Virtual Team Contracts in England

Virtual Team (including Distributed Team, Remote Team, Dispersed Team)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Virtual Team in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Team over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 328 290 256
Rank change year-on-year -38 -34 +39
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 216 431 787
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.59% 0.90% 1.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.94% 2.66% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 257 558
10th Percentile £328 £375 £406
25th Percentile £431 £480 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £599 £675 £675
90th Percentile £669 £800 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 6 8
10th Percentile - £26.75 £25.25
25th Percentile £13.00 £34.25 £33.61
Median hourly rate £26.00 £44.00 £44.78
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% -1.73% +2.93%
75th Percentile £26.50 £47.00 £65.91
90th Percentile - £74.00 £68.08
UK median hourly rate £24.90 £44.00 £44.78
% change year-on-year -43.41% -1.73% +2.93%

All Generic Skills
England

Virtual Team is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,145 16,189 23,846
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.58% 33.64% 33.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,307 11,254 16,999
10th Percentile £266 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £572 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% +4.05% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 814 576 631
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.21
Median hourly rate £34.21 £22.49 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +52.15% -16.66% +3.77%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £49.38
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +39.54% -18.24% +5.33%

Virtual Team
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Virtual Team as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Team in England

Virtual Team
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Team in England.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Team in England

Virtual Team
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Team in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Team in England

Virtual Team
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Team in England.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Team in England

Virtual Team
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Virtual Team in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Virtual Team in England

Virtual Team
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Team within the England region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -68 99 £500 -16.32% 86
North of England +60 58 £493 +1.65% 14
North West +52 55 £493 +2.71% 5
Midlands +36 23 £510 -11.30% 10
South East -15 21 £615 +23.00% 29
West Midlands +26 14 £450 -21.74% 6
East Midlands +18 9 £581 +12.05% 4
East of England -24 8 £475 -13.64% 8
South West -2 5 £479 +19.66% 13
Yorkshire +11 3 £590 +7.27% 9
Virtual Team
UK

