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 22 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 105 106
Rank change year-on-year -16 +1 +28
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 16 18 15
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.68% 0.99% 0.73%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.95% 2.64% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 11 7
10th Percentile £220 £281 £440
25th Percentile £288 £333 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +6.19% -8.69%
75th Percentile £811 £688 £655
90th Percentile £950 £713 £773
Central London median daily rate £488 £600 £558
% change year-on-year -18.75% +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 819 683 630
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 34.97% 37.38% 30.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 560 462 410
10th Percentile £368 £358 £359
25th Percentile £463 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £600 £593
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% +1.27% -1.25%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £717
90th Percentile £775 £813 £838
Central London median daily rate £565 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -5.83% +2.13% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 5
10th Percentile £19.36 £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% -27.84%
75th Percentile £41.69 £65.57 -
90th Percentile £62.80 £91.00 £66.30
Central London median hourly rate £35.00 £26.98 £25.79
% change year-on-year +29.75% +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 22 August 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 2 (12.50%) AWS
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
1 2 (12.50%) GCP
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (6.25%) Google Workspace
2 1 (6.25%) IaaS
2 1 (6.25%) PaaS
2 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 7 (43.75%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Financial Institution
2 3 (18.75%) Influencing Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Legal
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.25%) Front Office
4 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Retail
4 1 (6.25%) Retail Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Lead
1 3 (18.75%) Project Manager
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%) Business Analyst
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%) Python Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Records Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Senior
2 2 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Agile Project Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Change Project Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Digital Project Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Network Design Specialist
3 1 (6.25%) Risk Business Analyst
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 2 (12.50%) Mac OS
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
1 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (25.00%) Project Management
3 4 (25.00%) Virtual Team Management
4 3 (18.75%) Agile
4 3 (18.75%) Budgeting
4 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (18.75%) Decision-Making
4 3 (18.75%) Microservices
4 3 (18.75%) Project Delivery
5 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 2 (12.50%) Containerisation
5 2 (12.50%) Dependency Management
5 2 (12.50%) DevOps
5 2 (12.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven
5 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (12.50%) Information Governance
5 2 (12.50%) SDLC
5 2 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) Python
1 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
2 1 (6.25%) Java
Qualifications
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
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) 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