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 6 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 76 105
Rank change year-on-year -16 +29 +14
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 8 10 11
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.56% 0.76% 0.59%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.66% 2.75% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 6
10th Percentile £270 - £350
25th Percentile £356 £413 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £425 £438
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% -2.86% -7.89%
75th Percentile £516 £656 £528
90th Percentile £589 £788 £538
England median daily rate £500 £490 £550
% change year-on-year +2.04% -10.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 - -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £31.12 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% - -
75th Percentile £31.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £45.46 £23.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +91.01% -4.78% -33.35%

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 483 363 624
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 33.80% 27.69% 33.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 164 342
10th Percentile £190 £234 £197
25th Percentile £363 £323 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £625 £588 £575
90th Percentile £700 £659 £675
England median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 42 83
10th Percentile £12.99 £26.63 £22.00
25th Percentile £16.52 £36.25 £42.38
Median hourly rate £42.50 £61.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.33% -6.15% +59.59%
75th Percentile £67.50 £75.00 -
90th Percentile £80.00 £95.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% +5.56% +66.79%

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 6 November 2025.

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 6 November 2025. 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
Cambridgeshire -10 3 £225 -47.06% 6
Bedfordshire -6 2 £450 - 2
Hertfordshire - 2 £625 - 4
Essex -1 1 £408 -
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 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (12.50%) OneDrive
1 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
1 1 (12.50%) PowerApps
1 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (25.00%) DHCP
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) LAN
1 2 (25.00%) PuTTY
1 2 (25.00%) WAN
1 2 (25.00%) Wireless
1 2 (25.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Network Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Agile Scrum Master
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Business Change Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Business Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Change Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365 Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Migration Manager
3 1 (12.50%) PMO Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Project Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Scrum Master
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Business Change Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Business Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Change Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) ADO
1 1 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) e-Learning
1 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Mac OS
2 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Change Management
2 3 (37.50%) Process Improvement
2 3 (37.50%) Project Management
2 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (37.50%) Workshop Facilitation
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Asset Management
4 1 (12.50%) Business Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity
4 1 (12.50%) Data Integration
4 1 (12.50%) Data Management
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
4 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Volume Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) CCNA
2 2 (25.00%) CCNP
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (12.50%) MCTS
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) PMO
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco
2 2 (25.00%) Peregrine
2 2 (25.00%) Remedy
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Talend