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 11 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 130 177
Rank change year-on-year -16 +47 +9
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 32 41 24
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.74% 1.21% 0.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.50% 3.73% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 21 19
10th Percentile £274 £250 £285
25th Percentile £350 £275 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £350 £450
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -22.22% -28.00%
75th Percentile £571 £400 £659
90th Percentile £620 £488 £708
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Median hourly rate £70.16 £52.50 £18.95
Median % change year-on-year +33.64% +177.04% -
England median hourly rate £45.46 £25.15 £20.62
% change year-on-year +80.76% +21.97% -47.80%

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 1,282 1,099 1,545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.73% 32.34% 30.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 859 636 952
10th Percentile £204 £240 £205
25th Percentile £366 £386 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +5.11% -4.86%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £681 £688
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 44 100
10th Percentile £12.50 £20.07 £18.35
25th Percentile £15.75 £25.93 £25.02
Median hourly rate £22.50 £35.00 £51.03
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% -31.41% +36.07%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.81 £62.63
90th Percentile £82.00 £69.98 £77.55
England median hourly rate £28.56 £37.50 £37.63
% change year-on-year -23.83% -0.33% +50.50%

Virtual Team
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Virtual Team job vacancy trend 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 11 January 2026.

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 11 January 2026. 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
Thames Valley -12 21 £500 +47.06% 31
Berkshire -7 17 £500 +42.86% 15
Surrey -1 6 £1,000 +214.47% 13
Buckinghamshire -2 3 £274 +9.40% 11
West Sussex - 3 £275 - 13
Hampshire -18 1 - - 12
Kent - 1 £594 - 12
Oxfordshire - 1 £525 - 5
Virtual Team
England

Virtual Team
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.00%) OpenShift
2 4 (12.50%) GitHub
2 4 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.13%) AWS
4 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.38%) Broadband
1 3 (9.38%) VPN
2 1 (3.13%) HTTP
2 1 (3.13%) Network Security
2 1 (3.13%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) CircleCI
1 3 (9.38%) Gradle
1 3 (9.38%) JUnit
2 2 (6.25%) JIRA
3 1 (3.13%) Postman
3 1 (3.13%) SoapUI
General
1 14 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 11 (34.38%) Finance
3 4 (12.50%) Telecoms
4 3 (9.38%) Manufacturing
4 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.25%) Military
6 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) Project Manager
2 5 (15.63%) Site Engineer
2 5 (15.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Analyst
3 4 (12.50%) Data Centre Manager
3 4 (12.50%) Data Centre Project Manager
3 4 (12.50%) Support Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) Android Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Compliance Manager
4 3 (9.38%) Compliance Project Manager
4 3 (9.38%) Delivery Manager
4 3 (9.38%) Desktop Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) Desktop Support
4 3 (9.38%) Desktop Support Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) Senior
4 3 (9.38%) Service Delivery Manager
4 3 (9.38%) Service Manager
4 3 (9.38%) Supplier Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Android Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Telecoms Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (25.00%) Loki
2 4 (12.50%) REST
3 3 (9.38%) Android Jetpack
3 3 (9.38%) Dagger
3 3 (9.38%) Jetpack Compose
3 3 (9.38%) OkHttp
3 3 (9.38%) RAML
3 3 (9.38%) RxJava
3 3 (9.38%) WireMock
4 2 (6.25%) .NET
5 1 (3.13%) JSON
5 1 (3.13%) Node.js
5 1 (3.13%) React
5 1 (3.13%) RESTful
5 1 (3.13%) SOAP
5 1 (3.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (28.13%) Cloud Native
2 4 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 3 (9.38%) Legacy Code
3 3 (9.38%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (9.38%) Product Ownership
3 3 (9.38%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (6.25%) Mainframe
5 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 8 (25.00%) Linux
1 8 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (9.38%) Android
2 3 (9.38%) Windows
2 3 (9.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (50.00%) Agile
2 10 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (28.13%) Change Management
3 9 (28.13%) CI/CD
3 9 (28.13%) Observability
4 8 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 8 (25.00%) ITIL
4 8 (25.00%) Project Management
4 8 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 8 (25.00%) Virtual Team Management
5 6 (18.75%) Budget Management
6 5 (15.63%) Computer Science
6 5 (15.63%) Matrix Organization
6 5 (15.63%) PRINCE2
6 5 (15.63%) Service Delivery
7 4 (12.50%) ITSM
7 4 (12.50%) Matrix Management
7 4 (12.50%) PRINCE
7 4 (12.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.00%) Bash
1 8 (25.00%) Python
2 3 (9.38%) Kotlin
3 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (28.13%) Degree
2 8 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 8 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (15.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (9.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (3.13%) PMI Certification
5 1 (3.13%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.75%) PMO
2 3 (9.38%) GDPR
2 3 (9.38%) QA
3 1 (3.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 8 (25.00%) vSphere
2 7 (21.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (9.38%) Active Directory
4 1 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (25.00%) Argo
1 8 (25.00%) Grafana
1 8 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 8 (25.00%) Kustomize
1 8 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 3 (9.38%) SCCM
3 1 (3.13%) Kibana
3 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 8 (25.00%) VMware
2 3 (9.38%) McAfee
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.25%) Oracle
4 1 (3.13%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.13%) Juniper
4 1 (3.13%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.13%) Splunk