Virtual Team Contracts

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Virtual Team in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Team over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 355 304 259
Rank change year-on-year -51 -45 +34
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 250 531 984
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.90% 1.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.91% 2.70% 3.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 312 691
10th Percentile £325 £357 £400
25th Percentile £430 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £606 £675 £675
90th Percentile £656 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +13.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 7 9
10th Percentile - £35.20 £23.82
25th Percentile £13.00 £41.00 £25.68
Median hourly rate £24.90 £44.00 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year -43.41% +11.25% -9.08%
75th Percentile £26.50 £46.00 £65.42
90th Percentile - £68.80 £67.84
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.00 £100.00 £63.62
% change year-on-year -74.00% +57.20% +25.97%

All Generic Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,086 19,646 29,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.32% 33.26% 33.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,417 13,497 20,479
10th Percentile £263 £309 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £676 £657
90th Percentile £798 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 902 642 722
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £30.14 £22.49 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year +34.04% -17.49% +3.52%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.44 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.25 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +28.41% +10.00% -16.67%

Virtual Team
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Team in the UK

Virtual Team
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Team in the UK

Virtual Team
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Team over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Team in the UK

Virtual Team
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Team in the UK

Virtual Team
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Virtual Team over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Virtual Team in the UK

Virtual Team
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 5 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
England -40 219 £500 -9.09% 225
UK excluding London +17 127 £500 - 104
Work from Home +44 120 £500 -4.76% 121
London -37 95 £516 -10.22% 113
North of England +65 62 £493 +0.61% 19
North West +62 57 £493 +1.65% 12
Midlands +32 23 £510 -1.64% 16
South East -10 21 £615 +23.00% 34
West Midlands +24 14 £450 -21.74% 6
East Midlands +21 9 £581 +26.30% 10
South West +21 8 £465 +6.26% 15
East of England -18 8 £475 -13.64% 12
Scotland +37 6 £375 -41.18% 5
Yorkshire +19 5 £625 +13.64% 7
Northern Ireland +3 1 £190 -62.00% 1

