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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 258 297 228
Rank change year-on-year +39 -69 -13
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 93 99 270
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.74% 0.57% 1.04%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.07% 1.70% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 54 170
10th Percentile £320 £283 £425
25th Percentile £413 £353 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £500 £598
Median % change year-on-year +3.60% -16.32% +3.91%
75th Percentile £673 £573 £721
90th Percentile £807 £665 £825
England median daily rate £514 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.80% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 5
10th Percentile - £23.52 £25.89
25th Percentile £26.00 - £31.00
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 4,496 5,828 9,273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.93% 33.34% 35.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,043 4,124 6,679
10th Percentile £333 £313 £375
25th Percentile £455 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £738 £725 £743
90th Percentile £850 £850 £838
England median daily rate £538 £550 £573
% change year-on-year -2.27% -3.93% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 148 116
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.48 £18.93
25th Percentile £24.02 £18.41 £21.57
Median hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.69% -25.71% -19.99%
75th Percentile £49.50 £49.13 £64.31
90th Percentile £76.94 £69.50 £84.38
England median hourly rate £33.91 £34.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year -0.26% +51.21% -16.69%

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 18 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 18 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 £640 +16.36% 19
East London +12 1 £313 -42.13% 6
West London +8 1 - - 4
South London +4 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 (7.53%) Confluence
2 2 (2.15%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.08%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.08%) NetWeaver
3 1 (1.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.15%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (7.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (3.23%) SAP MDG
2 3 (3.23%) SAP MDG-S
3 2 (2.15%) SAP CO
3 2 (2.15%) SAP FI
3 2 (2.15%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.08%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (1.08%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (1.08%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.08%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (1.08%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (1.08%) SAP Business ByDesign
4 1 (1.08%) SAP HCM
4 1 (1.08%) SAP PP
4 1 (1.08%) SAP SCM
4 1 (1.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 22 (23.66%) Azure
2 19 (20.43%) AWS
3 15 (16.13%) GCP
4 6 (6.45%) Power Platform
4 6 (6.45%) SaaS
5 5 (5.38%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (4.30%) GitHub
7 3 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (3.23%) IaaS
8 2 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.15%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.08%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.08%) Collibra
9 1 (1.08%) dbt
9 1 (1.08%) Miro
9 1 (1.08%) Smartsheet
9 1 (1.08%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.23%) Firewall
2 2 (2.15%) DNS
2 2 (2.15%) HTTP
2 2 (2.15%) Multicast
2 2 (2.15%) VPN
3 1 (1.08%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (1.08%) Internet
3 1 (1.08%) LAN
3 1 (1.08%) SSL
3 1 (1.08%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.08%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.75%) BigQuery
2 6 (6.45%) KDB
2 6 (6.45%) Power BI
3 5 (5.38%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (5.38%) Tableau
4 4 (4.30%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (4.30%) Kdb+
4 4 (4.30%) Looker
5 3 (3.23%) Data Lake
5 3 (3.23%) SAP HANA
5 3 (3.23%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.15%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (2.15%) Big Data
6 2 (2.15%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.08%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.08%) DTS
7 1 (1.08%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.08%) OLAP
7 1 (1.08%) OLTP
7 1 (1.08%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 15 (16.13%) JIRA
2 9 (9.68%) Git
3 5 (5.38%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.30%) Bitbucket
4 4 (4.30%) NUnit
5 3 (3.23%) Selenium
6 2 (2.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (2.15%) MSTest
6 2 (2.15%) NSubstitute
6 2 (2.15%) Postman
6 2 (2.15%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.15%) Visual Studio Coded UI
6 2 (2.15%) Xcode
7 1 (1.08%) Appium
7 1 (1.08%) ERwin
7 1 (1.08%) Gradle
7 1 (1.08%) IntelliJ
7 1 (1.08%) Moq
7 1 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.08%) Subversion
General
1 40 (43.01%) Social Skills
2 30 (32.26%) Finance
3 20 (21.51%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (13.98%) Banking
5 6 (6.45%) Investment Banking
5 6 (6.45%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.38%) Marketing
6 5 (5.38%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (4.30%) Front Office
7 4 (4.30%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (4.30%) Publishing
8 3 (3.23%) Advertising
9 2 (2.15%) Local Government
9 2 (2.15%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.15%) Multimedia
9 2 (2.15%) Retail
9 2 (2.15%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.08%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (1.08%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.08%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (30.11%) Developer
2 11 (11.83%) Architect
3 9 (9.68%) Senior
4 7 (7.53%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (6.45%) Java Developer
5 6 (6.45%) Project Manager
5 6 (6.45%) Python Developer
6 4 (4.30%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (4.30%) Consultant
6 4 (4.30%) KDB Developer
7 3 (3.23%) Analyst
7 3 (3.23%) Analytics Developer
7 3 (3.23%) Cloud Specialist
7 3 (3.23%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (3.23%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (3.23%) iOS Developer
7 3 (3.23%) Lead
7 3 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
7 3 (3.23%) Senior Developer
7 3 (3.23%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.68%) React
2 7 (7.53%) .NET
3 5 (5.38%) AngularJS
3 5 (5.38%) HTML
3 5 (5.38%) Node.js
3 5 (5.38%) RESTful
3 5 (5.38%) Spring
3 5 (5.38%) XML
4 4 (4.30%) GraphQL
4 4 (4.30%) HTML5
4 4 (4.30%) JSON
5 3 (3.23%) CSS
5 3 (3.23%) FIX Protocol
5 3 (3.23%) REST
6 2 (2.15%) CSS3
6 2 (2.15%) Jest
6 2 (2.15%) Keras
6 2 (2.15%) NumPy
6 2 (2.15%) Pandas
6 2 (2.15%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.53%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (6.45%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (4.30%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (4.30%) Digital Media
4 4 (4.30%) Equities
5 3 (3.23%) Fixed Income
5 3 (3.23%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.23%) Reference Data
6 2 (2.15%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.15%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.15%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.15%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.15%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (2.15%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.15%) Hedge funds
6 2 (2.15%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.15%) Taxonomies
7 1 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.60%) Linux
2 5 (5.38%) Windows
3 4 (4.30%) Apple iOS
3 4 (4.30%) Unix
4 2 (2.15%) Android
4 2 (2.15%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.08%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (39.78%) Agile
2 28 (30.11%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (20.43%) CI/CD
4 13 (13.98%) Analytics
5 12 (12.90%) Decision-Making
5 12 (12.90%) DevOps
5 12 (12.90%) Roadmaps
6 10 (10.75%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (10.75%) Data Integration
6 10 (10.75%) Project Management
6 10 (10.75%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (9.68%) Computer Science
7 9 (9.68%) Data Modelling
7 9 (9.68%) Design Patterns
7 9 (9.68%) Scrum
7 9 (9.68%) SDLC
7 9 (9.68%) Virtual Team Management
8 8 (8.60%) Continuous Integration
8 8 (8.60%) Microservices
9 7 (7.53%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 23 (24.73%) Python
2 20 (21.51%) Java
3 12 (12.90%) SQL
4 5 (5.38%) C#
5 4 (4.30%) PowerShell
5 4 (4.30%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.23%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.23%) Swift
7 2 (2.15%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.15%) R
7 2 (2.15%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.08%) ABAP
8 1 (1.08%) ActionScript
8 1 (1.08%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (1.08%) C
8 1 (1.08%) Go
8 1 (1.08%) Objective-C
8 1 (1.08%) Scala
8 1 (1.08%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.08%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 19 (20.43%) Degree
2 6 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.30%) Master's Degree
3 4 (4.30%) SAP Certification
3 4 (4.30%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.23%) PMI Certification
4 3 (3.23%) PMP
4 3 (3.23%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.23%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (2.15%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.15%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (2.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.15%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 2 (2.15%) CCA
5 2 (2.15%) CCNP
5 2 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.08%) CCDA
6 1 (1.08%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.90%) QA
2 3 (3.23%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.15%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.08%) GAAP
4 1 (1.08%) GDPR
4 1 (1.08%) GRC
4 1 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.08%) NIST
4 1 (1.08%) PMO
4 1 (1.08%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (7.53%) Docker
2 5 (5.38%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.08%) BitLocker
4 1 (1.08%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.08%) XenApp
4 1 (1.08%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 6 (6.45%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.30%) Terraform
3 3 (3.23%) Ansible
3 3 (3.23%) Progress Chef
3 3 (3.23%) Puppet
4 2 (2.15%) SCCM
5 1 (1.08%) Control-M
5 1 (1.08%) Grafana
5 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.08%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.08%) WSUS
Vendors
1 16 (17.20%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.83%) Google
2 11 (11.83%) SAP
3 4 (4.30%) Databricks
3 4 (4.30%) Oracle
4 3 (3.23%) BiZZdesign
5 2 (2.15%) Cisco
5 2 (2.15%) Citrix
5 2 (2.15%) Informatica
5 2 (2.15%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.15%) VMware
6 1 (1.08%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (1.08%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.08%) Calypso
6 1 (1.08%) IBM
6 1 (1.08%) ION Trading
6 1 (1.08%) Juniper
6 1 (1.08%) Murex
6 1 (1.08%) NetScout
6 1 (1.08%) Planview