Virtual Team Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Virtual Team in contract job vacancies in South Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Team over the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 28 51
Rank change year-on-year -62 +23 +7
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 5 17 3
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.65% 5.07% 0.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.33% 11.11% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 3
10th Percentile £419 £464 £570
25th Percentile £439 £497 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £515 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.77% -20.77% +30.00%
75th Percentile £500 £545 -
90th Percentile - £654 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -12.62% -1.90% +10.53%

All Generic Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 376 153 159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 48.64% 45.67% 35.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 99 97
10th Percentile £316 £209 £386
25th Percentile £404 £250 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% +5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £538 £599 £588
90th Percentile £650 £651 £651
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £488 £475
% change year-on-year +2.56% +2.63% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £11.75 £21.25
Median hourly rate £15.00 £13.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -40.00% +53.90%
75th Percentile - £15.25 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.78 £38.75 £21.31
% change year-on-year -51.55% +81.84% +12.16%

Virtual Team
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Virtual Team job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Virtual Team
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Virtual Team
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Sheffield -60 5 £475 -7.77% 3
Virtual Team
Yorkshire

Virtual Team
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 2 (40.00%) Confluence
2 1 (20.00%) CICS
2 1 (20.00%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) VisionPLUS
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Retail Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Project Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Scrum Master
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (20.00%) VSAM
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Agile Coaching
2 2 (40.00%) Conflict Resolution
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) ITSM
2 2 (40.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Project Management
2 2 (40.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) COBOL
1 1 (20.00%) JCL
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft