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

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 114 119
Rank change year-on-year +18 +5 +37
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 21 13 22
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.25% 0.61% 0.77%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.19% 2.00% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 7 11
10th Percentile £292 £394 £513
25th Percentile £439 £434 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £673
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -27.51% +15.45%
75th Percentile £659 £781 £819
90th Percentile £700 £1,296 £850
Central London median daily rate £525 £481 £636
% change year-on-year +9.09% -24.36% +17.82%

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 658 649 902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.12% 30.70% 31.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 404 577
10th Percentile £350 £352 £323
25th Percentile £450 £463 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% -1.25% -
75th Percentile £688 £725 £738
90th Percentile £779 £838 £825
Central London median daily rate £569 £576 £600
% change year-on-year -1.30% -3.96% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 10
10th Percentile £16.85 £32.05 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.43 £39.63 £19.31
Median hourly rate £27.50 £56.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.89% +57.75% -24.06%
75th Percentile £50.79 £76.13 £45.64
90th Percentile £74.84 £85.95 £54.58
Central London median hourly rate £26.29 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -2.64% -22.86% -25.13%

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 24 October 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 & 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 (9.52%) Apache Spark
1 2 (9.52%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Endur
1 1 (4.76%) OpenLink RightAngle
Cloud Services
1 10 (47.62%) AWS
2 4 (19.05%) Azure
3 2 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.76%) GCP
4 1 (4.76%) GitHub
4 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.76%) Serverless
4 1 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) VPN
2 1 (4.76%) DNS
2 1 (4.76%) Firewall
2 1 (4.76%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) Relational Database
2 2 (9.52%) Apache Hive
2 2 (9.52%) Data Lake
2 2 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (9.52%) Hadoop
2 2 (9.52%) Spark SQL
3 1 (4.76%) DynamoDB
3 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 8 (38.10%) Finance
3 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Front Office
5 1 (4.76%) Back Office
5 1 (4.76%) Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.76%) Games
5 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.76%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Senior
2 5 (23.81%) Python Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Data Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Data Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Data Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Specialist
5 1 (4.76%) Financial Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (4.76%) IT Administrator
5 1 (4.76%) Lead
5 1 (4.76%) Project Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Python Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) SharePoint Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (28.57%) RESTful
2 2 (9.52%) CSS
2 2 (9.52%) HTML
2 2 (9.52%) jQuery
2 2 (9.52%) PySpark
2 2 (9.52%) XML
2 2 (9.52%) XSL
3 1 (4.76%) ADO
3 1 (4.76%) Node.js
3 1 (4.76%) React
3 1 (4.76%) SPFx
3 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.76%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Distributed Computing
1 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.76%) 3D Graphics
2 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (4.76%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (4.76%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Windows
2 1 (4.76%) Linux
2 1 (4.76%) Mac OS X
2 1 (4.76%) Unix
2 1 (4.76%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (38.10%) CI/CD
3 7 (33.33%) Agile
3 7 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 6 (28.57%) Design Patterns
4 6 (28.57%) Microservices
4 6 (28.57%) Test Automation
5 5 (23.81%) API Development
5 5 (23.81%) Asynchronous Programming
5 5 (23.81%) Code Quality
6 4 (19.05%) Migration
6 4 (19.05%) Scrum
7 3 (14.29%) Analytics
7 3 (14.29%) Data Migration
7 3 (14.29%) Data Modelling
7 3 (14.29%) Project Management
8 2 (9.52%) Computer Science
8 2 (9.52%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (9.52%) Data Cleansing
8 2 (9.52%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 11 (52.38%) Python
2 7 (33.33%) SQL
3 5 (23.81%) Java
4 4 (19.05%) JavaScript
5 3 (14.29%) C#
6 1 (4.76%) C++
6 1 (4.76%) PHP
6 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.76%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (38.10%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.52%) Terraform
3 1 (4.76%) Progress Chef
3 1 (4.76%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 3 (14.29%) Oracle
3 2 (9.52%) Foundry
3 2 (9.52%) Palantir
4 1 (4.76%) Calypso
4 1 (4.76%) OpenLink
4 1 (4.76%) Progress