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 20 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 304 334
Rank change year-on-year +117 +30 -59
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Team 329 112 170
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.34% 0.69% 0.73%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.55% 1.63% 2.15%
Number of salaries quoted 118 91 88
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £40,825 £31,125 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -12.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £91,436 £73,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £93,750 £115,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £63,750 £67,500
% change year-on-year +9.80% -5.56% +11.02%

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 9,280 6,864 7,914
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.93% 42.19% 33.86%
Number of salaries quoted 5,468 3,532 4,758
10th Percentile £32,750 £30,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £89,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -4.00%

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 20 September 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 (1.52%) Confluence
2 3 (0.91%) CMS
3 2 (0.61%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Infor SunSystems
1 2 (0.61%) JDE EnterpriseOne
1 2 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (0.61%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.30%) JDE World
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 62 (18.84%) SaaS
2 28 (8.51%) Azure
3 25 (7.60%) AWS
4 5 (1.52%) GCP
4 5 (1.52%) Google Workspace
4 5 (1.52%) Power Platform
5 4 (1.22%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (1.22%) Miro
6 3 (0.91%) GitHub
6 3 (0.91%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (0.61%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (0.61%) Datadog
7 2 (0.61%) Entra ID
7 2 (0.61%) IaaS
7 2 (0.61%) PaaS
8 1 (0.30%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.30%) Azure Table
8 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.43%) Firewall
2 4 (1.22%) Broadband
3 3 (0.91%) Cisco Firepower
3 3 (0.91%) Cisco ISE
3 3 (0.91%) Network Security
3 3 (0.91%) VPN
4 2 (0.61%) DHCP
4 2 (0.61%) DNS
4 2 (0.61%) SAN
4 2 (0.61%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.61%) WAN
4 2 (0.61%) Wireless
5 1 (0.30%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.17%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.13%) MySQL
2 7 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.22%) Delta Lake
5 2 (0.61%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.30%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.30%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.30%) HBase
6 1 (0.30%) Metadata
6 1 (0.30%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.30%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.30%) Power BI
6 1 (0.30%) Power Query
6 1 (0.30%) Redis
6 1 (0.30%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (5.78%) Git
2 13 (3.95%) JIRA
3 4 (1.22%) GitLab
4 3 (0.91%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.30%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 224 (68.09%) Social Skills
2 163 (49.54%) Legal
3 157 (47.72%) Finance
4 116 (35.26%) Organisational Skills
5 76 (23.10%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (9.42%) Public Sector
7 30 (9.12%) Influencing Skills
8 28 (8.51%) Law
9 27 (8.21%) Retail
10 8 (2.43%) Marketing
11 6 (1.82%) Banking
12 5 (1.52%) Advertising
13 4 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.22%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.91%) French Language
15 2 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.61%) Front Office
15 2 (0.61%) Manufacturing
16 1 (0.30%) Fire and Rescue
16 1 (0.30%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 73 (22.19%) Senior
2 54 (16.41%) Senior Manager
3 49 (14.89%) Testing Manager
4 33 (10.03%) Architect
5 26 (7.90%) Delivery Manager
6 25 (7.60%) Developer
6 25 (7.60%) Solutions Architect
7 24 (7.29%) Service Delivery Manager
7 24 (7.29%) Service Manager
8 15 (4.56%) PHP Developer
9 11 (3.34%) PHP Laravel Developer
10 9 (2.74%) C# Developer
10 9 (2.74%) Graduate
10 9 (2.74%) Graduate C# Developer
10 9 (2.74%) Graduate C# Software Developer
10 9 (2.74%) Graduate Developer
10 9 (2.74%) Graduate Software Developer
10 9 (2.74%) Graduate SQL Developer
10 9 (2.74%) Software Developer
10 9 (2.74%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.26%) CSS
2 11 (3.34%) Laravel
2 11 (3.34%) React
2 11 (3.34%) RESTful
3 10 (3.04%) jQuery
4 9 (2.74%) Terraform
5 8 (2.43%) .NET
6 7 (2.13%) Vue
7 6 (1.82%) Node.js
8 5 (1.52%) HTML
8 5 (1.52%) Middleware
9 4 (1.22%) ASP.NET
9 4 (1.22%) Next.js
9 4 (1.22%) Prisma
9 4 (1.22%) PySpark
10 2 (0.61%) Flash
10 2 (0.61%) Kafka
10 2 (0.61%) pytest
11 1 (0.30%) CSS3
11 1 (0.30%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 108 (32.83%) Podcast
1 108 (32.83%) Web Conferencing
2 16 (4.86%) Onboarding
3 11 (3.34%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (1.82%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.52%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.22%) Derivative
7 4 (1.22%) Low-Code
7 4 (1.22%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (1.22%) Security Posture
8 3 (0.91%) AI Agents
8 3 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.61%) OTC Derivatives
9 2 (0.61%) Replication
9 2 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.61%) Wiki
10 1 (0.30%) Blog
10 1 (0.30%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.52%) Windows
2 4 (1.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (34.04%) Customer Service
2 108 (32.83%) Continuous Improvement
3 70 (21.28%) Mentoring
4 69 (20.97%) Problem-Solving
5 66 (20.06%) Software Engineering
6 64 (19.45%) DevOps
7 62 (18.84%) Project Delivery
7 62 (18.84%) Project Management
8 57 (17.33%) Test Automation
9 55 (16.72%) Enterprise Architecture
9 55 (16.72%) Virtual Team Management
10 54 (16.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 53 (16.11%) Budget Management
11 53 (16.11%) Data Management
12 52 (15.81%) AI
12 52 (15.81%) Test Strategy
13 50 (15.20%) Performance Management
13 50 (15.20%) Strategic Planning
14 49 (14.89%) Manual Testing
14 49 (14.89%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 75 (22.80%) Python
2 69 (20.97%) C#
3 63 (19.15%) JavaScript
4 60 (18.24%) TypeScript
5 50 (15.20%) PowerShell
6 25 (7.60%) SQL
7 20 (6.08%) Java
7 20 (6.08%) PHP
8 11 (3.34%) C++
9 4 (1.22%) Go
9 4 (1.22%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.30%) R
Qualifications
1 108 (32.83%) BPSS Clearance
2 22 (6.69%) Degree
3 10 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (1.52%) Security Cleared
5 4 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (1.22%) SC Cleared
6 3 (0.91%) CCNP
6 3 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.30%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.30%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.30%) PMP
7 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (18.54%) QA
2 8 (2.43%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.82%) PMO
5 2 (0.61%) MiFID
6 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.30%) GDPR
6 1 (0.30%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (2.13%) Docker
2 2 (0.61%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.61%) vSphere
3 1 (0.30%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (2.43%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (0.91%) FortiGate
3 3 (0.91%) Stealthwatch
4 2 (0.61%) WhatsUp Gold
5 1 (0.30%) Control-M
Vendors
1 40 (12.16%) Microsoft
2 5 (1.52%) Cisco
2 5 (1.52%) Databricks
2 5 (1.52%) Google
3 4 (1.22%) Oracle
4 3 (0.91%) Atlassian
4 3 (0.91%) Fortinet
4 3 (0.91%) ServiceNow
5 2 (0.61%) Broadcom
5 2 (0.61%) EMC
5 2 (0.61%) Infor
5 2 (0.61%) JD Edwards
5 2 (0.61%) Meraki
5 2 (0.61%) Sophos
5 2 (0.61%) Ubiquiti
5 2 (0.61%) Veeam
5 2 (0.61%) VMware
6 1 (0.30%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.30%) Foundry
6 1 (0.30%) Salesforce