Virtual Team Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Virtual Team (including Distributed Team, Remote Team, Dispersed Team)
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Virtual Team in contract job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Team over the 6 months leading up to 25 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 75 102
Rank change year-on-year -17 +27 -7
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 13 14 7
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.77% 1.27% 0.39%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.52% 3.40% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 4
10th Percentile £327 £288 £384
25th Percentile £414 £313 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £425 £471
Median % change year-on-year +16.47% -9.81% -14.32%
75th Percentile £528 £569 £513
90th Percentile £578 £770 £535
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.17 - -
Median hourly rate £16.25 - -
75th Percentile £16.33 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £45.46 £21.83 £26.00
% change year-on-year +108.29% -16.06% -37.72%

All Generic Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 516 412 579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 30.75% 37.32% 32.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 201 305
10th Percentile £185 £250 £210
25th Percentile £313 £370 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £563
90th Percentile £713 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 53 110
10th Percentile £12.79 £29.36 £15.39
25th Percentile £15.79 £46.31 £22.00
Median hourly rate £23.00 £67.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.93% +22.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £67.38 £85.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £95.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +7.14% +55.66%

Virtual Team
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Virtual Team relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Virtual Team job vacancy trend in the East of England

Virtual Team
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Virtual Team.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Virtual Team

Virtual Team
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Team in the East of England over the 6 months to 25 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Team in the East of England

Virtual Team
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Virtual Team.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Virtual Team

Virtual Team
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Team within the East of England region over the 6 months to 25 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Essex +2 5 £408 - 8
Cambridgeshire -7 4 £495 +16.47% 12
Hertfordshire - 3 £538 - 8
Bedfordshire -11 1 - - 7
Virtual Team
England

Virtual Team
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (15.38%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (7.69%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
1 3 (23.08%) Route 53
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.69%) OneDrive
2 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.69%) PowerApps
2 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) Cisco ISE
1 3 (23.08%) DHCP
1 3 (23.08%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
General
1 12 (92.31%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Legal
3 2 (15.38%) Advertising
4 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Finance
4 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Computer Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Field Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Field Hardware Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Hardware Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Network Manager
2 3 (23.08%) Network Services Manager
2 3 (23.08%) Printer Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Service Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Business Change Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Business Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Change Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Field Service Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) PMO Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Project Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Scrum Master
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Business Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) .NET
1 1 (7.69%) ADO
1 1 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Driving Licence
2 1 (7.69%) e-Learning
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (69.23%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) Mac OS
2 1 (7.69%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (30.77%) Customer Service
2 4 (30.77%) Service Management
3 3 (23.08%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (23.08%) Load Balancing
3 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (23.08%) Virtual Team Management
4 2 (15.38%) Change Management
4 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
4 2 (15.38%) Data Modelling
4 2 (15.38%) Migration
4 2 (15.38%) Process Improvement
4 2 (15.38%) Workshop Facilitation
5 1 (7.69%) Collaborative Culture
5 1 (7.69%) Impact Assessments
5 1 (7.69%) Incident Response
5 1 (7.69%) Order Management
5 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.69%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) MCTS
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (7.69%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) PMO
1 1 (7.69%) QA
1 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Ansible
1 3 (23.08%) HAProxy
1 3 (23.08%) Stealthwatch
2 1 (7.69%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (7.69%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Canon
1 4 (30.77%) Dell
1 4 (30.77%) HP
2 3 (23.08%) Cisco
2 3 (23.08%) Infoblox
3 1 (7.69%) jetNEXUS
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) Talend