Hybrid/Remote Virtual Reality Contract Job Trends

Virtual Reality (VR)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Virtual Reality in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Reality over the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 304 351
Rank change year-on-year -12 +47 +165
Contract jobs citing Virtual Reality 3 10 13
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.029% 0.088% 0.079%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.085% 0.28% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 11
10th Percentile - £344 £313
25th Percentile £313 £386 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £425 £350
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% +21.43% -16.17%
75th Percentile £338 £464 £381
90th Percentile - £566 £513
UK median daily rate £415 £428 £350
% change year-on-year -2.98% +22.21% -30.00%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Virtual Reality 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,541 3,557 4,887
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 34.62% 31.16% 29.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,219 2,260 3,375
10th Percentile £335 £325 £325
25th Percentile £420 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £672
90th Percentile £750 £800 £757
UK median daily rate £503 £529 £550
% change year-on-year -4.82% -3.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 58 125
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.50 £19.99
25th Percentile £21.25 £23.08 £22.00
Median hourly rate £45.46 £37.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.42% -24.50% -20.63%
75th Percentile £67.00 £64.94 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.14 £75.00 £76.55
UK median hourly rate £27.33 £33.65 £42.19
% change year-on-year -18.77% -20.25% +27.85%

Virtual Reality
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Virtual Reality and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Virtual Reality job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Virtual Reality
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Virtual Reality.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Virtual Reality.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 1 (33.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (33.33%) CMS
1 1 (33.33%) Headless CMS
1 1 (33.33%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (33.33%) CINEMA 4D
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Adobe Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Run
1 1 (33.33%) Contentful
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Salsify
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) BGP
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) IPsec
1 1 (33.33%) VLAN
1 1 (33.33%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Front Office
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Digital Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Technology Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) CrewAI
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) LangChain
1 1 (33.33%) Next.js
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) Unity (Game Engine)
1 1 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Augmented Reality
2 1 (33.33%) AI Agents
2 1 (33.33%) Animation
2 1 (33.33%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (33.33%) Motion Graphics
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) 3D Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Application Security
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Insight
2 1 (33.33%) Data Collection
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Customer Experience
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (33.33%) Logistics
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Post-Production
2 1 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) KVM
1 1 (33.33%) Squid
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Adobe
1 1 (33.33%) AlgoSec
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Juniper
1 1 (33.33%) NetApp
1 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce
1 1 (33.33%) Sitecore