Virtual Team Contracts 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 112 144
Rank change year-on-year +10 +32 +3
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 20 14 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.10% 0.66% 0.51%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.12% 2.08% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 7
10th Percentile £303 £223 £522
25th Percentile £438 £442 £586
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £558 £775
Median % change year-on-year +14.80% -28.06% +46.23%
75th Percentile £688 £573 £813
90th Percentile £713 £699 £825
Central London median daily rate £633 £550 £775
% change year-on-year +15.00% -29.03% +46.23%

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 642 674 1,187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 35.31% 31.60% 33.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 441 796
10th Percentile £354 £285 £347
25th Percentile £475 £430 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +6.84%
75th Percentile £711 £700 £750
90th Percentile £800 £850 £863
Central London median daily rate £600 £565 £613
% change year-on-year +6.19% -7.76% +6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 14
10th Percentile £16.90 £12.75 £17.69
25th Percentile £20.77 £14.38 £35.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £23.00 £52.25
Median % change year-on-year +41.30% -55.98% +12.37%
75th Percentile £71.37 £27.00 £87.16
90th Percentile £92.13 £36.30 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £23.40 £39.83
% change year-on-year +24.23% -41.25% -14.34%

Virtual Team
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Virtual Team as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Team in the City of London

Virtual Team
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Team in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Team in the City of London

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 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Team in the City of London

Virtual Team
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Team in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Team in the City of London

Virtual Team
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) SAP MDG
1 1 (5.00%) SAP MDG-S
1 1 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) GCP
3 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) Firewall
2 2 (10.00%) DNS
2 2 (10.00%) VPN
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (5.00%) HTTP
3 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Apache Hive
1 2 (10.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (10.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (10.00%) Spark SQL
2 1 (5.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.00%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (10.00%) JIRA
3 1 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (5.00%) TeamCity
General
1 12 (60.00%) Finance
2 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Banking
4 2 (10.00%) Investment Banking
4 2 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Retail
5 1 (5.00%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.00%) Front Office
5 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.00%) Law
5 1 (5.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (15.00%) Architect
1 3 (15.00%) Developer
2 2 (10.00%) Analyst
2 2 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (10.00%) AWS Specialist
2 2 (10.00%) Data Analyst
2 2 (10.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Data Manager
2 2 (10.00%) DevOps Specialist
2 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 2 (10.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (5.00%) Java Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.00%) Lead
3 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
3 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) SCCM Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) SCCM Specialist
3 1 (5.00%) UAT Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) CSS
1 2 (10.00%) HTML
1 2 (10.00%) PySpark
2 1 (5.00%) Fastify
2 1 (5.00%) Node.js
2 1 (5.00%) React
2 1 (5.00%) SPFx
2 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.00%) Distributed Applications
2 2 (10.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (10.00%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.00%) Reference Data
3 1 (5.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
1 2 (10.00%) Unix
2 1 (5.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Agile
2 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (25.00%) Project Management
3 4 (20.00%) Microservices
3 4 (20.00%) Migration
4 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (15.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (15.00%) Configuration Management
4 3 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (15.00%) Data Management
4 3 (15.00%) Data Migration
4 3 (15.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (15.00%) DevSecOps
4 3 (15.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (15.00%) Scrum
4 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (15.00%) Virtual Team Management
5 2 (10.00%) Budget Management
5 2 (10.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (10.00%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) Python
2 5 (25.00%) Java
3 3 (15.00%) SQL
4 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (10.00%) Shell Script
5 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (5.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (10.00%) AWS Certified Developer
2 2 (10.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (10.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.00%) CCNP
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.00%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (5.00%) SAP Certification
3 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) GRC
2 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.00%) NIST
2 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) BitLocker
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.00%) XenApp
2 1 (5.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.00%) Progress Chef
2 2 (10.00%) Puppet
2 2 (10.00%) Terraform
3 1 (5.00%) Ansible
3 1 (5.00%) SCCM
3 1 (5.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Foundry
2 2 (10.00%) Google
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.00%) Palantir
3 1 (5.00%) Aruba
3 1 (5.00%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (5.00%) Calypso
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco
3 1 (5.00%) Citrix
3 1 (5.00%) F5
3 1 (5.00%) Juniper
3 1 (5.00%) NetScout
3 1 (5.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (5.00%) Planview
3 1 (5.00%) SAP
3 1 (5.00%) VMware