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 10 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 134 176
Rank change year-on-year -27 +42 -5
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 40 26 30
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.78% 0.86% 0.53%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.58% 2.55% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 16 24
10th Percentile £275 £250 £354
25th Percentile £350 £309 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £350 £600
Median % change year-on-year +38.57% -41.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £538 £494 £623
90th Percentile £583 £522 £644
England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
Median hourly rate £84.00 - £18.95
England median hourly rate £45.46 £38.05 £26.00
% change year-on-year +19.49% +46.33% -40.91%

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 1,551 1,021 1,703
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.12% 33.88% 30.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,020 620 985
10th Percentile £250 £220 £205
25th Percentile £390 £384 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £499
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.21% -3.11%
75th Percentile £598 £620 £600
90th Percentile £688 £675 £679
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 47 135
10th Percentile £12.50 £16.95 £11.87
25th Percentile £20.79 £23.50 £18.43
Median hourly rate £58.50 £32.50 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +80.00% +4.84% -31.87%
75th Percentile £88.00 £62.24 £60.00
90th Percentile - £76.34 £65.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +2.94% +13.33% +33.33%

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 10 March 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 10 March 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 -23 24 £500 +51.52% 12
Berkshire -24 19 £500 +51.52% 8
Surrey -7 7 £775 +63.16% 4
West Sussex - 6 £275 -
Buckinghamshire -15 3 £274 - 4
East Sussex +5 2 - - 1
Oxfordshire - 2 £525 -
Kent - 1 £594 - 1
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 (2.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (2.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (17.50%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (2.50%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 8 (20.00%) OpenShift
2 7 (17.50%) GitHub
2 7 (17.50%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.50%) Azure
4 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.50%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.50%) SD-WAN
1 3 (7.50%) VPN
2 2 (5.00%) MPLS
2 2 (5.00%) WAN
3 1 (2.50%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 6 (15.00%) CircleCI
2 5 (12.50%) Gradle
2 5 (12.50%) JUnit
3 4 (10.00%) JIRA
4 1 (2.50%) Postman
4 1 (2.50%) SoapUI
4 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.50%) XCTest
4 1 (2.50%) XCUITest
General
1 13 (32.50%) Social Skills
2 10 (25.00%) Finance
3 5 (12.50%) Manufacturing
4 4 (10.00%) Aerospace
5 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.00%) Military
7 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.50%) Legal
7 1 (2.50%) Retail
7 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (15.00%) Project Manager
2 5 (12.50%) Analyst
2 5 (12.50%) Android Engineer
2 5 (12.50%) Site Engineer
2 5 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 4 (10.00%) Data Centre Manager
3 4 (10.00%) Data Centre Project Manager
3 4 (10.00%) Delivery Manager
3 4 (10.00%) Support Analyst
4 3 (7.50%) Desktop Analyst
4 3 (7.50%) Desktop Support
4 3 (7.50%) Desktop Support Analyst
4 3 (7.50%) Developer
4 3 (7.50%) Principal Engineer
4 3 (7.50%) Service Delivery Manager
4 3 (7.50%) Service Manager
5 2 (5.00%) IT Services Delivery Manager
5 2 (5.00%) IT Services Manager
5 2 (5.00%) Principal Security Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.00%) Loki
2 7 (17.50%) REST
3 6 (15.00%) RAML
4 5 (12.50%) Android Jetpack
4 5 (12.50%) Dagger
4 5 (12.50%) Jetpack Compose
4 5 (12.50%) OkHttp
4 5 (12.50%) RxJava
4 5 (12.50%) WireMock
5 2 (5.00%) .NET
6 1 (2.50%) JSON
6 1 (2.50%) SOAP
6 1 (2.50%) UIKit
6 1 (2.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (22.50%) Cloud Native
2 6 (15.00%) Legacy Code
3 4 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 4 (10.00%) Product Ownership
4 3 (7.50%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (7.50%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (5.00%) Mainframe
6 1 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.50%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 8 (20.00%) Linux
1 8 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (12.50%) Android
3 3 (7.50%) Windows
3 3 (7.50%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.50%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (30.00%) Computer Science
2 11 (27.50%) Agile
2 11 (27.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 9 (22.50%) ITIL
4 9 (22.50%) Virtual Team Management
5 8 (20.00%) Change Management
5 8 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
5 8 (20.00%) Observability
5 8 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 6 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (15.00%) Integration Patterns
6 6 (15.00%) Open Source
6 6 (15.00%) Performance Analysis
6 6 (15.00%) Time Management
7 5 (12.50%) Matrix Organization
7 5 (12.50%) PRINCE2
7 5 (12.50%) Project Management
7 5 (12.50%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 9 (22.50%) Python
2 8 (20.00%) Bash
3 5 (12.50%) Kotlin
4 1 (2.50%) C#
4 1 (2.50%) Objective-C
4 1 (2.50%) SQL
4 1 (2.50%) Swift
Qualifications
1 17 (42.50%) Degree
2 12 (30.00%) Security Cleared
3 9 (22.50%) SC Cleared
4 8 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (7.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (2.50%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) PMO
2 4 (10.00%) QA
3 3 (7.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (7.50%) NIST
3 3 (7.50%) NIST 800
4 2 (5.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (20.00%) vSphere
2 7 (17.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (7.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (20.00%) Argo
1 8 (20.00%) Grafana
1 8 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 8 (20.00%) Kustomize
1 8 (20.00%) Prometheus
2 3 (7.50%) SCCM
3 1 (2.50%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (20.00%) Red Hat
1 8 (20.00%) VMware
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.50%) McAfee
4 2 (5.00%) Oracle
5 1 (2.50%) Adobe
5 1 (2.50%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.50%) Juniper
5 1 (2.50%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.50%) SAP
5 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.50%) Splunk