Virtual Team Contracts in England

Virtual Team (including Distributed Team, Remote Team, Dispersed Team)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Virtual Team in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Team over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 343 328 287
Rank change year-on-year -15 -41 -30
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 142 221 453
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.58% 0.59% 0.90%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.71% 1.93% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 138 271
10th Percentile £313 £343 £356
25th Percentile £400 £438 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £640 £614 £675
90th Percentile £742 £679 £788
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 23 6
10th Percentile £30.72 - £37.50
25th Percentile £37.80 £13.00 -
Median hourly rate £40.59 £26.00 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.12% -40.91% -1.73%
75th Percentile £77.50 £26.50 £47.00
90th Percentile £78.25 - £74.00
UK median hourly rate £41.55 £24.90 £44.00
% change year-on-year +66.85% -43.41% -1.73%

All Generic Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 8,317 11,465 17,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.15% 30.83% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,436 7,505 11,795
10th Percentile £300 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 827 591
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.01 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%
75th Percentile £64.63 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.40 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Virtual Team
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Virtual Team as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Team in England

Virtual Team
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Team in England.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Team in England

Virtual Team
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Team in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Team in England

Virtual Team
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Team in England.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Team in England

Virtual Team
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Virtual Team in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Virtual Team in England

Virtual Team
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +30 85 £475 -8.65% 243
North of England -20 24 £514 +2.80% 38
North West -23 20 £514 +4.26% 26
South East +33 8 £475 -22.76% 80
East of England +30 8 £325 -31.58% 26
West Midlands +4 6 £500 +9.59% 16
Midlands +3 6 £500 - 25
South West +43 5 £545 +17.23% 19
Yorkshire +8 4 £500 -21.57% 10
Virtual Team
UK

Virtual Team
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 14 (9.86%) Confluence
2 8 (5.63%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.52%) NetWeaver
4 2 (1.41%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (4.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.52%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.70%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.70%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.70%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.70%) InDesign
5 1 (0.70%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 13 (9.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (4.93%) SAP PP
3 4 (2.82%) SAP MDG
3 4 (2.82%) SAP MDG-S
4 3 (2.11%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (1.41%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (1.41%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 2 (1.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.70%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.70%) SAP Business ByDesign
6 1 (0.70%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.70%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 22 (15.49%) Azure
2 19 (13.38%) AWS
3 10 (7.04%) GCP
4 6 (4.23%) Cloud Computing
4 6 (4.23%) GitHub
4 6 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (4.23%) SaaS
5 4 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.11%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (2.11%) IaaS
6 3 (2.11%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.41%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (1.41%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (1.41%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.41%) dbt
7 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (1.41%) ShareGate
7 2 (1.41%) Smartsheet
7 2 (1.41%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.93%) WAN
2 6 (4.23%) HTTP
2 6 (4.23%) LAN
3 5 (3.52%) Firewall
4 3 (2.11%) SD-WAN
4 3 (2.11%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.41%) Multicast
5 2 (1.41%) Network Security
5 2 (1.41%) SSL
5 2 (1.41%) VPN
6 1 (0.70%) 802.11
6 1 (0.70%) BGP
6 1 (0.70%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.70%) DNS
6 1 (0.70%) HSRP
6 1 (0.70%) Internet
6 1 (0.70%) IPsec
6 1 (0.70%) MPLS
6 1 (0.70%) OSPF
6 1 (0.70%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.23%) KDB
2 5 (3.52%) BigQuery
3 4 (2.82%) Kdb+
3 4 (2.82%) SAP HANA
4 3 (2.11%) Power BI
4 3 (2.11%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.11%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.41%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.41%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.70%) DTS
6 1 (0.70%) Informix
6 1 (0.70%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.70%) OLTP
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle OLAP
6 1 (0.70%) Tableau
6 1 (0.70%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 26 (18.31%) JIRA
2 8 (5.63%) Git
3 6 (4.23%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.82%) Bitbucket
4 4 (2.82%) NUnit
5 3 (2.11%) Selenium
6 2 (1.41%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.41%) ERwin
6 2 (1.41%) MSTest
6 2 (1.41%) NSubstitute
6 2 (1.41%) Postman
6 2 (1.41%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.41%) Visual Studio Coded UI
6 2 (1.41%) Xcode
7 1 (0.70%) Appium
7 1 (0.70%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.70%) JUnit
7 1 (0.70%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.70%) Subversion
General
1 65 (45.77%) Social Skills
2 37 (26.06%) Finance
3 19 (13.38%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.86%) Banking
5 13 (9.15%) Manufacturing
6 11 (7.75%) Public Sector
7 10 (7.04%) Marketing
8 9 (6.34%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (5.63%) Telecoms
10 7 (4.93%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (4.23%) Electronics
11 6 (4.23%) Investment Banking
12 5 (3.52%) Front Office
13 4 (2.82%) Aerospace
14 3 (2.11%) Advertising
14 3 (2.11%) German Language
14 3 (2.11%) Local Government
15 2 (1.41%) Law
15 2 (1.41%) Publishing
15 2 (1.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (23.24%) Developer
2 14 (9.86%) Architect
3 12 (8.45%) Project Manager
4 9 (6.34%) Solutions Architect
5 8 (5.63%) Analyst
5 8 (5.63%) Python Developer
6 7 (4.93%) Consultant
6 7 (4.93%) Lead
6 7 (4.93%) Senior
7 6 (4.23%) Integration Developer
7 6 (4.23%) IT Manager
7 6 (4.23%) Java Developer
8 5 (3.52%) IT Project Manager
8 5 (3.52%) SAP Consultant
8 5 (3.52%) SAP Developer
8 5 (3.52%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
8 5 (3.52%) Support Engineer
9 4 (2.82%) Business Analyst
9 4 (2.82%) KDB Developer
9 4 (2.82%) SAP QM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.34%) XML
2 7 (4.93%) .NET
2 7 (4.93%) REST
3 6 (4.23%) EDI
3 6 (4.23%) React
3 6 (4.23%) SOAP
4 5 (3.52%) IDoc
4 5 (3.52%) JDBC
4 5 (3.52%) JMS
4 5 (3.52%) Middleware
4 5 (3.52%) SAP PI
4 5 (3.52%) Spring
4 5 (3.52%) XSLT
5 4 (2.82%) AngularJS
5 4 (2.82%) GraphQL
5 4 (2.82%) Node.js
5 4 (2.82%) RESTful
6 3 (2.11%) .NET Framework
6 3 (2.11%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (2.11%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.75%) Product Ownership
2 6 (4.23%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (3.52%) Legacy Applications
3 5 (3.52%) Life Science
3 5 (3.52%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.82%) Equities
4 4 (2.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (2.82%) Reference Data
5 3 (2.11%) Digital Media
5 3 (2.11%) Fixed Income
5 3 (2.11%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.41%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.41%) Clustering
6 2 (1.41%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.41%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.41%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.41%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.41%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.41%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 14 (9.86%) Linux
2 11 (7.75%) Windows
3 7 (4.93%) Unix
4 4 (2.82%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.41%) Android
5 2 (1.41%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.41%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (36.62%) Agile
2 35 (24.65%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (16.20%) Stakeholder Management
4 21 (14.79%) Virtual Team Management
5 20 (14.08%) CI/CD
5 20 (14.08%) Project Management
6 18 (12.68%) DevOps
7 17 (11.97%) Scrum
8 16 (11.27%) Roadmaps
9 15 (10.56%) Analytics
10 14 (9.86%) Computer Science
10 14 (9.86%) Project Delivery
10 14 (9.86%) User Acceptance Testing
11 13 (9.15%) SDLC
12 12 (8.45%) Business Intelligence
12 12 (8.45%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (8.45%) Test Automation
13 11 (7.75%) Continuous Integration
13 11 (7.75%) ITIL
14 10 (7.04%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 29 (20.42%) Python
2 23 (16.20%) Java
3 12 (8.45%) SQL
4 6 (4.23%) C#
5 5 (3.52%) ABAP
5 5 (3.52%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.82%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.11%) Bash
7 3 (2.11%) C
7 3 (2.11%) Groovy
7 3 (2.11%) Perl
7 3 (2.11%) Swift
8 2 (1.41%) ActionScript
8 2 (1.41%) ActionScript 2.0
8 2 (1.41%) C++
8 2 (1.41%) Go
9 1 (0.70%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.70%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.70%) Scala
9 1 (0.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (16.20%) Degree
2 18 (12.68%) Security Cleared
3 13 (9.15%) SC Cleared
4 9 (6.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (5.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (4.23%) PMI Certification
6 6 (4.23%) PMP
7 5 (3.52%) SAP Certification
8 4 (2.82%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (2.11%) CCNP
9 3 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (2.11%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.41%) CCDA
10 2 (1.41%) CCDP
10 2 (1.41%) CCNA
10 2 (1.41%) IIBA
10 2 (1.41%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.41%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.70%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.68%) QA
2 5 (3.52%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.41%) GDPR
3 2 (1.41%) GMP
4 1 (0.70%) GRC
4 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.70%) NIST
4 1 (0.70%) PMO
4 1 (0.70%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (4.23%) Docker
2 5 (3.52%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.70%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.70%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.70%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.70%) QEMU
4 1 (0.70%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.70%) XenApp
4 1 (0.70%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 6 (4.23%) Terraform
2 5 (3.52%) Ansible
2 5 (3.52%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.41%) Grafana
3 2 (1.41%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.41%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.41%) Puppet
3 2 (1.41%) SCCM
4 1 (0.70%) Data Guard
4 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.70%) TADDM
4 1 (0.70%) Tivoli
4 1 (0.70%) WSUS
Vendors
1 29 (20.42%) SAP
2 22 (15.49%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.93%) Google
3 7 (4.93%) Oracle
4 4 (2.82%) BiZZdesign
4 4 (2.82%) Cisco
5 3 (2.11%) IBM
5 3 (2.11%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.41%) Aruba
6 2 (1.41%) Citrix
6 2 (1.41%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.41%) HP
6 2 (1.41%) Infoblox
6 2 (1.41%) Nintex
6 2 (1.41%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.41%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.41%) Sparx
6 2 (1.41%) VMware
7 1 (0.70%) Databricks
7 1 (0.70%) Refinitiv