Virtual Team Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Virtual Team (including Distributed Team, Remote Team, Dispersed Team)
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Virtual Team in contract job vacancies in Cheshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Team over the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 48 30
Rank change year-on-year -20 -18 +20
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 5 8 24
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.73% 1.48% 6.05%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.12% 4.10% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 18
10th Percentile £367 £395 £474
25th Percentile - £463 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £384 £535 £523
Median % change year-on-year -28.22% +2.39% +60.28%
75th Percentile £460 £565 £581
90th Percentile £506 £571 £589
North West median daily rate £384 £484 £560
% change year-on-year -20.66% -13.57% +20.43%

All Generic Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 236 195 156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 34.55% 36.11% 39.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 107 86
10th Percentile £268 £350 £356
25th Percentile £358 £425 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.55% -9.09% +11.11%
75th Percentile £500 £567 £592
90th Percentile £638 £638 £625
North West median daily rate £450 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 4
10th Percentile - £16.97 £13.95
25th Percentile £15.50 £19.59 £16.07
Median hourly rate £16.00 £23.14 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year -30.84% -31.45% +54.96%
75th Percentile £31.50 £40.01 £56.25
90th Percentile £67.25 £68.50 £67.50
North West median hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £42.38
% change year-on-year +12.90% -26.84% +94.56%

Virtual Team
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Virtual Team relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Virtual Team job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Virtual Team
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Virtual Team.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Virtual Team

Virtual Team
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Team in Cheshire over the 6 months to 3 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Team in Cheshire

Virtual Team
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 3 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
Knutsford -18 4 £422 -4.63% 1
Virtual Team
North West

Virtual Team
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Tester
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (60.00%) CSS
1 3 (60.00%) HTML
1 3 (60.00%) LDAP
1 3 (60.00%) REST
1 3 (60.00%) SOAP
1 3 (60.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) Analytics
1 4 (80.00%) Computer Science
1 4 (80.00%) IT Asset Management
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
1 4 (80.00%) ITSM
1 4 (80.00%) Migration
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (80.00%) Service Catalogue
1 4 (80.00%) Service Management
1 4 (80.00%) Time Management
2 3 (60.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (60.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) SIAM
2 3 (60.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) COBIT
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) ServiceNow