Virtual Team Job Trends

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Virtual Team in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Team over the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 417 355 287
Rank change year-on-year -62 -68 -57
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Team 246 416 560
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.78% 1.01%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.19% 2.09% 2.76%
Number of salaries quoted 157 233 358
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £79,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -4.00%

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 20,616 19,935 20,305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.19% 37.19% 36.62%
Number of salaries quoted 10,355 9,359 14,728
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,750 £31,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -4.55%

Virtual Team
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Virtual Team job vacancy trend in the UK

Virtual Team
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Virtual Team

Virtual Team
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Team over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Virtual Team in the UK

Virtual Team
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 15 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
England -59 200 £67,500 +3.85% 401
London +39 119 £70,000 -12.50% 58
Work from Home -12 110 £68,500 +5.38% 350
UK excluding London -86 98 £55,000 - 408
North of England -12 30 £60,000 +20.00% 57
South East -11 20 £50,803 +1.61% 132
Midlands -11 18 £68,000 +0.74% 44
North West +13 14 £43,750 -12.50% 21
Wales +11 14 £55,000 +46.67% 28
West Midlands 0 11 £52,500 -22.22% 19
Yorkshire -33 9 £68,000 +57.68% 23
Northern Ireland -7 7 £59,000 -1.67% 14
East Midlands -24 7 £70,500 -14.55% 24
North East - 7 £63,750 - 13
Scotland -3 5 £100,000 +33.33% 17
East of England +9 4 £65,000 +36.84% 82
South West -17 4 £61,250 +11.36% 47

