Virtual Team Job Trends in Scotland

Virtual Team (including Distributed Team, Remote Team, Dispersed Team)
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Virtual Team in permanent job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Team over the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 147 124
Rank change year-on-year +20 -23 -31
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Team 23 11 29
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.86% 0.33% 1.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.80% 1.18% 3.42%
Number of salaries quoted 21 9 21
10th Percentile £53,750 £50,500 £46,306
25th Percentile - £55,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £87,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +45.83% -23.81%
75th Percentile £75,000 £90,000 £60,800
90th Percentile - - £96,539
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year -7.14% +15.13% -13.14%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 822 931 847
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 30.73% 28.01% 34.53%
Number of salaries quoted 294 419 682
10th Percentile £25,000 £36,000 £32,539
25th Percentile £30,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -7.60% +3.59%
75th Percentile £69,713 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £88,750 £87,419
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.00% -

Virtual Team
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Virtual Team job vacancy trend in Scotland

Virtual Team
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Virtual Team.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Virtual Team

Virtual Team
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Team in Scotland over the 6 months to 24 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Virtual Team in Scotland

Virtual Team
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Team within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 24 October 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
Midlothian - 16 £65,000 - 1
Glasgow +3 5 £57,500 -36.11% 3
Edinburgh +4 2 £78,500 +4.67% 1
Virtual Team
UK

Virtual Team
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (17.39%) AWS
2 2 (8.70%) Azure
3 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) BGP
1 1 (4.35%) Firewall
1 1 (4.35%) OSPF
1 1 (4.35%) SD-WAN
1 1 (4.35%) WAN
1 1 (4.35%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) IntelliJ
1 1 (4.35%) PyCharm
1 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio
1 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (13.04%) Finance
1 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 17 (73.91%) Developer
2 16 (69.57%) Mobile Developer
2 16 (69.57%) Senior
2 16 (69.57%) Senior Developer
2 16 (69.57%) Senior Mobile Developer
3 10 (43.48%) Android Developer
3 10 (43.48%) iOS Android Developer
3 10 (43.48%) iOS Developer
3 10 (43.48%) Senior Android Developer
3 10 (43.48%) Senior iOS Android Developer
3 10 (43.48%) Senior iOS Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Head of Engineering
4 2 (8.70%) Head of Payments
4 2 (8.70%) Head of Software Engineering
4 2 (8.70%) Lead
4 2 (8.70%) Team Leader
5 1 (4.35%) Engineering Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Network Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Python Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 16 (69.57%) Augmented Reality
2 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 11 (47.83%) Android
1 11 (47.83%) Apple iOS
2 2 (8.70%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (4.35%) Linux
3 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (73.91%) Mobile Development
2 16 (69.57%) AI
3 10 (43.48%) Android Development
3 10 (43.48%) iOS Development
4 4 (17.39%) Agile
5 3 (13.04%) Software Engineering
6 2 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (8.70%) DevOps
6 2 (8.70%) High Availability
6 2 (8.70%) ITIL
6 2 (8.70%) Line Management
6 2 (8.70%) Microservices
6 2 (8.70%) Regulatory Compliance
6 2 (8.70%) Roadmaps
6 2 (8.70%) Software Architecture
6 2 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (8.70%) Technology Strategy
6 2 (8.70%) Virtual Team Management
7 1 (4.35%) CI/CD
7 1 (4.35%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.70%) C
1 2 (8.70%) Python
2 1 (4.35%) C++
2 1 (4.35%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) ISO 20022
1 2 (8.70%) SEPA
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.70%) Ansible
2 2 (8.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Cisco
2 2 (8.70%) Juniper
2 2 (8.70%) McAfee
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) NetApp
3 1 (4.35%) Aruba
3 1 (4.35%) Fortinet
3 1 (4.35%) Palo Alto