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 22 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 122 221
Rank change year-on-year -7 +99 -109
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Team 9 26 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.25% 1.03% 0.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.90% 3.68% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1 24 7
10th Percentile - £53,750 £54,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,188 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -13.33% +23.36%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £83,750
90th Percentile - - £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +12.00% - +2.80%

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 999 706 2,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 27.75% 28.09% 42.65%
Number of salaries quoted 531 273 625
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,700 £32,500
25th Percentile £31,500 £36,250 £42,620
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -8.73%

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
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 22 August 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
Glasgow +15 9 £70,000 +21.74% 15
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 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
General
1 8 (88.89%) Finance
2 5 (55.56%) Legal
2 5 (55.56%) Organisational Skills
2 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
4 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (11.11%) Law
4 1 (11.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Infrastructure Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Head of Infrastructure
2 1 (11.11%) Head of IT
2 1 (11.11%) Head of IT Infrastructure
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Lead Cloud Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Podcast
1 5 (55.56%) Web Conferencing
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Customer Service
2 4 (44.44%) AI
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Analytics
4 2 (22.22%) B2B
4 2 (22.22%) Business Development
4 2 (22.22%) Creative Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Customer Insight
4 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
4 2 (22.22%) Due Diligence
4 2 (22.22%) Financial Modelling
4 2 (22.22%) Project Management
4 2 (22.22%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (11.11%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Migration
5 1 (11.11%) Observability
5 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (11.11%) Technology Roadmap
5 1 (11.11%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) BPSS Clearance
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Google