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 30 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 242 346
Rank change year-on-year -13 +104 +6
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Team 140 166 250
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.77% 1.23% 0.77%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.25% 2.91% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 95 108 195
10th Percentile £25,000 £35,920 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £48,053
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £91,436 £83,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £108,500 £141,974 £118,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -3.85% -

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 6,219 5,709 11,717
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.34% 42.41% 36.04%
Number of salaries quoted 3,925 3,697 9,252
10th Percentile £32,000 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £62,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +5.93% -9.23%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £78,001
90th Percentile £101,150 £122,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 30 April 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 7 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.43%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.43%) Confluence
3 1 (0.71%) Apache
3 1 (0.71%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.14%) Elite 3E
2 2 (1.43%) Infor SunSystems
2 2 (1.43%) SAP HR
2 2 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.43%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 29 (20.71%) AWS
2 26 (18.57%) Azure
3 6 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (4.29%) Serverless
4 4 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.14%) Azure Event Grid
5 3 (2.14%) Azure Functions
5 3 (2.14%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (2.14%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (2.14%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (2.14%) GCP
5 3 (2.14%) SaaS
6 2 (1.43%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.43%) GitHub
6 2 (1.43%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.43%) SuccessFactors
6 2 (1.43%) Supabase
7 1 (0.71%) ChatGPT
7 1 (0.71%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.14%) Firewall
1 3 (2.14%) WAN
2 2 (1.43%) 4G
2 2 (1.43%) LAN
2 2 (1.43%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (1.43%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.71%) Broadband
3 1 (0.71%) MPLS
3 1 (0.71%) Network Security
3 1 (0.71%) PSTN
3 1 (0.71%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.43%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.86%) MongoDB
2 4 (2.86%) MySQL
3 3 (2.14%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.43%) Power BI
4 2 (1.43%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.71%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.71%) Big Data
5 1 (0.71%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.71%) Redis
5 1 (0.71%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (7.86%) JIRA
2 7 (5.00%) Git
3 2 (1.43%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.71%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.71%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.71%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.71%) Postman
4 1 (0.71%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.71%) webpack
General
1 88 (62.86%) Social Skills
2 65 (46.43%) Finance
3 37 (26.43%) Legal
4 26 (18.57%) Organisational Skills
5 23 (16.43%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (15.00%) Public Sector
7 15 (10.71%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (4.29%) French Language
8 6 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (3.57%) Law
9 5 (3.57%) Manufacturing
9 5 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (2.86%) Esports
11 2 (1.43%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.71%) German Language
12 1 (0.71%) Publishing
12 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (22.14%) Developer
2 17 (12.14%) Software Developer
3 15 (10.71%) Architect
3 15 (10.71%) C# Developer
4 14 (10.00%) C# Software Developer
4 14 (10.00%) Graduate
4 14 (10.00%) Graduate C# Developer
4 14 (10.00%) Graduate C# Software Developer
4 14 (10.00%) Graduate Developer
4 14 (10.00%) Graduate Software Developer
4 14 (10.00%) Graduate SQL Developer
4 14 (10.00%) SQL Developer
5 13 (9.29%) Senior
5 13 (9.29%) Solutions Architect
6 9 (6.43%) Project Manager
7 7 (5.00%) IT Manager
7 7 (5.00%) PHP Developer
8 5 (3.57%) Analyst
8 5 (3.57%) Coordinator
8 5 (3.57%) Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (12.14%) CSS
2 15 (10.71%) jQuery
3 14 (10.00%) React
4 7 (5.00%) .NET
5 5 (3.57%) gRPC
5 5 (3.57%) Vue
6 4 (2.86%) ASP.NET
6 4 (2.86%) GraphQL
6 4 (2.86%) Laravel
7 3 (2.14%) .NET Core
7 3 (2.14%) .NET Framework
7 3 (2.14%) HTML
7 3 (2.14%) Kafka
8 2 (1.43%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.43%) HTML5
8 2 (1.43%) Next.js
8 2 (1.43%) Node.js
8 2 (1.43%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.43%) React Native
8 2 (1.43%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 24 (17.14%) Podcast
1 24 (17.14%) Web Conferencing
2 14 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (6.43%) Onboarding
4 8 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (5.71%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.86%) Derivative
5 4 (2.86%) Hedge funds
5 4 (2.86%) OTC Derivatives
5 4 (2.86%) Wiki
6 3 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.43%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.43%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.43%) Educational Technology
7 2 (1.43%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.43%) Smartphone
8 1 (0.71%) IoT
8 1 (0.71%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.71%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.71%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.14%) Android
2 2 (1.43%) Windows
3 1 (0.71%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (30.00%) Agile
2 33 (23.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 31 (22.14%) AI
3 31 (22.14%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (20.00%) Analytics
5 27 (19.29%) Customer Service
5 27 (19.29%) Project Management
6 21 (15.00%) Customer Experience
7 20 (14.29%) Computer Science
7 20 (14.29%) Mentoring
7 20 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
8 19 (13.57%) CI/CD
9 18 (12.86%) Clean Code
9 18 (12.86%) Decision-Making
10 17 (12.14%) Roadmaps
11 15 (10.71%) B2B
11 15 (10.71%) MVC
12 14 (10.00%) OO
12 14 (10.00%) OOP
12 14 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 27 (19.29%) SQL
2 22 (15.71%) C#
3 19 (13.57%) Java
3 19 (13.57%) PHP
3 19 (13.57%) Python
4 16 (11.43%) C++
5 14 (10.00%) TypeScript
6 6 (4.29%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.86%) Go
8 2 (1.43%) Bash
9 1 (0.71%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (17.14%) BPSS Clearance
2 22 (15.71%) Degree
3 14 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.86%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (2.14%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.14%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.43%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.71%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.71%) CCDE
7 1 (0.71%) CCIE
7 1 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.71%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.71%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.71%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.86%) QA
2 7 (5.00%) GDPR
3 4 (2.86%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.86%) MiFID
3 4 (2.86%) PMO
4 3 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.43%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.71%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (2.86%) Docker
2 2 (1.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (5.71%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.57%) Terraform
3 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.71%) Kibana
Vendors
1 28 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.86%) Atlassian
2 4 (2.86%) SAP
3 3 (2.14%) Apple
3 3 (2.14%) ServiceNow
3 3 (2.14%) Workday
4 2 (1.43%) CheckPoint
4 2 (1.43%) Cisco
4 2 (1.43%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (1.43%) Infor
4 2 (1.43%) Intel
4 2 (1.43%) Okta
4 2 (1.43%) Palo Alto
4 2 (1.43%) Wyse
5 1 (0.71%) EMC
5 1 (0.71%) F5
5 1 (0.71%) Juniper
5 1 (0.71%) Mapbox
5 1 (0.71%) New Relic
5 1 (0.71%) VMware