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 advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Team over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 328 281 260
Rank change year-on-year -47 -21 +35
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 219 447 785
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.59% 0.89% 1.10%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.93% 2.65% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 268 558
10th Percentile £325 £355 £400
25th Percentile £431 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +6.28%
75th Percentile £617 £675 £675
90th Percentile £681 £788 £754
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 6 10
10th Percentile - £37.50 £24.03
25th Percentile £13.00 - £28.32
Median hourly rate £26.00 £44.00 £44.78
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% -1.73% +2.93%
75th Percentile £26.50 £47.00 £63.44
90th Percentile - £74.00 £67.60
UK median hourly rate £24.90 £44.00 £44.78
% change year-on-year -43.41% -1.73% +2.93%

All Generic Skills
England

Virtual Team is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,329 16,843 24,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.73% 33.68% 33.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,438 11,694 17,131
10th Percentile £263 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.23% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 818 591 642
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £16.53
Median hourly rate £31.50 £22.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -15.09% +1.50%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £65.76
UK median hourly rate £30.14 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +34.04% -18.24% +4.05%

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 May 2024. 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 -53 95 £516 -9.47% 79
North of England +59 62 £493 +0.61% 18
North West +54 57 £493 +1.65% 13
Midlands +31 23 £510 -1.64% 13
South East -10 21 £615 +23.00% 24
West Midlands +26 14 £450 -21.74% 5
East Midlands +24 9 £581 +26.30% 8
South West +21 8 £465 +6.26% 13
East of England -24 8 £475 -13.64% 8
Yorkshire +20 5 £625 +13.64% 5
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 8 (3.65%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.20%) CMS
3 5 (2.28%) Confluence
4 3 (1.37%) IIS
4 3 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.91%) SAS
6 1 (0.46%) Apache
6 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.46%) nginx
6 1 (0.46%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.46%) WordPress
Applications
1 28 (12.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 28 (12.79%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (6.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.91%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.37%) Oracle 11i
2 3 (1.37%) Oracle Applications
2 3 (1.37%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.37%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (1.37%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.91%) CA PPM
3 2 (0.91%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.91%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 2 (0.91%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (0.91%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.46%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.46%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.46%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 25 (11.42%) AWS
2 18 (8.22%) Azure
3 16 (7.31%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (6.39%) IaaS
4 14 (6.39%) SaaS
5 13 (5.94%) Google Workspace
5 13 (5.94%) PaaS
6 8 (3.65%) GitHub
6 8 (3.65%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (2.74%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.83%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.91%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (0.91%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (0.91%) Figma
9 2 (0.91%) GCP
9 2 (0.91%) Mimecast
9 2 (0.91%) Miro
9 2 (0.91%) Nutanix
9 2 (0.91%) Rubrik
9 2 (0.91%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 20 (9.13%) Firewall
2 7 (3.20%) LAN
3 4 (1.83%) Network Security
3 4 (1.83%) WAN
4 3 (1.37%) 5G
4 3 (1.37%) DSL
4 3 (1.37%) Internet
4 3 (1.37%) NAS
4 3 (1.37%) SAN
5 2 (0.91%) DKIM
5 2 (0.91%) DMARC
5 2 (0.91%) DNS
5 2 (0.91%) Extranet
5 2 (0.91%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.91%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (0.91%) VPN
5 2 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.91%) Wireless
5 2 (0.91%) WLAN
6 1 (0.46%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.65%) Big Data
2 6 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (2.74%) Power BI
3 5 (2.28%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.83%) SAP HANA
5 3 (1.37%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.37%) Star Schema
6 2 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.91%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.91%) KDB
6 2 (0.91%) MySQL
6 2 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.91%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (0.91%) Tableau
7 1 (0.46%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.46%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.46%) Impala
7 1 (0.46%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 22 (10.05%) JIRA
2 9 (4.11%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.20%) Git
3 7 (3.20%) Gradle
4 6 (2.74%) CircleCI
5 4 (1.83%) ERwin
5 4 (1.83%) JUnit
6 3 (1.37%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.37%) Mockito
6 3 (1.37%) SpecFlow
6 3 (1.37%) TestRail
7 2 (0.91%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.91%) FitNesse
7 2 (0.91%) IntelliJ
7 2 (0.91%) JMeter
7 2 (0.91%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.91%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.91%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.91%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.46%) GitLab
General
1 91 (41.55%) Social Skills
2 41 (18.72%) Finance
