Virtual Team Job Trends in the North West

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Virtual Team in permanent job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Team 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 168 183 153
Rank change year-on-year +15 -30 +85
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Team 15 26 35
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.24% 0.50% 0.91%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.54% 1.61% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 9 13 35
10th Percentile £35,480 £34,900 £40,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £47,528
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £65,500 £81,750 £92,923
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -14.29%

All Generic Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 2,799 1,613 1,371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 45.50% 30.89% 35.53%
Number of salaries quoted 912 811 1,009
10th Percentile £26,775 £31,250 £31,950
25th Percentile £33,125 £40,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

Virtual Team
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Virtual Team job vacancy trend in the North West

Virtual Team
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Virtual Team

Virtual Team
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Team in the North West over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Virtual Team in the North West

Virtual Team
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +16 9 £45,000 -10.00% 74
Cheshire - 3 £63,750 - 48
Merseyside -6 2 - - 25
Lancashire +13 1 £32,400 -46.98% 23
Virtual Team
England

Virtual Team
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Adobe XD
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (6.67%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Advent Geneva
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (13.33%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) 4G
1 1 (6.67%) LAN
1 1 (6.67%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) DB2
1 1 (6.67%) MySQL
1 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 10 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Presentation Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
3 3 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Architect
1 4 (26.67%) Solutions Architect
1 4 (26.67%) Support Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Systems Support Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Technical Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Technical Support
2 3 (20.00%) Technical Support Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) IT Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Designer
4 1 (6.67%) Deskside Support
4 1 (6.67%) Deskside Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Desktop Support
4 1 (6.67%) Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Lead Product Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Product Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Product Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Web Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (20.00%) CCTV
2 3 (20.00%) Driving Licence
2 3 (20.00%) Home Automation
3 2 (13.33%) Life Science
3 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 1 (6.67%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (40.00%) Project Management
3 4 (26.67%) AI
3 4 (26.67%) Analytics
3 4 (26.67%) B2B
3 4 (26.67%) Business Development
3 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (26.67%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 4 (26.67%) Customer Experience
3 4 (26.67%) Customer Insight
3 4 (26.67%) Customer Service
3 4 (26.67%) Decision-Making
3 4 (26.67%) Due Diligence
3 4 (26.67%) Financial Modelling
3 4 (26.67%) Strategic Thinking
3 4 (26.67%) Technical Architecture
4 3 (20.00%) Logistics
5 2 (13.33%) Data Protection
5 2 (13.33%) ITIL
5 2 (13.33%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) NVQ Level 4
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (13.33%) GDPR
1 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (13.33%) SLA
2 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Advent
2 1 (6.67%) Apple
2 1 (6.67%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (6.67%) Intel
2 1 (6.67%) Wyse