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 9 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 144 180
Rank change year-on-year -19 +36 -16
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 46 8 24
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.76% 0.27% 0.42%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.59% 0.83% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 5 19
10th Percentile £275 - £393
25th Percentile £400 £438 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -17.39% +25.00%
75th Percentile £573 £656 £623
90th Percentile £625 £690 £634
England median daily rate £509 £523 £500
% change year-on-year -2.63% +4.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £83.00 - -
Median hourly rate £84.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £43.96 £40.59 £26.00
% change year-on-year +8.30% +56.12% -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 1,773 967 1,606
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.34% 32.49% 28.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,159 604 953
10th Percentile £270 £200 £205
25th Percentile £400 £350 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -0.99%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £611
90th Percentile £700 £650 £688
England median daily rate £525 £526 £550
% change year-on-year -0.18% -4.38% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 74 166
10th Percentile £18.13 £15.13 £11.79
25th Percentile £28.00 £16.95 £18.39
Median hourly rate £67.50 £37.44 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year +80.28% -26.58% -4.56%
75th Percentile £85.48 £61.68 £61.30
90th Percentile £88.00 £85.50 £75.16
England median hourly rate £43.96 £33.91 £36.50
% change year-on-year +29.64% -7.10% +62.33%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -25 26 £555 +23.33% 6
Berkshire -18 15 £600 +33.33% 4
Buckinghamshire - 9 £550 -
Surrey -18 7 £550 +15.79% 2
West Sussex - 7 £275 -
East Sussex - 3 £600 -
Hampshire -30 2 £400 -39.05% 3
Oxfordshire - 2 £638 - 2
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 (2.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (2.17%) CMS
1 1 (2.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (10.87%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (4.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) BASE24
1 1 (2.17%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 7 (15.22%) Azure
1 7 (15.22%) GitHub
1 7 (15.22%) GitHub Actions
2 5 (10.87%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (8.70%) AWS
4 2 (4.35%) SaaS
5 1 (2.17%) GCP
5 1 (2.17%) Miro
5 1 (2.17%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.35%) MPLS
1 2 (4.35%) SD-WAN
1 2 (4.35%) WAN
2 1 (2.17%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.17%) QualityStage
Development Applications
1 6 (13.04%) CircleCI
2 5 (10.87%) Gradle
2 5 (10.87%) JUnit
3 3 (6.52%) JIRA
4 1 (2.17%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.17%) XCTest
4 1 (2.17%) XCUITest
General
1 12 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.39%) Aerospace
2 8 (17.39%) Finance
3 5 (10.87%) Manufacturing
4 3 (6.52%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (6.52%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.35%) Legal
6 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Local Government
6 1 (2.17%) Marketing
6 1 (2.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (21.74%) Project Manager
2 5 (10.87%) Android Engineer
2 5 (10.87%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (8.70%) Analyst
3 4 (8.70%) Architect
3 4 (8.70%) Developer
3 4 (8.70%) Lead
3 4 (8.70%) Pensions Analyst
3 4 (8.70%) Project Assurance Manager
3 4 (8.70%) Security Architect
3 4 (8.70%) Security Assurance Manager
3 4 (8.70%) Security Manager
3 4 (8.70%) Security Project Manager
4 3 (6.52%) Android Developer
4 3 (6.52%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) Principal Architect
4 3 (6.52%) Product Architect
4 3 (6.52%) Security Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.22%) REST
2 6 (13.04%) Android Jetpack
2 6 (13.04%) RAML
3 5 (10.87%) Dagger
3 5 (10.87%) Jetpack Compose
3 5 (10.87%) OkHttp
3 5 (10.87%) RxJava
3 5 (10.87%) WireMock
4 1 (2.17%) .NET
4 1 (2.17%) Android SDK
4 1 (2.17%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.17%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Cloud Native
1 6 (13.04%) Legacy Code
2 5 (10.87%) Product Ownership
3 4 (8.70%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (8.70%) Onboarding
4 3 (6.52%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (4.35%) Mobile App
5 2 (4.35%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.17%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.17%) Driving Licence
6 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.17%) iPad
6 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.22%) Android
2 4 (8.70%) Unix
3 2 (4.35%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.17%) Linux
4 1 (2.17%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (32.61%) Computer Science
2 14 (30.43%) Virtual Team Management
3 12 (26.09%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (23.91%) Cybersecurity
4 11 (23.91%) Vulnerability Management
5 10 (21.74%) Agile
5 10 (21.74%) Test Automation
6 9 (19.57%) Project Delivery
6 9 (19.57%) Validation
7 8 (17.39%) Systems Engineering
7 8 (17.39%) Verification and Validation
8 7 (15.22%) CI/CD
8 7 (15.22%) Integration Patterns
8 7 (15.22%) Migration
8 7 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (15.22%) Requirements Engineering
8 7 (15.22%) SBOM
8 7 (15.22%) Security Architecture
8 7 (15.22%) Threat Modelling
9 6 (13.04%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.04%) Kotlin
2 5 (10.87%) SQL
3 4 (8.70%) Python
4 2 (4.35%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.17%) C#
5 1 (2.17%) Java
5 1 (2.17%) Objective-C
5 1 (2.17%) Swift
Qualifications
1 18 (39.13%) Degree
1 18 (39.13%) Security Cleared
2 11 (23.91%) SC Cleared
3 7 (15.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (8.70%) CISM
4 4 (8.70%) CISSP
4 4 (8.70%) DV Cleared
4 4 (8.70%) PMI Certification
4 4 (8.70%) PMP
5 1 (2.17%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (23.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 11 (23.91%) NIST
2 7 (15.22%) NIST 800
3 5 (10.87%) QA
4 4 (8.70%) SOC 2
5 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
5 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
5 1 (2.17%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (8.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.52%) SAP
3 1 (2.17%) Adobe
3 1 (2.17%) Apple
3 1 (2.17%) Ariba
3 1 (2.17%) Citrix
3 1 (2.17%) Fiserv
3 1 (2.17%) VMware