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 22 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 284 353
Rank change year-on-year +99 +69 +10
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Team 236 142 243
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.26% 0.97% 0.75%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.67% 2.12% 2.06%
Number of salaries quoted 117 85 188
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,100 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £48,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £91,436 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £145,780 £116,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £64,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% -2.34% +5.09%

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 6,422 6,703 11,797
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.16% 45.87% 36.25%
Number of salaries quoted 4,077 3,382 9,264
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £62,500 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +5.00% -8.42%
75th Percentile £82,000 £90,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £102,500
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 22 May 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 (2.97%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.85%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.85%) Confluence
3 1 (0.42%) Apache
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.42%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.27%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.85%) Infor SunSystems
2 2 (0.85%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 27 (11.44%) Azure
2 25 (10.59%) AWS
3 7 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (2.12%) Power Platform
4 5 (2.12%) SaaS
4 5 (2.12%) Serverless
5 4 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (1.69%) GCP
5 4 (1.69%) Google Workspace
6 3 (1.27%) Azure Event Grid
6 3 (1.27%) Azure Functions
6 3 (1.27%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (1.27%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (0.85%) Amazon S3
7 2 (0.85%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (0.85%) SuccessFactors
7 2 (0.85%) Supabase
8 1 (0.42%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.42%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.27%) Firewall
1 3 (1.27%) WAN
2 2 (0.85%) 4G
2 2 (0.85%) LAN
2 2 (0.85%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.42%) Broadband
3 1 (0.42%) DHCP
3 1 (0.42%) DNS
3 1 (0.42%) Internet
3 1 (0.42%) PSTN
3 1 (0.42%) RTP
3 1 (0.42%) SAN
3 1 (0.42%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.42%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.36%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.12%) MySQL
3 3 (1.27%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.27%) Power BI
4 2 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.85%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.42%) Big Data
5 1 (0.42%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.42%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.42%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 10 (4.24%) JIRA
2 9 (3.81%) Git
3 2 (0.85%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.42%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.42%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.42%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.42%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.42%) webpack
General
1 150 (63.56%) Social Skills
2 149 (63.14%) Finance
3 109 (46.19%) Legal
4 99 (41.95%) Organisational Skills
5 39 (16.53%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (14.41%) Public Sector
7 6 (2.54%) French Language
7 6 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.69%) Advertising
8 4 (1.69%) Law
9 3 (1.27%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.85%) Esports
11 1 (0.42%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.42%) German Language
11 1 (0.42%) Marketing
11 1 (0.42%) Publishing
11 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (15.25%) Developer
2 27 (11.44%) Architect
3 24 (10.17%) Solutions Architect
4 17 (7.20%) Software Developer
5 15 (6.36%) C# Developer
6 14 (5.93%) C# Software Developer
6 14 (5.93%) Graduate
6 14 (5.93%) Graduate C# Developer
6 14 (5.93%) Graduate C# Software Developer
6 14 (5.93%) Graduate Developer
6 14 (5.93%) Graduate Software Developer
6 14 (5.93%) Graduate SQL Developer
6 14 (5.93%) Senior
6 14 (5.93%) SQL Developer
7 13 (5.51%) PHP Developer
8 9 (3.81%) PHP Laravel Developer
8 9 (3.81%) Project Manager
9 7 (2.97%) IT Manager
10 5 (2.12%) Project Coordinator
10 5 (2.12%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.05%) CSS
2 15 (6.36%) jQuery
2 15 (6.36%) React
3 9 (3.81%) Laravel
3 9 (3.81%) Vue
4 6 (2.54%) .NET
5 5 (2.12%) HTML
5 5 (2.12%) RESTful
6 4 (1.69%) ASP.NET
6 4 (1.69%) Next.js
7 3 (1.27%) .NET Core
7 3 (1.27%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.27%) gRPC
7 3 (1.27%) Kafka
7 3 (1.27%) Middleware
8 2 (0.85%) CSS3
8 2 (0.85%) GraphQL
8 2 (0.85%) HTML5
8 2 (0.85%) React Native
8 2 (0.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 95 (40.25%) Podcast
1 95 (40.25%) Web Conferencing
2 13 (5.51%) Onboarding
3 8 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (2.97%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.12%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.69%) Derivative
6 4 (1.69%) Hedge funds
6 4 (1.69%) OTC Derivatives
6 4 (1.69%) Wiki
7 3 (1.27%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.85%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (0.85%) Educational Technology
8 2 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.85%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.85%) Smartphone
9 1 (0.42%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.54%) Windows
2 3 (1.27%) Android
3 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.42%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (41.95%) Customer Service
2 53 (22.46%) Problem-Solving
3 43 (18.22%) AI
4 41 (17.37%) Agile
5 39 (16.53%) Project Management
6 38 (16.10%) Analytics
7 33 (13.98%) Technical Architecture
8 28 (11.86%) B2B
9 26 (11.02%) Business Development
9 26 (11.02%) Continuous Improvement
10 24 (10.17%) Creative Problem-Solving
10 24 (10.17%) Customer Insight
10 24 (10.17%) Due Diligence
10 24 (10.17%) Financial Modelling
11 23 (9.75%) CI/CD
12 20 (8.47%) Computer Science
13 18 (7.63%) Clean Code
14 17 (7.20%) Mentoring
15 16 (6.78%) Roadmaps
16 15 (6.36%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 29 (12.29%) SQL
2 24 (10.17%) PHP
3 21 (8.90%) C#
4 20 (8.47%) Python
5 19 (8.05%) Java
6 16 (6.78%) C++
6 16 (6.78%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.39%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.85%) Bash
8 2 (0.85%) Go
9 1 (0.42%) R
Qualifications
1 95 (40.25%) BPSS Clearance
2 22 (9.32%) Degree
3 14 (5.93%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.42%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.42%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.08%) QA
2 7 (2.97%) GDPR
2 7 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.69%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.69%) MiFID
3 4 (1.69%) PMO
4 2 (0.85%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (1.27%) Active Directory
1 3 (1.27%) Docker
2 1 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.42%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (2.12%) Kubernetes
1 5 (2.12%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (1.27%) Terraform
3 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.42%) Kibana
4 1 (0.42%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 33 (13.98%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.69%) Atlassian
2 4 (1.69%) Google
3 3 (1.27%) Apple
3 3 (1.27%) ServiceNow
3 3 (1.27%) Workday
4 2 (0.85%) CheckPoint
4 2 (0.85%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (0.85%) Infor
4 2 (0.85%) Intel
4 2 (0.85%) Okta
4 2 (0.85%) SAP
4 2 (0.85%) Wyse
5 1 (0.42%) Cisco
5 1 (0.42%) EMC
5 1 (0.42%) Mapbox
5 1 (0.42%) Sophos
5 1 (0.42%) Ubiquiti
5 1 (0.42%) Veeam
5 1 (0.42%) VMware