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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 286 393
Rank change year-on-year +102 +107 -47
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Team 317 152 151
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.47% 0.92% 0.52%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.88% 2.16% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 122 105 111
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,000 £39,250
25th Percentile £43,375 £36,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -4.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £91,436 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £140,677 £115,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £60,300
% change year-on-year +15.38% +7.79% -0.82%

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 8,169 7,048 10,104
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.81% 42.78% 34.67%
Number of salaries quoted 5,045 3,632 7,531
10th Percentile £34,704 £31,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +1.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £58,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.87% +4.55% -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 21 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 4 (1.26%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.63%) Confluence
2 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.95%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.63%) Infor SunSystems
2 2 (0.63%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 2 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.63%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.32%) JDE World
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 55 (17.35%) SaaS
2 30 (9.46%) Azure
3 28 (8.83%) AWS
4 5 (1.58%) GCP
4 5 (1.58%) Google Workspace
4 5 (1.58%) Power Platform
5 4 (1.26%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (0.95%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (0.95%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (0.63%) Amazon S3
7 2 (0.63%) AWS Lambda
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
7 2 (0.63%) Serverless
8 1 (0.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.32%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.32%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.58%) Firewall
2 4 (1.26%) Broadband
3 2 (0.63%) DHCP
3 2 (0.63%) DNS
3 2 (0.63%) SAN
3 2 (0.63%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.63%) WAN
3 2 (0.63%) Wireless
4 1 (0.32%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.99%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.52%) MySQL
3 6 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (1.26%) Delta Lake
6 2 (0.63%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.32%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.32%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.32%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.32%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.32%) Metadata
7 1 (0.32%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.32%) Power BI
7 1 (0.32%) Power Query
7 1 (0.32%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (5.05%) Git
2 14 (4.42%) JIRA
3 4 (1.26%) GitLab
4 1 (0.32%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.32%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.32%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.32%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.32%) webpack
General
1 208 (65.62%) Social Skills
2 162 (51.10%) Legal
3 160 (50.47%) Finance
4 107 (33.75%) Organisational Skills
5 76 (23.97%) Analytical Skills
6 35 (11.04%) Public Sector
7 28 (8.83%) Law
8 25 (7.89%) Influencing Skills
9 24 (7.57%) Retail
10 6 (1.89%) French Language
11 5 (1.58%) Advertising
11 5 (1.58%) Marketing
12 4 (1.26%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.95%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.63%) Publishing
15 1 (0.32%) Fire and Rescue
15 1 (0.32%) General Ledger
15 1 (0.32%) German Language
Job Titles
1 59 (18.61%) Senior
2 48 (15.14%) Senior Manager
3 44 (13.88%) Testing Manager
4 31 (9.78%) Architect
5 30 (9.46%) Developer
6 25 (7.89%) Delivery Manager
6 25 (7.89%) Solutions Architect
7 24 (7.57%) Service Delivery Manager
7 24 (7.57%) Service Manager
8 15 (4.73%) PHP Developer
9 14 (4.42%) C# Developer
9 14 (4.42%) C# Software Developer
9 14 (4.42%) Graduate
9 14 (4.42%) Graduate C# Developer
9 14 (4.42%) Graduate C# Software Developer
9 14 (4.42%) Graduate Developer
9 14 (4.42%) Graduate Software Developer
9 14 (4.42%) Graduate SQL Developer
9 14 (4.42%) Software Developer
9 14 (4.42%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.99%) CSS
2 15 (4.73%) jQuery
3 11 (3.47%) Laravel
3 11 (3.47%) React
4 10 (3.15%) RESTful
5 7 (2.21%) Vue
6 5 (1.58%) .NET
6 5 (1.58%) HTML
6 5 (1.58%) Middleware
7 4 (1.26%) ASP.NET
7 4 (1.26%) PySpark
8 3 (0.95%) Next.js
8 3 (0.95%) Node.js
8 3 (0.95%) Prisma
9 2 (0.63%) Kafka
10 1 (0.32%) AngularJS
10 1 (0.32%) CSS3
10 1 (0.32%) HTML5
10 1 (0.32%) JSON
10 1 (0.32%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 103 (32.49%) Podcast
1 103 (32.49%) Web Conferencing
2 17 (5.36%) Onboarding
3 8 (2.52%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (1.58%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.26%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.26%) Derivative
6 4 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.26%) Low-Code
6 4 (1.26%) OTC Derivatives
6 4 (1.26%) Wiki
7 2 (0.63%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (0.63%) Educational Technology
7 2 (0.63%) Replication
7 2 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.32%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.32%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.32%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.58%) Windows
2 4 (1.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (32.81%) Customer Service
2 102 (32.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 66 (20.82%) Mentoring
3 66 (20.82%) Project Management
4 63 (19.87%) Problem-Solving
4 63 (19.87%) Software Engineering
5 56 (17.67%) DevOps
6 55 (17.35%) AI
7 52 (16.40%) Project Delivery
7 52 (16.40%) Test Automation
8 50 (15.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 49 (15.46%) Enterprise Architecture
10 48 (15.14%) Budget Management
10 48 (15.14%) Data Management
11 47 (14.83%) Agile
11 47 (14.83%) Virtual Team Management
12 45 (14.20%) Performance Management
12 45 (14.20%) Test Strategy
13 44 (13.88%) Manual Testing
13 44 (13.88%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 72 (22.71%) Python
2 68 (21.45%) C#
3 56 (17.67%) TypeScript
4 55 (17.35%) JavaScript
5 44 (13.88%) PowerShell
6 32 (10.09%) SQL
7 26 (8.20%) PHP
8 23 (7.26%) Java
9 16 (5.05%) C++
10 4 (1.26%) Go
11 1 (0.32%) Bash
11 1 (0.32%) R
Qualifications
1 103 (32.49%) BPSS Clearance
2 28 (8.83%) Degree
3 15 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.26%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (0.63%) PMI Certification
5 2 (0.63%) PMP
5 2 (0.63%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.32%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.32%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (17.67%) QA
2 7 (2.21%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.21%) GDPR
2 7 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.58%) PMO
4 4 (1.26%) MiFID
5 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (1.58%) Docker
2 2 (0.63%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (2.21%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (1.89%) Terraform
3 5 (1.58%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.63%) WhatsUp Gold
5 1 (0.32%) Kibana
Vendors
1 34 (10.73%) Microsoft
2 5 (1.58%) Databricks
2 5 (1.58%) Google
3 4 (1.26%) Atlassian
4 3 (0.95%) Oracle
4 3 (0.95%) Workday
5 2 (0.63%) Broadcom
5 2 (0.63%) Cisco
5 2 (0.63%) EMC
5 2 (0.63%) Infor
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 (0.32%) Apple
6 1 (0.32%) New Relic
6 1 (0.32%) ServiceNow