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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 102 108
Rank change year-on-year -11 +6 +41
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 20 18 14
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.82% 1.03% 0.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.61% 2.93% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 9 6
10th Percentile £208 £298 £223
25th Percentile £288 £363 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £640 £558
Median % change year-on-year -21.09% +14.80% -28.06%
75th Percentile £664 £688 £573
90th Percentile £889 £703 £699
Central London median daily rate £503 £633 £550
% change year-on-year -20.55% +15.00% -29.03%

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 766 614 668
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 31.54% 35.11% 31.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 527 398 439
10th Percentile £363 £354 £281
25th Percentile £463 £475 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £686 £700 £700
90th Percentile £788 £803 £850
Central London median daily rate £550 £580 £575
% change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% -7.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 7
10th Percentile £19.25 £16.85 £12.75
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.54 £14.38
Median hourly rate £32.07 £31.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.44% +34.78% -55.34%
75th Percentile £51.36 £77.16 £27.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £93.25 £36.30
Central London median hourly rate £42.00 £27.76 £23.40
% change year-on-year +51.30% +18.63% -37.46%

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 27 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 2 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (10.00%) AWS
2 2 (10.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (5.00%) Google Workspace
3 1 (5.00%) IaaS
3 1 (5.00%) Matillion
3 1 (5.00%) PaaS
3 1 (5.00%) SaaS
3 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 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (35.00%) Finance
3 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Financial Institution
5 2 (10.00%) Banking
5 2 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.00%) Front Office
6 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
6 1 (5.00%) Legal
6 1 (5.00%) Retail Banking
6 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Senior
2 3 (15.00%) Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Lead
2 3 (15.00%) Project Manager
2 3 (15.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Active Directory Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Active Directory Support
3 2 (10.00%) Active Directory Support Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Broadcast Project Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Content Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Engineer
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
4 1 (5.00%) Lead Product Owner
4 1 (5.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
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 2 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (5.00%) BYOD
2 1 (5.00%) Credit Risk
2 1 (5.00%) Derivative
2 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (5.00%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Mac OS
2 2 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (25.00%) Virtual Team Management
3 4 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 3 (15.00%) Agile
4 3 (15.00%) Budget Management
4 3 (15.00%) Business Analysis
4 3 (15.00%) Business Case
4 3 (15.00%) Microservices
4 3 (15.00%) Project Delivery
5 2 (10.00%) AI
5 2 (10.00%) Data Analysis
5 2 (10.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 2 (10.00%) Project Management
5 2 (10.00%) SDLC
5 2 (10.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (10.00%) Test Scripting
5 2 (10.00%) Use Case
5 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
1 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.00%) DV 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%) Active Directory
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.00%) Autotask
2 1 (5.00%) logstash
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Google
3 1 (5.00%) BT
3 1 (5.00%) Ericsson
3 1 (5.00%) Huawei
3 1 (5.00%) Nokia
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle