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 2 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 282 384
Rank change year-on-year +72 +102 -51
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Team 254 153 209
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.22% 0.96% 0.62%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.27% 2.21% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 121 102 161
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £36,480 £48,350
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 £110,000 £140,677 £115,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £64,500
% change year-on-year +15.38% +0.78% +6.00%

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 7,773 6,915 11,671
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.34% 43.31% 34.88%
Number of salaries quoted 4,846 3,547 8,984
10th Percentile £34,882 £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 £81,300
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £59,511 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.50% +4.55% -14.10%

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 2 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 (2.36%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.79%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.79%) Confluence
2 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.39%) Apache
3 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.18%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.79%) Infor SunSystems
2 2 (0.79%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 30 (11.81%) Azure
2 29 (11.42%) AWS
3 21 (8.27%) SaaS
4 6 (2.36%) GCP
4 6 (2.36%) Power Platform
5 5 (1.97%) Google Workspace
5 5 (1.97%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (1.57%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (1.18%) Serverless
8 2 (0.79%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.79%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (0.79%) Datadog
8 2 (0.79%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.79%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.79%) IaaS
8 2 (0.79%) PaaS
8 2 (0.79%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (0.79%) Supabase
9 1 (0.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.36%) Firewall
2 5 (1.97%) Broadband
3 4 (1.57%) WAN
4 2 (0.79%) DHCP
4 2 (0.79%) DNS
4 2 (0.79%) SAN
4 2 (0.79%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.79%) Wireless
5 1 (0.39%) Internet
5 1 (0.39%) PSTN
5 1 (0.39%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.30%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.15%) MySQL
3 7 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.57%) Delta Lake
6 3 (1.18%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.18%) Power BI
7 2 (0.79%) 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 (5.91%) Git
2 14 (5.51%) JIRA
3 4 (1.57%) 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
1 168 (66.14%) Social Skills
2 157 (61.81%) Finance
3 125 (49.21%) Legal
4 105 (41.34%) Organisational Skills
5 47 (18.50%) Analytical Skills
6 35 (13.78%) Public Sector
7 11 (4.33%) Law
8 6 (2.36%) French Language
9 5 (1.97%) Advertising
9 5 (1.97%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.79%) Marketing
12 1 (0.39%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.39%) German Language
12 1 (0.39%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 30 (11.81%) Architect
1 30 (11.81%) Developer
2 26 (10.24%) Senior
3 24 (9.45%) Solutions Architect
4 15 (5.91%) PHP Developer
4 15 (5.91%) Software Developer
5 14 (5.51%) C# Developer
5 14 (5.51%) C# Software Developer
5 14 (5.51%) Graduate
5 14 (5.51%) Graduate C# Developer
5 14 (5.51%) Graduate C# Software Developer
5 14 (5.51%) Graduate Developer
5 14 (5.51%) Graduate Software Developer
5 14 (5.51%) Graduate SQL Developer
5 14 (5.51%) Senior Manager
5 14 (5.51%) SQL Developer
6 11 (4.33%) PHP Laravel Developer
7 10 (3.94%) Testing Manager
8 9 (3.54%) Project Manager
9 6 (2.36%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.09%) CSS
2 15 (5.91%) jQuery
3 12 (4.72%) React
4 11 (4.33%) Laravel
5 8 (3.15%) RESTful
5 8 (3.15%) Vue
6 7 (2.76%) .NET
7 5 (1.97%) ASP.NET
7 5 (1.97%) Middleware
8 4 (1.57%) HTML
8 4 (1.57%) PySpark
9 3 (1.18%) Kafka
9 3 (1.18%) Next.js
10 2 (0.79%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.79%) Node.js
10 2 (0.79%) Prisma
10 2 (0.79%) React Native
10 2 (0.79%) Web Services
11 1 (0.39%) CSS3
11 1 (0.39%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 101 (39.76%) Podcast
1 101 (39.76%) Web Conferencing
2 15 (5.91%) Onboarding
3 7 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (2.36%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.97%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.97%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.57%) Derivative
6 4 (1.57%) OTC Derivatives
6 4 (1.57%) Wiki
7 3 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.18%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.79%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (0.79%) Educational Technology
8 2 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.79%) Replication
9 1 (0.39%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.39%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.39%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.97%) Linux
1 5 (1.97%) Windows
2 1 (0.39%) Android
2 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (40.16%) Customer Service
2 57 (22.44%) Problem-Solving
3 53 (20.87%) AI
4 47 (18.50%) Agile
5 42 (16.54%) Continuous Improvement
6 38 (14.96%) Analytics
6 38 (14.96%) Project Management
7 35 (13.78%) Technical Architecture
8 31 (12.20%) Mentoring
8 31 (12.20%) Software Engineering
9 28 (11.02%) B2B
10 27 (10.63%) CI/CD
11 26 (10.24%) Business Development
12 25 (9.84%) DevOps
13 24 (9.45%) Computer Science
13 24 (9.45%) Creative Problem-Solving
13 24 (9.45%) Customer Insight
13 24 (9.45%) Due Diligence
13 24 (9.45%) Financial Modelling
14 21 (8.27%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 39 (15.35%) Python
2 36 (14.17%) C#
3 34 (13.39%) SQL
4 26 (10.24%) PHP
5 23 (9.06%) Java
5 23 (9.06%) TypeScript
6 20 (7.87%) JavaScript
7 16 (6.30%) C++
8 10 (3.94%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.57%) Go
10 2 (0.79%) Bash
11 1 (0.39%) R
Qualifications
1 101 (39.76%) BPSS Clearance
2 27 (10.63%) Degree
3 15 (5.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.39%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.39%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.39%) PMP
4 1 (0.39%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.87%) QA
2 7 (2.76%) GDPR
2 7 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.97%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.57%) MiFID
4 4 (1.57%) PMO
5 3 (1.18%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (2.76%) Docker
2 2 (0.79%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.79%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (2.76%) Kubernetes
1 7 (2.76%) Single Sign-On
1 7 (2.76%) Terraform
2 2 (0.79%) WhatsUp Gold
3 1 (0.39%) Kibana
Vendors
1 35 (13.78%) Microsoft
2 5 (1.97%) Databricks
2 5 (1.97%) Google
3 4 (1.57%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.18%) Workday
5 2 (0.79%) Broadcom
5 2 (0.79%) Cisco
5 2 (0.79%) EMC
5 2 (0.79%) Infor
5 2 (0.79%) Meraki
5 2 (0.79%) Okta
5 2 (0.79%) SAP
5 2 (0.79%) Sophos
5 2 (0.79%) Ubiquiti
5 2 (0.79%) Veeam
5 2 (0.79%) VMware
6 1 (0.39%) Apple
6 1 (0.39%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.39%) Mapbox
6 1 (0.39%) New Relic