Virtual Team Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Virtual Team (including Distributed Team, Remote Team, Dispersed Team)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Virtual Team in contract job vacancies in Cambridge. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Team over the 6 months leading up to 25 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 16 27
Rank change year-on-year -13 +11 -5
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 3 11 2
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 1.68% 6.92% 1.08%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.37% 19.30% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 0
10th Percentile - £313 -
25th Percentile £473 £338 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £425 -
Median % change year-on-year +16.47% - -
75th Percentile £528 £634 -
90th Percentile £534 £788 -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £495 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +16.47% -15.00% -16.67%

All Generic Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 89 57 70
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 49.72% 35.85% 37.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 39 46
10th Percentile £249 £313 £168
25th Percentile £400 £415 £253
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £471
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +6.10% -0.79%
75th Percentile £651 £600 £550
90th Percentile £780 £700 £600
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £413 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -16.46% -1.25% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 6
10th Percentile - - £58.75
25th Percentile £23.00 - £62.19
Median hourly rate £32.50 £23.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.30% -69.33% +233.33%
75th Percentile £35.00 - £77.50
90th Percentile £40.25 - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £32.25 £47.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -32.11% -13.64% +86.09%

Virtual Team
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Virtual Team job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Virtual Team
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

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

Virtual Team
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 3 (100.00%) DHCP
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Network Manager
1 3 (100.00%) Network Services Manager
1 3 (100.00%) Service Manager
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 3 (100.00%) Virtual Team Management
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Operational Stability
3 1 (33.33%) People Management
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) HAProxy
1 3 (100.00%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) Infoblox
2 1 (33.33%) jetNEXUS