Virtual Team Job Trends in the West Midlands

Virtual Team (including Distributed Team, Remote Team, Dispersed Team)
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Virtual Team in permanent job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Team over the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 189 121
Rank change year-on-year +19 -68 +129
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Team 11 27 49
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.24% 0.54% 1.50%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.62% 1.54% 3.87%
Number of salaries quoted 7 7 41
10th Percentile £32,500 £54,850 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £63,125 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.63% +22.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,125 £76,875 £60,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £88,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -11.97%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,762 1,751 1,267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 37.74% 35.13% 38.66%
Number of salaries quoted 707 696 1,016
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £27,760
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,376 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £51,124
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.58% +2.25%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £78,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -3.85%

Virtual Team
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Virtual Team job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Virtual Team
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Virtual Team.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Virtual Team

Virtual Team
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Team in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 8 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Virtual Team in the West Midlands

Virtual Team
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Team within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 December 2025. 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
Birmingham +22 5 £47,500 -29.63% 14
Coventry - 2 £40,000 - 11
Solihull - 2 £75,000 -
Warwickshire +32 1 - - 2
Virtual Team
England

Virtual Team
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) MySQL
1 1 (9.09%) Power BI
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
1 2 (18.18%) Postman
General
1 9 (81.82%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Finance
3 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
5 1 (9.09%) Advertising
5 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
5 1 (9.09%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) Architect
1 2 (18.18%) Head of Delivery
1 2 (18.18%) QA Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Business Development Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Business Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Development Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Graduate
2 1 (9.09%) Graduate Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Head of PMO
2 1 (9.09%) IT Graduate
2 1 (9.09%) PMO Director
2 1 (9.09%) Product Owner
2 1 (9.09%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) SAP PP Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) SAP QM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) XML
2 1 (9.09%) .NET
2 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET
2 1 (9.09%) CSS
2 1 (9.09%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Product Ownership
2 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
2 2 (18.18%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (36.36%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) Strategic Thinking
4 3 (27.27%) Acceptance Criteria
4 3 (27.27%) Analytics
4 3 (27.27%) Business Development
4 3 (27.27%) Project Management
4 3 (27.27%) Roadmaps
4 3 (27.27%) Virtual Team Management
5 2 (18.18%) Coaching
5 2 (18.18%) Creative Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) Customer Experience
5 2 (18.18%) Due Diligence
5 2 (18.18%) Exploratory Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Issue Tracking
5 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
5 2 (18.18%) Presales
5 2 (18.18%) Scenario Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) ABAP
2 1 (9.09%) C#
2 1 (9.09%) C++
2 1 (9.09%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) ISTQB
1 2 (18.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) PMO
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 1 (9.09%) SAP