Virtual Team Contracts in London

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Virtual Team in contract job vacancies in London. 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 268 298 243
Rank change year-on-year +30 -55 -24
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 85 93 280
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.68% 0.52% 1.04%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.88% 1.57% 2.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 49 177
10th Percentile £313 £289 £400
25th Percentile £391 £392 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -7.96% -2.59%
75th Percentile £675 £588 £695
90th Percentile £825 £705 £825
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 5
10th Percentile - £23.52 £36.20
25th Percentile £26.00 - -
Median hourly rate £27.00 £23.80 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.45% -45.91% +17.33%
75th Percentile £28.00 £26.50 -
90th Percentile - - £46.40
England median hourly rate £40.59 £26.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year +56.12% -40.91% -1.73%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,516 5,909 9,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.99% 33.14% 35.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,054 4,182 6,966
10th Percentile £325 £301 £375
25th Percentile £451 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £583 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% -2.92% -
75th Percentile £738 £725 £750
90th Percentile £850 £850 £838
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 160 109
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.50 £18.93
25th Percentile £22.60 £18.93 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.69% -25.71% -21.35%
75th Percentile £50.31 £47.81 £64.50
90th Percentile £80.05 £66.78 £83.15
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Virtual Team
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Team in London

Virtual Team
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Team in London

Virtual Team
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Team in London

Virtual Team
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Team in London

Virtual Team
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +7 15 £633 +15.00% 7
East London +10 1 £313 -43.95% 5
West London +9 1 - -
South London +7 1 - -
Virtual Team
England