3 33 (15.07%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (14.16%) Public Sector
5 22 (10.05%) Legal
6 18 (8.22%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (6.85%) Banking
8 12 (5.48%) Retail
9 11 (5.02%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (5.02%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.83%) Front Office
11 4 (1.83%) Local Government
11 4 (1.83%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.37%) Back Office
12 3 (1.37%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.37%) Publishing
13 2 (0.91%) Billing
13 2 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.91%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 19 (8.68%) Project Manager
2 14 (6.39%) Analyst
2 14 (6.39%) Architect
2 14 (6.39%) Consultant
2 14 (6.39%) Senior
3 13 (5.94%) Problem Manager
4 9 (4.11%) Delivery Manager
4 9 (4.11%) Developer
4 9 (4.11%) IT Support
5 8 (3.65%) Integration Analyst
5 8 (3.65%) SAP Analyst
5 8 (3.65%) Software Asset Manager
5 8 (3.65%) Software Manager
6 6 (2.74%) Agile Delivery Manager
6 6 (2.74%) Designer
6 6 (2.74%) Integration Specialist
6 6 (2.74%) Senior Manager
6 6 (2.74%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (2.28%) Asset and Configuration Manager
7 5 (2.28%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.94%) REST
2 7 (3.20%) Android Jetpack
2 7 (3.20%) Jetpack Compose
3 6 (2.74%) JSON
4 5 (2.28%) OAuth
4 5 (2.28%) RAML
4 5 (2.28%) React Native
4 5 (2.28%) XML
5 4 (1.83%) Bazel
5 4 (1.83%) Dagger
5 4 (1.83%) OkHttp
5 4 (1.83%) OpenID
5 4 (1.83%) RxJava
5 4 (1.83%) SAML
5 4 (1.83%) WireMock
6 3 (1.37%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.37%) Middleware
6 3 (1.37%) OAuth2
6 3 (1.37%) Spring
7 2 (0.91%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.05%) Self-Motivation
2 17 (7.76%) Management Information System
3 12 (5.48%) CMDB
4 9 (4.11%) Data Centre
4 9 (4.11%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.65%) Public Cloud
6 7 (3.20%) EPoS
6 7 (3.20%) Mobile App
7 6 (2.74%) Legacy Code
8 4 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.83%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.83%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.83%) NHS
8 4 (1.83%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.37%) FMCG
9 3 (1.37%) Freedom of Information
9 3 (1.37%) Freedom of Information Act
9 3 (1.37%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.94%) Windows
2 12 (5.48%) Unix
3 11 (5.02%) Linux
4 8 (3.65%) Android
5 1 (0.46%) AIX
5 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.46%) OS/390
5 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.46%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (35.16%) Problem-Solving
2 51 (23.29%) Virtual Team Management
3 44 (20.09%) Agile
4 34 (15.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 31 (14.16%) Project Management
5 31 (14.16%) Service Management
6 28 (12.79%) Quality Management
7 27 (12.33%) Mentoring
8 24 (10.96%) ITIL
8 24 (10.96%) Statistics
9 22 (10.05%) Computer Science
10 17 (7.76%) CI/CD
10 17 (7.76%) Roadmaps
11 16 (7.31%) Proactive Monitoring
12 15 (6.85%) Customer Requirements
12 15 (6.85%) Root Cause Analysis
13 14 (6.39%) Change Management
13 14 (6.39%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (6.39%) DevOps
13 14 (6.39%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (5.48%) Java
2 10 (4.57%) SQL
3 9 (4.11%) Python
4 7 (3.20%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.83%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.83%) Kotlin
5 4 (1.83%) PL/SQL
5 4 (1.83%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.37%) BeanShell
6 3 (1.37%) Go
6 3 (1.37%) Ruby
7 2 (0.91%) C++
7 2 (0.91%) VB
8 1 (0.46%) C#
8 1 (0.46%) Objective-C
8 1 (0.46%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.46%) Swift
8 1 (0.46%) XPath
Qualifications
1 50 (22.83%) Degree
1 50 (22.83%) Security Cleared
2 30 (13.70%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.76%) DV Cleared
4 16 (7.31%) PMP
5 14 (6.39%) APMP
5 14 (6.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (5.94%) PMI Certification
7 6 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.37%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.37%) CISSP
8 3 (1.37%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.91%) APMG
9 2 (0.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.91%) GIAC
9 2 (0.91%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.46%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.02%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.65%) SLA
3 7 (3.20%) PMO
3 7 (3.20%) QA
4 4 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 4 (1.83%) NIST
4 4 (1.83%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.37%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.91%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.46%) COREP
7 1 (0.46%) FINREP
7 1 (0.46%) GRC
7 1 (0.46%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (5.48%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.37%) Docker
2 3 (1.37%) OpenAM
2 3 (1.37%) OpenIDM
3 2 (0.91%) BitLocker
3 2 (0.91%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.91%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (2.28%) Ansible
1 5 (2.28%) Progress Chef
1 5 (2.28%) SCCM
2 4 (1.83%) PowerBroker
2 4 (1.83%) Puppet
2 4 (1.83%) Terraform
3 3 (1.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 3 (1.37%) CFEngine
3 3 (1.37%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.91%) NetBackup
4 2 (0.91%) SCOM
4 2 (0.91%) SCVMM
4 2 (0.91%) VxRail
5 1 (0.46%) CASB
5 1 (0.46%) Consul
5 1 (0.46%) Grafana
5 1 (0.46%) PingFederate
5 1 (0.46%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 39 (17.81%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.50%) Oracle
3 17 (7.76%) Dell
4 16 (7.31%) Google
5 14 (6.39%) Salesforce
5 14 (6.39%) SAP
6 5 (2.28%) Ariba
7 4 (1.83%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.83%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.37%) BMC
8 3 (1.37%) ForgeRock
8 3 (1.37%) Workday
9 2 (0.91%) Commvault
9 2 (0.91%) Databricks
9 2 (0.91%) Dell Compellent
9 2 (0.91%) Equitrac
9 2 (0.91%) Forcepoint
9 2 (0.91%) Genesys
9 2 (0.91%) HP
9 2 (0.91%) Juniper