Virtual Team Contracts in the UK excluding London

Virtual Team (including Distributed Team, Remote Team, Dispersed Team)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Virtual Team in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Team over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 259 291 280
Rank change year-on-year +32 -11 -4
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 128 167 243
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.63% 0.71% 0.79%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.15% 2.18% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 97 169
10th Percentile £363 £325 £275
25th Percentile £450 £417 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.64%
75th Percentile £623 £588 £575
90th Percentile £660 £677 £649
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 1 3
10th Percentile - - £44.00
25th Percentile £13.00 - £50.68
Median hourly rate £26.00 £100.00 £63.62
Median % change year-on-year -74.00% +57.20% +25.97%
75th Percentile £26.50 - £66.39
90th Percentile - - £66.97
UK median hourly rate £24.90 £44.00 £44.78
% change year-on-year -43.41% -1.73% +2.93%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Virtual Team is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,947 7,647 9,728
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.18% 32.53% 31.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,557 5,163 6,728
10th Percentile £210 £220 £205
25th Percentile £375 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £614 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 720 435 456
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.21
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.36
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £20.07
Median % change year-on-year +29.55% +9.64% -16.40%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £45.43
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £30.16 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +34.13% -18.24% +4.90%

Virtual Team
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Virtual Team as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Team in the UK excluding London

Virtual Team
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Team in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Team in the UK excluding London

Virtual Team
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Team in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Team in the UK excluding London

Virtual Team
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Team in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Team in the UK excluding London

Virtual Team
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Virtual Team in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Virtual Team in the UK excluding London

Virtual Team
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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
North of England +58 61 £493 +0.61% 19
North West +57 56 £493 +1.65% 12
Midlands +37 23 £510 -1.64% 14
South East -10 21 £615 +23.00% 24
West Midlands +26 14 £450 -21.74% 5
East Midlands +23 9 £581 +18.75% 9
South West +15 9 £467 +6.81% 11
East of England -31 8 £475 -13.64% 8
Scotland +42 7 £350 -45.10% 3
Yorkshire +25 5 £625 +13.64% 7
Northern Ireland +3 1 £190 -62.00% 1
Virtual Team
UK

