Virtual Team Job Trends in the South East

Virtual Team (including Distributed Team, Remote Team, Dispersed Team)
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Virtual Team in permanent job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Team over the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 227 310
Rank change year-on-year -28 +83 -192
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Team 17 61 25
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.15% 0.75% 0.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.52% 2.22% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 8 34 18
10th Percentile - - £38,875
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -35.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £67,813 £54,805 £98,438
90th Percentile £70,625 £76,500 £135,750
England median annual salary £68,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.38% - -7.14%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,255 2,744 4,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 28.61% 33.57% 32.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,717 1,187 2,836
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,736 £42,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.78% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,000 £85,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,192
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.24% -15.09%

Virtual Team
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Virtual Team job vacancy trend in the South East

Virtual Team
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Virtual Team.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Virtual Team

Virtual Team
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Team in the South East over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Virtual Team in the South East

Virtual Team
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Team within the South East region over the 6 months to 18 February 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
Thames Valley -18 6 £70,000 +75.00% 9
Surrey 0 5 £45,000 - 3
Oxfordshire -10 4 - - 2
Kent -15 3 £66,250 - 2
Hampshire +1 2 - - 1
Buckinghamshire -6 1 - - 3
Berkshire -7 1 £70,000 +43.59% 4
Isle of Wight - 1 - -
Virtual Team
England

Virtual Team
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) AWS
3 2 (11.76%) GCP
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.88%) SaaS
4 1 (5.88%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Ethernet
1 1 (5.88%) Internet
1 1 (5.88%) VPN
1 1 (5.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.88%) MySQL
3 1 (5.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) GitLab
2 1 (5.88%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (17.65%) Finance
1 3 (17.65%) Military
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
2 2 (11.76%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Analyst
2 4 (23.53%) Pensions Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Principal Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Senior
3 3 (17.65%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Development Team Leader
4 2 (11.76%) Lead
4 2 (11.76%) Scrum Master
4 2 (11.76%) Software Development Team Leader
4 2 (11.76%) Software Team Leader
4 2 (11.76%) Team Leader
5 1 (5.88%) Desktop Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Head of IT
5 1 (5.88%) Head of IT Operations
5 1 (5.88%) Head of Support
5 1 (5.88%) Java Development Team Leader
5 1 (5.88%) Java Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) .NET
2 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET
2 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (5.88%) CSS
2 1 (5.88%) CSS3
2 1 (5.88%) HTML
2 1 (5.88%) HTML5
2 1 (5.88%) React
2 1 (5.88%) RESTful
2 1 (5.88%) Vue
2 1 (5.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (11.76%) Life Science
2 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.76%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.88%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Unix
2 1 (5.88%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Agile
1 5 (29.41%) Mentoring
2 4 (23.53%) Scrum
2 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (23.53%) Test Automation
3 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (17.65%) Project Management
4 2 (11.76%) AI
4 2 (11.76%) Architectural Design
4 2 (11.76%) Coaching
4 2 (11.76%) Computer Science
4 2 (11.76%) Conflict Resolution
4 2 (11.76%) Data Science
4 2 (11.76%) LLM
4 2 (11.76%) Product Management
4 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
4 2 (11.76%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
4 2 (11.76%) Software Testing
4 2 (11.76%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Python
2 5 (29.41%) SQL
3 3 (17.65%) C#
4 2 (11.76%) Java
5 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (11.76%) Degree
3 1 (5.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) SCCM
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Google
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) McAfee
3 1 (5.88%) Okta
3 1 (5.88%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.88%) SAP