Virtual Team Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Virtual Team (including Distributed Team, Remote Team, Dispersed Team)
South West > Gloucestershire

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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 - 50
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 0.79% - 0.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.34% - 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £341 - -
25th Percentile £352 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 - £330
75th Percentile £414 - -
90th Percentile £417 - -
South West median daily rate £441 £350 £625
% change year-on-year +26.07% -44.00% +27.55%

All Generic Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 128 99 105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 33.51% 25.19% 24.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 71 71
10th Percentile £278 £400 £355
25th Percentile £418 £460 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £548 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.36% -4.70% +5.75%
75th Percentile £655 £676 £700
90th Percentile £700 £738 £775
South West median daily rate £537 £547 £550
% change year-on-year -1.83% -0.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 13
10th Percentile £31.50 £22.50 £27.90
25th Percentile £31.52 £22.50 £75.00
Median hourly rate £45.34 £70.00 £83.40
Median % change year-on-year -35.24% -16.07% +39.00%
75th Percentile £81.44 - -
90th Percentile £92.63 - -
South West median hourly rate £33.09 £67.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -50.99% -3.57% +7.69%

Virtual Team
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Virtual Team job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Virtual Team
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

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

Virtual Team
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

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

Virtual Team
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 1 December 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
Cheltenham - 1 £367 -
Gloucester - 1 £413 -
Virtual Team
South West

Virtual Team
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (33.33%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Project Control Officer
1 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Project Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) PRINCE2
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Contract Management
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Planning and Forecasting
3 1 (33.33%) Project Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) APMP
3 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) NetApp
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow