Virtual Team Contracts

Virtual Team (including Distributed Team, Remote Team, Dispersed Team)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Virtual Team in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Team over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 359 291 261
Rank change year-on-year -68 -30 +22
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 250 540 973
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.90% 1.10%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.90% 2.71% 3.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 315 688
10th Percentile £325 £354 £400
25th Percentile £431 £474 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £603 £675 £675
90th Percentile £656 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 8 10
10th Percentile - £33.28 £24.03
25th Percentile £13.00 £37.06 £28.32
Median hourly rate £24.90 £44.00 £44.78
Median % change year-on-year -43.41% -1.73% +2.93%
75th Percentile £26.50 £45.00 £63.44
90th Percentile - £63.60 £67.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.00 £100.00 £63.62
% change year-on-year -74.00% +57.20% +25.97%

All Generic Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,143 19,914 29,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.35% 33.30% 33.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,422 13,704 20,462
10th Percentile £263 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £680 £653
90th Percentile £788 £800 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 903 647 727
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.11
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £16.88
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.75% -18.24% +3.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% +10.00% -16.67%

Virtual Team
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Virtual Team as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Team in the UK

Virtual Team
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Team in the UK

Virtual Team
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Team over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Team in the UK

Virtual Team
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Team in the UK

Virtual Team
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Virtual Team over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Virtual Team in the UK

Virtual Team
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England -32 219 £500 -9.09% 168
UK excluding London +31 129 £500 -2.44% 91
Work from Home +44 125 £500 -4.76% 112
London -62 92 £516 -8.63% 71
North of England +67 64 £500 -4.76% 23
North West +54 60 £493 -4.96% 18
Midlands +25 24 £500 -3.57% 15
South East -4 21 £615 +23.00% 29
West Midlands +32 16 £456 -20.65% 5
East Midlands +18 8 £585 +27.17% 10
East of England -16 8 £475 -13.64% 6
South West +20 7 £467 -1.62% 9
Scotland +29 6 £375 -41.18% 4
Yorkshire +17 4 £638 +15.91% 3
Northern Ireland +5 1 £190 -62.00% 2

Virtual Team
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 10 (4.00%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.80%) CMS
3 5 (2.00%) Confluence
4 3 (1.20%) IIS
4 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.80%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.80%) SAS
6 1 (0.40%) Apache
6 1 (0.40%) nginx
6 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 28 (11.20%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (10.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (6.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.80%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (3.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.00%) NetSuite
3 3 (1.20%) Oracle 11i
3 3 (1.20%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (1.20%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.20%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (1.20%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.80%) CA PPM
4 2 (0.80%) JDE OneWorld
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle E-Business Tax
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.80%) Primavera
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.40%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.40%) SAP R/3
5 1 (0.40%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 29 (11.60%) AWS
2 22 (8.80%) Azure
3 17 (6.80%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (5.60%) IaaS
4 14 (5.60%) SaaS
5 13 (5.20%) Google Workspace
5 13 (5.20%) PaaS
6 7 (2.80%) GitHub
6 7 (2.80%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (2.00%) GCP
7 5 (2.00%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.60%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.20%) Serverless
10 2 (0.80%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (0.80%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (0.80%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (0.80%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.80%) Figma
10 2 (0.80%) Rubrik
10 2 (0.80%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.00%) Firewall
2 7 (2.80%) DSL
2 7 (2.80%) LAN
3 4 (1.60%) Network Security
3 4 (1.60%) WAN
4 3 (1.20%) 5G
4 3 (1.20%) Internet
4 3 (1.20%) NAS
4 3 (1.20%) SAN
5 2 (0.80%) DKIM
5 2 (0.80%) DMARC
5 2 (0.80%) DNS
5 2 (0.80%) Extranet
5 2 (0.80%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.80%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (0.80%) VPN
5 2 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.80%) Wireless
5 2 (0.80%) WLAN
6 1 (0.40%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.60%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.80%) Big Data
2 7 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (2.80%) SAP HANA
3 5 (2.00%) Power BI
4 4 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.20%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.20%) Star Schema
6 2 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.80%) DB2
6 2 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.80%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.80%) MySQL
6 2 (0.80%) SAP BW
6 2 (0.80%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.40%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.40%) DataStage
7 1 (0.40%) KDB
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 25 (10.00%) JIRA
2 15 (6.00%) Jenkins
3 9 (3.60%) Git
4 6 (2.40%) CircleCI
4 6 (2.40%) Gradle
5 4 (1.60%) ERwin
5 4 (1.60%) JUnit
6 3 (1.20%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.20%) Mockito
6 3 (1.20%) SpecFlow
6 3 (1.20%) TestRail
7 2 (0.80%) FitNesse
7 2 (0.80%) JMeter
7 2 (0.80%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.80%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.80%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.40%) GitLab
8 1 (0.40%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.40%) TeamCity
General
1 111 (44.40%) Social Skills
2 51 (20.40%) Finance
3 36 (14.40%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (12.00%) Public Sector
5 22 (8.80%) Legal
6 21 (8.40%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (5.60%) Banking
8 12 (4.80%) Retail
9 11 (4.40%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (4.40%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (2.00%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.60%) Local Government
13 3 (1.20%) Back Office
13 3 (1.20%) Front Office
13 3 (1.20%) Publishing
13 3 (1.20%) Spanish Language
14 2 (0.80%) Billing
14 2 (0.80%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 22 (8.80%) Project Manager
2 19 (7.60%) Consultant
3 16 (6.40%) Analyst
4 14 (5.60%) Architect
5 13 (5.20%) Problem Manager
5 13 (5.20%) Senior
6 12 (4.80%) Developer
7 9 (3.60%) Delivery Manager
7 9 (3.60%) IT Support
8 8 (3.20%) Integration Analyst
8 8 (3.20%) SAP Analyst
8 8 (3.20%) Software Asset Manager
8 8 (3.20%) Software Manager
8 8 (3.20%) Windows Engineer
9 7 (2.80%) Designer
9 7 (2.80%) Lead
10 6 (2.40%) Agile Delivery Manager
10 6 (2.40%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (2.40%) Integration Specialist
10 6 (2.40%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.60%) REST
2 7 (2.80%) Android Jetpack
2 7 (2.80%) Jetpack Compose
3 5 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (2.00%) JSON
3 5 (2.00%) OAuth
3 5 (2.00%) RAML
3 5 (2.00%) React Native
3 5 (2.00%) SAML
3 5 (2.00%) Spring
4 4 (1.60%) Bazel
4 4 (1.60%) Dagger
4 4 (1.60%) OkHttp
4 4 (1.60%) OpenID
4 4 (1.60%) RxJava
4 4 (1.60%) Spring Boot
4 4 (1.60%) WireMock
4 4 (1.60%) XML
5 3 (1.20%) React
5 3 (1.20%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.80%) Self-Motivation
2 18 (7.20%) Management Information System
3 12 (4.80%) CMDB
4 11 (4.40%) Public Cloud
5 9 (3.60%) Data Centre
5 9 (3.60%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.20%) Mobile App
7 7 (2.80%) EPoS
8 6 (2.40%) Legacy Code
9 5 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.60%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.20%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.20%) Fixed Income
11 3 (1.20%) FMCG
11 3 (1.20%) Freedom of Information
11 3 (1.20%) Freedom of Information Act
11 3 (1.20%) NHS
11 3 (1.20%) PKI
11 3 (1.20%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 21 (8.40%) Windows
2 19 (7.60%) Linux
3 17 (6.80%) Unix
4 8 (3.20%) Android
5 2 (0.80%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.40%) CentOS
6 1 (0.40%) OS/390
6 1 (0.40%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (36.40%) Problem-Solving
2 52 (20.80%) Virtual Team Management
3 48 (19.20%) Agile
4 38 (15.20%) Stakeholder Management
5 34 (13.60%) Project Management
6 32 (12.80%) Service Management
7 28 (11.20%) Mentoring
8 27 (10.80%) Quality Management
9 26 (10.40%) ITIL
10 24 (9.60%) Statistics
11 22 (8.80%) Computer Science
12 21 (8.40%) CI/CD
13 20 (8.00%) DevOps
14 19 (7.60%) Roadmaps
15 18 (7.20%) Project Delivery
16 17 (6.80%) Decision-Making
16 17 (6.80%) Migration
17 16 (6.40%) Continuous Improvement
17 16 (6.40%) Proactive Monitoring
17 16 (6.40%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 17 (6.80%) SQL
2 13 (5.20%) Java
2 13 (5.20%) Python
3 7 (2.80%) PowerShell
3 7 (2.80%) Ruby
4 5 (2.00%) JavaScript
4 5 (2.00%) PL/SQL
4 5 (2.00%) TypeScript
5 4 (1.60%) Kotlin
5 4 (1.60%) Perl
6 3 (1.20%) BeanShell
7 2 (0.80%) C
7 2 (0.80%) C++
7 2 (0.80%) Go
7 2 (0.80%) VB
8 1 (0.40%) C#
8 1 (0.40%) Objective-C
8 1 (0.40%) Swift
8 1 (0.40%) XPath
Qualifications
1 53 (21.20%) Degree
2 49 (19.60%) Security Cleared
3 30 (12.00%) SC Cleared
4 17 (6.80%) DV Cleared
5 16 (6.40%) PMP
6 14 (5.60%) APMP
6 14 (5.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (5.20%) PMI Certification
8 6 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.20%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.20%) CISSP
9 3 (1.20%) ISTQB
9 3 (1.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (1.20%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.80%) APMG
10 2 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.80%) GIAC
10 2 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.20%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.20%) PMO
3 7 (2.80%) QA
3 7 (2.80%) SLA
4 4 (1.60%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 4 (1.60%) NIST
4 4 (1.60%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.80%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.40%) COREP
6 1 (0.40%) FINREP
6 1 (0.40%) GDPR
6 1 (0.40%) GRC
6 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (5.20%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.60%) Docker
3 3 (1.20%) OpenAM
3 3 (1.20%) OpenIDM
4 2 (0.80%) BitLocker
4 2 (0.80%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.80%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (3.60%) Ansible
2 8 (3.20%) Progress Chef
2 8 (3.20%) Puppet
3 7 (2.80%) CFEngine
3 7 (2.80%) PowerBroker
4 6 (2.40%) SCCM
5 5 (2.00%) Kubernetes
6 4 (1.60%) Terraform
7 3 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.80%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.80%) SCOM
8 2 (0.80%) SCVMM
8 2 (0.80%) VxRail
9 1 (0.40%) Argo
9 1 (0.40%) CASB
9 1 (0.40%) Consul
9 1 (0.40%) PingFederate
9 1 (0.40%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 26 (10.40%) Oracle
3 21 (8.40%) SAP
4 19 (7.60%) Dell
5 18 (7.20%) Google
6 14 (5.60%) Salesforce
7 8 (3.20%) Ariba
7 8 (3.20%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.60%) HP
8 4 (1.60%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.20%) BMC
9 3 (1.20%) ForgeRock
9 3 (1.20%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.20%) Workday
10 2 (0.80%) Databricks
10 2 (0.80%) Dell Compellent
10 2 (0.80%) Equitrac
10 2 (0.80%) F5
10 2 (0.80%) MobileIron
10 2 (0.80%) Proofpoint