Hybrid/Remote Virtual Team Job Trends

Virtual Team (including Distributed Team, Remote Team, Dispersed Team)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Virtual Team in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Team over the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 279 389
Rank change year-on-year +69 +110 -51
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Team 258 153 195
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.22% 0.94% 0.59%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.26% 2.19% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 119 102 151
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £36,480 £47,925
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £63,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.80% +6.25% -14.29%
75th Percentile £91,436 £91,875 £90,000
90th Percentile £112,000 £140,677 £120,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% - +6.73%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 7,918 6,987 11,459
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.55% 43.04% 34.80%
Number of salaries quoted 4,931 3,598 8,782
10th Percentile £34,674 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £111,250
UK median annual salary £58,750 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.17% +4.55% -14.06%

Virtual Team
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Virtual Team and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Virtual Team job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Virtual Team
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Virtual Team.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Virtual Team

Virtual Team
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Virtual Team over the 6 months to 7 July 2026.

Virtual Team salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Virtual Team
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 6 (2.33%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.78%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.39%) Apache
3 1 (0.39%) Confluence
3 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.16%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.78%) Infor SunSystems
2 2 (0.78%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 30 (11.63%) Azure
2 29 (11.24%) AWS
3 27 (10.47%) SaaS
4 6 (2.33%) GCP
4 6 (2.33%) Power Platform
5 5 (1.94%) Google Workspace
5 5 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (1.55%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (1.16%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.78%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.78%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (0.78%) Datadog
8 2 (0.78%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.78%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.78%) IaaS
8 2 (0.78%) PaaS
8 2 (0.78%) Serverless
8 2 (0.78%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (0.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (0.39%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.33%) Firewall
2 5 (1.94%) Broadband
3 4 (1.55%) WAN
4 2 (0.78%) DHCP
4 2 (0.78%) DNS
4 2 (0.78%) SAN
4 2 (0.78%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.78%) Wireless
5 1 (0.39%) Internet
5 1 (0.39%) PSTN
5 1 (0.39%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.20%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.10%) MySQL
3 7 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.55%) Delta Lake
6 3 (1.16%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.16%) Power BI
7 2 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.39%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.39%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.39%) Big Data
8 1 (0.39%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.39%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.39%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.39%) Metadata
8 1 (0.39%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 15 (5.81%) Git
2 13 (5.04%) JIRA
3 4 (1.55%) GitLab
4 1 (0.39%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.39%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.39%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.39%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.39%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.39%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.39%) webpack
General
1 175 (67.83%) Social Skills
2 157 (60.85%) Finance
3 131 (50.78%) Legal
4 105 (40.70%) Organisational Skills
5 47 (18.22%) Analytical Skills
6 35 (13.57%) Public Sector
7 17 (6.59%) Law
8 6 (2.33%) French Language
9 5 (1.94%) Advertising
9 5 (1.94%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.78%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.78%) Marketing
12 1 (0.39%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.39%) German Language
12 1 (0.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 31 (12.02%) Senior
2 30 (11.63%) Architect
2 30 (11.63%) Developer
3 24 (9.30%) Solutions Architect
4 20 (7.75%) Senior Manager
5 16 (6.20%) Testing Manager
6 15 (5.81%) PHP Developer
6 15 (5.81%) Software Developer
7 14 (5.43%) C# Developer
7 14 (5.43%) C# Software Developer
7 14 (5.43%) Graduate
7 14 (5.43%) Graduate C# Developer
7 14 (5.43%) Graduate C# Software Developer
7 14 (5.43%) Graduate Developer
7 14 (5.43%) Graduate Software Developer
7 14 (5.43%) Graduate SQL Developer
7 14 (5.43%) SQL Developer
8 11 (4.26%) PHP Laravel Developer
9 9 (3.49%) Project Manager
10 6 (2.33%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.98%) CSS
2 15 (5.81%) jQuery
3 11 (4.26%) Laravel
3 11 (4.26%) React
4 8 (3.10%) RESTful
4 8 (3.10%) Vue
5 7 (2.71%) .NET
6 5 (1.94%) ASP.NET
6 5 (1.94%) Middleware
7 4 (1.55%) HTML
7 4 (1.55%) PySpark
8 3 (1.16%) Kafka
9 2 (0.78%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.78%) Next.js
9 2 (0.78%) Node.js
9 2 (0.78%) Prisma
9 2 (0.78%) Web Services
10 1 (0.39%) CSS3
10 1 (0.39%) HTML5
10 1 (0.39%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 101 (39.15%) Podcast
1 101 (39.15%) Web Conferencing
2 14 (5.43%) Onboarding
3 7 (2.71%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (2.33%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.94%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.94%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.55%) Derivative
6 4 (1.55%) OTC Derivatives
6 4 (1.55%) Wiki
7 3 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.16%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.78%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (0.78%) Educational Technology
8 2 (0.78%) Replication
9 1 (0.39%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.39%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.39%) IoT
9 1 (0.39%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.94%) Linux
1 5 (1.94%) Windows
2 1 (0.39%) Android
2 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (39.53%) Customer Service
2 57 (22.09%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (20.16%) AI
4 48 (18.60%) Continuous Improvement
5 46 (17.83%) Agile
6 39 (15.12%) Project Management
7 37 (14.34%) Mentoring
8 36 (13.95%) Analytics
9 35 (13.57%) Software Engineering
9 35 (13.57%) Technical Architecture
10 31 (12.02%) DevOps
11 28 (10.85%) B2B
12 26 (10.08%) Business Development
12 26 (10.08%) CI/CD
13 24 (9.30%) Computer Science
13 24 (9.30%) Creative Problem-Solving
13 24 (9.30%) Due Diligence
13 24 (9.30%) Financial Modelling
13 24 (9.30%) Project Delivery
13 24 (9.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 45 (17.44%) Python
2 42 (16.28%) C#
3 34 (13.18%) SQL
4 27 (10.47%) TypeScript
5 26 (10.08%) JavaScript
5 26 (10.08%) PHP
6 23 (8.91%) Java
7 16 (6.20%) C++
7 16 (6.20%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.55%) Go
9 2 (0.78%) Bash
10 1 (0.39%) R
Qualifications
1 101 (39.15%) BPSS Clearance
2 27 (10.47%) Degree
3 15 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.78%) PMI Certification
4 2 (0.78%) PMP
5 1 (0.39%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.39%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (10.08%) QA
2 7 (2.71%) GDPR
2 7 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.94%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.55%) MiFID
4 4 (1.55%) PMO
5 3 (1.16%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (2.71%) Docker
2 2 (0.78%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (2.71%) Kubernetes
1 7 (2.71%) Single Sign-On
1 7 (2.71%) Terraform
2 2 (0.78%) WhatsUp Gold
3 1 (0.39%) Kibana
Vendors
1 35 (13.57%) Microsoft
2 5 (1.94%) Databricks
2 5 (1.94%) Google
3 4 (1.55%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.16%) Workday
5 2 (0.78%) Broadcom
5 2 (0.78%) Cisco
5 2 (0.78%) EMC
5 2 (0.78%) Infor
5 2 (0.78%) Meraki
5 2 (0.78%) Okta
5 2 (0.78%) SAP
5 2 (0.78%) Sophos
5 2 (0.78%) Ubiquiti
5 2 (0.78%) Veeam
5 2 (0.78%) VMware
6 1 (0.39%) Apple
6 1 (0.39%) New Relic
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle