Virtual Team Contracts in the Thames Valley

Virtual Team (including Distributed Team, Remote Team, Dispersed Team)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Virtual Team in contract job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Team over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 131 122
Rank change year-on-year +34 -9 +12
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 5 14 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.33% 0.52% 0.99%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.92% 1.75% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 12 13
10th Percentile £255 £522 £383
25th Percentile £263 £593 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £615 £500
Median % change year-on-year -55.28% +23.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £288 £630 £550
90th Percentile £295 £648 £691
South East median daily rate £475 £615 £500
% change year-on-year -22.76% +23.00% -

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 545 801 934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 36.07% 29.82% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 473 613
10th Percentile £303 £205 £280
25th Percentile £423 £295 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £620
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 62 24
10th Percentile £14.16 £11.79 £18.08
25th Percentile £24.08 £22.50 £19.63
Median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -38.46% +143.75%
75th Percentile £66.12 £59.97 £70.90
90th Percentile £88.60 £65.00 £77.93
South East median hourly rate £47.81 £47.19 £51.25
% change year-on-year +1.31% -7.93% +138.37%

Virtual Team
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Virtual Team as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Team in the Thames Valley

Virtual Team
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Team in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Team in the Thames Valley

Virtual Team
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Team in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Team in the Thames Valley

Virtual Team
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Berkshire +29 5 £275 -56.35% 22
Virtual Team
South East

Virtual Team
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) LAN
1 3 (60.00%) WAN
2 1 (20.00%) Internet
2 1 (20.00%) Wireless
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
1 2 (40.00%) Project Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (20.00%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Network Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Network Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Virtual Team Management
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Budgeting
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Network Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Presales
3 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Register
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) CCDA
2 1 (20.00%) CCDP
2 1 (20.00%) CCNA
2 1 (20.00%) CCNP
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (20.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (20.00%) PMP
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco