Virtual Team Contracts in Scotland

Virtual Team (including Distributed Team, Remote Team, Dispersed Team)
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Virtual Team in contract job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Team over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 122 153
Rank change year-on-year +26 +31 -8
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 23 6 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.43% 0.27% 0.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.75% 0.82% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 1 6
10th Percentile £405 - £494
25th Percentile £406 £363 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £375 £638
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -41.18% +41.67%
75th Percentile £545 £388 £688
90th Percentile £568 - £738
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £14.00 -
UK median hourly rate £41.55 £24.90 £44.00
% change year-on-year +66.85% -43.41% -1.73%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 613 730 1,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 37.98% 32.88% 36.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 424 712
10th Percentile £208 £202 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £560
90th Percentile £600 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 36 23
10th Percentile - £13.75 -
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £10.63
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.14 £12.30
Median % change year-on-year +21.31% +47.44% -71.40%
75th Percentile £24.66 £38.25 £28.81
90th Percentile £42.00 £60.38 £52.55
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Virtual Team
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Team in Scotland

Virtual Team
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Team in Scotland

Virtual Team
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Team in Scotland over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Team in Scotland

Virtual Team
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Team in Scotland

Virtual Team
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Glasgow +18 20 £450 - 13
Edinburgh +7 2 £713 +90.00% 5
Virtual Team
UK

Virtual Team
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (39.13%) IaaS
2 2 (8.70%) AWS
2 2 (8.70%) Azure
2 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (8.70%) GitHub
3 1 (4.35%) Fivetran
3 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) DHCP
1 2 (8.70%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) DB2
2 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.35%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 7 (30.43%) Jenkins
2 6 (26.09%) Git
3 4 (17.39%) JIRA
4 3 (13.04%) Xcode
5 2 (8.70%) Bitbucket
6 1 (4.35%) GitLab
6 1 (4.35%) IntelliJ
6 1 (4.35%) PyCharm
6 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio
6 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 15 (65.22%) Social Skills
2 11 (47.83%) Finance
3 10 (43.48%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (13.04%) Banking
5 2 (8.70%) Investment Banking
6 1 (4.35%) Financial Institution
6 1 (4.35%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Python Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Scrum Master
2 4 (17.39%) VMware Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Mobile Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Administrator
5 1 (4.35%) Architect
5 1 (4.35%) C# Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Data Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Database Developer
5 1 (4.35%) DBA
5 1 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Product Owner
5 1 (4.35%) Programme Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Project Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Python Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Sybase DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) SwiftUI
1 3 (13.04%) UIKit
2 1 (4.35%) .NET
2 1 (4.35%) J2EE
2 1 (4.35%) Kafka
2 1 (4.35%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (4.35%) Middleware
2 1 (4.35%) Node.js
2 1 (4.35%) REST
2 1 (4.35%) SOAP
2 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.35%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (21.74%) Product Ownership
3 4 (17.39%) Management Information System
4 3 (13.04%) Credit Risk
4 3 (13.04%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (13.04%) iPad
4 3 (13.04%) iPhone
4 3 (13.04%) Mobile App
5 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
5 1 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (4.35%) Clustering
5 1 (4.35%) CMDB
5 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
5 1 (4.35%) Insider Threat
5 1 (4.35%) NHS
5 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
5 1 (4.35%) Replication
5 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (47.83%) Linux
2 7 (30.43%) Unix
3 3 (13.04%) Android
3 3 (13.04%) Apple iOS
3 3 (13.04%) Windows
4 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (78.26%) Agile
2 13 (56.52%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (30.43%) Scrum
4 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
4 6 (26.09%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (26.09%) DevOps
4 6 (26.09%) High Availability
5 5 (21.74%) Build Automation
5 5 (21.74%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (17.39%) Backlog Management
6 4 (17.39%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (17.39%) Conflict Resolution
6 4 (17.39%) Customer Experience
6 4 (17.39%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (17.39%) Data Protection
6 4 (17.39%) Kanban
6 4 (17.39%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (17.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (17.39%) Software Engineering
6 4 (17.39%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) Python
2 6 (26.09%) Perl
2 6 (26.09%) SQL
3 5 (21.74%) Erlang
3 5 (21.74%) Prolog
4 3 (13.04%) C#
4 3 (13.04%) Java
4 3 (13.04%) Objective-C
4 3 (13.04%) Swift
4 3 (13.04%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.35%) Apex Code
5 1 (4.35%) PL/SQL
5 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.35%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.35%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) QA
2 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.35%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.70%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Ansible
2 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.70%) Terraform
3 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
3 1 (4.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) VMware
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.35%) BeyondTrust
3 1 (4.35%) CyberArk
3 1 (4.35%) DocuSign
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle
3 1 (4.35%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.35%) SAP
3 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.35%) Sun
3 1 (4.35%) Sybase