Virtual Team
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (3.70%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.24%) CMS
3 5 (2.31%) Confluence
4 3 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.39%) IIS
4 3 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.93%) SAS
6 1 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.46%) Apache
6 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.46%) nginx
6 1 (0.46%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.46%) WordPress
Applications
1 29 (13.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (12.96%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (7.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.93%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.39%) Oracle 11i
2 3 (1.39%) Oracle Applications
2 3 (1.39%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.39%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (1.39%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.93%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.93%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 2 (0.93%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (0.93%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.93%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.46%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.46%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.46%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.46%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 26 (12.04%) AWS
2 17 (7.87%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (7.41%) Azure
4 14 (6.48%) IaaS
4 14 (6.48%) SaaS
5 13 (6.02%) Google Workspace
5 13 (6.02%) PaaS
6 8 (3.70%) GitHub
6 8 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (3.24%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.85%) Amazon S3
8 4 (1.85%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.39%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (0.93%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.93%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (0.93%) Figma
10 2 (0.93%) GCP
10 2 (0.93%) Mimecast
10 2 (0.93%) Rubrik
10 2 (0.93%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 18 (8.33%) Firewall
2 5 (2.31%) LAN
3 3 (1.39%) 5G
3 3 (1.39%) Internet
3 3 (1.39%) NAS
3 3 (1.39%) SAN
4 2 (0.93%) DKIM
4 2 (0.93%) DMARC
4 2 (0.93%) DNS
4 2 (0.93%) Extranet
4 2 (0.93%) Network Security
4 2 (0.93%) Structured Cabling
4 2 (0.93%) VPN
4 2 (0.93%) WAN
4 2 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.93%) Wireless
5 1 (0.46%) Broadband
5 1 (0.46%) DSL
5 1 (0.46%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.46%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.70%) Big Data
2 7 (3.24%) Power BI
3 6 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.78%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.31%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.85%) SAP HANA
6 3 (1.39%) Star Schema
7 2 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.93%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.93%) KDB
7 2 (0.93%) MySQL
7 2 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.93%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (0.93%) Tableau
8 1 (0.46%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.46%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.46%) Impala
8 1 (0.46%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.46%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 22 (10.19%) JIRA
2 11 (5.09%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.70%) Git
4 7 (3.24%) Gradle
5 6 (2.78%) CircleCI
6 4 (1.85%) ERwin
6 4 (1.85%) JUnit
7 3 (1.39%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.39%) Mockito
7 3 (1.39%) SpecFlow
7 3 (1.39%) TestRail
8 2 (0.93%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.93%) FitNesse
8 2 (0.93%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.93%) JMeter
8 2 (0.93%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.93%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.93%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.93%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.46%) GitLab
General
1 91 (42.13%) Social Skills
2 40 (18.52%) Finance
3 29 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 22 (10.19%) Legal
6 18 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (6.48%) Banking
8 12 (5.56%) Retail
9 11 (5.09%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.85%) Front Office
12 4 (1.85%) Local Government
13 3 (1.39%) Back Office
13 3 (1.39%) Investment Banking
13 3 (1.39%) Publishing
13 3 (1.39%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.93%) Billing
14 2 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.93%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 19 (8.80%) Project Manager
2 15 (6.94%) Architect
3 14 (6.48%) Problem Manager
4 13 (6.02%) Consultant
5 12 (5.56%) Analyst
5 12 (5.56%) Senior
6 10 (4.63%) Delivery Manager
7 9 (4.17%) Developer
7 9 (4.17%) IT Support
8 8 (3.70%) Integration Analyst
8 8 (3.70%) SAP Analyst
8 8 (3.70%) Software Asset Manager
8 8 (3.70%) Software Manager
9 7 (3.24%) Agile Delivery Manager
10 6 (2.78%) Designer
10 6 (2.78%) Integration Specialist
10 6 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (2.31%) Asset and Configuration Manager
11 5 (2.31%) Configuration Manager
11 5 (2.31%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.02%) REST
2 7 (3.24%) Android Jetpack
2 7 (3.24%) Jetpack Compose
3 6 (2.78%) JSON
4 5 (2.31%) OAuth
4 5 (2.31%) RAML
4 5 (2.31%) React Native
4 5 (2.31%) XML
5 4 (1.85%) Dagger
5 4 (1.85%) OkHttp
5 4 (1.85%) OpenID
5 4 (1.85%) RxJava
5 4 (1.85%) SAML
5 4 (1.85%) WireMock
6 3 (1.39%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.39%) Middleware
6 3 (1.39%) OAuth2
6 3 (1.39%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (1.39%) Spring
7 2 (0.93%) Bazel
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.19%) Self-Motivation
2 16 (7.41%) Management Information System
3 12 (5.56%) CMDB
4 11 (5.09%) Product Ownership
5 9 (4.17%) Data Centre
6 7 (3.24%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (3.24%) EPoS
6 7 (3.24%) Mobile App
7 6 (2.78%) Legacy Code
7 6 (2.78%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.85%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.85%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.85%) NHS
8 4 (1.85%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.39%) Freedom of Information
9 3 (1.39%) Freedom of Information Act
9 3 (1.39%) PKI
9 3 (1.39%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.56%) Linux
2 11 (5.09%) Windows
3 10 (4.63%) Unix
4 8 (3.70%) Android
5 1 (0.46%) AIX
5 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.46%) OS/390
5 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.46%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (33.80%) Problem-Solving
2 53 (24.54%) Virtual Team Management
3 50 (23.15%) Agile
4 33 (15.28%) Stakeholder Management
5 31 (14.35%) Quality Management
5 31 (14.35%) Service Management
6 29 (13.43%) Project Management
7 27 (12.50%) Mentoring
8 26 (12.04%) ITIL
9 25 (11.57%) Computer Science
9 25 (11.57%) Statistics
10 17 (7.87%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (7.87%) Proactive Monitoring
11 16 (7.41%) CI/CD
11 16 (7.41%) Root Cause Analysis
12 15 (6.94%) Change Management
12 15 (6.94%) Customer Requirements
12 15 (6.94%) Problem Management
12 15 (6.94%) Roadmaps
13 14 (6.48%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 13 (6.02%) SQL
2 12 (5.56%) Java
2 12 (5.56%) Python
3 7 (3.24%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.85%) JavaScript
4 4 (1.85%) Kotlin
4 4 (1.85%) PL/SQL
4 4 (1.85%) TypeScript
5 3 (1.39%) BeanShell
5 3 (1.39%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.93%) C++
6 2 (0.93%) VB
7 1 (0.46%) C#
7 1 (0.46%) Go
7 1 (0.46%) Objective-C
7 1 (0.46%) Ruby
7 1 (0.46%) Swift
7 1 (0.46%) XPath
Qualifications
1 51 (23.61%) Degree
2 50 (23.15%) Security Cleared
3 31 (14.35%) SC Cleared
4 17 (7.87%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (7.87%) DV Cleared
5 14 (6.48%) APMP
5 14 (6.48%) PMP
6 13 (6.02%) PMI Certification
7 6 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.85%) ISTQB
9 3 (1.39%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.39%) CISSP
9 3 (1.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.93%) APMG
10 2 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.93%) GIAC
10 2 (0.93%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.46%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.09%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.70%) SLA
3 7 (3.24%) QA
4 6 (2.78%) PMO
5 4 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (1.85%) NIST
5 4 (1.85%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.39%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.93%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.46%) GRC
8 1 (0.46%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (4.63%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.39%) OpenAM
2 3 (1.39%) OpenIDM
3 2 (0.93%) BitLocker
3 2 (0.93%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.93%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.46%) Docker
4 1 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 7 (3.24%) Terraform
2 6 (2.78%) Ansible
3 5 (2.31%) SCCM
4 4 (1.85%) Kubernetes
5 3 (1.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.39%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.93%) NetBackup
6 2 (0.93%) PowerBroker
6 2 (0.93%) Puppet
6 2 (0.93%) SCOM
6 2 (0.93%) SCVMM
6 2 (0.93%) VxRail
7 1 (0.46%) CASB
7 1 (0.46%) CFEngine
7 1 (0.46%) Consul
7 1 (0.46%) PingFederate
7 1 (0.46%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.46%) Salt
7 1 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.65%) Oracle
3 17 (7.87%) Dell
4 16 (7.41%) Google
5 14 (6.48%) Salesforce
6 13 (6.02%) SAP
7 4 (1.85%) Ariba
8 3 (1.39%) BMC
8 3 (1.39%) ForgeRock
8 3 (1.39%) Splunk
8 3 (1.39%) Workday
9 2 (0.93%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.93%) Databricks
9 2 (0.93%) Dell Compellent
9 2 (0.93%) Equitrac
9 2 (0.93%) F5
9 2 (0.93%) MobileIron
9 2 (0.93%) Proofpoint
9 2 (0.93%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.93%) SolarWinds