Virtual Team
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (5.47%) CMS
2 6 (4.69%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.56%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.56%) Confluence
4 1 (0.78%) OpenStack
Applications
1 21 (16.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (14.84%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (9.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.34%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.56%) CA PPM
2 2 (1.56%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.78%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 16 (12.50%) AWS
2 10 (7.81%) IaaS
2 10 (7.81%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (7.03%) Google Workspace
3 9 (7.03%) PaaS
3 9 (7.03%) SaaS
4 8 (6.25%) Azure
5 5 (3.91%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.56%) GitHub
6 2 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (1.56%) Serverless
7 1 (0.78%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.78%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.78%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.78%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (0.78%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.78%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.78%) GCP
7 1 (0.78%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.34%) LAN
1 3 (2.34%) Network Security
1 3 (2.34%) WAN
2 2 (1.56%) 5G
2 2 (1.56%) DSL
2 2 (1.56%) Firewall
2 2 (1.56%) SD-WAN
2 2 (1.56%) WLAN
3 1 (0.78%) 4G
3 1 (0.78%) LTE
3 1 (0.78%) NAS
3 1 (0.78%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.69%) Big Data
2 5 (3.91%) Power BI
3 4 (3.13%) SAP HANA
4 2 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.56%) Apache Hive
4 2 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.56%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.56%) Impala
4 2 (1.56%) MySQL
4 2 (1.56%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (1.56%) Spark SQL
5 1 (0.78%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.78%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.78%) DataStage
5 1 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.78%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (6.25%) JIRA
2 6 (4.69%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.34%) Git
3 3 (2.34%) Mockito
4 2 (1.56%) CircleCI
4 2 (1.56%) Gradle
5 1 (0.78%) ERwin
5 1 (0.78%) JUnit
General
1 59 (46.09%) Social Skills
2 24 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (17.19%) Public Sector
4 18 (14.06%) Finance
5 16 (12.50%) Legal
6 11 (8.59%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (7.03%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (7.03%) Retail
8 7 (5.47%) Banking
8 7 (5.47%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.56%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.56%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.56%) Local Government
10 2 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.56%) Public Speaking
10 2 (1.56%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.78%) Law
11 1 (0.78%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 14 (10.94%) Analyst
2 13 (10.16%) Problem Manager
3 12 (9.38%) Project Manager
4 8 (6.25%) Integration Analyst
4 8 (6.25%) SAP Analyst
4 8 (6.25%) Software Asset Manager
4 8 (6.25%) Software Manager
5 7 (5.47%) IT Support
6 6 (4.69%) Architect
6 6 (4.69%) Consultant
6 6 (4.69%) Developer
6 6 (4.69%) Integration Specialist
7 5 (3.91%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (3.91%) Senior
8 4 (3.13%) Business Integration Analyst
9 3 (2.34%) Linux Engineer
9 3 (2.34%) SAP Manager
9 3 (2.34%) Senior Manager
9 3 (2.34%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (2.34%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.69%) REST
2 5 (3.91%) React Native
3 4 (3.13%) Android Jetpack
3 4 (3.13%) Jetpack Compose
4 3 (2.34%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (2.34%) JSON
4 3 (2.34%) Middleware
4 3 (2.34%) OAuth
4 3 (2.34%) OAuth2
4 3 (2.34%) OpenID
4 3 (2.34%) SAML
4 3 (2.34%) XML
5 2 (1.56%) Lucene
5 2 (1.56%) Node.js
6 1 (0.78%) Kafka
6 1 (0.78%) Mustache
6 1 (0.78%) React
6 1 (0.78%) RESTful
6 1 (0.78%) Spring
6 1 (0.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.16%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (7.81%) Management Information System
3 9 (7.03%) CMDB
4 7 (5.47%) EPoS
5 6 (4.69%) Mobile App
6 5 (3.91%) Product Ownership
7 4 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (3.13%) NHS
8 3 (2.34%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.34%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.34%) SCADA
9 2 (1.56%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.56%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (0.78%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.78%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.78%) IoT
10 1 (0.78%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.81%) Unix
2 7 (5.47%) Linux
2 7 (5.47%) Windows
3 5 (3.91%) Android
4 1 (0.78%) AIX
4 1 (0.78%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (35.94%) Problem-Solving
2 41 (32.03%) Virtual Team Management
3 29 (22.66%) Service Management
4 25 (19.53%) Quality Management
4 25 (19.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 23 (17.97%) Agile
5 23 (17.97%) Mentoring
6 22 (17.19%) Statistics
7 20 (15.63%) ITIL
7 20 (15.63%) Project Management
8 16 (12.50%) Proactive Monitoring
9 14 (10.94%) Problem Management
9 14 (10.94%) Root Cause Analysis
10 13 (10.16%) DevOps
11 12 (9.38%) Decision-Making
11 12 (9.38%) Roadmaps
12 11 (8.59%) Business Analysis
13 10 (7.81%) Customer Requirements
13 10 (7.81%) Information Security
14 9 (7.03%) Critical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 7 (5.47%) Java
2 6 (4.69%) Python
3 3 (2.34%) BeanShell
3 3 (2.34%) Perl
4 2 (1.56%) C
4 2 (1.56%) Ruby
4 2 (1.56%) Shell Script
4 2 (1.56%) SQL
5 1 (0.78%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.78%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 35 (27.34%) Security Cleared
2 29 (22.66%) SC Cleared
3 23 (17.97%) Degree
4 12 (9.38%) PMP
5 10 (7.81%) APMP
6 9 (7.03%) PMI Certification
7 3 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.56%) APMG
8 2 (1.56%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.56%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.78%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.69%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.91%) PMO
3 4 (3.13%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (2.34%) NIST
4 3 (2.34%) QA
5 2 (1.56%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.78%) COREP
6 1 (0.78%) FINREP
System Software
1 4 (3.13%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.34%) OpenAM
2 3 (2.34%) OpenIDM
3 1 (0.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.34%) Ansible
1 3 (2.34%) PowerBroker
1 3 (2.34%) Progress Chef
1 3 (2.34%) SCCM
2 2 (1.56%) CFEngine
2 2 (1.56%) Puppet
3 1 (0.78%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (17.19%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.16%) SAP
3 12 (9.38%) Google
4 11 (8.59%) Oracle
5 10 (7.81%) Salesforce
6 5 (3.91%) Ariba
7 3 (2.34%) BMC
7 3 (2.34%) ForgeRock
8 2 (1.56%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.56%) Brio
8 2 (1.56%) Databricks
8 2 (1.56%) Dell
8 2 (1.56%) HP
8 2 (1.56%) Remedy
8 2 (1.56%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.56%) Teradata
9 1 (0.78%) Apple
9 1 (0.78%) BT
9 1 (0.78%) Embarcadero
9 1 (0.78%) Infor