Virtual Team Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Virtual Team (including Distributed Team, Remote Team, Dispersed Team)
Wales > South Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Virtual Team in contract job vacancies in South Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Team over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 26 44
Rank change year-on-year -16 +18 +4
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 6 8 2
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 1.26% 2.96% 0.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.97% 7.48% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - - £577
25th Percentile - £363 £577
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £375 £577
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -35.05% +9.98%
75th Percentile - £388 £578
90th Percentile - - £578
Wales median daily rate £500 £414 £577
% change year-on-year +20.77% -28.30% +9.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
Median hourly rate £43.96 - -
Wales median hourly rate £43.96 - -

All Generic Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 151 107 155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 31.79% 39.63% 42.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 70 106
10th Percentile £300 £160 £141
25th Percentile £325 £260 £253
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £368 £498
Median % change year-on-year +15.65% -26.13% -0.50%
75th Percentile £525 £464 £548
90th Percentile £701 £498 £577
Wales median daily rate £425 £375 £500
% change year-on-year +13.33% -25.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 9
10th Percentile £25.83 - £17.46
25th Percentile £40.72 £13.08 £22.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £20.50 £25.60
Median % change year-on-year +114.44% -19.92% +36.06%
75th Percentile £50.00 £20.75 £27.50
90th Percentile - - £57.75
Wales median hourly rate £43.96 £20.50 £23.66
% change year-on-year +114.44% -13.36% +38.61%

Virtual Team
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Virtual Team job vacancy trend in South Wales

Virtual Team
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

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

Virtual Team
Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

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

Virtual Team
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
Cardiff -9 5 - - 1
Newport - 1 £500 - 1
Virtual Team
Wales

Virtual Team
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) 5G
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (83.33%) Legal
2 5 (83.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Podcast
1 5 (83.33%) Web Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) API Integration
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) ERP
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (16.67%) ITSM
2 1 (16.67%) Release Management
2 1 (16.67%) Service Management
2 1 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (16.67%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Salesforce
1 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow