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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 96 121
Rank change year-on-year -36 +25 +10
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 19 24 16
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.78% 1.24% 0.69%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.04% 3.22% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 17 8
10th Percentile £214 £294 £397
25th Percentile £381 £465 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% -14.58%
75th Percentile £775 £688 £759
90th Percentile £971 £698 £1,178
London median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -10.20%
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 £25.50 £73.50 £23.80
% change year-on-year -65.31% +208.82% -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 931 745 714
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.23% 38.50% 30.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 631 539 448
10th Percentile £341 £350 £350
25th Percentile £461 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £586
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.92% -2.29%
75th Percentile £688 £689 £725
90th Percentile £775 £790 £838
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 10 7
10th Percentile £20.10 £17.02 £19.60
25th Percentile £25.00 £20.34 £22.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £26.29 £25.79
Median % change year-on-year +42.65% +1.93% -26.31%
75th Percentile £64.25 £58.18 £27.00
90th Percentile £142.02 £89.88 £53.20
London median hourly rate £35.00 £26.50 £31.62
% change year-on-year +32.08% -16.19% +14.98%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 -23 14 £625 +19.05% 28
West End of London -6 3 - - 5
City of Westminster -7 3 - - 8
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 3 (15.79%) Confluence
2 2 (10.53%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.26%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) Azure
1 3 (15.79%) GCP
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (15.79%) SaaS
2 2 (10.53%) AWS
3 1 (5.26%) Apigee
3 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.26%) GitHub
3 1 (5.26%) Google Workspace
3 1 (5.26%) IaaS
3 1 (5.26%) OneDrive
3 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
3 1 (5.26%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Big Data
1 1 (5.26%) Data Lake
1 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (52.63%) Finance
2 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
3 6 (31.58%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (21.05%) Banking
5 3 (15.79%) Retail Banking
6 2 (10.53%) Financial Institution
6 2 (10.53%) Legal
6 2 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (5.26%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (5.26%) Electronics
7 1 (5.26%) Games
7 1 (5.26%) Investment Banking
7 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
7 1 (5.26%) Retail
7 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Project Manager
2 3 (15.79%) Architect
2 3 (15.79%) Senior
2 3 (15.79%) Solutions Architect
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 Change Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Business Change Project Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Developer
3 2 (10.53%) IT Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Lead
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Records Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Senior Manager
3 2 (10.53%) ServiceNow Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) REST
1 3 (15.79%) SOAP
2 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
2 2 (10.53%) Bootstrap
2 2 (10.53%) CSS
2 2 (10.53%) HTML
2 2 (10.53%) JSON
2 2 (10.53%) Kafka
3 1 (5.26%) .NET
3 1 (5.26%) .NET Core
3 1 (5.26%) Node.js
3 1 (5.26%) Spring
3 1 (5.26%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Product Ownership
2 3 (15.79%) Onboarding
3 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
3 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.26%) BYOD
4 1 (5.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (5.26%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Mac OS
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
1 2 (10.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (36.84%) Virtual Team Management
3 6 (31.58%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (26.32%) Project Management
4 5 (26.32%) Roadmaps
5 4 (21.05%) Agile
5 4 (21.05%) Decision-Making
5 4 (21.05%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 4 (21.05%) Strategic Thinking
5 4 (21.05%) Translating Business Requirements
6 3 (15.79%) Change Management
6 3 (15.79%) Data Protection
6 3 (15.79%) Dependency Management
6 3 (15.79%) IT Strategy
6 3 (15.79%) Matrix Organization
6 3 (15.79%) Microservices
6 3 (15.79%) Project Governance
6 3 (15.79%) Scrum
6 3 (15.79%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) Java
1 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.26%) Python
2 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
1 2 (10.53%) PMI Certification
1 2 (10.53%) PMP
1 2 (10.53%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.26%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) GRC
1 1 (5.26%) PMO
1 1 (5.26%) PSD2
1 1 (5.26%) QA
1 1 (5.26%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle
2 2 (10.53%) Calypso
2 2 (10.53%) FIS
2 2 (10.53%) Google
2 2 (10.53%) Murex
2 2 (10.53%) SAP
2 2 (10.53%) ServiceNow
2 2 (10.53%) Temenos
3 1 (5.26%) MuleSoft
3 1 (5.26%) Planview