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 19 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 97 111
Rank change year-on-year -30 +14 +16
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 16 20 17
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.71% 1.14% 0.81%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.94% 3.00% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 14 9
10th Percentile £211 £288 £400
25th Percentile £271 £388 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £525 £565
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.08% -11.37%
75th Percentile £873 £688 £738
90th Percentile £1,104 £705 £1,061
Central London median daily rate £500 £550 £558
% change year-on-year -9.09% -1.35% -9.90%

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 826 666 640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 36.53% 37.99% 30.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 563 466 393
10th Percentile £363 £335 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £600 £593
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% +1.27% -1.25%
75th Percentile £688 £689 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £838
Central London median daily rate £557 £575 £589
% change year-on-year -3.22% -2.29% -1.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 5
10th Percentile £19.28 £16.96 £18.40
25th Percentile £21.75 £19.79 £22.00
Median hourly rate £28.07 £27.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.05% +1.85% -22.86%
75th Percentile £41.69 £65.57 -
90th Percentile £62.80 £91.00 £66.30
Central London median hourly rate £35.41 £26.45 £25.79
% change year-on-year +33.88% +2.56% -17.47%

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 19 September 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
2 1 (6.25%) Confluence
2 1 (6.25%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) Azure
1 3 (18.75%) GCP
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) Apigee
3 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub
3 1 (6.25%) Google Workspace
3 1 (6.25%) IaaS
3 1 (6.25%) OneDrive
3 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
3 1 (6.25%) PaaS
3 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Big Data
1 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
1 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (56.25%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Banking
3 3 (18.75%) Financial Institution
3 3 (18.75%) Legal
4 2 (12.50%) Retail Banking
4 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Front Office
5 1 (6.25%) Games
5 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Lead
1 3 (18.75%) Project Manager
1 3 (18.75%) Senior
2 2 (12.50%) Active Directory Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Active Directory Support
2 2 (12.50%) Active Directory Support Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Business Change Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Business Change Project Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Records Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Business Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Business Project Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Product Manager
3 1 (6.25%) QA Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) Kafka
2 2 (12.50%) REST
3 1 (6.25%) .NET
3 1 (6.25%) .NET Core
3 1 (6.25%) Django
3 1 (6.25%) Node.js
3 1 (6.25%) PySpark
3 1 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (6.25%) SOAP
3 1 (6.25%) Spring
3 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
3 1 (6.25%) Svelte
3 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Product Ownership
2 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.25%) BYOD
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Credit Risk
3 1 (6.25%) Derivative
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (6.25%) Market Risk
3 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Mac OS
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
1 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (31.25%) Project Management
2 5 (31.25%) Virtual Team Management
3 3 (18.75%) Agile
3 3 (18.75%) Budgeting
3 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (18.75%) Decision-Making
3 3 (18.75%) Dependency Management
3 3 (18.75%) DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) Microservices
3 3 (18.75%) Project Delivery
3 3 (18.75%) Project Governance
3 3 (18.75%) Roadmaps
3 3 (18.75%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (12.50%) Change Management
4 2 (12.50%) Matrix Management
4 2 (12.50%) Scrum
4 2 (12.50%) Test Scripting
4 2 (12.50%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (6.25%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) SQL
2 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
2 1 (6.25%) PMI Certification
2 1 (6.25%) PMP
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.25%) Basel III
2 1 (6.25%) GRC
2 1 (6.25%) PMO
2 1 (6.25%) PSD2
2 1 (6.25%) SEPA
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
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Google
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) Calypso
3 1 (6.25%) FIS
3 1 (6.25%) MuleSoft
3 1 (6.25%) Murex
3 1 (6.25%) Planview
3 1 (6.25%) SAP
3 1 (6.25%) Temenos