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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Virtual Team in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 431 214 201
Rank change year-on-year -217 -13 +141
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Team 548 1,884 3,170
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.56% 1.80% 2.06%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.58% 4.20% 4.36%
Number of salaries quoted 324 494 1,304
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,462 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +9.80%
75th Percentile £87,500 £88,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £105,000 £96,978
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,899 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.58% -13.00% +21.74%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34,768 44,861 72,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 42.86% 47.13%
Number of salaries quoted 22,918 24,128 34,106
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,107 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,607
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Virtual Team in the UK

Virtual Team
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Virtual Team in the UK

Virtual Team
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -216 442 £65,000 - 168
UK excluding London -275 304 £57,500 -5.58% 91
Work from Home +28 298 £60,000 -14.29% 112
London -76 191 £77,500 -3.13% 71
Midlands +2 74 £57,500 +9.52% 15
West Midlands +59 60 £57,500 +4.55% 5
North of England -94 52 £55,000 -9.69% 23
South West +1 50 £51,250 -15.84% 9
South East -186 50 £60,000 -7.69% 29
Scotland -151 47 £75,000 +23.15% 4
North West -41 31 £57,500 -5.58% 18
Yorkshire -9 16 £55,000 -7.60% 3
Wales -59 15 £60,000 +23.08% 3
East Midlands -53 12 £82,500 +57.14% 10
East of England -119 11 £48,200 -1.13% 6
Northern Ireland +15 5 - - 2
North East -2 5 £55,000 -9.69% 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 29 (5.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (3.28%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.19%) Confluence
4 7 (1.28%) Apache
5 4 (0.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.73%) CMS
6 2 (0.36%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.36%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.36%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.36%) nginx
6 2 (0.36%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.36%) WordPress
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.18%) Drupal
7 1 (0.18%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (3.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (3.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (1.28%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.36%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.36%) Trello
6 1 (0.18%) Blender
6 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 22 (4.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (3.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (2.37%) Endur
4 9 (1.64%) OpenLink RightAngle
4 9 (1.64%) SAP CO
4 9 (1.64%) SAP FI
4 9 (1.64%) SAP FI/CO
5 8 (1.46%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.91%) SAP CRM
6 5 (0.91%) SAP CX
6 5 (0.91%) SAP GTS
6 5 (0.91%) SAP SD
6 5 (0.91%) SAP WM
7 2 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.36%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.36%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.36%) SAP PM
7 2 (0.36%) SAP SCM
8 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 107 (19.53%) Azure
2 82 (14.96%) AWS
3 48 (8.76%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (7.66%) Power Platform
5 37 (6.75%) SaaS
6 30 (5.47%) Microsoft 365
7 24 (4.38%) GCP
7 24 (4.38%) GitHub
8 22 (4.01%) Dynamics 365
9 21 (3.83%) Serverless
10 19 (3.47%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (2.92%) GitHub Actions
11 16 (2.92%) Power Automate
12 14 (2.55%) PowerApps
13 8 (1.46%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (1.28%) Entra ID
14 7 (1.28%) Firebase
14 7 (1.28%) PaaS
15 6 (1.09%) IaaS
16 5 (0.91%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.28%) Firewall
2 17 (3.10%) Network Security
3 14 (2.55%) BGP
3 14 (2.55%) DNS
3 14 (2.55%) OSPF
4 13 (2.37%) WAN
5 9 (1.64%) DHCP
5 9 (1.64%) VPN
6 8 (1.46%) Wireless
7 7 (1.28%) LAN
7 7 (1.28%) Multicast
8 6 (1.09%) MPLS
9 5 (0.91%) IPsec
9 5 (0.91%) SD-WAN
9 5 (0.91%) WLAN
10 4 (0.73%) Internet
10 4 (0.73%) NaaS
10 4 (0.73%) PBX
10 4 (0.73%) VoIP
10 4 (0.73%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (7.48%) SQL Server
2 26 (4.74%) Power BI
3 23 (4.20%) Relational Database
4 18 (3.28%) RDBMS
5 10 (1.82%) MySQL
6 6 (1.09%) NoSQL
7 5 (0.91%) Metadata
7 5 (0.91%) Tableau
8 4 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (0.73%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.73%) Redis
9 3 (0.55%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.55%) Big Data
9 3 (0.55%) BigQuery
9 3 (0.55%) Jackrabbit
10 2 (0.36%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.36%) Presto
10 2 (0.36%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 61 (11.13%) Git
2 24 (4.38%) Jenkins
3 19 (3.47%) JIRA
4 12 (2.19%) Maven
5 11 (2.01%) CircleCI
6 10 (1.82%) git-flow
7 8 (1.46%) GitLab
7 8 (1.46%) Selenium
8 7 (1.28%) Cypress.io
9 6 (1.09%) Crashlytics
9 6 (1.09%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.91%) Xcode
11 4 (0.73%) Ant
12 3 (0.55%) SpecFlow
13 2 (0.36%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.36%) Cucumber
13 2 (0.36%) Mercurial
13 2 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
13 2 (0.36%) Subversion
13 2 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 182 (33.21%) Social Skills
2 150 (27.37%) Finance
3 80 (14.60%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (10.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 39 (7.12%) Presentation Skills
6 35 (6.39%) Marketing
7 27 (4.93%) Banking
8 24 (4.38%) Games
9 23 (4.20%) Law
10 20 (3.65%) Manufacturing
11 16 (2.92%) Pharmaceutical
12 13 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (1.82%) Back Office
14 10 (1.82%) Public Sector
15 9 (1.64%) Tech for Good
16 8 (1.46%) Legal
17 7 (1.28%) Health Technology
17 7 (1.28%) Telecoms
18 6 (1.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 101 (18.43%) Lead
2 92 (16.79%) Senior
3 88 (16.06%) Developer
4 46 (8.39%) Project Manager
5 44 (8.03%) Architect
5 44 (8.03%) Software Engineer
6 28 (5.11%) Analyst
7 27 (4.93%) Senior Developer
8 23 (4.20%) Software Developer
9 21 (3.83%) Consultant
9 21 (3.83%) Software Manager
10 20 (3.65%) Business Analyst
11 17 (3.10%) Senior Manager
11 17 (3.10%) Senior Software Engineer
12 16 (2.92%) DevOps Engineer
12 16 (2.92%) Technical Manager
13 15 (2.74%) .NET Developer
13 15 (2.74%) Data Engineer
14 14 (2.55%) C# Developer
14 14 (2.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (9.67%) .NET
2 51 (9.31%) HTML
3 39 (7.12%) CSS
4 29 (5.29%) React
5 23 (4.20%) AngularJS
5 23 (4.20%) SOAP
6 22 (4.01%) Node.js
6 22 (4.01%) RESTful
7 20 (3.65%) ASP.NET
8 19 (3.47%) LESS
9 17 (3.10%) .NET Core
10 16 (2.92%) .NET Framework
10 16 (2.92%) Entity Framework
10 16 (2.92%) HTML5 Canvas
10 16 (2.92%) Spring
10 16 (2.92%) Spring Boot
11 13 (2.37%) Redux
12 10 (1.82%) Hibernate
12 10 (1.82%) SAP Fiori
13 9 (1.64%) BAPI
Miscellaneous
1 32 (5.84%) Data Centre
2 25 (4.56%) Management Information System
3 24 (4.38%) Onboarding
4 23 (4.20%) Cloud Native
4 23 (4.20%) Data Structures
4 23 (4.20%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (3.10%) Product Ownership
6 15 (2.74%) Public Cloud
7 14 (2.55%) Algorithms
8 13 (2.37%) Client/Server
8 13 (2.37%) Swaptions
9 12 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (2.19%) IoT
10 11 (2.01%) Biopharmaceutical
10 11 (2.01%) Mobile App
11 7 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.09%) PKI
12 6 (1.09%) Private Cloud
12 6 (1.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 56 (10.22%) Windows
2 42 (7.66%) Linux
