Virtual Team Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Virtual Team (including Distributed Team, Remote Team, Dispersed Team)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Virtual Team in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Team over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 352 485
Rank change year-on-year -47 +133 -289
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Team 191 182 262
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.29% 0.63% 0.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.21% 1.51% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 89 102 169
10th Percentile £25,000 £32,550 £39,508
25th Percentile £51,250 £40,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -4.35% -5.43%
75th Percentile £91,436 £78,125 £71,250
90th Percentile - £140,677 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £63,250
% change year-on-year +12.00% -1.19% +3.86%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 15,784 12,027 23,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.90% 41.50% 34.34%
Number of salaries quoted 8,680 5,404 15,150
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,775 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%

Virtual Team
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Virtual Team job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Virtual Team
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Virtual Team.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Virtual Team

Virtual Team
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Team in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Virtual Team in the UK excluding London

Virtual Team
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Team within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
South West -22 49 £91,436 +66.25% 6
North of England -18 40 £70,000 +15.70% 14
Midlands -3 37 £52,500 -16.00% 9
West Midlands -25 28 £52,500 -16.00% 5
South East -63 22 £65,000 +62.50% 29
North West +17 19 £70,000 +21.21% 7
Northern Ireland -26 13 £70,000 - 1
North East -27 13 £70,000 +180.00% 1
Wales -23 11 £70,000 +86.67% 3
East of England -27 10 £35,000 -36.36% 7
Scotland -11 9 £100,000 +5.16% 4
East Midlands -20 9 £25,000 - 4
Yorkshire -69 8 £70,000 +12.00% 6
Virtual Team
UK

Virtual Team
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (2.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.52%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (1.05%) Infor SunSystems
2 1 (0.52%) SAP HR
2 1 (0.52%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.52%) SAP MDG-BP
2 1 (0.52%) SAP MDG-F
2 1 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 22 (11.52%) Azure
2 18 (9.42%) AWS
3 8 (4.19%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (3.14%) BrowserStack
5 3 (1.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (1.57%) Entra ID
5 3 (1.57%) GCP
6 2 (1.05%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.05%) Sauce Labs
7 1 (0.52%) AWS Data Pipeline
7 1 (0.52%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.52%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.52%) Figma
7 1 (0.52%) SaaS
7 1 (0.52%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.09%) Firewall
2 3 (1.57%) DHCP
2 3 (1.57%) DNS
3 2 (1.05%) 4G
3 2 (1.05%) LAN
3 2 (1.05%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.52%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.52%) RFID
4 1 (0.52%) Skype
4 1 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.81%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.09%) MySQL
3 2 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.05%) Power BI
4 1 (0.52%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (3.14%) Cucumber
2 4 (2.09%) Gatling
2 4 (2.09%) Zephyr
3 3 (1.57%) Git
3 3 (1.57%) JMeter
3 3 (1.57%) Selenium
4 2 (1.05%) Appium
4 2 (1.05%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.05%) GitLab
4 2 (1.05%) Postman
4 2 (1.05%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.52%) Balsamiq
5 1 (0.52%) JIRA
5 1 (0.52%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.52%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.52%) Yeoman
General
1 124 (64.92%) Finance
2 113 (59.16%) Social Skills
3 81 (42.41%) Legal
3 81 (42.41%) Organisational Skills
4 31 (16.23%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (11.52%) Public Sector
6 9 (4.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (4.71%) Manufacturing
6 9 (4.71%) Retail
7 6 (3.14%) Military
8 3 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.52%) French Language
10 1 (0.52%) German Language
Job Titles
1 23 (12.04%) Architect
2 22 (11.52%) Solutions Architect
3 20 (10.47%) Developer
4 14 (7.33%) Lead
5 11 (5.76%) C# Developer
5 11 (5.76%) IT Manager
6 10 (5.24%) C# Software Developer
6 10 (5.24%) Graduate
6 10 (5.24%) Graduate C# Developer
6 10 (5.24%) Graduate C# Software Developer
6 10 (5.24%) Graduate Developer
6 10 (5.24%) Graduate Software Developer
6 10 (5.24%) Graduate SQL Developer
6 10 (5.24%) PHP Developer
6 10 (5.24%) Software Developer
6 10 (5.24%) SQL Developer
7 8 (4.19%) IT Programme Manager
7 8 (4.19%) Programme Manager
7 8 (4.19%) Senior
8 7 (3.66%) PHP Laravel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.33%) CSS
2 11 (5.76%) jQuery
3 8 (4.19%) Vue
4 7 (3.66%) .NET
4 7 (3.66%) Laravel
5 6 (3.14%) Playwright
6 5 (2.62%) React
6 5 (2.62%) RESTful
7 4 (2.09%) HTML
8 2 (1.05%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.05%) CSS3
8 2 (1.05%) EDI
8 2 (1.05%) HTML5
8 2 (1.05%) Next.js
8 2 (1.05%) Prisma
9 1 (0.52%) ASP.NET Core
9 1 (0.52%) Flutter
9 1 (0.52%) GraphQL
9 1 (0.52%) gRPC
9 1 (0.52%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 80 (41.88%) Podcast
1 80 (41.88%) Web Conferencing
2 8 (4.19%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.66%) EPoS
3 7 (3.66%) PMI
3 7 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (3.14%) Life Science
5 5 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.62%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.62%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.57%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.57%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.57%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.05%) Smartphone
8 1 (0.52%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.52%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.52%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.14%) Windows
2 4 (2.09%) Android
3 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.52%) Linux
3 1 (0.52%) Unix
3 1 (0.52%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (42.41%) Customer Service
2 43 (22.51%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (18.85%) Agile
4 33 (17.28%) AI
5 32 (16.75%) Project Management
6 27 (14.14%) Analytics
7 25 (13.09%) B2B
7 25 (13.09%) Business Development
8 23 (12.04%) Due Diligence
9 22 (11.52%) Creative Problem-Solving
9 22 (11.52%) Customer Insight
9 22 (11.52%) Financial Modelling
9 22 (11.52%) Technical Architecture
10 20 (10.47%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (9.42%) Mentoring
12 17 (8.90%) Stakeholder Management
13 16 (8.38%) CI/CD
14 15 (7.85%) Computer Science
15 14 (7.33%) Scrum
16 13 (6.81%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 22 (11.52%) Python
1 22 (11.52%) SQL
2 20 (10.47%) Java
3 18 (9.42%) C#
4 17 (8.90%) PHP
5 10 (5.24%) C++
6 8 (4.19%) JavaScript
7 7 (3.66%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.57%) Bash
8 3 (1.57%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.52%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 84 (43.98%) BPSS Clearance
2 16 (8.38%) Degree
3 13 (6.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (4.19%) PMI Certification
4 8 (4.19%) PMP
5 5 (2.62%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.57%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.33%) QA
2 8 (4.19%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.09%) GDPR
3 4 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.09%) SLA
4 3 (1.57%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.52%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.52%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 9 (4.71%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.09%) Docker
3 3 (1.57%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.57%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (2.62%) Terraform
2 4 (2.09%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.57%) Ansible
3 3 (1.57%) Grafana
3 3 (1.57%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 26 (13.61%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.09%) ServiceNow
3 3 (1.57%) Apple
3 3 (1.57%) VMware
4 2 (1.05%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (1.05%) Google
4 2 (1.05%) Infor
4 2 (1.05%) Intel
4 2 (1.05%) Oracle
4 2 (1.05%) SAP
4 2 (1.05%) Wyse
5 1 (0.52%) Ariba
5 1 (0.52%) HP
5 1 (0.52%) Okta