Virtual Team Job Trends in the North of England

Virtual Team (including Distributed Team, Remote Team, Dispersed Team)
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Virtual Team in permanent job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Team over the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 292 230 335
Rank change year-on-year -62 +105 -85
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Team 25 33 43
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.15% 0.48% 0.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.49% 1.27% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 12 23 41
10th Percentile £25,740 - £45,000
25th Percentile £35,288 £26,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,750 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% - -9.69%
75th Percentile £70,000 £90,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £91,000 £140,677 £68,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -3.85% -1.33%

All Generic Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,077 2,594 5,169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 29.50% 38.00% 31.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,282 1,364 3,920
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £82,500
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 North of England

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

Virtual Team job vacancy trend in the North of England

Virtual Team
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Virtual Team.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Virtual Team

Virtual Team
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Team in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Virtual Team in the North of England

Virtual Team
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Team within the North of England region over the 6 months to 17 April 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
North West -9 15 £37,500 -33.33% 8
North East -32 6 £102,500 +310.00%
Yorkshire -80 4 £42,500 -24.44% 9
Virtual Team
England

Virtual Team
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 3 (12.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.00%) Apache
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Advent Geneva
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (16.00%) Azure
3 3 (12.00%) AWS
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (4.00%) dbt
4 1 (4.00%) GitHub
4 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) 4G
1 1 (4.00%) LAN
1 1 (4.00%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Iceberg
2 1 (4.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.00%) Data Vault
2 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.00%) DB2
2 1 (4.00%) MySQL
2 1 (4.00%) Power BI
2 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 22 (88.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (52.00%) Finance
3 11 (44.00%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
4 10 (40.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (8.00%) Manufacturing
5 2 (8.00%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.00%) French Language
6 1 (4.00%) German Language
6 1 (4.00%) Legal
6 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Architect
1 10 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
2 4 (16.00%) Support Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Developer
3 3 (12.00%) IT Manager
3 3 (12.00%) Systems Support Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Technical Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Technical Support
3 3 (12.00%) Technical Support Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) C# Developer
4 2 (8.00%) C# Software Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Engineering Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Graduate
4 2 (8.00%) Graduate C# Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Graduate C# Software Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Graduate Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Graduate Software Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Graduate SQL Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Software Developer
4 2 (8.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) .NET
1 2 (8.00%) CSS
1 2 (8.00%) jQuery
2 1 (4.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 12 (48.00%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (12.00%) CCTV
2 3 (12.00%) Driving Licence
2 3 (12.00%) Home Automation
3 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.00%) Life Science
4 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (4.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (52.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 13 (52.00%) Project Management
3 12 (48.00%) Decision-Making
4 11 (44.00%) AI
4 11 (44.00%) Analytics
4 11 (44.00%) Customer Experience
4 11 (44.00%) Due Diligence
4 11 (44.00%) Strategic Thinking
5 10 (40.00%) B2B
5 10 (40.00%) Business Development
5 10 (40.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
5 10 (40.00%) Customer Insight
5 10 (40.00%) Financial Modelling
5 10 (40.00%) Technical Architecture
6 7 (28.00%) Agile
7 4 (16.00%) Customer Service
7 4 (16.00%) Cybersecurity
8 3 (12.00%) Data Protection
8 3 (12.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) SQL
2 3 (12.00%) Python
3 2 (8.00%) C#
3 2 (8.00%) C++
3 2 (8.00%) Java
3 2 (8.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Degree
1 3 (12.00%) NVQ Level 4
2 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.00%) PMI Certification
3 1 (4.00%) PMP
3 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (8.00%) GDPR
1 2 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.00%) ISO 14001
2 1 (4.00%) ISO 9001
2 1 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 12 (48.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.00%) Advent
2 1 (4.00%) Apple
2 1 (4.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (4.00%) Intel
2 1 (4.00%) Wyse