3 19 (3.47%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.92%) Apple iOS
5 11 (2.01%) Android
6 9 (1.64%) Mac OS
7 8 (1.46%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.73%) Windows Vista
9 3 (0.55%) VMS
9 3 (0.55%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.36%) Unix
11 1 (0.18%) Debian
11 1 (0.18%) Solaris
11 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (34.12%) Agile
2 149 (27.19%) Problem-Solving
3 113 (20.62%) Software Engineering
4 105 (19.16%) Virtual Team Management
5 89 (16.24%) Project Management
6 75 (13.69%) DevOps
7 72 (13.14%) Computer Science
8 69 (12.59%) Business Strategy
9 65 (11.86%) Project Delivery
10 61 (11.13%) Continuous Improvement
11 59 (10.77%) Business Development
11 59 (10.77%) Mentoring
12 56 (10.22%) SDLC
13 54 (9.85%) Actionable Insight
13 54 (9.85%) Data Science
13 54 (9.85%) Scrum
14 50 (9.12%) CI/CD
15 41 (7.48%) Presales
16 39 (7.12%) Process Improvement
17 38 (6.93%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 87 (15.88%) JavaScript
2 51 (9.31%) Java
2 51 (9.31%) Python
3 48 (8.76%) C#
4 41 (7.48%) TypeScript
5 28 (5.11%) SQL
6 17 (3.10%) Go
7 16 (2.92%) PHP
8 15 (2.74%) Bash
8 15 (2.74%) C++
8 15 (2.74%) PowerShell
9 13 (2.37%) VB
10 10 (1.82%) Kotlin
10 10 (1.82%) Rust
11 9 (1.64%) Shell Script
11 9 (1.64%) Swift
12 7 (1.28%) Scala
13 5 (0.91%) C
14 4 (0.73%) R
15 3 (0.55%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 153 (27.92%) Degree
2 113 (20.62%) Security Cleared
3 103 (18.80%) SC Cleared
4 20 (3.65%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (2.55%) Master's Degree
7 11 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (1.82%) MCSE
9 9 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (1.46%) DV Cleared
10 8 (1.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 6 (1.09%) CISSP
11 6 (1.09%) PMI Certification
12 5 (0.91%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.91%) CCNP
12 5 (0.91%) PMP
13 4 (0.73%) APMP
13 4 (0.73%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.73%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 3 (0.55%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (7.12%) QA
2 12 (2.19%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (1.28%) SLA
4 6 (1.09%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.09%) GxP
5 5 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.73%) GDPR
6 4 (0.73%) NIST
6 4 (0.73%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.36%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.18%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 1 (0.18%) AUTOSAR
8 1 (0.18%) CDISC
8 1 (0.18%) Good Clinical Practice
8 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.18%) PMO
8 1 (0.18%) UCITS
System Software
1 31 (5.66%) Active Directory
1 31 (5.66%) Docker
2 15 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (0.91%) vSphere
5 3 (0.55%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.18%) KVM
6 1 (0.18%) LXC
6 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (6.39%) Terraform
2 33 (6.02%) Kubernetes
3 17 (3.10%) Ansible
4 11 (2.01%) SCCM
5 7 (1.28%) Argo
5 7 (1.28%) Progress Chef
5 7 (1.28%) Puppet
6 4 (0.73%) Grafana
6 4 (0.73%) WSUS
7 3 (0.55%) CASB
7 3 (0.55%) Nessus
7 3 (0.55%) SCOM
7 3 (0.55%) SolarWinds Orion
8 2 (0.36%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.36%) WebSphere Cast Iron
9 1 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.18%) Juju
9 1 (0.18%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.18%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 82 (14.96%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.74%) SAP
3 19 (3.47%) Dell
3 19 (3.47%) Oracle
3 19 (3.47%) VMware
4 18 (3.28%) Cisco
5 14 (2.55%) Google
5 14 (2.55%) Sybase
6 13 (2.37%) OpenLink
6 13 (2.37%) TIBCO
7 9 (1.64%) McAfee
8 8 (1.46%) Meraki
8 8 (1.46%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.28%) SolarWinds
9 7 (1.28%) Symantec
10 6 (1.09%) Amplitude
10 6 (1.09%) Juniper
11 5 (0.91%) CrowdStrike
11 5 (0.91%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.73%) Alteryx