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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 102 110
Rank change year-on-year -23 +8 +25
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 14 18 16
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.61% 1.01% 0.78%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.71% 2.67% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 8
10th Percentile £211 £283 £446
25th Percentile £271 £348 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £563 £565
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% -0.44% -11.37%
75th Percentile £873 £688 £759
90th Percentile £1,104 £710 £1,178
Central London median daily rate £500 £588 £565
% change year-on-year -14.89% +3.98% -8.69%

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 819 673 633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 35.95% 37.89% 30.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 568 460 396
10th Percentile £366 £349 £350
25th Percentile £463 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £557 £600 £599
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% +0.21% -0.21%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £725
90th Percentile £775 £813 £838
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £591
% change year-on-year -8.33% +1.48% -1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 5
10th Percentile £19.34 £16.96 £18.40
25th Percentile £21.00 £19.79 £22.00
Median hourly rate £26.13 £27.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.98% +1.85% -25.00%
75th Percentile £37.17 £65.57 -
90th Percentile £43.00 £91.00 £66.30
Central London median hourly rate £33.53 £26.98 £25.79
% change year-on-year +24.31% +4.59% -26.31%

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 5 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 (14.29%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (7.14%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) Google Workspace
3 1 (7.14%) IaaS
3 1 (7.14%) OneDrive
3 1 (7.14%) PaaS
3 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 8 (57.14%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Financial Institution
2 3 (21.43%) Influencing Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Legal
3 2 (14.29%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Front Office
4 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Retail
4 1 (7.14%) Retail Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Lead
1 3 (21.43%) Project Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Active Directory Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Active Directory Support
2 2 (14.29%) Active Directory Support Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Business Change Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Business Change Project Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Records Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Support Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Digital Agile Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Digital Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Product Owner
3 1 (7.14%) Project Change Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Python Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Records Management Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Risk Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Kafka
2 1 (7.14%) Django
2 1 (7.14%) PySpark
2 1 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (7.14%) REST
2 1 (7.14%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) BYOD
2 1 (7.14%) Credit Risk
2 1 (7.14%) Derivative
2 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (7.14%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Mac OS
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
1 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (35.71%) Project Management
3 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (28.57%) Virtual Team Management
4 3 (21.43%) Agile
4 3 (21.43%) Budgeting
4 3 (21.43%) Dependency Management
4 3 (21.43%) Project Delivery
4 3 (21.43%) Project Governance
5 2 (14.29%) Change Management
5 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (14.29%) Decision-Making
5 2 (14.29%) Information Governance
5 2 (14.29%) Matrix Management
5 2 (14.29%) Matrix Organization
5 2 (14.29%) Microservices
5 2 (14.29%) Scrum
5 2 (14.29%) SDLC
5 2 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
5 2 (14.29%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) Java
1 1 (7.14%) Python
1 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.14%) Basel III
1 1 (7.14%) GRC
1 1 (7.14%) PMO
1 1 (7.14%) QA
1 1 (7.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Google
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) Planview