Virtual Team
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 9 (3.66%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.44%) Confluence
3 3 (1.22%) Apache
3 3 (1.22%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.41%) CMS
4 1 (0.41%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.41%) TPMS
4 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.81%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.81%) Sketch
4 1 (0.41%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.41%) Notion
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.22%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.81%) SAP SCM
4 1 (0.41%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.41%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.41%) Endur
4 1 (0.41%) EuroRunner
4 1 (0.41%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.41%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.41%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.41%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 59 (23.98%) Azure
2 38 (15.45%) AWS
3 28 (11.38%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (6.91%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (5.69%) Serverless
6 9 (3.66%) SaaS
7 8 (3.25%) Amazon S3
7 8 (3.25%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (3.25%) Figma
7 8 (3.25%) GitHub
7 8 (3.25%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.03%) Amazon Kinesis
8 5 (2.03%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (2.03%) CloudFront
8 5 (2.03%) Entra ID
9 4 (1.63%) Azure Event Grid
9 4 (1.63%) Azure Functions
9 4 (1.63%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (1.63%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (1.22%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.28%) Firewall
2 8 (3.25%) SD-WAN
3 6 (2.44%) WAN
3 6 (2.44%) Wireless
4 5 (2.03%) LAN
4 5 (2.03%) MPLS
4 5 (2.03%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (1.63%) Network Security
5 4 (1.63%) VPN
6 3 (1.22%) BGP
6 3 (1.22%) Ethernet
6 3 (1.22%) Internet
6 3 (1.22%) OSPF
6 3 (1.22%) VoIP
7 2 (0.81%) 4G
7 2 (0.81%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.81%) IPsec
7 2 (0.81%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (0.81%) SSL
7 2 (0.81%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (15.85%) SQL Server
2 22 (8.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 11 (4.47%) MySQL
4 8 (3.25%) DynamoDB
4 8 (3.25%) MongoDB
4 8 (3.25%) NoSQL
5 7 (2.85%) Power BI
6 6 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (2.44%) Redis
7 5 (2.03%) Couchbase
7 5 (2.03%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.22%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.22%) Apache Iceberg
8 3 (1.22%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (1.22%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.22%) Data Vault
8 3 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.81%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.41%) Big Data
10 1 (0.41%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 23 (9.35%) TeamCity
2 22 (8.94%) JIRA
2 22 (8.94%) Octopus Deploy
3 11 (4.47%) Git
4 5 (2.03%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.03%) Cypress.io
4 5 (2.03%) GitLab
4 5 (2.03%) Vite
5 2 (0.81%) Postman
6 1 (0.41%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.41%) Jenkins
General
1 123 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 89 (36.18%) Finance
3 50 (20.33%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (14.63%) Presentation Skills
5 25 (10.16%) Public Sector
6 12 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (4.88%) Law
7 9 (3.66%) Legal
8 6 (2.44%) Marketing
8 6 (2.44%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (2.44%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.03%) Esports
9 5 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.03%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.63%) Military
10 4 (1.63%) Retail
11 3 (1.22%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.22%) Banking
12 2 (0.81%) Advertising
12 2 (0.81%) Games
Job Titles
1 37 (15.04%) Senior
2 34 (13.82%) Architect
3 30 (12.20%) Solutions Architect
4 25 (10.16%) Developer
5 22 (8.94%) DevOps Engineer
6 16 (6.50%) Lead
7 13 (5.28%) IT Manager
8 12 (4.88%) Senior Manager
9 11 (4.47%) Software Engineer
10 10 (4.07%) Project Manager
11 9 (3.66%) Analyst
11 9 (3.66%) Support Engineer
12 8 (3.25%) Engineering Manager
13 7 (2.85%) Consultant
13 7 (2.85%) IT Engineer
13 7 (2.85%) Senior Developer
13 7 (2.85%) Systems Manager
13 7 (2.85%) Team Leader
14 6 (2.44%) IT Support
14 6 (2.44%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (16.26%) .NET
2 16 (6.50%) React
3 10 (4.07%) Spring
4 9 (3.66%) ASP.NET
5 7 (2.85%) .NET Framework
5 7 (2.85%) Next.js
6 6 (2.44%) Kafka
6 6 (2.44%) Spring Boot
7 5 (2.03%) CSS
7 5 (2.03%) gRPC
7 5 (2.03%) Jest
7 5 (2.03%) Memcached
7 5 (2.03%) REST
8 4 (1.63%) .NET Core
8 4 (1.63%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.63%) jQuery
9 3 (1.22%) GraphQL
9 3 (1.22%) Pandas
10 2 (0.81%) OpenID
10 2 (0.81%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 36 (14.63%) Self-Motivation
2 26 (10.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 23 (9.35%) Legacy Systems
4 15 (6.10%) Onboarding
4 15 (6.10%) Product Ownership
5 14 (5.69%) Cloud Native
6 10 (4.07%) Cyber Threat
7 8 (3.25%) Cyber Defence
7 8 (3.25%) Cyberattack
7 8 (3.25%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.03%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.03%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.22%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.22%) Hedge funds
10 3 (1.22%) Home Automation
10 3 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.22%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.69%) Windows
2 6 (2.44%) Linux
3 4 (1.63%) Android
4 3 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.22%) Unix
5 2 (0.81%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.81%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.41%) VMS
6 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (38.21%) Problem-Solving
2 66 (26.83%) Agile
3 65 (26.42%) AI
4 61 (24.80%) Continuous Improvement
5 56 (22.76%) CI/CD
5 56 (22.76%) Virtual Team Management
6 46 (18.70%) Project Management
7 44 (17.89%) DevOps
8 43 (17.48%) Strategic Thinking
9 39 (15.85%) Analytics
10 34 (13.82%) Decision-Making
11 33 (13.41%) Technical Architecture
12 32 (13.01%) B2B
12 32 (13.01%) Mentoring
12 32 (13.01%) Roadmaps
13 30 (12.20%) Customer Experience
13 30 (12.20%) Microservices
13 30 (12.20%) Stakeholder Management
14 29 (11.79%) Software Delivery
15 27 (10.98%) Creative Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 51 (20.73%) SQL
2 27 (10.98%) PowerShell
3 16 (6.50%) Java
4 13 (5.28%) TypeScript
5 12 (4.88%) C#
5 12 (4.88%) JavaScript
5 12 (4.88%) Python
6 6 (2.44%) Kotlin
6 6 (2.44%) PHP
7 5 (2.03%) Go
7 5 (2.03%) Scala
8 4 (1.63%) C++
9 1 (0.41%) ABAP
9 1 (0.41%) Bicep
9 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (14.23%) Degree
2 17 (6.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (5.28%) AWS Certification
4 9 (3.66%) Master's Degree
4 9 (3.66%) Security Cleared
5 7 (2.85%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (2.44%) SC Cleared
7 5 (2.03%) AWS Certified Developer
7 5 (2.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (2.03%) CCIE
7 5 (2.03%) CCNP
8 4 (1.63%) A+ Certification
8 4 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.22%) ACCA
9 3 (1.22%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.22%) CIPD
9 3 (1.22%) ISTQB
9 3 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (1.22%) NVQ Level 4
9 3 (1.22%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (11.38%) QA
2 15 (6.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (4.47%) GDPR
4 8 (3.25%) Accessibility
4 8 (3.25%) SLA
5 7 (2.85%) NIST
6 5 (2.03%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.63%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.63%) PMO
8 3 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.81%) EU AI Act
9 2 (0.81%) GRC
9 2 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.81%) MiFID
9 2 (0.81%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.41%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.41%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.41%) ITGC
10 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (4.47%) Docker
2 10 (4.07%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.41%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 33 (13.41%) Terraform
2 12 (4.88%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.22%) SCCM
4 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.41%) Ansible
Vendors
1 43 (17.48%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.47%) Cisco
3 9 (3.66%) SAP
4 8 (3.25%) Palo Alto
5 6 (2.44%) Apple
5 6 (2.44%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.44%) VMware
6 5 (2.03%) Databricks
7 4 (1.63%) Google
7 4 (1.63%) Oracle
7 4 (1.63%) Workday
8 3 (1.22%) EMC
8 3 (1.22%) F5
8 3 (1.22%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.22%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.22%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.81%) Arista
9 2 (0.81%) Aruba
9 2 (0.81%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (0.81%) Okta