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 3 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 107 119
Rank change year-on-year -9 +12 +35
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 24 22 17
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.91% 1.11% 0.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.84% 3.17% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 12 7
10th Percentile £211 £309 £260
25th Percentile £311 £475 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £633 £550
Median % change year-on-year -20.55% +15.00% -29.03%
75th Percentile £647 £688 £573
90th Percentile £878 £710 £674
London median daily rate £500 £518 £516
% change year-on-year -3.47% +0.34% -20.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £53.45 - -
25th Percentile £56.38 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £23.80
75th Percentile £76.25 - -
90th Percentile £83.75 - -
London median hourly rate £62.50 £46.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year +35.87% +93.28% -45.91%

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 845 694 748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 32.15% 34.89% 31.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 578 460 508
10th Percentile £350 £350 £317
25th Percentile £453 £463 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.81%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £841
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 11 8
10th Percentile £19.30 £17.08 £12.75
25th Percentile £22.25 £23.52 £15.19
Median hourly rate £39.75 £29.07 £23.40
Median % change year-on-year +36.74% +24.23% -41.25%
75th Percentile £60.73 £50.79 £27.00
90th Percentile £70.88 £88.75 £33.98
London median hourly rate £37.50 £30.40 £27.42
% change year-on-year +23.35% +10.88% -21.66%

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 3 July 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Virtual Team in Central London over the 6 months to 3 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Virtual Team in Central London

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 3 July 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 -25 20 £505 -21.09% 21
City of Westminster -3 3 - - 3
West End of London - 3 - - 2
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 2 (8.33%) Confluence
1 2 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (12.50%) SaaS
2 2 (8.33%) AWS
2 2 (8.33%) Azure
2 2 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (4.17%) Google Workspace
3 1 (4.17%) IaaS
3 1 (4.17%) Matillion
3 1 (4.17%) PaaS
3 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) HTTP
2 1 (4.17%) 4G
2 1 (4.17%) 5G
2 1 (4.17%) Broadband
2 1 (4.17%) Internet
2 1 (4.17%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.17%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) WinAutomation
General
1 12 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (33.33%) Finance
3 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Financial Institution
5 2 (8.33%) Banking
5 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 2 (8.33%) Telecoms
6 1 (4.17%) Electronics
6 1 (4.17%) Front Office
6 1 (4.17%) Investment Banking
6 1 (4.17%) Legal
6 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Project Manager
1 5 (20.83%) Senior
2 4 (16.67%) Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Lead
3 3 (12.50%) Senior Manager
3 3 (12.50%) Senior Project Manager
3 3 (12.50%) Support Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Active Directory Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Active Directory Support
4 2 (8.33%) Active Directory Support Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Broadcast Project Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Content Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Platform Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Python Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Content Manager
4 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) Kafka
1 4 (16.67%) REST
2 2 (8.33%) AngularJS
2 2 (8.33%) Bootstrap
2 2 (8.33%) CSS
2 2 (8.33%) Django
2 2 (8.33%) HTML
2 2 (8.33%) JSON
2 2 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (8.33%) SOAP
2 2 (8.33%) Svelte
3 1 (4.17%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.17%) AI Agents
2 1 (4.17%) BYOD
2 1 (4.17%) Credit Risk
2 1 (4.17%) Derivative
2 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (4.17%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Windows
2 2 (8.33%) Mac OS
2 2 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (25.00%) Virtual Team Management
5 5 (20.83%) Agile
5 5 (20.83%) Decision-Making
6 4 (16.67%) Business Case
6 4 (16.67%) Project Delivery
7 3 (12.50%) AI
7 3 (12.50%) Budget Management
7 3 (12.50%) Business Analysis
7 3 (12.50%) Customer Service
7 3 (12.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 3 (12.50%) Microservices
7 3 (12.50%) Project Management
7 3 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
7 3 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 3 (12.50%) Scrum
7 3 (12.50%) Service Management
7 3 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
1 2 (8.33%) Python
1 2 (8.33%) TypeScript
2 1 (4.17%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) PMI Certification
3 1 (4.17%) PMP
3 1 (4.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.17%) Basel III
2 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.17%) GMP
2 1 (4.17%) GRC
2 1 (4.17%) PMO
2 1 (4.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.17%) Autotask
2 1 (4.17%) logstash
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) Google
2 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.17%) BT
3 1 (4.17%) Ericsson
3 1 (4.17%) Huawei
3 1 (4.17%) Nokia
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle