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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 307 372
Rank change year-on-year +116 +65 -82
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Team 329 135 140
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.44% 0.82% 0.57%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.79% 1.92% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 123 103 91
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,825 £31,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -8.33% -17.24%
75th Percentile £91,436 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £105,200 £115,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% +2.80%

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 8,670 7,027 8,374
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.82% 42.43% 33.94%
Number of salaries quoted 5,251 3,619 5,861
10th Percentile £34,000 £30,750 £33,930
25th Percentile £44,972 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.69%
75th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -10.16%

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 August 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 4 (1.22%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
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 61 (18.54%) SaaS
2 31 (9.42%) Azure
3 30 (9.12%) 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%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (0.61%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (0.61%) Datadog
7 2 (0.61%) Entra ID
7 2 (0.61%) GitHub
7 2 (0.61%) IaaS
7 2 (0.61%) PaaS
8 1 (0.30%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (0.30%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.30%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.30%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.30%) Serverless
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 21 (6.38%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.43%) MySQL
3 7 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.22%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.61%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.30%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.30%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.30%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.30%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.30%) Metadata
8 1 (0.30%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.30%) Power BI
8 1 (0.30%) Power Query
8 1 (0.30%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (5.47%) Git
2 13 (3.95%) JIRA
3 4 (1.22%) GitLab
4 3 (0.91%) Jenkins
General
1 222 (67.48%) Social Skills
2 164 (49.85%) Legal
3 162 (49.24%) Finance
4 112 (34.04%) Organisational Skills
5 77 (23.40%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (9.42%) Public Sector
7 28 (8.51%) Influencing Skills
7 28 (8.51%) Law
8 25 (7.60%) Retail
9 7 (2.13%) Marketing
10 5 (1.52%) Advertising
10 5 (1.52%) French Language
10 5 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.22%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.61%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.30%) Banking
13 1 (0.30%) Fire and Rescue
13 1 (0.30%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.30%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 65 (19.76%) Senior
2 53 (16.11%) Senior Manager
3 49 (14.89%) Testing Manager
4 31 (9.42%) Architect
5 30 (9.12%) Developer
6 25 (7.60%) Delivery Manager
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 14 (4.26%) C# Developer
9 14 (4.26%) C# Software Developer
9 14 (4.26%) Graduate
9 14 (4.26%) Graduate C# Developer
9 14 (4.26%) Graduate C# Software Developer
9 14 (4.26%) Graduate Developer
9 14 (4.26%) Graduate Software Developer
9 14 (4.26%) Graduate SQL Developer
9 14 (4.26%) Software Developer
9 14 (4.26%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.78%) CSS
2 15 (4.56%) jQuery
3 11 (3.34%) Laravel
3 11 (3.34%) React
3 11 (3.34%) RESTful
4 9 (2.74%) Terraform
5 7 (2.13%) .NET
5 7 (2.13%) Vue
6 6 (1.82%) Node.js
7 5 (1.52%) HTML
7 5 (1.52%) Middleware
8 4 (1.22%) ASP.NET
8 4 (1.22%) Next.js
8 4 (1.22%) Prisma
8 4 (1.22%) PySpark
9 2 (0.61%) Flash
9 2 (0.61%) Kafka
9 2 (0.61%) pytest
10 1 (0.30%) AngularJS
10 1 (0.30%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 107 (32.52%) Podcast
1 107 (32.52%) Web Conferencing
2 19 (5.78%) Onboarding
3 8 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (2.43%) Product Ownership
4 5 (1.52%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.22%) Derivative
5 4 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.22%) Low-Code
5 4 (1.22%) OTC Derivatives
5 4 (1.22%) Wiki
6 3 (0.91%) Cloud Native
6 3 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.61%) AI Agents
7 2 (0.61%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (0.61%) Educational Technology
7 2 (0.61%) Replication
7 2 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.30%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (0.30%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.52%) Windows
2 4 (1.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (33.13%) Customer Service
2 104 (31.61%) Continuous Improvement
3 74 (22.49%) Mentoring
4 67 (20.36%) Software Engineering
5 66 (20.06%) Problem-Solving
6 65 (19.76%) Project Management
7 63 (19.15%) Project Delivery
8 62 (18.84%) DevOps
9 57 (17.33%) Test Automation
10 55 (16.72%) AI
10 55 (16.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 54 (16.41%) Enterprise Architecture
12 53 (16.11%) Budget Management
12 53 (16.11%) Data Management
13 52 (15.81%) Test Strategy
13 52 (15.81%) Virtual Team Management
14 50 (15.20%) Performance Management
14 50 (15.20%) Strategic Planning
15 49 (14.89%) Manual Testing
15 49 (14.89%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 80 (24.32%) Python
2 73 (22.19%) C#
3 63 (19.15%) JavaScript
4 60 (18.24%) TypeScript
5 49 (14.89%) PowerShell
6 33 (10.03%) SQL
7 25 (7.60%) PHP
8 24 (7.29%) Java
9 16 (4.86%) C++
10 4 (1.22%) Go
11 1 (0.30%) R
Qualifications
1 107 (32.52%) BPSS Clearance
2 30 (9.12%) Degree
3 15 (4.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (0.91%) CCNP
5 3 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.61%) Security Cleared
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%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (18.24%) QA
2 9 (2.74%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.43%) PMO
4 7 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.22%) MiFID
6 3 (0.91%) GDPR
7 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (2.13%) Docker
2 2 (0.61%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (2.13%) Kubernetes
1 7 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (0.91%) FortiGate
2 3 (0.91%) Stealthwatch
3 2 (0.61%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 38 (11.55%) Microsoft
2 5 (1.52%) Atlassian
2 5 (1.52%) Cisco
2 5 (1.52%) Databricks
2 5 (1.52%) Google
3 3 (0.91%) Fortinet
3 3 (0.91%) Oracle
4 2 (0.61%) Broadcom
4 2 (0.61%) EMC
4 2 (0.61%) Infor
4 2 (0.61%) JD Edwards
4 2 (0.61%) Meraki
4 2 (0.61%) Sophos
4 2 (0.61%) Ubiquiti
4 2 (0.61%) Veeam
4 2 (0.61%) VMware
5 1 (0.30%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (0.30%) ServiceNow