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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 277 399
Rank change year-on-year +94 +122 -57
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Team 300 153 171
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.40% 0.93% 0.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.73% 2.17% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 119 107 127
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £36,710 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +4.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £91,436 £80,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £112,000 £140,677 £115,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £63,250
% change year-on-year +15.38% +2.77% +3.86%

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 8,049 7,052 11,048
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.69% 42.72% 34.74%
Number of salaries quoted 4,972 3,642 8,375
10th Percentile £34,535 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £121,250 £112,000
UK median annual salary £58,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.87% +4.55% -14.60%

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 16 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 5 (1.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.67%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.33%) Apache
3 1 (0.33%) Confluence
3 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.00%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.67%) Infor SunSystems
2 2 (0.67%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 2 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.67%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.33%) JDE World
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.33%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 48 (16.00%) SaaS
2 30 (10.00%) AWS
3 28 (9.33%) Azure
4 6 (2.00%) GCP
4 6 (2.00%) Power Platform
5 5 (1.67%) Google Workspace
6 4 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.00%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.67%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (0.67%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (0.67%) Datadog
8 2 (0.67%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.67%) IaaS
8 2 (0.67%) PaaS
8 2 (0.67%) Serverless
9 1 (0.33%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (0.33%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.00%) Firewall
2 5 (1.67%) Broadband
3 3 (1.00%) WAN
4 2 (0.67%) DHCP
4 2 (0.67%) DNS
4 2 (0.67%) SAN
4 2 (0.67%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.67%) Wireless
5 1 (0.33%) Internet
5 1 (0.33%) PSTN
5 1 (0.33%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.33%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.67%) MySQL
3 7 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.33%) Delta Lake
5 4 (1.33%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.67%) Power BI
6 2 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.33%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.33%) Big Data
7 1 (0.33%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.33%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.33%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.33%) Metadata
7 1 (0.33%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.33%) Power Query
7 1 (0.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (5.33%) Git
2 13 (4.33%) JIRA
3 4 (1.33%) GitLab
4 1 (0.33%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.33%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.33%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.33%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.33%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.33%) webpack
General
1 202 (67.33%) Social Skills
2 160 (53.33%) Finance
3 155 (51.67%) Legal
4 107 (35.67%) Organisational Skills
5 65 (21.67%) Analytical Skills
6 35 (11.67%) Public Sector
7 28 (9.33%) Law
8 16 (5.33%) Influencing Skills
8 16 (5.33%) Retail
9 6 (2.00%) French Language
10 5 (1.67%) Advertising
10 5 (1.67%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.33%) Marketing
12 3 (1.00%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.33%) Fire and Rescue
13 1 (0.33%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.33%) German Language
13 1 (0.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 53 (17.67%) Senior
2 41 (13.67%) Senior Manager
3 37 (12.33%) Testing Manager
4 31 (10.33%) Architect
5 29 (9.67%) Developer
6 25 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
7 17 (5.67%) Delivery Manager
8 16 (5.33%) Service Delivery Manager
8 16 (5.33%) Service Manager
9 15 (5.00%) PHP Developer
10 14 (4.67%) C# Developer
10 14 (4.67%) C# Software Developer
10 14 (4.67%) Graduate
10 14 (4.67%) Graduate C# Developer
10 14 (4.67%) Graduate C# Software Developer
10 14 (4.67%) Graduate Developer
10 14 (4.67%) Graduate Software Developer
10 14 (4.67%) Graduate SQL Developer
10 14 (4.67%) Software Developer
10 14 (4.67%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.00%) CSS
2 15 (5.00%) jQuery
3 11 (3.67%) Laravel
3 11 (3.67%) React
4 9 (3.00%) RESTful
5 8 (2.67%) Vue
6 7 (2.33%) .NET
7 5 (1.67%) Middleware
8 4 (1.33%) ASP.NET
8 4 (1.33%) HTML
8 4 (1.33%) Kafka
8 4 (1.33%) Node.js
8 4 (1.33%) PySpark
9 2 (0.67%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.67%) Next.js
9 2 (0.67%) Prisma
9 2 (0.67%) Spring
10 1 (0.33%) Django
10 1 (0.33%) JSON
10 1 (0.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 103 (34.33%) Podcast
1 103 (34.33%) Web Conferencing
2 14 (4.67%) Onboarding
3 7 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (2.33%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (1.67%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.33%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.33%) Derivative
6 4 (1.33%) Low-Code
6 4 (1.33%) OTC Derivatives
6 4 (1.33%) Wiki
7 3 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.67%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (0.67%) Educational Technology
8 2 (0.67%) Replication
8 2 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.33%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.33%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.67%) Linux
1 5 (1.67%) Windows
2 1 (0.33%) Android
2 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (34.67%) Customer Service
2 86 (28.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 59 (19.67%) Mentoring
3 59 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
4 57 (19.00%) Software Engineering
5 55 (18.33%) AI
5 55 (18.33%) Project Management
6 51 (17.00%) DevOps
7 46 (15.33%) Agile
7 46 (15.33%) Test Automation
8 45 (15.00%) Project Delivery
8 45 (15.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 42 (14.00%) Enterprise Architecture
10 41 (13.67%) Data Management
11 40 (13.33%) Budget Management
11 40 (13.33%) Virtual Team Management
12 39 (13.00%) Test Strategy
13 38 (12.67%) Performance Management
14 37 (12.33%) Software Testing
14 37 (12.33%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 67 (22.33%) Python
2 62 (20.67%) C#
3 48 (16.00%) TypeScript
4 47 (15.67%) JavaScript
5 37 (12.33%) PowerShell
6 35 (11.67%) SQL
7 26 (8.67%) PHP
8 24 (8.00%) Java
9 16 (5.33%) C++
10 4 (1.33%) Go
11 2 (0.67%) Bash
12 1 (0.33%) R
Qualifications
1 103 (34.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 27 (9.00%) Degree
3 15 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (0.67%) PMI Certification
5 2 (0.67%) PMP
5 2 (0.67%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.33%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.33%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (16.00%) QA
2 7 (2.33%) GDPR
2 7 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.67%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.33%) MiFID
4 4 (1.33%) PMO
5 3 (1.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (2.00%) Docker
2 2 (0.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (2.67%) Terraform
2 7 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (2.00%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.67%) WhatsUp Gold
5 1 (0.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 35 (11.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (1.67%) Databricks
2 5 (1.67%) Google
3 4 (1.33%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.00%) Oracle
4 3 (1.00%) Workday
5 2 (0.67%) Broadcom
5 2 (0.67%) Cisco
5 2 (0.67%) EMC
5 2 (0.67%) Infor
5 2 (0.67%) JD Edwards
5 2 (0.67%) Meraki
5 2 (0.67%) Sophos
5 2 (0.67%) Ubiquiti
5 2 (0.67%) Veeam
5 2 (0.67%) VMware
6 1 (0.33%) Apple
6 1 (0.33%) New Relic
6 1 (0.33%) SAP
6 1 (0.33%) ServiceNow