Virtual Team Contract Job Trends 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 15 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 82 95
Rank change year-on-year +5 +13 +44
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 5 4 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.50% 0.34% 0.53%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.48% 1.13% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 8
10th Percentile £359 - £426
25th Percentile £360 - £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £613
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.00%
75th Percentile £525 - £638
90th Percentile £608 - £668
North West median daily rate £384 £475 £560
% change year-on-year -19.16% -15.18% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £72.88 - -
25th Percentile £73.44 - -
Median hourly rate £76.25 - -
75th Percentile £78.44 - -
90th Percentile £78.63 - -
North West median hourly rate £70.16 - -

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 337 353 473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 33.53% 29.74% 27.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 205 343
10th Percentile £319 £294 £225
25th Percentile £400 £413 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £650 £588
90th Percentile £650 £800 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £499 £500
% change year-on-year -9.77% -0.25% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 18 16
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.92 £16.31
25th Percentile £34.50 £21.25 £16.85
Median hourly rate £48.25 £38.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.97% +4.11% +87.18%
75th Percentile £64.69 £61.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.88 £95.10 £71.88
North West median hourly rate £47.12 £23.50 £40.59
% change year-on-year +100.51% -42.10% +101.64%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Virtual Team
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Team in Manchester over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Team in Manchester

Virtual Team
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

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 15 September 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 - -
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 (40.00%) Confluence
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Advent Geneva
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) DB2
2 1 (20.00%) MySQL
2 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) MLflow
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) IT Manager
1 2 (40.00%) IT Project Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC Developer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Developer
2 1 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (20.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (20.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Technical Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Report Developer
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (20.00%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Generative AI
1 3 (60.00%) LLM
1 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (40.00%) Kanban
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Project Management
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) B2C
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (20.00%) Fund Accounting
3 1 (20.00%) MLOps
3 1 (20.00%) MVC
3 1 (20.00%) Secure Coding
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Advent
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft