Virtual Team Contracts in the West Midlands

Virtual Team (including Distributed Team, Remote Team, Dispersed Team)
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Virtual Team in contract job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Team over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 102 121
Rank change year-on-year +11 +19 +21
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 5 14 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.36% 0.73% 0.56%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.17% 2.26% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 5
10th Percentile £420 £413 £503
25th Percentile £450 £422 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -21.74% +43.75%
75th Percentile £581 £559 £588
90th Percentile £630 £679 £610
England median daily rate £505 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +1.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £26.00 £100.00
Median % change year-on-year - -74.00% -
England median hourly rate £40.59 £26.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year +56.12% -40.91% -1.73%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 426 620 780
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.07% 32.46% 33.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 391 506
10th Percentile £187 £276 £263
25th Percentile £413 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £604 £636 £631
90th Percentile £675 £750 £700
England median daily rate £548 £550 £573
% change year-on-year -0.36% -3.93% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 47 22
10th Percentile £15.80 £10.42 £17.63
25th Percentile £17.40 £14.71 £18.74
Median hourly rate £19.00 £22.50 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% -17.43% +73.79%
75th Percentile £32.84 £40.25 £52.06
90th Percentile £33.91 £58.75 £57.13
England median hourly rate £34.50 £32.31 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.79% +43.68% -16.72%

Virtual Team
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Team in the West Midlands

Virtual Team
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Team in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Team in the West Midlands

Virtual Team
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Team in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Team in the West Midlands

Virtual Team
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Team in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Team in the West Midlands

Virtual Team
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 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
Warwickshire -3 3 £450 - 4
Birmingham +4 1 £625 +44.93% 6
Staffordshire - 1 - - 7
Virtual Team
England

Virtual Team
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
1 1 (20.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) LAN
1 2 (40.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (40.00%) WAN
2 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Field Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Manager
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Test Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (20.00%) Django
1 1 (20.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (20.00%) Flask
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Technical Leadership
1 3 (60.00%) Virtual Team Management
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Presales
2 2 (40.00%) Risk Register
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (20.00%) Defect Management
3 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Software Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) User Experience
3 1 (20.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C#
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (40.00%) Infoblox
2 1 (20.00%) Micro Focus
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) Siemens