Virtual Team Contracts in the North of England

Virtual Team (including Distributed Team, Remote Team, Dispersed Team)
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Virtual Team in contract job vacancies in the North of England. 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 142 122 192
Rank change year-on-year -20 +70 -4
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 24 64 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.73% 1.34% 0.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.38% 4.92% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 45 23
10th Percentile £421 £439 £326
25th Percentile £455 £475 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £575 £582 £588
90th Percentile £585 £650 £676
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37.80 - -
Median hourly rate £57.80 £13.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +344.58% - -
75th Percentile £77.81 £26.50 -
90th Percentile £78.38 - -
England median hourly rate £40.59 £26.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year +56.12% -40.91% -1.73%

All Generic Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,008 1,302 1,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 30.59% 27.31% 30.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 647 801 1,220
10th Percentile £220 £263 £285
25th Percentile £367 £400 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £582 £584 £623
90th Percentile £665 £653 £688
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 154 88
10th Percentile £21.00 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £24.25 £13.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £30.88 £15.14 £18.62
Median % change year-on-year +104.00% -18.70% +0.11%
75th Percentile £44.08 £26.62 £45.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £47.98 £66.00
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Team in the North of England

Virtual Team
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Team in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Team in the North of England

Virtual Team
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Team in the North of England

Virtual Team
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Team in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Team in the North of England

Virtual Team
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Virtual Team in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Virtual Team in the North of England

Virtual Team
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West -23 20 £514 +4.26% 26
Yorkshire +8 4 £500 -21.57% 10
Virtual Team
England

Virtual Team
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 4 (16.67%) NetWeaver
2 3 (12.50%) Confluence
3 2 (8.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 6 (25.00%) SAP PP
1 6 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (8.33%) AWS
2 2 (8.33%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) HTTP
2 1 (4.17%) SSL
2 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database
1 1 (4.17%) RDBMS
1 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) JIRA
General
1 11 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Manufacturing
3 3 (12.50%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Back Office
4 1 (4.17%) Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 4 (16.67%) Consultant
1 4 (16.67%) Developer
1 4 (16.67%) Integration Developer
1 4 (16.67%) SAP Consultant
1 4 (16.67%) SAP Developer
1 4 (16.67%) SAP PP Consultant
1 4 (16.67%) SAP QM Consultant
1 4 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
2 3 (12.50%) IT Manager
2 3 (12.50%) IT Project Manager
2 3 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 2 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Management Consultant
3 2 (8.33%) Quality Management Consultant
3 2 (8.33%) SAP Quality Management Consultant
3 2 (8.33%) SharePoint Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Tester
4 1 (4.17%) IT Support
4 1 (4.17%) IT Technical Manager
4 1 (4.17%) PMO Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) XML
2 4 (16.67%) EDI
2 4 (16.67%) IDoc
2 4 (16.67%) JDBC
2 4 (16.67%) JMS
2 4 (16.67%) Middleware
2 4 (16.67%) REST
2 4 (16.67%) SAP PI
2 4 (16.67%) SOAP
2 4 (16.67%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (12.50%) Life Science
2 3 (12.50%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.17%) CMDB
3 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.17%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Linux
1 2 (8.33%) Windows
2 1 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) Agile
2 7 (29.17%) Scrum
3 6 (25.00%) Quality Management
3 6 (25.00%) SDLC
3 6 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
3 6 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 6 (25.00%) Virtual Team Management
4 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (16.67%) ITIL
5 4 (16.67%) Performance Testing
5 4 (16.67%) Project Delivery
5 4 (16.67%) Project Management
6 3 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (12.50%) DevOps
6 3 (12.50%) Generative AI
6 3 (12.50%) Kanban
6 3 (12.50%) LLM
6 3 (12.50%) Machine Learning
6 3 (12.50%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) ABAP
1 4 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (4.17%) ActionScript
2 1 (4.17%) ActionScript 2.0
2 1 (4.17%) C
2 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 8 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 7 (29.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.17%) A+ Certification
4 1 (4.17%) Degree
4 1 (4.17%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) PMO
2 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 10 (41.67%) SAP
2 2 (8.33%) Nintex
2 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle