Virtual Team Contracts with Work from Home Options

Virtual Team (including Distributed Team, Remote Team, Dispersed Team)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Virtual Team in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Team over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 230 263 235
Rank change year-on-year +33 -28 +18
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 118 211 504
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.78% 0.84% 1.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.73% 2.67% 3.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 105 358
10th Percentile £325 £389 £400
25th Percentile £413 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +15.79%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £655
90th Percentile £623 £720 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 2 0
10th Percentile - £44.20 -
25th Percentile £25.50 £53.50 -
Median hourly rate £26.00 £69.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -62.32% - -
75th Percentile £26.50 £84.50 -
90th Percentile - £93.80 -
UK median hourly rate £24.90 £44.00 £44.78
% change year-on-year -43.41% -1.73% +2.93%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,324 7,910 13,903
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.64% 31.48% 31.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,949 5,561 9,934
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £431 £454 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £650
90th Percentile £800 £792 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 154 221
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £51.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +23.60% +28.99%
75th Percentile £66.38 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £30.58 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +36.00% -18.24% +4.90%

Virtual Team
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Virtual Team as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Virtual Team trend for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Team
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Virtual Team.

Virtual Team daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Team
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Virtual Team over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Virtual Team daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Team
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Virtual Team.

Virtual Team hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Team
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Virtual Team over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Virtual Team hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Team
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (2.54%) Confluence
2 2 (1.69%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.85%) Apache
3 1 (0.85%) IIS
3 1 (0.85%) nginx
3 1 (0.85%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.85%) SAS
3 1 (0.85%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (14.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (13.56%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (12.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (4.24%) NetSuite
2 3 (2.54%) Oracle 11i
2 3 (2.54%) Oracle Applications
2 3 (2.54%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.54%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (2.54%) Oracle Receivables
2 3 (2.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.69%) JDE OneWorld
3 2 (1.69%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (1.69%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 2 (1.69%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (1.69%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.85%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.85%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.85%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 13 (11.02%) Google Workspace
1 13 (11.02%) IaaS
1 13 (11.02%) PaaS
1 13 (11.02%) SaaS
2 9 (7.63%) Azure
3 8 (6.78%) AWS
4 3 (2.54%) GCP
4 3 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (1.69%) WhatsApp
6 1 (0.85%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (0.85%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (0.85%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.85%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (0.85%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.85%) Figma
6 1 (0.85%) Miro
6 1 (0.85%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (13.56%) Firewall
2 2 (1.69%) DSL
3 1 (0.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.24%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.54%) SAP HANA
3 2 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.85%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.85%) Metadata
4 1 (0.85%) MySQL
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.85%) Power BI
4 1 (0.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (10.17%) JIRA
2 5 (4.24%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.54%) Git
4 2 (1.69%) Mockito
5 1 (0.85%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.85%) FitNesse
5 1 (0.85%) GitLab
5 1 (0.85%) JMeter
5 1 (0.85%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.85%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.85%) TestRail
General
1 42 (35.59%) Social Skills
2 24 (20.34%) Finance
3 20 (16.95%) Legal
4 11 (9.32%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (9.32%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (8.47%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.08%) Banking
7 4 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.54%) Retail
9 2 (1.69%) Billing
9 2 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.69%) Public Speaking
9 2 (1.69%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.85%) Advertising
10 1 (0.85%) Back Office
10 1 (0.85%) Front Office
10 1 (0.85%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.85%) Italian Language
10 1 (0.85%) Marketing
10 1 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (11.02%) Project Manager
2 10 (8.47%) Consultant
3 8 (6.78%) Developer
4 5 (4.24%) Architect
5 4 (3.39%) Delivery Manager
5 4 (3.39%) Designer
5 4 (3.39%) Senior
5 4 (3.39%) Senior Manager
5 4 (3.39%) Software Asset Manager
5 4 (3.39%) Software Manager
5 4 (3.39%) Technical Manager
6 3 (2.54%) Active Directory Engineer
6 3 (2.54%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (2.54%) NetSuite Developer
6 3 (2.54%) Oracle Consultant
6 3 (2.54%) PowerShell Engineer
6 3 (2.54%) Problem Manager
6 3 (2.54%) SAP Basis Consultant
6 3 (2.54%) SAP Consultant
6 3 (2.54%) Service Design Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.39%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (3.39%) React Native
1 4 (3.39%) REST
2 3 (2.54%) SAP Basis
2 3 (2.54%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (1.69%) Android Jetpack
3 2 (1.69%) Jetpack Compose
3 2 (1.69%) Kafka
3 2 (1.69%) Lucene
3 2 (1.69%) SAML
3 2 (1.69%) Spring
3 2 (1.69%) Spring Boot
3 2 (1.69%) XML
4 1 (0.85%) Bazel
4 1 (0.85%) CSS
4 1 (0.85%) HTML
4 1 (0.85%) LDAP
4 1 (0.85%) Vue
4 1 (0.85%) Web Services
4 1 (0.85%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.71%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (5.08%) CMDB
3 5 (4.24%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.39%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.69%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.69%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.69%) Photography
5 2 (1.69%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.85%) CCTV
6 1 (0.85%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.85%) Media Streaming
6 1 (0.85%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.85%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.78%) Linux
2 7 (5.93%) Windows
3 4 (3.39%) Unix
4 2 (1.69%) Android
5 1 (0.85%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (28.81%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (16.95%) Agile
3 17 (14.41%) Virtual Team Management
4 14 (11.86%) Service Management
5 13 (11.02%) Customer Requirements
5 13 (11.02%) Project Management
6 12 (10.17%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (9.32%) Quality Management
8 10 (8.47%) ITIL
8 10 (8.47%) Mentoring
9 9 (7.63%) CI/CD
9 9 (7.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (7.63%) Roadmaps
10 8 (6.78%) Customer Experience
10 8 (6.78%) DevOps
10 8 (6.78%) Statistics
11 7 (5.93%) Cybersecurity
11 7 (5.93%) Decision-Making
11 7 (5.93%) Information Security
11 7 (5.93%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (6.78%) SQL
2 7 (5.93%) Java
3 5 (4.24%) PL/SQL
3 5 (4.24%) Python
4 3 (2.54%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.69%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.69%) Perl
5 2 (1.69%) Ruby
5 2 (1.69%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.85%) BeanShell
6 1 (0.85%) C
6 1 (0.85%) C#
6 1 (0.85%) Go
6 1 (0.85%) VB
6 1 (0.85%) XPath
Qualifications
1 32 (27.12%) Security Cleared
2 21 (17.80%) Degree
3 17 (14.41%) DV Cleared
4 14 (11.86%) PMP
4 14 (11.86%) SC Cleared
5 13 (11.02%) APMP
5 13 (11.02%) PMI Certification
6 4 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.69%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.85%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.85%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.24%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.39%) PMO
3 2 (1.69%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.85%) GDPR
4 1 (0.85%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.85%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.85%) QA
4 1 (0.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (5.93%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.69%) Docker
3 1 (0.85%) OpenAM
3 1 (0.85%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 4 (3.39%) Ansible
1 4 (3.39%) SCCM
2 3 (2.54%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.54%) Progress Chef
2 3 (2.54%) Puppet
3 2 (1.69%) CFEngine
3 2 (1.69%) PowerBroker
4 1 (0.85%) Argo
4 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.85%) Salt
4 1 (0.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (16.10%) Microsoft
1 19 (16.10%) Oracle
2 16 (13.56%) Google
3 15 (12.71%) Dell
4 12 (10.17%) Salesforce
5 5 (4.24%) SAP
6 4 (3.39%) Ariba
7 3 (2.54%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.85%) BT
8 1 (0.85%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.85%) Genesys
8 1 (0.85%) Remedy
8 1 (0.85%) ServiceNow