Virtual Team Contract Job Trends in the North West

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Virtual Team in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Team over the 6 months leading up to 17 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 100 103
Rank change year-on-year -30 +3 +53
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 12 24 39
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.53% 1.00% 1.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.56% 3.46% 4.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 17 32
10th Percentile £357 £420 £451
25th Percentile £361 £440 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £384 £493 £560
Median % change year-on-year -22.11% -11.96% +20.43%
75th Percentile £479 £513 £603
90th Percentile £575 £569 £638
England median daily rate £504 £493 £550
% change year-on-year +2.18% -10.36% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £47.12 - -
75th Percentile £58.64 - -
90th Percentile £65.55 - -
England median hourly rate £47.12 £23.80 £41.00
% change year-on-year +97.98% -41.95% +3.80%

All Generic Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 767 694 831
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 34.12% 28.86% 28.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 526 364 561
10th Percentile £273 £294 £258
25th Percentile £368 £386 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.07% -2.10% +2.04%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £600
90th Percentile £653 £671 £663
England median daily rate £525 £546 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.73% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 27 41
10th Percentile £15.88 £17.56 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.41 £21.15 £21.00
Median hourly rate £33.18 £32.50 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% -20.73% +88.25%
75th Percentile £54.38 £52.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.81 £89.70 £73.75
England median hourly rate £29.27 £54.00 £46.03
% change year-on-year -45.80% +17.31% +78.69%

Virtual Team
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Virtual Team relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Virtual Team job vacancy trend in the North West

Virtual Team
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Virtual Team.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Virtual Team

Virtual Team
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Team in the North West over the 6 months to 17 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Team in the North West

Virtual Team
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Virtual Team.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Virtual Team

Virtual Team
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Virtual Team in the North West over the 6 months to 17 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Virtual Team in the North West

Virtual Team
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 17 October 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
Cheshire -24 5 £384 -29.86% 1
Manchester +1 3 £375 - 10
Lancashire - 3 - - 9
Cumbria +3 1 - -
Virtual Team
England

Virtual Team
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Advent Geneva
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) ShareGate
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (8.33%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) LAN
1 1 (8.33%) Network Security
1 1 (8.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.33%) DB2
2 1 (8.33%) MySQL
2 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) MLflow
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Tester
3 1 (8.33%) .NET Developer
3 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET MVC Developer
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Developer
3 1 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (8.33%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (8.33%) C# Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Head of Digital
3 1 (8.33%) Head of Networks
3 1 (8.33%) IT Technician
3 1 (8.33%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Report Developer
3 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow Developer
3 1 (8.33%) SharePoint Developer
3 1 (8.33%) SharePoint Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) CSS
1 4 (33.33%) HTML
2 3 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (25.00%) LDAP
2 3 (25.00%) REST
2 3 (25.00%) SOAP
2 3 (25.00%) Web Services
3 2 (16.67%) .NET
4 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET
4 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (8.33%) PyTorch
4 1 (8.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Agile
2 7 (58.33%) ITIL
2 7 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (41.67%) Analytics
3 5 (41.67%) Computer Science
3 5 (41.67%) ITSM
3 5 (41.67%) Service Management
4 4 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
4 4 (33.33%) IT Asset Management
4 4 (33.33%) Migration
4 4 (33.33%) Service Catalogue
4 4 (33.33%) SIAM
4 4 (33.33%) Time Management
5 3 (25.00%) Configuration Management
5 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (25.00%) Scrum
5 3 (25.00%) Unit Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Problem Management
6 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 3 (25.00%) Java
2 3 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) C#
3 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Degree
2 4 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 1 (8.33%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (8.33%) COBIT
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) ServiceNow
2 2 (16.67%) Nintex
3 1 (8.33%) Advent
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft