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 3 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 320 320
Rank change year-on-year +119 0 -51
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Team 320 106 177
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.29% 0.63% 0.79%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.37% 1.53% 2.34%
Number of salaries quoted 109 86 89
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £44,259 £31,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -12.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £91,436 £74,563 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,000 £95,875 £115,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +11.02%

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 9,495 6,937 7,556
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.16% 41.23% 33.81%
Number of salaries quoted 5,485 3,482 4,442
10th Percentile £32,575 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £56,038 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.89% -8.33% -4.00%

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 3 October 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 (1.56%) CMS
1 5 (1.56%) Confluence
2 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.31%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.63%) JDE EnterpriseOne
1 2 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (0.63%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.31%) Infor SunSystems
2 1 (0.31%) JDE World
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 62 (19.38%) SaaS
2 24 (7.50%) Azure
3 20 (6.25%) AWS
4 5 (1.56%) GCP
4 5 (1.56%) Google Workspace
4 5 (1.56%) Power Platform
5 4 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (1.25%) Miro
6 3 (0.94%) GitHub
6 3 (0.94%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (0.63%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (0.63%) Datadog
7 2 (0.63%) Entra ID
7 2 (0.63%) IaaS
7 2 (0.63%) PaaS
8 1 (0.31%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.31%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.31%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.50%) Firewall
2 4 (1.25%) Broadband
3 3 (0.94%) Cisco Firepower
3 3 (0.94%) Cisco ISE
3 3 (0.94%) Network Security
3 3 (0.94%) VPN
4 2 (0.63%) DHCP
4 2 (0.63%) DNS
4 2 (0.63%) SAN
4 2 (0.63%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.63%) WAN
4 2 (0.63%) Wireless
5 1 (0.31%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.06%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.19%) MySQL
2 7 (2.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.25%) Delta Lake
5 2 (0.63%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.31%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.31%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.31%) HBase
6 1 (0.31%) Metadata
6 1 (0.31%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.31%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.31%) Power BI
6 1 (0.31%) Power Query
6 1 (0.31%) Redis
6 1 (0.31%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (5.94%) Git
2 12 (3.75%) JIRA
3 4 (1.25%) GitLab
4 3 (0.94%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.31%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio
General
1 219 (68.44%) Social Skills
2 162 (50.63%) Legal
3 151 (47.19%) Finance
4 116 (36.25%) Organisational Skills
5 74 (23.13%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (9.69%) Public Sector
7 30 (9.38%) Influencing Skills
8 27 (8.44%) Law
8 27 (8.44%) Retail
9 9 (2.81%) Banking
10 8 (2.50%) Marketing
11 5 (1.56%) Advertising
12 4 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.25%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.94%) Front Office
14 2 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.63%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.63%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.31%) Fire and Rescue
15 1 (0.31%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 71 (22.19%) Senior
2 52 (16.25%) Senior Manager
3 49 (15.31%) Testing Manager
4 33 (10.31%) Architect
5 27 (8.44%) Delivery Manager
6 25 (7.81%) Solutions Architect
7 24 (7.50%) Service Delivery Manager
7 24 (7.50%) Service Manager
8 21 (6.56%) Developer
9 11 (3.44%) PHP Developer
9 11 (3.44%) PHP Laravel Developer
10 9 (2.81%) Lead
11 8 (2.50%) Senior Software Engineer
11 8 (2.50%) Software Engineer
12 7 (2.19%) Data Engineer
12 7 (2.19%) Data Migration Engineer
12 7 (2.19%) Migration Engineer
12 7 (2.19%) Security Engineer
13 6 (1.88%) Product Owner
14 5 (1.56%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.44%) Laravel
1 11 (3.44%) RESTful
2 10 (3.13%) CSS
3 9 (2.81%) React
3 9 (2.81%) Terraform
4 8 (2.50%) .NET
5 7 (2.19%) Vue
6 6 (1.88%) jQuery
6 6 (1.88%) Node.js
7 5 (1.56%) HTML
7 5 (1.56%) Middleware
8 4 (1.25%) ASP.NET
8 4 (1.25%) Next.js
8 4 (1.25%) Prisma
8 4 (1.25%) PySpark
9 2 (0.63%) Flash
9 2 (0.63%) Kafka
9 2 (0.63%) pytest
10 1 (0.31%) Django
10 1 (0.31%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 108 (33.75%) Podcast
1 108 (33.75%) Web Conferencing
2 13 (4.06%) Onboarding
3 12 (3.75%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (1.88%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.56%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.25%) Derivative
7 4 (1.25%) Low-Code
7 4 (1.25%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (1.25%) Security Posture
8 3 (0.94%) AI Agents
8 3 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.63%) Replication
9 2 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.31%) Blog
10 1 (0.31%) Equities
10 1 (0.31%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.31%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.56%) Windows
2 4 (1.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (35.00%) Customer Service
2 106 (33.13%) Continuous Improvement
3 66 (20.63%) Mentoring
4 65 (20.31%) Software Engineering
5 64 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 63 (19.69%) DevOps
7 62 (19.38%) Project Delivery
8 59 (18.44%) Project Management
9 57 (17.81%) Test Automation
10 55 (17.19%) Enterprise Architecture
10 55 (17.19%) Virtual Team Management
11 54 (16.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 53 (16.56%) Budget Management
12 53 (16.56%) Data Management
13 52 (16.25%) Test Strategy
14 50 (15.63%) Strategic Planning
15 49 (15.31%) AI
15 49 (15.31%) Manual Testing
15 49 (15.31%) Programme Management
15 49 (15.31%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 71 (22.19%) Python
2 65 (20.31%) C#
3 63 (19.69%) JavaScript
4 59 (18.44%) TypeScript
5 50 (15.63%) PowerShell
6 19 (5.94%) SQL
7 17 (5.31%) Java
8 16 (5.00%) PHP
9 7 (2.19%) C++
10 4 (1.25%) Go
10 4 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.31%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.31%) R
Qualifications
1 108 (33.75%) BPSS Clearance
2 16 (5.00%) Degree
3 6 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (1.56%) Security Cleared
5 4 (1.25%) SC Cleared
6 3 (0.94%) CCNP
6 3 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.31%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.31%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.31%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.31%) PMP
7 1 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (18.75%) QA
2 8 (2.50%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.56%) PMO
5 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.31%) GDPR
5 1 (0.31%) MiFID
5 1 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (2.19%) Docker
2 2 (0.63%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.63%) vSphere
3 1 (0.31%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (2.50%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (0.94%) FortiGate
3 3 (0.94%) Stealthwatch
4 2 (0.63%) WhatsUp Gold
5 1 (0.31%) Control-M
Vendors
1 35 (10.94%) Microsoft
2 5 (1.56%) Cisco
2 5 (1.56%) Databricks
2 5 (1.56%) Google
3 4 (1.25%) Oracle
4 3 (0.94%) Fortinet
4 3 (0.94%) ServiceNow
5 2 (0.63%) Atlassian
5 2 (0.63%) Broadcom
5 2 (0.63%) EMC
5 2 (0.63%) JD Edwards
5 2 (0.63%) Meraki
5 2 (0.63%) Sophos
5 2 (0.63%) Ubiquiti
5 2 (0.63%) Veeam
5 2 (0.63%) VMware
6 1 (0.31%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.31%) Foundry
6 1 (0.31%) Infor
6 1 (0.31%) Salesforce