Virtual Team
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 7 (8.24%) Confluence
2 2 (2.35%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.35%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.18%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (2.35%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.18%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (1.18%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (1.18%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (1.18%) InDesign
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.18%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (7.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (4.71%) SAP MDG
2 4 (4.71%) SAP MDG-S
3 2 (2.35%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.18%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (1.18%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.18%) SAP Business ByDesign
4 1 (1.18%) SAP HCM
4 1 (1.18%) SAP PP
4 1 (1.18%) SAP SCM
4 1 (1.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 15 (17.65%) Azure
2 12 (14.12%) AWS
3 8 (9.41%) GCP
4 6 (7.06%) GitHub
4 6 (7.06%) SaaS
5 3 (3.53%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (3.53%) IaaS
5 3 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.53%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.35%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (2.35%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (2.35%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.35%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (2.35%) dbt
6 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (1.18%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.18%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (1.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.35%) Firewall
1 2 (2.35%) HTTP
1 2 (2.35%) Multicast
2 1 (1.18%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (1.18%) DNS
2 1 (1.18%) LAN
2 1 (1.18%) SSL
2 1 (1.18%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.18%) VPN
2 1 (1.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.06%) KDB
2 5 (5.88%) BigQuery
3 4 (4.71%) Kdb+
3 4 (4.71%) SAP HANA
4 3 (3.53%) Power BI
5 2 (2.35%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.35%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.35%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.18%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.18%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.18%) DTS
6 1 (1.18%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.18%) OLAP
6 1 (1.18%) OLTP
6 1 (1.18%) Oracle OLAP
6 1 (1.18%) Tableau
6 1 (1.18%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 15 (17.65%) JIRA
2 8 (9.41%) Git
3 4 (4.71%) Bitbucket
3 4 (4.71%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.71%) NUnit
4 3 (3.53%) Selenium
5 2 (2.35%) MSTest
5 2 (2.35%) NSubstitute
5 2 (2.35%) Postman
5 2 (2.35%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.35%) Visual Studio Coded UI
5 2 (2.35%) Xcode
6 1 (1.18%) Appium
6 1 (1.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.18%) ERwin
6 1 (1.18%) Gradle
6 1 (1.18%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.18%) JUnit
6 1 (1.18%) Moq
6 1 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 37 (43.53%) Social Skills
2 26 (30.59%) Finance
3 15 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (15.29%) Banking
5 6 (7.06%) Investment Banking
6 5 (5.88%) Marketing
6 5 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (5.88%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.71%) Front Office
7 4 (4.71%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.53%) Advertising
9 2 (2.35%) Local Government
9 2 (2.35%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.35%) Publishing
9 2 (2.35%) Retail
9 2 (2.35%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.18%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (1.18%) German Language
10 1 (1.18%) Multimedia
10 1 (1.18%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (31.76%) Developer
2 9 (10.59%) Architect
3 6 (7.06%) Java Developer
3 6 (7.06%) Project Manager
3 6 (7.06%) Python Developer
3 6 (7.06%) Senior
3 6 (7.06%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (4.71%) KDB Developer
5 3 (3.53%) Analytics Developer
5 3 (3.53%) Cloud Specialist
5 3 (3.53%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (3.53%) iOS Developer
5 3 (3.53%) Senior Developer
5 3 (3.53%) Test Engineer
6 2 (2.35%) Analyst
6 2 (2.35%) Business Analyst
6 2 (2.35%) Consultant
6 2 (2.35%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (2.35%) Product Manager
6 2 (2.35%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.06%) .NET
1 6 (7.06%) React
2 5 (5.88%) Spring
3 4 (4.71%) GraphQL
3 4 (4.71%) Node.js
3 4 (4.71%) XML
4 3 (3.53%) AngularJS
4 3 (3.53%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (3.53%) JSON
4 3 (3.53%) REST
4 3 (3.53%) RESTful
5 2 (2.35%) .NET Framework
5 2 (2.35%) EDI
5 2 (2.35%) Hibernate
5 2 (2.35%) HTML
5 2 (2.35%) J2SE
5 2 (2.35%) Kafka
5 2 (2.35%) NumPy
5 2 (2.35%) Pandas
5 2 (2.35%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.06%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (4.71%) Equities
3 4 (4.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (4.71%) Reference Data
4 3 (3.53%) Digital Media
4 3 (3.53%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.35%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.35%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.35%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.35%) Hedge funds
5 2 (2.35%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.35%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.35%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.18%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.18%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.18%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.18%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.06%) Linux
2 4 (4.71%) Apple iOS
2 4 (4.71%) Windows
3 3 (3.53%) Unix
4 2 (2.35%) Android
4 2 (2.35%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (37.65%) Agile
2 24 (28.24%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (18.82%) CI/CD
4 13 (15.29%) Roadmaps
5 12 (14.12%) Analytics
6 10 (11.76%) Computer Science
6 10 (11.76%) DevOps
6 10 (11.76%) Project Management
6 10 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (10.59%) Design Patterns
8 7 (8.24%) Customer Experience
8 7 (8.24%) Data Architecture
8 7 (8.24%) Data Protection
8 7 (8.24%) Decision-Making
8 7 (8.24%) Project Delivery
8 7 (8.24%) SDLC
8 7 (8.24%) TOGAF
8 7 (8.24%) Virtual Team Management
9 6 (7.06%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (7.06%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 21 (24.71%) Python
2 19 (22.35%) Java
3 8 (9.41%) SQL
4 5 (5.88%) C#
4 5 (5.88%) PowerShell
5 4 (4.71%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.53%) Swift
7 2 (2.35%) Go
8 1 (1.18%) ABAP
8 1 (1.18%) ActionScript
8 1 (1.18%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (1.18%) C
8 1 (1.18%) Groovy
8 1 (1.18%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.18%) Objective-C
8 1 (1.18%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.18%) Ruby
8 1 (1.18%) Scala
8 1 (1.18%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.18%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 15 (17.65%) Degree
2 6 (7.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.88%) SAP Certification
4 4 (4.71%) TOGAF Certification
5 3 (3.53%) PMI Certification
5 3 (3.53%) PMP
5 3 (3.53%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.53%) Security Cleared
6 2 (2.35%) CCNP
6 2 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.35%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.18%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.18%) CCDA
7 1 (1.18%) CCDP
7 1 (1.18%) CCNA
7 1 (1.18%) CSPO
7 1 (1.18%) ISEB
7 1 (1.18%) MBA
7 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.76%) QA
2 3 (3.53%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.18%) GDPR
3 1 (1.18%) GRC
3 1 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.18%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (5.88%) Active Directory
1 5 (5.88%) Docker
2 2 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.18%) BitLocker
3 1 (1.18%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.18%) XenApp
3 1 (1.18%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 5 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.71%) Terraform
3 3 (3.53%) Ansible
4 2 (2.35%) Grafana
4 2 (2.35%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.35%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.35%) Puppet
4 2 (2.35%) SCCM
5 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.18%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (15.29%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.76%) SAP
3 5 (5.88%) Google
4 4 (4.71%) BiZZdesign
5 3 (3.53%) Oracle
6 2 (2.35%) Cisco
6 2 (2.35%) Citrix
6 2 (2.35%) VMware
7 1 (1.18%) Adobe
7 1 (1.18%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.18%) Calypso
7 1 (1.18%) Informatica
7 1 (1.18%) ION Trading
7 1 (1.18%) Juniper
7 1 (1.18%) Murex
7 1 (1.18%) NetScout
7 1 (1.18%) Planview
7 1 (1.18%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.18%) Sparx
7 1 (1.18%) Sybase