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 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 113 132
Rank change year-on-year +11 +19 +21
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 19 16 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.08% 0.77% 0.90%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.87% 2.56% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 8 13
10th Percentile £286 £446 £513
25th Percentile £363 £528 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £638
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -11.37% +8.05%
75th Percentile £688 £759 £813
90th Percentile £708 £1,178 £845
Central London median daily rate £575 £565 £619
% change year-on-year +1.77% -8.69% +14.58%

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 663 625 981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 37.63% 30.06% 32.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 460 384 642
10th Percentile £350 £361 £314
25th Percentile £455 £481 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £594 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -
75th Percentile £694 £725 £738
90th Percentile £813 £838 £838
Central London median daily rate £580 £589 £600
% change year-on-year -1.44% -1.92% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 9
10th Percentile £16.96 £18.40 £16.92
25th Percentile £19.79 £22.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -22.86% -28.57%
75th Percentile £65.57 - £42.32
90th Percentile £91.00 £66.30 £56.15
Central London median hourly rate £26.45 £25.79 £31.25
% change year-on-year +2.56% -17.47% -36.22%

Virtual Team
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Virtual Team as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Team 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 September 2025.

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 and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.53%) Apache Spark
1 2 (10.53%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Endur
1 1 (5.26%) OpenLink RightAngle
Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) AWS
2 4 (21.05%) Azure
3 3 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (10.53%) Serverless
4 2 (10.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (5.26%) GCP
5 1 (5.26%) GitHub
5 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) VPN
2 2 (10.53%) DNS
2 2 (10.53%) Firewall
3 1 (5.26%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Apache Hive
1 2 (10.53%) Data Lake
1 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (10.53%) Hadoop
1 2 (10.53%) Spark SQL
2 1 (5.26%) DynamoDB
2 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.26%) Power BI
2 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (47.37%) Finance
2 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Banking
4 2 (10.53%) Front Office
4 2 (10.53%) Investment Banking
4 2 (10.53%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Retail
5 1 (5.26%) Back Office
5 1 (5.26%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (5.26%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.26%) Games
5 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.26%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) Developer
2 3 (15.79%) Senior
3 2 (10.53%) Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Specialist
3 2 (10.53%) Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) Data Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Data Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Data Manager
3 2 (10.53%) DevOps Specialist
3 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) IT Administrator
4 1 (5.26%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (5.26%) PMO Lead
4 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 1 (5.26%) Python Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) SharePoint Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Testing Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) CSS
1 2 (10.53%) HTML
1 2 (10.53%) Node.js
1 2 (10.53%) PySpark
1 2 (10.53%) React
1 2 (10.53%) RESTful
2 1 (5.26%) ADO
2 1 (5.26%) Fastify
2 1 (5.26%) jQuery
2 1 (5.26%) SPFx
2 1 (5.26%) Spring Boot
2 1 (5.26%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 1 (5.26%) XML
2 1 (5.26%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.53%) Distributed Applications
2 2 (10.53%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (10.53%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.26%) 3D Graphics
3 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.26%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (5.26%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
1 2 (10.53%) Unix
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
2 1 (5.26%) Mac OS X
2 1 (5.26%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) Agile
2 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
2 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (21.05%) Microservices
3 4 (21.05%) Migration
3 4 (21.05%) Project Management
4 3 (15.79%) Analytics
4 3 (15.79%) Containerisation
4 3 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (15.79%) Data Migration
4 3 (15.79%) Data Modelling
4 3 (15.79%) DevOps
4 3 (15.79%) Scrum
4 3 (15.79%) Software Engineering
4 3 (15.79%) Test Automation
5 2 (10.53%) Code Quality
5 2 (10.53%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (10.53%) Design Patterns
5 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (10.53%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) Python
2 6 (31.58%) SQL
3 5 (26.32%) Java
4 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
5 2 (10.53%) C#
5 2 (10.53%) Shell Script
5 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
6 1 (5.26%) C++
6 1 (5.26%) PHP
6 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) AWS Certification
1 2 (10.53%) AWS Certified Developer
1 2 (10.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (10.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (10.53%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
2 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.26%) PMO
2 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.79%) Terraform
3 2 (10.53%) Progress Chef
3 2 (10.53%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Foundry
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle
2 2 (10.53%) Palantir
3 1 (5.26%) Calypso
3 1 (5.26%) OpenLink
3 1 (5.26%) Progress