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

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 114 138
Rank change year-on-year -1 +24 +15
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 6 23 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.30% 0.86% 0.52%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.95% 2.83% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 7
10th Percentile £365 £416 £491
25th Percentile £388 £427 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £510 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -11.30% +21.05%
75th Percentile £541 £656 £588
90th Percentile £614 £723 £603
England median daily rate £510 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +1.90% -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% -12.00%

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 629 814 1,099
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 31.48% 30.29% 33.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 527 717
10th Percentile £200 £213 £262
25th Percentile £375 £356 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £495
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -1.52% +4.21%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £743 £700
England median daily rate £538 £550 £572
% change year-on-year -2.27% -3.76% +3.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 60 45
10th Percentile - £10.42 £17.11
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.68 £19.00
Median hourly rate £18.51 £19.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.58% -30.91% +61.76%
75th Percentile £30.87 £28.88 £52.50
90th Percentile £45.80 £58.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £34.11 £22.49
% change year-on-year -3.24% +51.68% -15.15%

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 21 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 21 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 +2 6 £450 - 28
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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
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%) 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%) 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 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Compliance Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Compliance Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Compliance Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Migration Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Migration Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Field Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Functional Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Functional Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) IT Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Migration Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) SAP Manager
2 1 (16.67%) SAP Test Manager
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%) OLE
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%) Computer Science
2 2 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Presales
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Risk Register
3 1 (16.67%) Defect Management
3 1 (16.67%) Front End Development
3 1 (16.67%) Prototyping
3 1 (16.67%) Records Management
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) SDLC
3 1 (16.67%) Software Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (16.67%) User Experience
3 1 (16.67%) Workflow Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C#
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) 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