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 26 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 227 308
Rank change year-on-year -52 +81 -4
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Team 114 174 274
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.68% 1.35% 0.89%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.93% 3.17% 2.43%
Number of salaries quoted 69 113 213
10th Percentile £37,000 £36,645 £41,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,769 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.43% +9.61% -14.29%
75th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £116,750 £140,677 £118,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -3.70%

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 5,904 5,492 11,269
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.01% 42.50% 36.66%
Number of salaries quoted 3,642 3,601 9,034
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £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 £81,250 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £103,500 £116,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -15.38%

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 26 March 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 5 (4.39%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.75%) Confluence
3 1 (0.88%) Apache
3 1 (0.88%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.88%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.63%) Elite 3E
1 3 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.75%) SAP HR
2 2 (1.75%) SAP SCM
3 1 (0.88%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.88%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 21 (18.42%) AWS
2 17 (14.91%) Azure
3 7 (6.14%) Serverless
4 5 (4.39%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (4.39%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (3.51%) Azure Event Grid
5 4 (3.51%) Azure Functions
5 4 (3.51%) Azure Logic Apps
5 4 (3.51%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (3.51%) SaaS
6 3 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (2.63%) SuccessFactors
7 2 (1.75%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.75%) GitHub
7 2 (1.75%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.75%) Supabase
8 1 (0.88%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (0.88%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.88%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.51%) Firewall
1 4 (3.51%) SD-WAN
2 3 (2.63%) WAN
3 2 (1.75%) 4G
3 2 (1.75%) LAN
3 2 (1.75%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.88%) Broadband
4 1 (0.88%) MPLS
4 1 (0.88%) Network Security
4 1 (0.88%) PSTN
4 1 (0.88%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.89%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.39%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.63%) MySQL
3 3 (2.63%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.75%) Power BI
4 2 (1.75%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.88%) Big Data
5 1 (0.88%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.88%) Looker
5 1 (0.88%) Redis
5 1 (0.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (9.65%) JIRA
2 4 (3.51%) Git
3 2 (1.75%) Postman
3 2 (1.75%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.88%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.88%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.88%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.88%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.88%) webpack
General
1 64 (56.14%) Social Skills
2 40 (35.09%) Finance
3 34 (29.82%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (27.19%) Public Sector
5 28 (24.56%) Presentation Skills
6 13 (11.40%) Legal
7 6 (5.26%) French Language
7 6 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (5.26%) Law
8 5 (4.39%) Esports
8 5 (4.39%) Manufacturing
8 5 (4.39%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (2.63%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.88%) German Language
10 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.88%) Publishing
10 1 (0.88%) Retail
10 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (24.56%) Architect
2 26 (22.81%) Solutions Architect
3 20 (17.54%) Developer
4 12 (10.53%) Senior
5 9 (7.89%) Software Developer
6 6 (5.26%) Analyst
6 6 (5.26%) C# Developer
6 6 (5.26%) Project Manager
7 5 (4.39%) C# Software Developer
7 5 (4.39%) Coordinator
7 5 (4.39%) Graduate
7 5 (4.39%) Graduate C# Developer
7 5 (4.39%) Graduate Developer
7 5 (4.39%) Graduate Software Developer
7 5 (4.39%) Graduate SQL Developer
7 5 (4.39%) Implementation Coordinator
7 5 (4.39%) IT Manager
7 5 (4.39%) Project Coordinator
7 5 (4.39%) Senior Developer
7 5 (4.39%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.53%) React
2 10 (8.77%) .NET
3 7 (6.14%) CSS
4 6 (5.26%) gRPC
5 5 (4.39%) ASP.NET
5 5 (4.39%) jQuery
6 4 (3.51%) .NET Core
6 4 (3.51%) .NET Framework
6 4 (3.51%) GraphQL
7 3 (2.63%) Kafka
8 2 (1.75%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.75%) HTML
8 2 (1.75%) Next.js
8 2 (1.75%) Node.js
8 2 (1.75%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.75%) React Native
8 2 (1.75%) REST
8 2 (1.75%) SAP Fiori
8 2 (1.75%) Web Services
8 2 (1.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (22.81%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (7.02%) Onboarding
2 8 (7.02%) Product Ownership
3 7 (6.14%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.51%) Hedge funds
5 3 (2.63%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.63%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.63%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.75%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.75%) Derivative
6 2 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.75%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.75%) OTC Derivatives
6 2 (1.75%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.75%) Smartphone
6 2 (1.75%) Wiki
7 1 (0.88%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.88%) Life Science
7 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.88%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.63%) Android
2 2 (1.75%) Windows
3 1 (0.88%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (38.60%) Continuous Improvement
2 42 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
3 41 (35.96%) AI
4 39 (34.21%) Analytics
4 39 (34.21%) Project Management
5 33 (28.95%) Decision-Making
6 31 (27.19%) Customer Experience
7 30 (26.32%) Technical Architecture
8 29 (25.44%) Agile
9 28 (24.56%) Strategic Thinking
10 26 (22.81%) B2B
10 26 (22.81%) Business Development
10 26 (22.81%) Creative Problem-Solving
11 24 (21.05%) Customer Insight
11 24 (21.05%) Due Diligence
11 24 (21.05%) Financial Modelling
12 17 (14.91%) CI/CD
12 17 (14.91%) Roadmaps
13 16 (14.04%) Microservices
13 16 (14.04%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (15.79%) SQL
2 14 (12.28%) C#
3 10 (8.77%) TypeScript
4 9 (7.89%) Python
5 8 (7.02%) Java
6 7 (6.14%) PHP
7 5 (4.39%) C++
7 5 (4.39%) Go
8 3 (2.63%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.63%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.75%) Bash
Qualifications
1 14 (12.28%) Degree
2 5 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.51%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.63%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.63%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (2.63%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.75%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.75%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.88%) CCDE
6 1 (0.88%) CCIE
6 1 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.88%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.88%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.65%) QA
2 8 (7.02%) GDPR
3 4 (3.51%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.75%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.75%) MiFID
4 2 (1.75%) PMO
5 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.88%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (3.51%) Docker
2 2 (1.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (9.65%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.14%) Terraform
3 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.88%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (14.91%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.39%) SAP
3 4 (3.51%) Cisco
3 4 (3.51%) Palo Alto
4 3 (2.63%) Apple
4 3 (2.63%) EMC
4 3 (2.63%) F5
4 3 (2.63%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.63%) VMware
4 3 (2.63%) Workday
5 2 (1.75%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.75%) CheckPoint
5 2 (1.75%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (1.75%) Intel
5 2 (1.75%) Okta
5 2 (1.75%) Wyse
6 1 (0.88%) Infor
6 1 (0.88%) Juniper
6 1 (0.88%) Mapbox
6 1 (0.88%) New Relic