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 19 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 122 130
Rank change year-on-year +19 +8 +11
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 24 14 23
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.28% 0.60% 0.74%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.35% 1.90% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 7 12
10th Percentile £296 £394 £513
25th Percentile £465 £434 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £636
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -25.34% +17.82%
75th Percentile £678 £781 £816
90th Percentile £695 £1,296 £848
London median daily rate £525 £540 £613
% change year-on-year -2.78% -11.84% +2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.80 -
London median hourly rate £79.25 £23.80 £22.49
% change year-on-year +232.98% +5.82% -43.06%

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 717 736 1,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.34% 31.32% 32.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 522 472 665
10th Percentile £359 £351 £325
25th Percentile £456 £463 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £583 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% -2.92% +2.56%
75th Percentile £688 £713 £738
90th Percentile £775 £838 £850
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 11
10th Percentile £16.96 £24.28 £17.00
25th Percentile £19.79 £25.00 £21.50
Median hourly rate £25.08 £26.40 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -24.59% -30.69%
75th Percentile £36.00 £43.38 £44.54
90th Percentile £70.21 £72.85 £53.00
London median hourly rate £26.30 £34.13 £29.72
% change year-on-year -22.93% +14.82% +12.15%

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 19 October 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 19 October 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 +16 22 £525 -12.50% 29
West End of London +6 1 £575 +21.05% 1
City of Westminster -1 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 2 (8.33%) Apache Spark
1 2 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
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 11 (45.83%) AWS
2 4 (16.67%) Azure
3 3 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 2 (8.33%) Serverless
4 2 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (4.17%) GCP
5 1 (4.17%) GitHub
5 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.17%) Power Automate
5 1 (4.17%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) VPN
2 2 (8.33%) DNS
2 2 (8.33%) Firewall
3 1 (4.17%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 2 (8.33%) Apache Hive
2 2 (8.33%) Data Lake
2 2 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (8.33%) Hadoop
2 2 (8.33%) Spark SQL
3 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
3 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (54.17%) Social Skills
2 9 (37.50%) Finance
3 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Front Office
5 1 (4.17%) Back Office
5 1 (4.17%) Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.17%) Games
5 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.17%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Developer
1 6 (25.00%) Senior
2 4 (16.67%) Python Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Specialist
3 2 (8.33%) Data Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Data Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Data Manager
3 2 (8.33%) DevOps Specialist
3 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 2 (8.33%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (4.17%) IT Administrator
4 1 (4.17%) PMO Lead
4 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 1 (4.17%) Python Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) RESTful
2 2 (8.33%) CSS
2 2 (8.33%) HTML
2 2 (8.33%) jQuery
2 2 (8.33%) Node.js
2 2 (8.33%) PySpark
2 2 (8.33%) React
2 2 (8.33%) XML
2 2 (8.33%) XSL
3 1 (4.17%) ADO
3 1 (4.17%) Fastify
3 1 (4.17%) SPFx
3 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.17%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (8.33%) Distributed Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Distributed Architecture
1 2 (8.33%) Distributed Computing
1 2 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.17%) 3D Graphics
2 1 (4.17%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (4.17%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Linux
1 2 (8.33%) Unix
1 2 (8.33%) Windows
2 1 (4.17%) Mac OS X
2 1 (4.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (33.33%) Agile
2 8 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 7 (29.17%) Microservices
3 7 (29.17%) Software Engineering
4 5 (20.83%) Code Quality
4 5 (20.83%) Design Patterns
4 5 (20.83%) Test Automation
5 4 (16.67%) API Development
5 4 (16.67%) Asynchronous Programming
5 4 (16.67%) Migration
5 4 (16.67%) Project Management
5 4 (16.67%) Scrum
6 3 (12.50%) Analytics
6 3 (12.50%) Containerisation
6 3 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (12.50%) Data Migration
6 3 (12.50%) Data Modelling
6 3 (12.50%) DevOps
7 2 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 11 (45.83%) Python
2 7 (29.17%) SQL
3 6 (25.00%) Java
4 4 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 3 (12.50%) C#
6 2 (8.33%) Shell Script
6 2 (8.33%) TypeScript
7 1 (4.17%) C++
7 1 (4.17%) PHP
7 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) AWS Certification
1 2 (8.33%) AWS Certified Developer
1 2 (8.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (8.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
1 2 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.17%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (12.50%) Terraform
3 2 (8.33%) Progress Chef
3 2 (8.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) Oracle
3 2 (8.33%) Foundry
3 2 (8.33%) Palantir
4 1 (4.17%) Calypso
4 1 (4.17%) Guidewire
4 1 (4.17%) OpenLink
4 1 (4.17%) Progress