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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 286 362
Rank change year-on-year +79 +76 -18
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Team 242 145 230
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.19% 0.93% 0.66%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.23% 2.10% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 120 92 175
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,225 £41,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £36,940 £48,350
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 £92,813 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £145,000 £118,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +15.38% +4.00% +2.63%

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 7,491 6,895 12,121
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.93% 44.34% 34.92%
Number of salaries quoted 4,618 3,491 9,338
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,649
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +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 22 June 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 6 (2.48%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.83%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.83%) Confluence
2 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.41%) Apache
3 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.24%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.83%) Infor SunSystems
2 2 (0.83%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 28 (11.57%) AWS
1 28 (11.57%) Azure
2 11 (4.55%) SaaS
3 6 (2.48%) GCP
4 5 (2.07%) Google Workspace
4 5 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (2.07%) Power Platform
5 4 (1.65%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (1.65%) Serverless
6 3 (1.24%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (0.83%) Amazon S3
7 2 (0.83%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.83%) Azure Functions
7 2 (0.83%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (0.83%) Datadog
7 2 (0.83%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (0.83%) Entra ID
7 2 (0.83%) IaaS
7 2 (0.83%) PaaS
7 2 (0.83%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.48%) Firewall
2 5 (2.07%) Broadband
3 4 (1.65%) WAN
4 2 (0.83%) DHCP
4 2 (0.83%) DNS
4 2 (0.83%) SAN
4 2 (0.83%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.83%) Wireless
5 1 (0.41%) Internet
5 1 (0.41%) PSTN
5 1 (0.41%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.79%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.31%) MySQL
3 7 (2.89%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.65%) Delta Lake
6 3 (1.24%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.24%) Power BI
7 1 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.41%) Big Data
7 1 (0.41%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.41%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.41%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.41%) Metadata
7 1 (0.41%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 14 (5.79%) Git
1 14 (5.79%) JIRA
2 4 (1.65%) GitLab
3 1 (0.41%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (0.41%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.41%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.41%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.41%) webpack
General
1 158 (65.29%) Social Skills
2 156 (64.46%) Finance
3 115 (47.52%) Legal
4 105 (43.39%) Organisational Skills
5 45 (18.60%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (14.05%) Public Sector
7 6 (2.48%) French Language
8 5 (2.07%) Advertising
8 5 (2.07%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.83%) Marketing
11 1 (0.41%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.41%) German Language
11 1 (0.41%) Law
11 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 32 (13.22%) Developer
2 30 (12.40%) Architect
3 24 (9.92%) Solutions Architect
4 16 (6.61%) Senior
4 16 (6.61%) Software Developer
5 15 (6.20%) PHP Developer
6 14 (5.79%) C# Developer
6 14 (5.79%) C# Software Developer
6 14 (5.79%) Graduate
6 14 (5.79%) Graduate C# Developer
6 14 (5.79%) Graduate C# Software Developer
6 14 (5.79%) Graduate Developer
6 14 (5.79%) Graduate Software Developer
6 14 (5.79%) Graduate SQL Developer
6 14 (5.79%) SQL Developer
7 11 (4.55%) PHP Laravel Developer
8 9 (3.72%) Project Manager
9 5 (2.07%) Coordinator
9 5 (2.07%) IT Manager
9 5 (2.07%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.44%) CSS
2 15 (6.20%) jQuery
3 13 (5.37%) React
4 11 (4.55%) Laravel
5 8 (3.31%) .NET
5 8 (3.31%) RESTful
5 8 (3.31%) Vue
6 6 (2.48%) ASP.NET
7 5 (2.07%) Middleware
8 4 (1.65%) HTML
8 4 (1.65%) PySpark
9 3 (1.24%) Kafka
9 3 (1.24%) Next.js
10 2 (0.83%) .NET Core
10 2 (0.83%) .NET Framework
10 2 (0.83%) Prisma
10 2 (0.83%) React Native
10 2 (0.83%) Web Services
11 1 (0.41%) Apache Beam
11 1 (0.41%) Flutter
Miscellaneous
1 101 (41.74%) Podcast
1 101 (41.74%) Web Conferencing
2 14 (5.79%) Onboarding
3 7 (2.89%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (2.48%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.07%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.65%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.65%) Derivative
6 4 (1.65%) OTC Derivatives
6 4 (1.65%) Wiki
7 3 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.83%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (0.83%) Educational Technology
8 2 (0.83%) Hedge funds
8 2 (0.83%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.83%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.83%) Replication
9 1 (0.41%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.41%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.07%) Linux
1 5 (2.07%) Windows
2 1 (0.41%) Android
2 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (42.15%) Customer Service
2 55 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
3 51 (21.07%) AI
4 46 (19.01%) Agile
5 38 (15.70%) Analytics
5 38 (15.70%) Project Management
6 35 (14.46%) Technical Architecture
7 30 (12.40%) Continuous Improvement
8 28 (11.57%) B2B
9 27 (11.16%) CI/CD
10 26 (10.74%) Business Development
11 24 (9.92%) Computer Science
11 24 (9.92%) Creative Problem-Solving
11 24 (9.92%) Customer Insight
11 24 (9.92%) Due Diligence
11 24 (9.92%) Financial Modelling
12 21 (8.68%) Roadmaps
13 20 (8.26%) Mentoring
14 19 (7.85%) Software Engineering
15 17 (7.02%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 34 (14.05%) SQL
2 28 (11.57%) Python
3 26 (10.74%) C#
3 26 (10.74%) PHP
4 22 (9.09%) Java
5 16 (6.61%) C++
6 14 (5.79%) TypeScript
7 10 (4.13%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.24%) Go
9 2 (0.83%) Bash
10 1 (0.41%) R
Qualifications
1 101 (41.74%) BPSS Clearance
2 27 (11.16%) Degree
3 15 (6.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.41%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.41%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.41%) PMP
4 1 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.13%) QA
2 7 (2.89%) GDPR
2 7 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.65%) MiFID
3 4 (1.65%) PMO
4 3 (1.24%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.24%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (2.89%) Docker
2 2 (0.83%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.83%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (2.89%) Kubernetes
1 7 (2.89%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (2.07%) Terraform
3 2 (0.83%) WhatsUp Gold
4 1 (0.41%) Kibana
Vendors
1 34 (14.05%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.07%) Databricks
2 5 (2.07%) Google
3 4 (1.65%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.24%) Workday
5 2 (0.83%) Broadcom
5 2 (0.83%) CheckPoint
5 2 (0.83%) Cisco
5 2 (0.83%) EMC
5 2 (0.83%) Infor
5 2 (0.83%) Meraki
5 2 (0.83%) Okta
5 2 (0.83%) SAP
5 2 (0.83%) Sophos
5 2 (0.83%) Ubiquiti
5 2 (0.83%) Veeam
5 2 (0.83%) VMware
6 1 (0.41%) Apple
6 1 (0.41%) Mapbox
6 1 (0.41%) New Relic