Virtual Team Contracts in Manchester

Virtual Team (including Distributed Team, Remote Team, Dispersed Team)
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Virtual Team in contract job vacancies in Manchester. 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 75 87 113
Rank change year-on-year +12 +26 +14
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 4 9 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.43% 0.59% 0.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.50% 2.15% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile - £485 £508
25th Percentile £525 £500 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +0.96%
75th Percentile £575 £631 £553
90th Percentile - £665 £563
North West median daily rate £514 £493 £513
% change year-on-year +4.26% -3.80% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile £72.88 - -
25th Percentile £73.44 £25.50 -
Median hourly rate £76.25 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +193.27% - -
75th Percentile £78.44 £26.50 -
90th Percentile £78.63 - -
North West median hourly rate £57.80 £13.00 -
% change year-on-year +344.58% - -

All Generic Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 266 419 629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 28.73% 27.62% 33.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 283 435
10th Percentile £203 £300 £320
25th Percentile £382 £404 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% +5.13%
75th Percentile £602 £588 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £686
North West median daily rate £473 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 32 31
10th Percentile £20.75 £13.08 £16.85
25th Percentile £24.25 £15.82 £20.74
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.71% -27.86% +141.38%
75th Percentile £56.25 £57.50 £65.50
90th Percentile £76.00 £62.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £29.52 £25.25 £27.98
% change year-on-year +16.89% -9.76% +51.24%

Virtual Team
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Team in Manchester

Virtual Team
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Team in Manchester

Virtual Team
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Team in Manchester

Virtual Team
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester 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
Bolton - 2 - - 4
Virtual Team
North West

Virtual Team
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) IT Manager
1 2 (50.00%) IT Project Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) IT Technical Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Project Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Cost Management
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (50.00%) Kanban
1 2 (50.00%) LLM
1 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (50.00%) Microservices
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (50.00%) Project Management
1 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance