Virtual Team Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Virtual Team (including Distributed Team, Remote Team, Dispersed Team)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Virtual Team in remote or hybrid contract work. 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 234 221 271
Rank change year-on-year -13 +50 -33
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 70 124 216
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.71% 0.81% 0.84%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.14% 2.81% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 70 111
10th Percentile £313 £325 £375
25th Percentile £407 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £550 £582 £631
90th Percentile £647 £623 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 2
10th Percentile £44.75 - £44.20
25th Percentile £50.00 £25.50 £53.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £26.00 £69.00
Median % change year-on-year +130.77% -62.32% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £26.50 £84.50
90th Percentile £75.25 - £93.80
UK median hourly rate £41.55 £24.90 £44.00
% change year-on-year +66.85% -43.41% -1.73%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,272 4,408 8,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.03% 28.73% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,974 5,725
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 199 151
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.48 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.50 £31.38
Median hourly rate £41.75 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -11.30% +29.21%
75th Percentile £64.57 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Virtual Team
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Virtual Team as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Virtual Team trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Virtual Team
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Virtual Team.

Virtual Team daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Team
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Virtual Team over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Virtual Team daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Team
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Virtual Team.

Virtual Team hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Team
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Virtual Team over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Virtual Team hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Team
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (8.57%) Confluence
2 5 (7.14%) NetWeaver
3 2 (2.86%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.43%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.43%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (1.43%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (1.43%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (1.43%) InDesign
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.43%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.43%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (7.14%) SAP PP
3 1 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.43%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.43%) SAP Business ByDesign
3 1 (1.43%) SAP MDG
3 1 (1.43%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (1.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 8 (11.43%) Azure
2 5 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (5.71%) AWS
3 4 (5.71%) GCP
4 3 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.86%) IaaS
5 2 (2.86%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.86%) SaaS
6 1 (1.43%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.43%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.43%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.43%) dbt
6 1 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.43%) Serverless
6 1 (1.43%) Slack
6 1 (1.43%) Smartsheet
6 1 (1.43%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.14%) HTTP
2 2 (2.86%) LAN
2 2 (2.86%) WAN
3 1 (1.43%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (1.43%) Firewall
3 1 (1.43%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.29%) BigQuery
1 3 (4.29%) KDB
1 3 (4.29%) Kdb+
2 2 (2.86%) Data Lake
2 2 (2.86%) DB2
2 2 (2.86%) Power BI
3 1 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.43%) Informix
3 1 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.43%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 11 (15.71%) JIRA
2 2 (2.86%) Git
2 2 (2.86%) GitLab
3 1 (1.43%) ERwin
3 1 (1.43%) LoadRunner
3 1 (1.43%) Postman
3 1 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.43%) Xcode
General
1 35 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (22.86%) Finance
3 11 (15.71%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (12.86%) Manufacturing
5 5 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.71%) Banking
6 4 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (5.71%) Telecoms
7 3 (4.29%) Advertising
7 3 (4.29%) Aerospace
7 3 (4.29%) Electronics
7 3 (4.29%) Marketing
8 2 (2.86%) German Language
8 2 (2.86%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.86%) Local Government
8 2 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.43%) Environmental Health
9 1 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.43%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 23 (32.86%) Developer
2 7 (10.00%) Architect
2 7 (10.00%) Project Manager
3 6 (8.57%) Integration Developer
4 5 (7.14%) Consultant
4 5 (7.14%) SAP Developer
4 5 (7.14%) Senior
5 4 (5.71%) Analyst
5 4 (5.71%) Java Developer
5 4 (5.71%) Python Developer
5 4 (5.71%) SAP Consultant
6 3 (4.29%) Analytics Developer
6 3 (4.29%) KDB Developer
6 3 (4.29%) SAP PP Consultant
6 3 (4.29%) SAP QM Consultant
6 3 (4.29%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
7 2 (2.86%) Geospatial Engineer
7 2 (2.86%) PowerShell Engineer
7 2 (2.86%) Quality Management Consultant
7 2 (2.86%) SAP Quality Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.57%) Middleware
1 6 (8.57%) REST
1 6 (8.57%) SOAP
2 5 (7.14%) EDI
2 5 (7.14%) IDoc
2 5 (7.14%) JDBC
2 5 (7.14%) JMS
2 5 (7.14%) SAP PI
2 5 (7.14%) XML
2 5 (7.14%) XSLT
3 4 (5.71%) Node.js
3 4 (5.71%) React
4 2 (2.86%) .NET
4 2 (2.86%) Godot
4 2 (2.86%) Kafka
4 2 (2.86%) MapLibre
4 2 (2.86%) Spring
4 2 (2.86%) Unreal Engine
5 1 (1.43%) Fastify
5 1 (1.43%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.43%) Product Ownership
2 5 (7.14%) Legacy Applications
3 4 (5.71%) Life Science
4 3 (4.29%) Equities
4 3 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.86%) Clustering
5 2 (2.86%) CMDB
5 2 (2.86%) Insider Threat
5 2 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.86%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.86%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.43%) Animation
6 1 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.43%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.43%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.43%) NHS
6 1 (1.43%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.43%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.57%) Unix
2 4 (5.71%) Linux
3 3 (4.29%) Windows
4 2 (2.86%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.43%) Android
5 1 (1.43%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (40.00%) Agile
2 21 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (18.57%) Scrum
4 12 (17.14%) User Acceptance Testing
5 10 (14.29%) Virtual Team Management
6 9 (12.86%) Project Management
7 7 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (10.00%) System Integration Testing
8 6 (8.57%) CI/CD
8 6 (8.57%) Performance Testing
8 6 (8.57%) SDLC
9 5 (7.14%) Analytics
9 5 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence
9 5 (7.14%) Computer Science
9 5 (7.14%) Kanban
9 5 (7.14%) Migration
9 5 (7.14%) Programme Management
9 5 (7.14%) Quality Management
9 5 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (18.57%) Java
1 13 (18.57%) Python
2 6 (8.57%) ABAP
2 6 (8.57%) PowerShell
3 5 (7.14%) SQL
4 3 (4.29%) C#
4 3 (4.29%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.43%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.43%) Bash
5 1 (1.43%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.43%) Korn
5 1 (1.43%) Objective-C
5 1 (1.43%) Perl
5 1 (1.43%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.43%) Ruby
5 1 (1.43%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.43%) SOQL
5 1 (1.43%) Swift
Qualifications
1 11 (15.71%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.43%) Degree
2 8 (11.43%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.29%) PMI Certification
5 3 (4.29%) PMP
6 2 (2.86%) CCNP
6 2 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.43%) CCDA
7 1 (1.43%) CCDP
7 1 (1.43%) CCNA
7 1 (1.43%) CSPO
7 1 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.43%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.43%) MBA
7 1 (1.43%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.71%) QA
2 3 (4.29%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.86%) GMP
4 1 (1.43%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.43%) GDPR
4 1 (1.43%) GRC
4 1 (1.43%) GxP
System Software
1 4 (5.71%) Active Directory
1 4 (5.71%) Docker
2 1 (1.43%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 4 (5.71%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.29%) Ansible
3 2 (2.86%) Progress Chef
3 2 (2.86%) Puppet
4 1 (1.43%) Grafana
4 1 (1.43%) HP ALM
4 1 (1.43%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (1.43%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.43%) TADDM
4 1 (1.43%) Terraform
4 1 (1.43%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 18 (25.71%) SAP
2 9 (12.86%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.71%) Google
4 2 (2.86%) BeyondTrust
4 2 (2.86%) CyberArk
4 2 (2.86%) Oracle
4 2 (2.86%) Ribbon
4 2 (2.86%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.43%) Adobe
5 1 (1.43%) Calypso
5 1 (1.43%) Cisco
5 1 (1.43%) DocuSign
5 1 (1.43%) HP
5 1 (1.43%) IBM
5 1 (1.43%) Instagram
5 1 (1.43%) Murex
5 1 (1.43%) OneTrust
5 1 (1.43%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.43%) Refinitiv
5 1 (1.43%) Sparx