Virtual Team Management Contracts

Virtual Team Management (including Distributed \ Remote \ Dispersed Team Management)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Virtual Team Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Team Management 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 498 529 614
Rank change year-on-year +31 +85 +52
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team Management 22 53 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.075% 0.12% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.083% 0.14% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 46 70
10th Percentile £402 £414 £450
25th Percentile £503 £447 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £567 £493 £540
Median % change year-on-year +14.91% -8.70% -1.82%
75th Percentile £634 £528 £647
90th Percentile £776 £656 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £583 £493 £550
% change year-on-year +18.26% -10.36% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Virtual Team Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Virtual Team Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Virtual Team Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Team Management in the UK

Virtual Team Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Team Management.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Team Management in the UK

Virtual Team Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Team Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Team Management in the UK

Virtual Team Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Team Management.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Team Management in the UK

Virtual Team Management
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Team Management within the UK 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
England +25 21 £583 +18.26% 80
UK excluding London +35 14 £583 +18.26% 43
Work from Home +32 10 £560 +13.64% 47
London +36 7 £580 +17.17% 48
North of England -3 6 £585 +18.66% 11
North West -5 6 £585 +18.66% 8
Midlands +21 3 £500 +1.78% 6
West Midlands +14 3 £500 +8.11% 4
South East +44 2 - - 11
South West +42 1 - -
East of England +30 1 - - 5
Scotland - 1 £550 - 7

Virtual Team Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (36.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (31.82%) SAP PP
3 1 (4.55%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.64%) Azure
2 1 (4.55%) AWS
2 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (4.55%) GCP
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.55%) SaaS
2 1 (4.55%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) LAN
1 3 (13.64%) WAN
2 2 (9.09%) Firewall
2 2 (9.09%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (4.55%) BigQuery
1 1 (4.55%) DTS
1 1 (4.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (4.55%) LoadRunner
General
1 8 (36.36%) Manufacturing
1 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Aerospace
2 4 (18.18%) Finance
3 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
4 2 (9.09%) Marketing
5 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Electronics
5 1 (4.55%) Environmental Health
5 1 (4.55%) German Language
5 1 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Local Government
5 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Consultant
1 5 (22.73%) SAP Consultant
1 5 (22.73%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
2 4 (18.18%) Architect
2 4 (18.18%) SAP PP Consultant
2 4 (18.18%) SAP QM Consultant
2 4 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Project Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Lead
4 2 (9.09%) Management Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) Project Leader
4 2 (9.09%) Quality Management Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) SAP Quality Management Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Development Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Engineering Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Delivery Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Technology Director
5 1 (4.55%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) .NET
1 1 (4.55%) AngularJS
1 1 (4.55%) React
1 1 (4.55%) SAP Fiori
1 1 (4.55%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 22 (100.00%) Virtual Team
2 4 (18.18%) Life Science
3 1 (4.55%) Digital Media
3 1 (4.55%) IoT
3 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) Quality Management
2 6 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
3 5 (22.73%) Agile
4 4 (18.18%) Project Delivery
4 4 (18.18%) Project Management
4 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (13.64%) Customer Service
5 3 (13.64%) Presales
5 3 (13.64%) Risk Register
5 3 (13.64%) Roadmaps
6 2 (9.09%) Actionable Insight
6 2 (9.09%) Analytics
6 2 (9.09%) Budget Management
6 2 (9.09%) CI/CD
6 2 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (9.09%) Data Analytics
6 2 (9.09%) Microservices
6 2 (9.09%) PRINCE2
6 2 (9.09%) Programme Management
6 2 (9.09%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.09%) Python
2 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (40.91%) Security Cleared
2 8 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 5 (22.73%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (9.09%) Degree
5 1 (4.55%) CCDA
5 1 (4.55%) CCDP
5 1 (4.55%) CCNA
5 1 (4.55%) CCNP
5 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (4.55%) PMI Certification
5 1 (4.55%) PMP
5 1 (4.55%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (40.91%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) GDPR
2 1 (4.55%) GRC
2 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.55%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Vendors
1 11 (50.00%) SAP
2 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.09%) Fortinet
3 2 (9.09%) Infoblox
4 1 (4.55%) Databricks
4 1 (4.55%) Micro Focus
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle