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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 106 111
Rank change year-on-year -17 +5 +32
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 16 20 13
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.67% 1.07% 0.63%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.04% 2.95% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 5
10th Percentile £199 £275 £464
25th Percentile £288 £318 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -0.44% -5.83%
75th Percentile £747 £678 £573
90th Percentile £919 £690 £724
Central London median daily rate £500 £600 £558
% change year-on-year -16.67% +7.62% -7.08%

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 783 679 667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 32.58% 36.37% 32.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 539 446 431
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.31%
75th Percentile £684 £700 £706
90th Percentile £775 £805 £850
Central London median daily rate £550 £580 £575
% change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 6
10th Percentile £19.36 £16.96 £14.38
25th Percentile £21.75 £22.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £31.03 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% +24.00% -56.71%
75th Percentile £47.18 £65.57 £27.00
90th Percentile £64.47 £91.00 £59.75
Central London median hourly rate £37.50 £28.29 £23.80
% change year-on-year +32.58% +18.84% -40.25%

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 25 July 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 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (12.50%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) Google Workspace
3 1 (6.25%) IaaS
3 1 (6.25%) PaaS
3 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) 4G
1 1 (6.25%) 5G
1 1 (6.25%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Financial Institution
3 2 (12.50%) Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.25%) Front Office
4 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Legal
4 1 (6.25%) Retail Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Senior
2 3 (18.75%) Lead
2 3 (18.75%) Support Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Active Directory Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Active Directory Support
3 2 (12.50%) Active Directory Support Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Broadcast Project Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Content Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Platform Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Python Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Content Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Lead Product Owner
4 1 (6.25%) Network Design Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) Kafka
2 2 (12.50%) Django
2 2 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (12.50%) REST
2 2 (12.50%) Svelte
3 1 (6.25%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.25%) BYOD
2 1 (6.25%) Credit Risk
2 1 (6.25%) Derivative
2 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (6.25%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Windows
2 2 (12.50%) Mac OS
2 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (31.25%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (25.00%) Virtual Team Management
3 3 (18.75%) Business Case
3 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (18.75%) Decision-Making
3 3 (18.75%) Microservices
4 2 (12.50%) Budget Management
4 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 2 (12.50%) Containerisation
4 2 (12.50%) Data Analysis
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven
4 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (12.50%) High Availability
4 2 (12.50%) Project Delivery
4 2 (12.50%) SDLC
4 2 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (12.50%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) Python
1 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
2 1 (6.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.25%) Basel III
2 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) GRC
2 1 (6.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (6.25%) Autotask
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Google
3 1 (6.25%) Ericsson
3 1 (6.25%) Huawei
3 1 (6.25%) Nokia
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle