Virtual Team Contract Job Trends 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 18 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 294 314
Rank change year-on-year +5 +20 -9
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 399 212 226
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.87% 0.77% 0.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.60% 2.17% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 119 145
10th Percentile £286 £348 £315
25th Percentile £401 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £575
90th Percentile £682 £750 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £493
% change year-on-year - +1.42% -10.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 20 10
10th Percentile £25.75 - £17.08
25th Percentile - £29.00 £19.08
Median hourly rate £43.96 £43.86 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +0.24% +84.26% -56.33%
75th Percentile - £70.16 -
90th Percentile £74.00 £78.75 £33.38
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £47.12 £23.80
% change year-on-year -6.71% +97.98% -48.54%

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 15,334 9,790 10,210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.52% 35.46% 30.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,401 6,159 6,625
10th Percentile £325 £306 £300
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £684
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 922 498 525
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.48 £12.60
25th Percentile £19.34 £18.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £42.40 £31.18 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.98% -34.36% +11.11%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £29.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +44.07% -34.44% +11.23%

Virtual Team
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Virtual Team job vacancy trend in England

Virtual Team
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Virtual Team
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Team in England over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Team in England

Virtual Team
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

Virtual Team
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Virtual Team in England over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

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 18 August 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
London -23 179 £500 -4.76% 52
North of England -30 76 £506 +19.06% 7
South West -7 40 £410 -26.85% 8
Midlands -30 37 £410 -1.97% 5
South East -56 37 £550 +15.79% 26
Yorkshire -22 31 £507 +19.18% 4
North West -39 26 £503 +20.19% 1
West Midlands -34 25 £405 -3.11% 5
North East - 19 - - 2
East Midlands -9 11 £363 +81.25%
East of England -20 10 £525 +22.45% 5
Virtual Team
UK

Virtual Team
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 26 (6.52%) Confluence
2 14 (3.51%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.00%) CMS
5 3 (0.75%) Apache
5 3 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.75%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.25%) Appian
7 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.25%) SAS
7 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (5.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.76%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (3.26%) Microsoft Project
4 11 (2.76%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (1.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.25%) BASE24
4 1 (0.25%) Endur
4 1 (0.25%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.25%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.25%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.25%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 55 (13.78%) Azure
2 44 (11.03%) AWS
3 16 (4.01%) GCP
3 16 (4.01%) SaaS
4 14 (3.51%) Power Platform
5 13 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (3.01%) GitHub
6 12 (3.01%) Snowflake
7 11 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (2.51%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (2.51%) Google Workspace
9 9 (2.26%) Amazon S3
10 8 (2.01%) OCI
10 8 (2.01%) Power Automate
11 7 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (1.50%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (1.50%) Microsoft Copilot
12 6 (1.50%) PaaS
13 5 (1.25%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.01%) Network Security
2 7 (1.75%) DNS
3 6 (1.50%) DHCP
3 6 (1.50%) Firewall
3 6 (1.50%) Skype
3 6 (1.50%) VLAN
4 5 (1.25%) 4G
4 5 (1.25%) IPv4
4 5 (1.25%) IPv6
4 5 (1.25%) Unified Communications
4 5 (1.25%) VoIP
4 5 (1.25%) WebEx
5 4 (1.00%) 5G
5 4 (1.00%) LAN
5 4 (1.00%) WAN
6 3 (0.75%) Ethernet
6 3 (0.75%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (0.50%) HTTP
7 2 (0.50%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (2.76%) Big Data
3 10 (2.51%) SQL Server
4 9 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (2.26%) Power BI
5 8 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.00%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.75%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.75%) Tableau
8 2 (0.50%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.50%) KDB
8 2 (0.50%) Kdb+
8 2 (0.50%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.25%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.25%) Bigtable
9 1 (0.25%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.25%) Looker
9 1 (0.25%) Metadata
9 1 (0.25%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.25%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 48 (12.03%) JIRA
2 14 (3.51%) Git
3 12 (3.01%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.01%) Selenium
5 5 (1.25%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.00%) Appium
6 4 (1.00%) CircleCI
6 4 (1.00%) Postman
7 3 (0.75%) JUnit
7 3 (0.75%) Protractor
7 3 (0.75%) REST Assured
7 3 (0.75%) WebDriver
8 2 (0.50%) GitLab
8 2 (0.50%) Gradle
8 2 (0.50%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.50%) XCUITest
9 1 (0.25%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.25%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.25%) VersionOne
9 1 (0.25%) XCTest
General
1 218 (54.64%) Social Skills
2 168 (42.11%) Finance
3 71 (17.79%) Organisational Skills
4 68 (17.04%) Legal
5 37 (9.27%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (7.77%) Public Sector
7 30 (7.52%) Banking
8 17 (4.26%) Telecoms
9 13 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (2.26%) Front Office
11 8 (2.01%) Aerospace
11 8 (2.01%) Financial Institution
12 7 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (1.50%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.25%) Marketing
14 5 (1.25%) Retail
15 4 (1.00%) Billing
16 3 (0.75%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 37 (9.27%) Senior
2 34 (8.52%) Project Manager
3 33 (8.27%) Lead
4 31 (7.77%) Architect
5 28 (7.02%) Developer
6 24 (6.02%) Analyst
7 14 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
8 12 (3.01%) Business Analyst
8 12 (3.01%) IT Engineer
9 11 (2.76%) Delivery Manager
9 11 (2.76%) Senior Manager
10 10 (2.51%) Data Engineer
11 9 (2.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 9 (2.26%) Product Manager
11 9 (2.26%) Programme Manager
11 9 (2.26%) Support Engineer
11 9 (2.26%) Technical Manager
12 8 (2.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (2.01%) Project Officer
12 8 (2.01%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.51%) REST
2 12 (3.01%) .NET
3 9 (2.26%) React
4 8 (2.01%) JSON
4 8 (2.01%) Kafka
4 8 (2.01%) RESTful
5 7 (1.75%) AngularJS
5 7 (1.75%) Middleware
5 7 (1.75%) Node.js
6 6 (1.50%) Spring
6 6 (1.50%) Spring Boot
7 5 (1.25%) Android Jetpack
7 5 (1.25%) Langfuse
7 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Graph
7 5 (1.25%) Playwright
7 5 (1.25%) PySpark
7 5 (1.25%) SOAP
7 5 (1.25%) Vue
8 4 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (1.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 63 (15.79%) Podcast
1 63 (15.79%) Web Conferencing
2 32 (8.02%) Data Protection Act
3 31 (7.77%) Cloud Native
4 23 (5.76%) Product Ownership
5 16 (4.01%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (4.01%) Onboarding
6 14 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (2.76%) Data Centre
9 8 (2.01%) Management Information System
9 8 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.75%) Driving Licence
10 7 (1.75%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.50%) Fixed Income
11 6 (1.50%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.25%) Video Conferencing
13 4 (1.00%) CMDB
13 4 (1.00%) Data Structures
13 4 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 40 (10.03%) Windows
2 16 (4.01%) Android
3 14 (3.51%) Linux
3 14 (3.51%) Windows Server
4 12 (3.01%) Windows 10
5 11 (2.76%) Unix
6 10 (2.51%) Apple iOS
7 8 (2.01%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.75%) AIX
10 2 (0.50%) HPUX
10 2 (0.50%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.50%) Solaris
10 2 (0.50%) SUSE
10 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.25%) Debian
11 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (30.08%) Agile
2 93 (23.31%) Stakeholder Management
3 89 (22.31%) Problem-Solving
4 79 (19.80%) Customer Service
5 66 (16.54%) Continuous Improvement
6 64 (16.04%) CI/CD
7 61 (15.29%) Virtual Team Management
8 54 (13.53%) AI
9 53 (13.28%) Decision-Making
10 51 (12.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 48 (12.03%) DevOps
12 44 (11.03%) Project Management
13 39 (9.77%) Data Protection
14 37 (9.27%) Analytics
15 35 (8.77%) Project Delivery
16 34 (8.52%) Migration
17 33 (8.27%) Test Automation
18 31 (7.77%) Roadmaps
19 28 (7.02%) Scrum
20 27 (6.77%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (9.52%) Python
2 32 (8.02%) Java
3 29 (7.27%) SQL
4 13 (3.26%) PowerShell
5 12 (3.01%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.75%) TypeScript
7 6 (1.50%) Bash
8 5 (1.25%) C#
8 5 (1.25%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.75%) C
9 3 (0.75%) C++
9 3 (0.75%) Korn
9 3 (0.75%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.50%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.50%) Scala
10 2 (0.50%) Swift
11 1 (0.25%) Go
11 1 (0.25%) Ladder Logic
11 1 (0.25%) Perl
11 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 74 (18.55%) Security Cleared
2 71 (17.79%) BPSS Clearance
3 52 (13.03%) SC Cleared
4 38 (9.52%) Degree
5 19 (4.76%) DV Cleared
6 16 (4.01%) PMI Certification
6 16 (4.01%) PMP
7 9 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (2.01%) CISSP
9 7 (1.75%) CCNP
9 7 (1.75%) CISM
10 5 (1.25%) ISTQB
11 4 (1.00%) CRISC
11 4 (1.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 4 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.75%) CISA
12 3 (0.75%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.50%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.51%) QA
2 16 (4.01%) PMO
3 15 (3.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (3.01%) Data Quality
4 12 (3.01%) NIST
5 11 (2.76%) Accessibility
5 11 (2.76%) SLA
6 10 (2.51%) GDPR
7 7 (1.75%) NIST 800
8 6 (1.50%) GRC
8 6 (1.50%) WCAG
9 4 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (1.00%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.75%) P3O
11 2 (0.50%) GAAP
11 2 (0.50%) IFRS
11 2 (0.50%) MiFID
12 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.25%) Basel III
12 1 (0.25%) COBIT
System Software
1 18 (4.51%) Active Directory
2 14 (3.51%) Docker
3 10 (2.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.50%) KVM
4 2 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.25%) QEMU
5 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 24 (6.02%) Terraform
2 22 (5.51%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.51%) Ansible
4 6 (1.50%) WSUS
5 5 (1.25%) Cisco CUCM
6 4 (1.00%) Grafana
7 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.50%) Argo
8 2 (0.50%) SCCM
8 2 (0.50%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.25%) Autotask
9 1 (0.25%) Dell DRAC
9 1 (0.25%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.25%) Nagios
9 1 (0.25%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.25%) Puppet
9 1 (0.25%) SCOM
9 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 72 (18.05%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.76%) Google
3 17 (4.26%) Oracle
4 12 (3.01%) Cisco
5 11 (2.76%) Apple
5 11 (2.76%) ServiceNow
5 11 (2.76%) VMware
6 10 (2.51%) HP
7 9 (2.26%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.01%) Citrix
8 8 (2.01%) SAP
9 5 (1.25%) Amplitude
9 5 (1.25%) Databricks
9 5 (1.25%) Red Box
9 5 (1.25%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.00%) Splunk
11 3 (0.75%) Ericsson
11 3 (0.75%) Huawei
11 3 (0.75%) Nokia
11 3 (0.75%) Planview