Virtual Team Contracts in the Midlands

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Virtual Team in contract job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 105 108 145
Rank change year-on-year +3 +37 +21
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 6 25 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.31% 0.91% 0.64%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.03% 2.92% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 16 10
10th Percentile £420 £419 £442
25th Percentile £450 £430 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £519
Median % change year-on-year - -3.57% +12.11%
75th Percentile £581 £617 £588
90th Percentile £630 £713 £591
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
Median hourly rate - £26.00 £100.00
Median % change year-on-year - -74.00% -
England median hourly rate £40.59 £26.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year +56.12% -40.91% -1.73%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 580 857 1,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.30% 31.08% 32.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 557 737
10th Percentile £200 £220 £237
25th Percentile £375 £350 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -
75th Percentile £594 £611 £600
90th Percentile £662 £750 £700
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 62 41
10th Percentile - £10.47 £16.70
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.93 £18.13
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.03% -13.33% +36.36%
75th Percentile £30.34 £28.88 £53.75
90th Percentile £33.91 £58.75 £65.00
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Team in the Midlands

Virtual Team
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Team in the Midlands

Virtual Team
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Team in the Midlands

Virtual Team
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Team in the Midlands

Virtual Team
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +4 6 £500 +9.59% 16
Virtual Team
England

Virtual Team
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
1 1 (16.67%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) LAN
1 2 (33.33%) SD-WAN
1 2 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) LoadRunner
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Law
2 1 (16.67%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Field Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) ICT Officer
2 1 (16.67%) ICT Support
2 1 (16.67%) ICT Support Officer
2 1 (16.67%) IT Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) SAP Manager
2 1 (16.67%) SAP Test Manager
2 1 (16.67%) SharePoint Support
2 1 (16.67%) Support Officer
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
1 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
1 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
1 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (16.67%) Django
1 1 (16.67%) Entity Framework
1 1 (16.67%) Flask
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
1 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 3 (50.00%) Virtual Team Management
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Presales
2 2 (33.33%) Risk Register
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
3 1 (16.67%) Release Management
3 1 (16.67%) SAP Implementation
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) User Experience
3 1 (16.67%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C#
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Fortinet
1 2 (33.33%) Infoblox
2 1 (16.67%) Micro Focus
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) SAP
2 1 (16.67%) Siemens