Virtual Team Contracts 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 121 151
Rank change year-on-year +7 +30 +3
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 15 12 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.75% 0.49% 0.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.20% 1.60% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 11
10th Percentile £303 £228 £495
25th Percentile £460 £510 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £633 £550 £595
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -7.56% +13.33%
75th Percentile £678 £573 £813
90th Percentile £711 - £825
London median daily rate £475 £520 £565
% change year-on-year -8.65% -7.96% -2.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.80 -
London median hourly rate £27.00 £23.80 £44.00
% change year-on-year +13.45% -45.91% +17.33%

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 681 749 1,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 34.10% 30.62% 36.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 437 524 960
10th Percentile £361 £275 £313
25th Percentile £465 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £605
Median % change year-on-year - -4.96% +5.22%
75th Percentile £695 £700 £750
90th Percentile £780 £850 £850
London median daily rate £575 £583 £600
% change year-on-year -1.29% -2.92% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 16
10th Percentile £23.78 £12.75 £18.42
25th Percentile £26.45 £16.73 £24.00
Median hourly rate £29.07 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.39% -34.29% -27.08%
75th Percentile £31.00 £26.25 £84.89
90th Percentile £72.40 £29.78 £88.30
London median hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.69% -25.71% -21.35%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Team in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Team in Central London

Virtual Team
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Team in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Team in Central London

Virtual Team
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Team in Central London.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 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 +13 14 £640 +14.80% 6
City of Westminster - 1 £625 -
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 1 (6.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) SAP MDG
1 2 (13.33%) SAP MDG-S
1 2 (13.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (6.67%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (6.67%) Serverless
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (6.67%) DNS
2 1 (6.67%) HTTP
2 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (6.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) SAP HANA
2 1 (6.67%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (6.67%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Banking
2 2 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Retail
3 1 (6.67%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Front Office
3 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Law
3 1 (6.67%) Marketing
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Python Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Front Office Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) IT Manager
4 1 (6.67%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Java Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Java Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Network Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Network Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Network Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) SCCM Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) SCCM Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Scrum Master
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Delivery Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Testing Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Fastify
1 1 (6.67%) Node.js
1 1 (6.67%) NumPy
1 1 (6.67%) Pandas
1 1 (6.67%) Polars
1 1 (6.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (13.33%) Reference Data
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Digital Media
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Fixed Income
2 1 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (6.67%) Hedge funds
2 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Unix
2 1 (6.67%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
2 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Agile
2 4 (26.67%) Roadmaps
3 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (20.00%) Microservices
3 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
3 3 (20.00%) Project Management
3 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (13.33%) Asset Management
4 2 (13.33%) Configuration Management
4 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (13.33%) Data Architecture
4 2 (13.33%) Data Governance
4 2 (13.33%) Data Management
4 2 (13.33%) Information Management
4 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) Time Management
4 2 (13.33%) TOGAF
4 2 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) Java
1 3 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
2 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
2 1 (6.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) SAP Certification
2 2 (13.33%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (6.67%) CCNP
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (6.67%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) GRC
1 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.67%) NIST
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) BitLocker
2 1 (6.67%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.67%) XenApp
2 1 (6.67%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Ansible
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
1 1 (6.67%) Puppet
1 1 (6.67%) SCCM
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
1 1 (6.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) BiZZdesign
1 2 (13.33%) Google
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (13.33%) SAP
2 1 (6.67%) Aruba
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco
2 1 (6.67%) Citrix
2 1 (6.67%) F5
2 1 (6.67%) Juniper
2 1 (6.67%) NetScout
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) Palo Alto
2 1 (6.67%) Planview
2 1 (6.67%) VMware