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 1 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 108 114
Rank change year-on-year -20 +6 +21
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 19 21 19
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.76% 1.06% 0.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.10% 2.82% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 9
10th Percentile £220 £286 £451
25th Percentile £288 £363 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +6.19% -5.83%
75th Percentile £811 £688 £738
90th Percentile £950 £708 £1,061
London median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -16.92%
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 £35.00 £69.25 £23.80
% change year-on-year -49.46% +190.97% -4.78%

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 903 745 729
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 36.18% 37.49% 31.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 624 518 471
10th Percentile £358 £355 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £567 £586 £590
Median % change year-on-year -3.12% -0.76% -1.67%
75th Percentile £684 £700 £716
90th Percentile £775 £813 £838
London median daily rate £550 £570 £575
% change year-on-year -3.51% -0.87% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 12 7
10th Percentile £19.42 £17.35 £19.60
25th Percentile £23.00 £21.45 £22.90
Median hourly rate £33.53 £26.98 £25.79
Median % change year-on-year +24.31% +4.59% -27.35%
75th Percentile £45.88 £43.39 £27.00
90th Percentile £64.38 £86.43 £53.20
London median hourly rate £33.12 £27.25 £31.62
% change year-on-year +21.54% -13.82% -9.66%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -18 15 £431 -28.13% 16
West End of London -6 3 - - 4
City of Westminster -8 3 - - 3
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 (10.53%) Confluence
1 2 (10.53%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) SaaS
2 2 (10.53%) AWS
2 2 (10.53%) Azure
2 2 (10.53%) GCP
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.26%) Google Workspace
3 1 (5.26%) IaaS
3 1 (5.26%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) HTTP
2 1 (5.26%) 4G
2 1 (5.26%) 5G
2 1 (5.26%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) JIRA
General
1 8 (42.11%) Finance
2 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
3 5 (26.32%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (15.79%) Financial Institution
4 3 (15.79%) Legal
5 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (10.53%) Banking
5 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
6 1 (5.26%) Electronics
6 1 (5.26%) Front Office
6 1 (5.26%) Investment Banking
6 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.26%) Retail
6 1 (5.26%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Project Manager
2 3 (15.79%) Lead
2 3 (15.79%) Senior
3 2 (10.53%) Active Directory Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Active Directory Support
3 2 (10.53%) Active Directory Support Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Business Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Business Change Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Business Change Project Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Python Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Records Manager
3 2 (10.53%) ServiceNow Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Agile Project Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Change Project Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Network Design Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) REST
2 3 (15.79%) Kafka
3 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
3 2 (10.53%) Bootstrap
3 2 (10.53%) CSS
3 2 (10.53%) Django
3 2 (10.53%) HTML
3 2 (10.53%) JSON
3 2 (10.53%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (10.53%) SOAP
3 2 (10.53%) Svelte
4 1 (5.26%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.26%) BYOD
2 1 (5.26%) Credit Risk
2 1 (5.26%) Derivative
2 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (5.26%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Mac OS
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
1 2 (10.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (31.58%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (26.32%) Agile
4 5 (26.32%) Project Management
4 5 (26.32%) Virtual Team Management
5 4 (21.05%) Project Delivery
5 4 (21.05%) Scrum
6 3 (15.79%) Budgeting
6 3 (15.79%) Change Management
6 3 (15.79%) Customer Service
6 3 (15.79%) Decision-Making
6 3 (15.79%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 3 (15.79%) Microservices
6 3 (15.79%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 3 (15.79%) Service Management
6 3 (15.79%) Strategic Thinking
7 2 (10.53%) Containerisation
7 2 (10.53%) Matrix Organization
7 2 (10.53%) Records Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
1 2 (10.53%) Python
1 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
2 1 (5.26%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (5.26%) Degree
1 1 (5.26%) PMI Certification
1 1 (5.26%) PMP
1 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
1 1 (5.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.26%) Basel III
1 1 (5.26%) GRC
1 1 (5.26%) QA
1 1 (5.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
1 2 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Google
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
1 2 (10.53%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.26%) Ericsson
2 1 (5.26%) Huawei
2 1 (5.26%) Nokia
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle