Virtual Team Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Virtual Team (including Distributed Team, Remote Team, Dispersed Team)
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Virtual Team in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Team over the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 105 111
Rank change year-on-year -14 +6 +33
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 20 16 12
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.83% 0.93% 0.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.64% 2.70% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 7 5
10th Percentile £239 £429 £187
25th Percentile £376 £569 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +18.18% -22.12%
75th Percentile £778 £688 £573
90th Percentile £899 £719 -
Central London median daily rate £550 £645 £535
% change year-on-year -14.73% +20.56% -24.25%

All Generic Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 757 592 667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 31.29% 34.30% 30.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 520 377 440
10th Percentile £368 £361 £285
25th Percentile £463 £475 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £689 £713 £700
90th Percentile £788 £812 £838
Central London median daily rate £561 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -2.39% +1.77% -9.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 6
10th Percentile £19.26 £19.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.45 £24.25 £13.56
Median hourly rate £31.03 £47.36 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.47% +136.79% -61.17%
75th Percentile £47.18 £82.96 £26.25
90th Percentile £64.47 £94.38 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £34.78 £29.07 £23.00
% change year-on-year +19.65% +26.39% -38.53%

Virtual Team
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Virtual Team job vacancy trend in the City of London

Virtual Team
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Virtual Team.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Virtual Team

Virtual Team
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Team in the City of London over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Team in the City of London

Virtual Team
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Virtual Team.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Virtual Team

Virtual Team
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) AWS
1 2 (10.00%) Azure
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.00%) GCP
2 1 (5.00%) IaaS
2 1 (5.00%) Matillion
2 1 (5.00%) PaaS
2 1 (5.00%) SaaS
2 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) 4G
1 1 (5.00%) 5G
1 1 (5.00%) Broadband
1 1 (5.00%) Internet
1 1 (5.00%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.00%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
1 1 (5.00%) WinAutomation
General
1 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (35.00%) Finance
3 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Banking
4 3 (15.00%) Financial Institution
5 2 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Front Office
6 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
6 1 (5.00%) Legal
6 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.00%) Retail Banking
6 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Project Manager
1 4 (20.00%) Senior
2 3 (15.00%) Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Lead
3 2 (10.00%) Broadcast Project Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Content Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Platform Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Python Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Content Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Project Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Automation Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Pensions Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Risk Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) Kafka
2 2 (10.00%) Django
2 2 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (10.00%) REST
2 2 (10.00%) Svelte
3 1 (5.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.00%) AI Agents
3 1 (5.00%) Credit Risk
3 1 (5.00%) Derivative
3 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.00%) Market Risk
3 1 (5.00%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (30.00%) Virtual Team Management
3 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 4 (20.00%) Project Management
5 3 (15.00%) Agile
5 3 (15.00%) Budget Management
5 3 (15.00%) Business Analysis
5 3 (15.00%) Business Case
5 3 (15.00%) Microservices
5 3 (15.00%) Project Delivery
5 3 (15.00%) Requirements Gathering
6 2 (10.00%) AI
6 2 (10.00%) Data Analysis
6 2 (10.00%) DevOps
6 2 (10.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 2 (10.00%) High Availability
6 2 (10.00%) Process Improvement
6 2 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) Python
1 2 (10.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (5.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.00%) Basel III
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) GMP
2 1 (5.00%) GRC
2 1 (5.00%) PMO
2 1 (5.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Autotask
2 1 (5.00%) logstash
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) BT
2 1 (5.00%) Ericsson
2 1 (5.00%) Google
2 1 (5.00%) Huawei
2 1 (5.00%) Nokia
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle