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 14 November 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 14 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	119	95	77
Rank change year-on-year	-24	-18	+29
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team	7	8	10
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England	0.29%	0.53%	0.77%
As % of the Miscellaneous category	0.88%	1.56%	2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted	4	4	3
10^th Percentile	£362	£270	-
25^th Percentile	£403	£356	£413
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£488	£429	£425
Median % change year-on-year	+13.70%	+0.88%	-2.86%
75^th Percentile	£553	£516	£656
90^th Percentile	£581	£589	£788
England median daily rate	£525	£500	£488
% change year-on-year	+5.00%	+2.56%	-11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	2	1
Median hourly rate	-	£30.00	£31.12
Median % change year-on-year	-	-3.60%	-
England median hourly rate	£43.96	£45.46	£23.80
% change year-on-year	-3.30%	+91.01%	-13.45%

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 citing generic IT skills in the East of England.

	6 months to 14 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing generic IT skills	791	513	369
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England	32.94%	34.02%	28.54%
Number of daily rates quoted	331	227	171
10^th Percentile	£163	£190	£240
25^th Percentile	£306	£363	£322
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£488	£500	£475
Median % change year-on-year	-2.50%	+5.26%	-
75^th Percentile	£574	£625	£588
90^th Percentile	£694	£705	£695
England median daily rate	£525	£520	£543
% change year-on-year	+0.96%	-4.15%	-1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted	208	117	44
10^th Percentile	£14.59	£12.97	£26.25
25^th Percentile	£16.96	£15.56	£35.00
Median hourly rate	£63.00	£42.50	£61.00
Median % change year-on-year	+48.24%	-30.33%	-6.15%
75^th Percentile	£74.32	£67.50	£75.00
90^th Percentile	£85.00	£80.00	£95.00
England median hourly rate	£33.99	£28.00	£46.18
% change year-on-year	+21.39%	-39.37%	+3.78%

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 Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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 14 November 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.

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 14 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Hertfordshire	-10	5	£488	-22.00%	6
Cambridgeshire	-1	2	-	-	12
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Virtual Team Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 14 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Virtual Team also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East of England region citing Virtual Team.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Azure	71.4%	5
1	Stakeholder Management	71.4%	5
3	AWS	57.1%	4
3	Migration	57.1%	4
3	SaaS	57.1%	4
6	Active Directory	42.9%	3
6	Agile	42.9%	3
6	Architecture Governance	42.9%	3
6	Firewall	42.9%	3
6	GDPR	42.9%	3
6	Identity Access Management	42.9%	3
6	ISO/IEC 27001	42.9%	3
6	RBAC	42.9%	3
6	Roadmaps	42.9%	3
6	SailPoint	42.9%	3
6	Sarbanes-Oxley	42.9%	3
17	Confluence	28.6%	2
17	Decision-Making	28.6%	2
17	JIRA	28.6%	2
17	Microsoft	28.6%	2
17	Problem-Solving	28.6%	2
17	Project Management	28.6%	2
17	Technical Architecture	28.6%	2
17	Technical Leadership	28.6%	2
17	Translating Business Requirements	28.6%	2
17	Virtual Team Management	28.6%	2
27	Acceptance Criteria	14.3%	1
27	AI	14.3%	1
27	AI Transformation	14.3%	1
27	Ansible	14.3%	1

Virtual Team Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Miscellaneous

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	AI Agents	14.3%	1
1	Public Cloud	14.3%	1