Virtual Team Job Trends in the Thames Valley

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Virtual Team in permanent job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Team over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 148 183
Rank change year-on-year -15 +35 -59
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Team 8 33 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.20% 0.98% 0.40%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.75% 2.79% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 3 19 13
10th Percentile - - £52,500
25th Percentile £48,194 - £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,803 £40,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.01% -50.00% +45.45%
75th Percentile £64,206 £60,000 £120,000
90th Percentile £70,682 £79,600 £172,500
South East median annual salary £47,902 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.20% -16.67% -7.69%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,070 1,183 1,309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 26.54% 34.96% 33.07%
Number of salaries quoted 604 512 851
10th Percentile £27,000 £36,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,688 £43,911 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +10.09% -0.91%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,875 £66,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £90,000 £82,500
South East median annual salary £45,000 £57,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -21.05% +4.59% -0.91%

Virtual Team
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Virtual Team job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Virtual Team
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Virtual Team.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Virtual Team

Virtual Team
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Team in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Virtual Team in the Thames Valley

Virtual Team
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Team within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Oxfordshire +4 4 - - 4
Berkshire -17 3 £50,803 +1.61% 16
Buckinghamshire +8 1 - - 10
Virtual Team
South East

Virtual Team
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Ethernet
1 3 (37.50%) Internet
2 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Field Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) C# Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Desktop Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Desktop Support
3 1 (12.50%) Desktop Support Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack C# Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Head of Support
3 1 (12.50%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
1 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
1 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (12.50%) CSS
1 1 (12.50%) CSS3
1 1 (12.50%) HTML
1 1 (12.50%) HTML5
1 1 (12.50%) React
1 1 (12.50%) RESTful
1 1 (12.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (12.50%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) Budget Control
2 2 (25.00%) Budget Management
2 2 (25.00%) Business Transformation
2 2 (25.00%) Change Management
2 2 (25.00%) PRINCE2
2 2 (25.00%) Project Management
2 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (25.00%) Virtual Team Management
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 1 (12.50%) Code Quality
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Customer Experience
3 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (12.50%) ITSM
3 1 (12.50%) Security Patching
3 1 (12.50%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) C#
1 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
1 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (12.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) SCCM
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) McAfee
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce