Virtual Team Contract Job Trends 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 14 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 251 283
Rank change year-on-year 0 +32 -41
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 182 96 109
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.96% 0.78% 0.62%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.68% 2.14% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 60 59
10th Percentile £288 £337 £289
25th Percentile £413 £413 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% +4.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £634 £665 £574
90th Percentile £738 £766 £628
England median daily rate £508 £495 £495
% change year-on-year +2.53% - -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 8
10th Percentile £37.93 - £23.59
25th Percentile £51.50 £26.00 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £27.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +131.48% +13.45% -45.91%
75th Percentile £88.75 £28.00 £26.50
90th Percentile £89.50 - -
England median hourly rate £43.96 £40.59 £26.00
% change year-on-year +8.30% +56.12% -40.91%

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 6,794 4,493 5,867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.02% 36.50% 33.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,316 2,990 4,114
10th Percentile £360 £331 £315
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £725
90th Percentile £800 £838 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 89 144
10th Percentile £19.03 £15.84 £15.45
25th Percentile £23.16 £23.45 £18.41
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.89 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +6.42% +17.80% -20.23%
75th Percentile £63.75 £49.50 £50.38
90th Percentile £88.75 £78.72 £71.25
England median hourly rate £42.30 £33.91 £36.50
% change year-on-year +24.74% -7.10% +62.33%

Virtual Team
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Virtual Team job vacancy trend in London

Virtual Team
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Virtual Team
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Team in London over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Team in London

Virtual Team
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Virtual Team
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Virtual Team in London over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 14 June 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
Central London -10 24 £550 -14.73% 12
West London -13 9 £500 - 2
East London 0 6 £403 -31.20% 2
South London -3 5 - -
Virtual Team
England

Virtual Team
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 9 (4.95%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.85%) Confluence
3 5 (2.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (2.20%) Apache
5 3 (1.65%) CMS
6 2 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.10%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.55%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.55%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.55%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.55%) SAS
7 1 (0.55%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (4.95%) Chatbot
2 6 (3.30%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.10%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.10%) SAP Travel Management
3 1 (0.55%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.55%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.55%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.55%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.55%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.55%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.55%) SAP SCM
3 1 (0.55%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 24 (13.19%) Azure
2 21 (11.54%) AWS
3 14 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (7.14%) Google Workspace
5 11 (6.04%) SaaS
6 10 (5.49%) Snowflake
7 7 (3.85%) GCP
7 7 (3.85%) IaaS
7 7 (3.85%) Miro
7 7 (3.85%) PaaS
7 7 (3.85%) WhatsApp
8 6 (3.30%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.20%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (2.20%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.20%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (2.20%) GitHub
9 4 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.65%) Asana
10 3 (1.65%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.20%) 5G
1 4 (2.20%) Unified Communications
1 4 (2.20%) VoIP
1 4 (2.20%) WebEx
1 4 (2.20%) Wireless
2 3 (1.65%) 4G
2 3 (1.65%) Internet
2 3 (1.65%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (1.10%) Broadband
3 2 (1.10%) DNS
3 2 (1.10%) HTTP
3 2 (1.10%) VPN
4 1 (0.55%) DHCP
4 1 (0.55%) DSL
4 1 (0.55%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.55%) Firewall
4 1 (0.55%) MPLS
4 1 (0.55%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.55%) WAN
4 1 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.40%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.75%) Big Data
3 5 (2.75%) Metadata
4 4 (2.20%) KDB
4 4 (2.20%) Kdb+
5 3 (1.65%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.10%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.10%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.10%) MySQL
6 2 (1.10%) Tableau
7 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.55%) Bigtable
7 1 (0.55%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.55%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.55%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.55%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (9.89%) JIRA
2 8 (4.40%) Git
3 5 (2.75%) Selenium
4 4 (2.20%) CircleCI
4 4 (2.20%) Cypress.io
4 4 (2.20%) Postman
4 4 (2.20%) REST Assured
5 3 (1.65%) JUnit
5 3 (1.65%) WebDriver
6 2 (1.10%) Gradle
6 2 (1.10%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.55%) Appium
7 1 (0.55%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.55%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.55%) GitLab
7 1 (0.55%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.55%) TestNG
7 1 (0.55%) Toad
7 1 (0.55%) VersionOne
General
1 80 (43.96%) Social Skills
2 59 (32.42%) Finance
3 24 (13.19%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (9.34%) Banking
5 14 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.40%) Financial Institution
7 7 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (3.85%) Retail
8 6 (3.30%) Marketing
8 6 (3.30%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.20%) Billing
11 3 (1.65%) Front Office
11 3 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.65%) Local Government
11 3 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.10%) Back Office
12 2 (1.10%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.10%) Legal
12 2 (1.10%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 27 (14.84%) Senior
2 23 (12.64%) Lead
3 21 (11.54%) Developer
4 15 (8.24%) Project Manager
5 13 (7.14%) Architect
6 12 (6.59%) Senior Manager
7 8 (4.40%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (3.85%) Analyst
8 7 (3.85%) Data Engineer
8 7 (3.85%) Support Engineer
9 6 (3.30%) Applications Engineer
9 6 (3.30%) Business Analyst
9 6 (3.30%) IT Manager
10 5 (2.75%) Senior Project Manager
11 4 (2.20%) Delivery Manager
11 4 (2.20%) Java Developer
11 4 (2.20%) Product Manager
11 4 (2.20%) Programme Manager
11 4 (2.20%) Senior Developer
11 4 (2.20%) Senior Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.79%) REST
2 6 (3.30%) .NET
3 5 (2.75%) React
3 5 (2.75%) SOAP
4 4 (2.20%) Android Jetpack
4 4 (2.20%) AngularJS
4 4 (2.20%) Kafka
4 4 (2.20%) Playwright
4 4 (2.20%) RESTful
4 4 (2.20%) Spring
4 4 (2.20%) Spring Boot
4 4 (2.20%) Vue
5 3 (1.65%) Jetpack Compose
5 3 (1.65%) JSON
5 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Graph
5 3 (1.65%) Node.js
5 3 (1.65%) PySpark
6 2 (1.10%) Django
6 2 (1.10%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.10%) SAP TM
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.44%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
3 12 (6.59%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (6.04%) Product Ownership
5 10 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (5.49%) Mobile App
6 7 (3.85%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.75%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.20%) Fixed Income
8 4 (2.20%) FMCG
8 4 (2.20%) Video Conferencing
9 3 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.10%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.10%) CMDB
10 2 (1.10%) Credit Risk
10 2 (1.10%) Derivative
10 2 (1.10%) Driving Licence
10 2 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.14%) Windows
2 9 (4.95%) Linux
3 8 (4.40%) Android
4 5 (2.75%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.75%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.20%) Unix
6 3 (1.65%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.55%) AIX
8 1 (0.55%) Debian
8 1 (0.55%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (27.47%) Agile
2 49 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
3 43 (23.63%) Stakeholder Management
4 40 (21.98%) Continuous Improvement
5 37 (20.33%) Decision-Making
5 37 (20.33%) Virtual Team Management
6 32 (17.58%) CI/CD
7 24 (13.19%) Analytics
8 23 (12.64%) AI
9 22 (12.09%) Roadmaps
10 21 (11.54%) Scrum
11 19 (10.44%) Test Automation
12 16 (8.79%) Data Protection
12 16 (8.79%) DevOps
13 15 (8.24%) Migration
13 15 (8.24%) Project Management
14 14 (7.69%) Microservices
15 13 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 12 (6.59%) Observability
16 12 (6.59%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 26 (14.29%) Java
2 24 (13.19%) Python
3 13 (7.14%) SQL
4 7 (3.85%) C#
4 7 (3.85%) TypeScript
5 6 (3.30%) JavaScript
5 6 (3.30%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.20%) Kotlin
6 4 (2.20%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.10%) Bash
7 2 (1.10%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.10%) Ruby
7 2 (1.10%) Scala
7 2 (1.10%) Swift
8 1 (0.55%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.55%) Korn
8 1 (0.55%) Ladder Logic
8 1 (0.55%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (16.48%) Degree
2 9 (4.95%) Security Cleared
3 8 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (4.40%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.30%) PMI Certification
5 5 (2.75%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (2.75%) PMP
6 4 (2.20%) CCNP
7 3 (1.65%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.65%) CISSP
7 3 (1.65%) CRISC
7 3 (1.65%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.65%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.10%) A+ Certification
8 2 (1.10%) ACCA
8 2 (1.10%) CISM
8 2 (1.10%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.55%) CCAB
9 1 (0.55%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.79%) QA
2 8 (4.40%) PMO
3 6 (3.30%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.75%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.75%) GRC
5 3 (1.65%) IFRS
6 2 (1.10%) COBIT
6 2 (1.10%) GAAP
6 2 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.10%) NIST
6 2 (1.10%) SLA
7 1 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.55%) Basel III
7 1 (0.55%) GDPR
7 1 (0.55%) GMP
7 1 (0.55%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.55%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.55%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (4.40%) Docker
2 5 (2.75%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.55%) KVM
4 1 (0.55%) QEMU
4 1 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (4.95%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.85%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 7 (3.85%) Terraform
3 4 (2.20%) Ansible
3 4 (2.20%) Cisco CUCM
3 4 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.65%) SCCM
5 2 (1.10%) Grafana
6 1 (0.55%) Autotask
6 1 (0.55%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (0.55%) logstash
6 1 (0.55%) Nagios
6 1 (0.55%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.55%) SCOM
6 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.55%) WSUS
Vendors
1 36 (19.78%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.44%) Google
3 13 (7.14%) Oracle
4 12 (6.59%) ServiceNow
5 9 (4.95%) Salesforce
6 7 (3.85%) SAP
7 6 (3.30%) Cisco
8 4 (2.20%) Red Box
9 3 (1.65%) Aderant
9 3 (1.65%) Amplitude
9 3 (1.65%) Apple
9 3 (1.65%) Ericsson
9 3 (1.65%) Huawei
9 3 (1.65%) iManage
9 3 (1.65%) Intapp
9 3 (1.65%) Litera
9 3 (1.65%) Nokia
9 3 (1.65%) VMware
10 2 (1.10%) Anaplan
10 2 (1.10%) CA Agile Central