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 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 112 132
Rank change year-on-year +7 +20 +15
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 22 18 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.13% 0.78% 0.86%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.03% 2.54% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 14
10th Percentile £290 £451 £513
25th Percentile £414 £463 £549
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £619
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -8.69% +14.58%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £806
90th Percentile £703 £1,061 £843
London median daily rate £525 £540 £645
% change year-on-year -2.78% -16.28% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.80 -
London median hourly rate £73.50 £23.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +208.82% -4.78% -36.72%

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 726 708 1,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 37.29% 30.78% 33.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 449 728
10th Percentile £350 £359 £313
25th Percentile £446 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £589 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -1.92% +2.56%
75th Percentile £689 £719 £730
90th Percentile £800 £838 £838
London median daily rate £556 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -3.26% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 10
10th Percentile £17.08 £19.60 £16.96
25th Percentile £20.89 £22.90 £19.25
Median hourly rate £26.45 £25.79 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -17.47% -36.22%
75th Percentile £50.79 £27.00 £40.87
90th Percentile £88.75 £53.20 £54.58
London median hourly rate £27.50 £31.31 £29.75
% change year-on-year -12.17% +5.24% -2.46%

Virtual Team
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Virtual Team as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Team 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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 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
City of London +11 19 £525 -7.08% 19
City of Westminster 0 2 £600 +26.32%
West End of London +1 1 £575 +21.05%
Virtual Team
London

Virtual Team
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 2 (9.09%) Apache Spark
1 2 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Endur
1 1 (4.55%) OpenLink RightAngle
Cloud Services
1 9 (40.91%) AWS
2 4 (18.18%) Azure
3 3 (13.64%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
4 2 (9.09%) Serverless
4 2 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (4.55%) GCP
5 1 (4.55%) GitHub
5 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.55%) Power Automate
5 1 (4.55%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) VPN
2 2 (9.09%) DNS
2 2 (9.09%) Firewall
3 1 (4.55%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Apache Hive
1 2 (9.09%) Data Lake
1 2 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (9.09%) Hadoop
1 2 (9.09%) Spark SQL
2 1 (4.55%) DynamoDB
2 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.55%) Power BI
2 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (40.91%) Finance
1 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Front Office
3 2 (9.09%) Banking
3 2 (9.09%) Investment Banking
3 2 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Retail
4 1 (4.55%) Back Office
4 1 (4.55%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (4.55%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.55%) Games
4 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.55%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Developer
2 3 (13.64%) Senior
3 2 (9.09%) Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (9.09%) AWS Specialist
3 2 (9.09%) Consultant
3 2 (9.09%) Data Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Data Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Data Manager
3 2 (9.09%) DevOps Specialist
3 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 2 (9.09%) Python Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) IT Administrator
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (4.55%) PMO Lead
4 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) SharePoint Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Testing Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) CSS
1 2 (9.09%) HTML
1 2 (9.09%) Node.js
1 2 (9.09%) PySpark
1 2 (9.09%) React
1 2 (9.09%) RESTful
2 1 (4.55%) ADO
2 1 (4.55%) Fastify
2 1 (4.55%) jQuery
2 1 (4.55%) NumPy
2 1 (4.55%) Pandas
2 1 (4.55%) Polars
2 1 (4.55%) SPFx
2 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.55%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 1 (4.55%) XML
2 1 (4.55%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Product Ownership
2 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.09%) Distributed Applications
2 2 (9.09%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (9.09%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.55%) 3D Graphics
3 1 (4.55%) Fixed Income
3 1 (4.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (4.55%) Hedge funds
3 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.55%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (4.55%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Linux
2 2 (9.09%) Unix
2 2 (9.09%) Windows
3 1 (4.55%) Mac OS X
3 1 (4.55%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) Agile
2 6 (27.27%) CI/CD
2 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (22.73%) Software Engineering
4 4 (18.18%) Analytics
4 4 (18.18%) Microservices
4 4 (18.18%) Migration
4 4 (18.18%) Project Management
5 3 (13.64%) Containerisation
5 3 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (13.64%) Data Analysis
5 3 (13.64%) Data Migration
5 3 (13.64%) Data Modelling
5 3 (13.64%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (13.64%) DevOps
5 3 (13.64%) Scrum
5 3 (13.64%) Test Automation
6 2 (9.09%) Computer Science
6 2 (9.09%) Data Cleansing
6 2 (9.09%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) Python
2 6 (27.27%) SQL
3 5 (22.73%) Java
4 3 (13.64%) JavaScript
5 2 (9.09%) C#
5 2 (9.09%) Shell Script
5 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.55%) C++
6 1 (4.55%) PHP
6 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) AWS Certification
1 2 (9.09%) AWS Certified Developer
1 2 (9.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (9.09%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
1 2 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) PMO
2 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.64%) Terraform
3 2 (9.09%) Progress Chef
3 2 (9.09%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Foundry
2 2 (9.09%) Oracle
2 2 (9.09%) Palantir
3 1 (4.55%) Calypso
3 1 (4.55%) Guidewire
3 1 (4.55%) OpenLink
3 1 (4.55%) Progress