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 24 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 73 107
Rank change year-on-year -20 +34 -21
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 14 14 6
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.77% 1.32% 0.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.50% 3.22% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 3
10th Percentile £305 £288 £377
25th Percentile £437 £313 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £425 £443
Median % change year-on-year +16.47% -3.95% -19.55%
75th Percentile £533 £569 £501
90th Percentile £575 £770 £530
England median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -6.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 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 £31.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +46.65% +19.23% -40.91%

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 559 435 598
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 30.80% 41.15% 31.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 241 321
10th Percentile £192 £255 £208
25th Percentile £313 £396 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +1.01% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £560
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £513 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 56 130
10th Percentile £13.43 £21.88 £13.44
25th Percentile £15.89 £47.20 £18.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £67.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.79% +23.18% -16.03%
75th Percentile £67.25 £85.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £93.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £37.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year -12.16% +17.46% +40.00%

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 24 February 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 24 February 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 +5 6 - - 1
Cambridgeshire -8 4 £495 +16.47%
Hertfordshire - 3 £513 -
Bedfordshire -9 1 - -
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 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) AWS
1 3 (21.43%) Route 53
2 2 (14.29%) SaaS
3 1 (7.14%) IaaS
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.14%) OneDrive
3 1 (7.14%) PaaS
3 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
3 1 (7.14%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) Cisco ISE
1 3 (21.43%) DHCP
1 3 (21.43%) DNS
2 1 (7.14%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 12 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 6 (42.86%) Legal
3 2 (14.29%) Advertising
4 1 (7.14%) Back Office
4 1 (7.14%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Computer Engineer
1 6 (42.86%) Field Engineer
1 6 (42.86%) Field Hardware Engineer
1 6 (42.86%) Hardware Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Printer Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Network Manager
3 3 (21.43%) Network Services Manager
3 3 (21.43%) Service Manager
4 2 (14.29%) Senior
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Break Fix Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Field Service Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Field Service Hardware Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Lead
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365 Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Migration Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Reward Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Business Change Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Business Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Change Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Driving Licence
2 1 (7.14%) e-Learning
2 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (71.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (42.86%) Customer Service
2 6 (42.86%) Service Management
3 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (28.57%) Virtual Team Management
4 3 (21.43%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (21.43%) Load Balancing
4 3 (21.43%) Migration
4 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (14.29%) Change Management
5 2 (14.29%) CRM
5 2 (14.29%) Data Modelling
6 1 (7.14%) ERP
6 1 (7.14%) ETL
6 1 (7.14%) High Availability
6 1 (7.14%) ITIL
6 1 (7.14%) PRINCE2
6 1 (7.14%) Project Management
6 1 (7.14%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (7.14%) PMI Certification
3 1 (7.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Ansible
1 3 (21.43%) HAProxy
1 3 (21.43%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Canon
1 6 (42.86%) Dell
1 6 (42.86%) HP
2 3 (21.43%) Cisco
2 3 (21.43%) Infoblox
3 1 (7.14%) jetNEXUS
3 1 (7.14%) Meraki
3 1 (7.14%) Talend
3 1 (7.14%) VMware