Virtual Team Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Virtual Team (including Distributed Team, Remote Team, Dispersed Team)
South East > Berkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Virtual Team in contract job vacancies in Berkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Team over the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 80 102
Rank change year-on-year -12 +22 -9
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 18 26 20
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.21% 1.73% 1.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.23% 5.45% 3.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 12 16
10th Percentile £413 £250 £309
25th Percentile £469 £288 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £350 £425
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -17.65% -33.07%
75th Percentile £562 £433 £644
90th Percentile £620 £593 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £350 £488
% change year-on-year +42.86% -28.21% -21.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £18.95
South East median hourly rate £70.16 £52.50 £18.95
% change year-on-year +33.64% +177.04% -

All Generic Skills
Berkshire

Virtual Team falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 558 477 552
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 37.63% 31.80% 32.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 359 238 327
10th Percentile £292 £264 £205
25th Percentile £405 £401 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £534 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% +6.75% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £615
90th Percentile £664 £689 £696
South East median daily rate £492 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.29% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 14 25
10th Percentile £20.67 £18.94 £28.61
25th Percentile £20.79 £28.06 £45.21
Median hourly rate £58.00 £42.69 £61.65
Median % change year-on-year +35.86% -30.75% +84.01%
75th Percentile £83.50 £61.37 £66.44
90th Percentile £98.50 £62.24 £78.67
South East median hourly rate £23.50 £35.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -32.86% -33.33% +56.72%

Virtual Team
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Virtual Team relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Virtual Team job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Virtual Team
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Virtual Team.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Virtual Team

Virtual Team
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Team in Berkshire over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Team in Berkshire

Virtual Team
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Virtual Team.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Virtual Team

Virtual Team
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +2 9 £530 +55.88% 2
Wokingham -21 6 £485 -19.17%
Slough - 4 £500 -
Windsor - 1 - - 1
Virtual Team
South East

Virtual Team
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) OpenShift
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
2 1 (5.56%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (5.56%) GitHub
2 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Broadband
2 1 (5.56%) 5G
2 1 (5.56%) SD-WAN
2 1 (5.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) DynamoDB
General
1 13 (72.22%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Telecoms
3 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Project Manager
2 5 (27.78%) Site Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Data Centre Manager
3 4 (22.22%) Data Centre Project Manager
4 3 (16.67%) Compliance Manager
4 3 (16.67%) Compliance Project Manager
4 3 (16.67%) Senior
4 3 (16.67%) Supplier Manager
5 2 (11.11%) Engineering Manager
5 2 (11.11%) Telecoms Manager
5 2 (11.11%) Telecoms Project Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) PRINCE2 Project Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Product Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Project Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Technical Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (44.44%) Loki
2 1 (5.56%) Node.js
2 1 (5.56%) React
2 1 (5.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (44.44%) Cloud Native
2 4 (22.22%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Linux
1 8 (44.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) Agile
2 9 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (50.00%) Observability
3 8 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (44.44%) Infrastructure Management
3 8 (44.44%) Project Management
3 8 (44.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 7 (38.89%) Virtual Team Management
5 6 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (27.78%) PRINCE2
7 4 (22.22%) Budget Management
7 4 (22.22%) Business Case
7 4 (22.22%) Change Management
7 4 (22.22%) Line Management
7 4 (22.22%) Matrix Management
7 4 (22.22%) Matrix Organization
7 4 (22.22%) PRINCE
8 3 (16.67%) Impact Assessments
8 3 (16.67%) Validation
8 3 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) Bash
1 8 (44.44%) Python
2 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 8 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 5 (27.78%) Degree
3 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.56%) PMI Certification
3 1 (5.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (44.44%) vSphere
2 7 (38.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (44.44%) Argo
1 8 (44.44%) Grafana
1 8 (44.44%) Kubernetes
1 8 (44.44%) Kustomize
1 8 (44.44%) Prometheus
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Red Hat
1 8 (44.44%) VMware
2 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
2 1 (5.56%) Juniper