruby
2 2 (3.28%) Java
3 1 (1.64%) Python
Qualifications
1 23 (37.70%) Security Cleared
2 22 (36.07%) SC Cleared
3 11 (18.03%) Degree
4 4 (6.56%) APMP
4 4 (6.56%) PMI Certification
4 4 (6.56%) PMP
5 2 (3.28%) APMG
6 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.64%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.84%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.92%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 3 (4.92%) NIST
2 3 (4.92%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.64%) COREP
3 1 (1.64%) FINREP
3 1 (1.64%) QA
Systems Management
1 8 (13.11%) Ansible
1 8 (13.11%) PowerBroker
1 8 (13.11%) Progress Chef
2 7 (11.48%) CFEngine
2 7 (11.48%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (16.39%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.11%) Atlassian
3 5 (8.20%) Google
3 5 (8.20%) SAP
4 4 (6.56%) Oracle
4 4 (6.56%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.28%) Ariba
5 2 (3.28%) Databricks
5 2 (3.28%) Teradata
6 1 (1.64%) Embarcadero