Virtual Team Contract Job Trends in the South East

Virtual Team (including Distributed Team, Remote Team, Dispersed Team)
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Virtual Team in contract job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Team over the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 138 178
Rank change year-on-year -8 +40 -3
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 16 44 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.46% 0.95% 0.56%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.45% 3.24% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 26 23
10th Percentile £400 £275 £221
25th Percentile £431 £325 £265
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £365 £513
Median % change year-on-year +43.84% -28.78% -6.82%
75th Percentile £620 £538 £694
90th Percentile £656 £625 £700
England median daily rate £523 £500 £556
% change year-on-year +4.50% -10.02% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £70.16 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +33.64% - -
England median hourly rate £56.06 £23.80 £41.00
% change year-on-year +135.55% -41.95% +3.80%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,105 1,357 1,766
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.68% 29.35% 31.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 699 778 1,205
10th Percentile £204 £224 £205
25th Percentile £350 £376 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £612 £619
90th Percentile £665 £690 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 109 101
10th Percentile £15.13 £13.02 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £31.25 £21.25
Median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.37% +4.27% +132.12%
75th Percentile £58.00 £70.00 £67.75
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.16 £77.50
England median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £45.88
% change year-on-year -42.37% +25.00% +76.46%

Virtual Team
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Team in the South East

Virtual Team
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Virtual Team.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Virtual Team

Virtual Team
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Team in the South East over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Team in the South East

Virtual Team
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Virtual Team.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Virtual Team

Virtual Team
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Hampshire - 8 £444 - 1
Berkshire +1 6 £620 +35.89% 9
Thames Valley -3 6 £620 +17.81% 19
Surrey -4 2 - - 4
Virtual Team
England

Virtual Team
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
1 1 (6.25%) AWS
1 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (6.25%) GitHub
1 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) Network Security
2 3 (18.75%) Broadband
2 3 (18.75%) LAN
2 3 (18.75%) WAN
3 1 (6.25%) 5G
3 1 (6.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 3 (18.75%) Finance
4 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.25%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Project Manager
2 3 (18.75%) Compliance Manager
2 3 (18.75%) Compliance Project Manager
2 3 (18.75%) Supplier Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Head of Digital
3 2 (12.50%) Security Specialist
3 2 (12.50%) Telecoms Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Telecoms Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Data Centre Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Data Centre Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Data Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Presales Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Node.js
1 1 (6.25%) React
1 1 (6.25%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Agile
1 10 (62.50%) Virtual Team Management
2 6 (37.50%) Project Management
3 5 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (25.00%) Budget Management
4 4 (25.00%) Presales
4 4 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 4 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (25.00%) Waterfall
5 3 (18.75%) Change Management
5 3 (18.75%) Impact Assessments
5 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (18.75%) Validation
6 2 (12.50%) Information Security
6 2 (12.50%) Information Security Management
6 2 (12.50%) ITIL
6 2 (12.50%) PRINCE2
6 2 (12.50%) Risk Management
6 2 (12.50%) Security Management
6 2 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) CISM
3 2 (12.50%) Degree
4 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) PMI Certification
4 1 (6.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 2 (12.50%) GDPR
1 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.25%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft