Virtual Team Job Trends in the Midlands

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Virtual Team in permanent job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Team over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 207 245
Rank change year-on-year -15 +38 -1
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Team 35 19 69
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.27% 0.38% 0.59%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.06% 0.89% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 21 14 45
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £35,313 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +8.70% -2.13%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,188 £83,750
90th Percentile £79,000 £86,000 £101,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £63,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year +9.80% +2.00% +2.63%

All Generic Skills
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 permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,288 2,146 3,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 25.37% 42.43% 33.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,502 1,070 2,660
10th Percentile £27,694 £27,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,750 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.74% -5.00% -6.10%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £61,563
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £73,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%

Virtual Team
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Virtual Team relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Virtual Team job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Virtual Team
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Virtual Team.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Virtual Team

Virtual Team
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Team in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Virtual Team in the Midlands

Virtual Team
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Team within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 May 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands -18 25 £52,500 -16.00% 8
East Midlands -22 10 £25,000 - 6
Virtual Team
England

Virtual Team
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 5 (14.29%) Azure
2 4 (11.43%) AWS
2 4 (11.43%) BrowserStack
3 2 (5.71%) Entra ID
3 2 (5.71%) SaaS
4 1 (2.86%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) Bluetooth
1 1 (2.86%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.43%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.86%) MySQL
2 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 4 (11.43%) Gatling
2 4 (11.43%) Zephyr
3 1 (2.86%) Balsamiq
3 1 (2.86%) JIRA
3 1 (2.86%) Postman
3 1 (2.86%) SpecFlow
3 1 (2.86%) Yeoman
General
1 12 (34.29%) Finance
1 12 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.00%) Retail
3 5 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (11.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (8.57%) Legal
5 3 (8.57%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.86%) Law
Job Titles
1 9 (25.71%) Lead
2 7 (20.00%) Developer
2 7 (20.00%) IT Manager
2 7 (20.00%) IT Programme Manager
2 7 (20.00%) Programme Manager
3 5 (14.29%) PHP Developer
4 4 (11.43%) PHP Laravel Developer
4 4 (11.43%) Quality Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) C# Developer
5 3 (8.57%) C# Software Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Graduate
5 3 (8.57%) Graduate C# Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Graduate C# Software Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Graduate Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Graduate Software Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Graduate SQL Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Product Owner
5 3 (8.57%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (8.57%) SQL Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.29%) Vue
2 4 (11.43%) CSS
2 4 (11.43%) jQuery
2 4 (11.43%) Laravel
2 4 (11.43%) Playwright
3 2 (5.71%) .NET
3 2 (5.71%) EDI
4 1 (2.86%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.86%) CSS3
4 1 (2.86%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.86%) HTML
4 1 (2.86%) HTML5
4 1 (2.86%) Kafka
4 1 (2.86%) Node.js
4 1 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (2.86%) React
4 1 (2.86%) React Native
4 1 (2.86%) REST
4 1 (2.86%) Spring
4 1 (2.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) EPoS
1 7 (20.00%) PMI
2 4 (11.43%) Product Ownership
3 3 (8.57%) Podcast
3 3 (8.57%) Web Conferencing
4 2 (5.71%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (5.71%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Android
1 1 (2.86%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (31.43%) Agile
1 11 (31.43%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (22.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 7 (20.00%) AI
3 7 (20.00%) BDD
3 7 (20.00%) Budget Management
3 7 (20.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 7 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 7 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (20.00%) ITIL
3 7 (20.00%) ITSM
3 7 (20.00%) PRINCE2
3 7 (20.00%) Service Management
3 7 (20.00%) Supplier Management
3 7 (20.00%) Technology Transformation
3 7 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 5 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 5 (14.29%) ETL
4 5 (14.29%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (31.43%) SQL
2 8 (22.86%) C#
2 8 (22.86%) Java
2 8 (22.86%) Python
3 7 (20.00%) PHP
4 5 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 4 (11.43%) TypeScript
6 3 (8.57%) C++
Qualifications
1 7 (20.00%) PMI Certification
1 7 (20.00%) PMP
2 3 (8.57%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (8.57%) Degree
3 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.86%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 4 (11.43%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.71%) Active Directory
1 2 (5.71%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.71%) ServiceNow