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 9 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 112 115
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 +48
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 21 9 15
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.15% 0.47% 0.62%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.13% 1.50% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 6 8
10th Percentile - £339 £513
25th Percentile £463 £398 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £481 £636
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -24.36% +15.68%
75th Percentile £538 £680 £822
90th Percentile £728 £1,370 £865
Central London median daily rate £525 £475 £600
% change year-on-year +10.53% -20.83% +11.11%

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 671 601 762
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 36.83% 31.32% 31.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 374 503
10th Percentile £351 £375 £312
25th Percentile £450 £475 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £688 £709 £713
90th Percentile £788 £829 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -6.38% -2.08% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 9
10th Percentile £18.76 - -
25th Percentile £20.30 £77.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £85.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.65% +240.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £35.63 £92.50 £36.50
90th Percentile £41.83 - £52.15
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £55.40 £24.00
% change year-on-year -52.87% +130.81% -42.51%

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 9 January 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 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Endur
1 1 (4.76%) OpenLink RightAngle
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
2 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (4.76%) Azure
2 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (4.76%) GitHub
2 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (23.81%) Network Security
1 5 (23.81%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (4.76%) IP Telephony
2 1 (4.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (28.57%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.76%) DynamoDB
2 1 (4.76%) Power BI
General
1 13 (61.90%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Back Office
4 1 (4.76%) Finance
4 1 (4.76%) Front Office
4 1 (4.76%) Games
4 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Senior
2 6 (28.57%) Python Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Analyst
3 5 (23.81%) Network Analyst
3 5 (23.81%) Network Security Analyst
3 5 (23.81%) Network Support
3 5 (23.81%) Network Support Analyst
3 5 (23.81%) Security Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Oracle Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Project Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Administrator
5 1 (4.76%) Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) IT Administrator
5 1 (4.76%) IT Manager
5 1 (4.76%) IT Project Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Programme Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) RESTful
2 2 (9.52%) jQuery
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%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Cyber Threat
1 5 (23.81%) Onboarding
2 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
2 2 (9.52%) PMI
2 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.76%) 3D Graphics
3 1 (4.76%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (4.76%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Windows
2 1 (4.76%) Mac OS X
2 1 (4.76%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (38.10%) CI/CD
2 8 (38.10%) Software Engineering
3 7 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 7 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 6 (28.57%) API Development
4 6 (28.57%) Asynchronous Programming
4 6 (28.57%) Code Quality
4 6 (28.57%) Incident Response
4 6 (28.57%) Microservices
5 5 (23.81%) Change Management
5 5 (23.81%) IT Strategy
5 5 (23.81%) Network Architecture
5 5 (23.81%) Security Operations
5 5 (23.81%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 4 (19.05%) Agile
6 4 (19.05%) Project Management
6 4 (19.05%) Roadmaps
7 3 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
8 2 (9.52%) Matrix Organization
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) Python
2 4 (19.05%) SQL
3 3 (14.29%) C#
4 2 (9.52%) Java
4 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.76%) C++
5 1 (4.76%) PHP
5 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Oracle
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) OpenLink
2 1 (4.76%) Progress