Virtual Team Contract Job Trends in Central London

Virtual Team (including Distributed Team, Remote Team, Dispersed Team)
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Virtual Team in contract job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Team over the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 114 131
Rank change year-on-year +8 +17 +24
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 24 12 12
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.17% 0.56% 0.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.16% 1.79% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 9 8
10th Percentile - £361 £369
25th Percentile £463 £463 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £636
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -23.38% +17.82%
75th Percentile £541 £738 £822
90th Percentile £698 £1,013 £865
London median daily rate £525 £511 £516
% change year-on-year +2.84% -1.11% -12.13%

All Generic Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 760 671 816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 36.89% 31.36% 31.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 428 561
10th Percentile £350 £375 £288
25th Percentile £450 £472 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £688 £696 £713
90th Percentile £788 £800 £838
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 15
10th Percentile £19.27 - £14.45
25th Percentile £20.82 £25.40 £17.00
Median hourly rate £26.11 £25.79 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.24% +12.13% -43.21%
75th Percentile £29.50 £26.19 £32.63
90th Percentile £41.79 - £48.85
London median hourly rate £27.71 £38.54 £28.88
% change year-on-year -28.09% +33.45% -16.09%

Virtual Team
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Virtual Team job vacancy trend in Central London

Virtual Team
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Virtual Team

Virtual Team
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Team in Central London over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Team in Central London

Virtual Team
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Virtual Team

Virtual Team
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 30 January 2026. 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
City of London +7 23 £525 -7.69% 7
West End of London +11 1 £575 +21.05%
City of Westminster +3 1 £575 +21.05%
Virtual Team
London

Virtual Team
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Endur
1 1 (4.17%) OpenLink RightAngle
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) AWS
2 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
3 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (4.17%) Azure
3 1 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (4.17%) GitHub
3 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (4.17%) Matillion
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.17%) Power Automate
3 1 (4.17%) PowerApps
3 1 (4.17%) Serverless
3 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.83%) Network Security
1 5 (20.83%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (4.17%) Broadband
2 1 (4.17%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
2 1 (4.17%) Power BI
2 1 (4.17%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) WinAutomation
General
1 17 (70.83%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (8.33%) Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Back Office
4 1 (4.17%) Front Office
4 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Analyst
1 7 (29.17%) Senior
2 6 (25.00%) Python Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) Network Analyst
3 5 (20.83%) Network Security Analyst
3 5 (20.83%) Network Support
3 5 (20.83%) Network Support Analyst
3 5 (20.83%) Security Analyst
4 3 (12.50%) Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Project Manager
5 2 (8.33%) Oracle Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Consultant
6 1 (4.17%) IT Manager
6 1 (4.17%) IT Project Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Process Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Programme Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Consultant
6 1 (4.17%) Software Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Technical Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (29.17%) RESTful
2 2 (8.33%) jQuery
2 2 (8.33%) XML
2 2 (8.33%) XSL
3 1 (4.17%) ADO
3 1 (4.17%) Kafka
3 1 (4.17%) Node.js
3 1 (4.17%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Cyber Threat
1 5 (20.83%) Onboarding
2 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.33%) PMI
2 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.17%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 8 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 7 (29.17%) CI/CD
3 7 (29.17%) Design Patterns
4 6 (25.00%) Agile
4 6 (25.00%) API Development
4 6 (25.00%) Asynchronous Programming
4 6 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 6 (25.00%) Microservices
5 5 (20.83%) Change Management
5 5 (20.83%) Incident Response
5 5 (20.83%) IT Strategy
5 5 (20.83%) Network Architecture
5 5 (20.83%) Project Management
5 5 (20.83%) Security Operations
5 5 (20.83%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 4 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
6 4 (16.67%) Roadmaps
7 3 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) Python
2 3 (12.50%) SQL
3 2 (8.33%) C#
3 2 (8.33%) Java
3 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) PMO
2 1 (4.17%) GMP
2 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) logstash
2 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (8.33%) Oracle
2 1 (4.17%) BT
2 1 (4.17%) OpenLink
2 1 (4.17%) Progress