Virtual Team
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 10 (4.00%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.80%) CMS
3 5 (2.00%) Confluence
4 3 (1.20%) IIS
4 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.20%) SAS
5 2 (0.80%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.40%) Apache
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.40%) nginx
6 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 29 (11.60%) Microsoft Excel
1 29 (11.60%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (6.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.80%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (3.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.00%) NetSuite
3 3 (1.20%) Oracle 11i
3 3 (1.20%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (1.20%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.20%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (1.20%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.80%) CA PPM
4 2 (0.80%) JDE OneWorld
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle E-Business Tax
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.40%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.40%) SAP R/3
5 1 (0.40%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 28 (11.20%) AWS
2 21 (8.40%) Azure
3 17 (6.80%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (5.60%) IaaS
4 14 (5.60%) SaaS
5 13 (5.20%) Google Workspace
5 13 (5.20%) PaaS
6 8 (3.20%) GitHub
6 8 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (2.80%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.00%) GCP
9 4 (1.60%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.20%) Serverless
11 2 (0.80%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.80%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (0.80%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (0.80%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (0.80%) Figma
11 2 (0.80%) Miro
11 2 (0.80%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.00%) Firewall
2 7 (2.80%) LAN
3 4 (1.60%) Network Security
3 4 (1.60%) WAN
4 3 (1.20%) 5G
4 3 (1.20%) DSL
4 3 (1.20%) Internet
4 3 (1.20%) NAS
4 3 (1.20%) SAN
5 2 (0.80%) DKIM
5 2 (0.80%) DMARC
5 2 (0.80%) DNS
5 2 (0.80%) Extranet
5 2 (0.80%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.80%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (0.80%) VPN
5 2 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.80%) Wireless
5 2 (0.80%) WLAN
6 1 (0.40%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.20%) Big Data
1 8 (3.20%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (2.80%) Power BI
2 7 (2.80%) SAP HANA
3 4 (1.60%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.20%) Star Schema
5 2 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.80%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.80%) KDB
5 2 (0.80%) MySQL
5 2 (0.80%) SAP BW
5 2 (0.80%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (0.80%) Tableau
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.40%) DataStage
6 1 (0.40%) Impala
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 23 (9.20%) JIRA
2 12 (4.80%) Jenkins
3 10 (4.00%) Git
4 7 (2.80%) Gradle
5 6 (2.40%) CircleCI
6 4 (1.60%) ERwin
6 4 (1.60%) JUnit
7 3 (1.20%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.20%) Mockito
7 3 (1.20%) SpecFlow
7 3 (1.20%) TestRail
8 2 (0.80%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.80%) FitNesse
8 2 (0.80%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.80%) JMeter
8 2 (0.80%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.80%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.80%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.80%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.40%) GitLab
General
1 110 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 51 (20.40%) Finance
3 35 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (12.80%) Public Sector
5 22 (8.80%) Legal
6 20 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (6.00%) Banking
8 12 (4.80%) Retail
9 11 (4.40%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (4.40%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (2.00%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.60%) Front Office
12 4 (1.60%) Local Government
13 3 (1.20%) Back Office
13 3 (1.20%) Investment Banking
13 3 (1.20%) Publishing
14 2 (0.80%) Billing
14 2 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.80%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 22 (8.80%) Project Manager
2 18 (7.20%) Consultant
3 16 (6.40%) Analyst
4 15 (6.00%) Architect
5 14 (5.60%) Developer
5 14 (5.60%) Senior
6 13 (5.20%) Problem Manager
7 9 (3.60%) Delivery Manager
7 9 (3.60%) IT Support
8 8 (3.20%) Integration Analyst
8 8 (3.20%) SAP Analyst
8 8 (3.20%) Software Asset Manager
8 8 (3.20%) Software Manager
9 7 (2.80%) Designer
10 6 (2.40%) Agile Delivery Manager
10 6 (2.40%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (2.40%) Integration Specialist
10 6 (2.40%) Senior Manager
10 6 (2.40%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (2.00%) Asset and Configuration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.00%) REST
2 7 (2.80%) Android Jetpack
2 7 (2.80%) Jetpack Compose
3 6 (2.40%) JSON
4 5 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (2.00%) OAuth
4 5 (2.00%) RAML
4 5 (2.00%) React Native
4 5 (2.00%) SAML
4 5 (2.00%) Spring
4 5 (2.00%) XML
5 4 (1.60%) Bazel
5 4 (1.60%) Dagger
5 4 (1.60%) OkHttp
5 4 (1.60%) OpenID
5 4 (1.60%) RxJava
5 4 (1.60%) Spring Boot
5 4 (1.60%) WireMock
6 3 (1.20%) Kafka
6 3 (1.20%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.20%) Self-Motivation
2 18 (7.20%) Management Information System
3 12 (4.80%) CMDB
4 10 (4.00%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.60%) Data Centre
6 8 (3.20%) Mobile App
6 8 (3.20%) Public Cloud
7 7 (2.80%) EPoS
8 6 (2.40%) Legacy Code
9 5 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.60%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.60%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.60%) NHS
10 4 (1.60%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.20%) FMCG
11 3 (1.20%) Freedom of Information Act
11 3 (1.20%) PKI
11 3 (1.20%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.40%) Windows
2 15 (6.00%) Linux
3 14 (5.60%) Unix
4 8 (3.20%) Android
5 2 (0.80%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.40%) AIX
6 1 (0.40%) CentOS
6 1 (0.40%) OS/390
6 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.40%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (36.00%) Problem-Solving
2 51 (20.40%) Agile
2 51 (20.40%) Virtual Team Management
3 39 (15.60%) Stakeholder Management
4 34 (13.60%) Project Management
5 33 (13.20%) Service Management
6 28 (11.20%) Mentoring
6 28 (11.20%) Quality Management
7 27 (10.80%) ITIL
8 24 (9.60%) Statistics
9 23 (9.20%) Computer Science
10 19 (7.60%) Roadmaps
11 18 (7.20%) CI/CD
12 17 (6.80%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (6.80%) Decision-Making
13 16 (6.40%) DevOps
13 16 (6.40%) Migration
13 16 (6.40%) Proactive Monitoring
13 16 (6.40%) Root Cause Analysis
14 15 (6.00%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 17 (6.80%) SQL
2 14 (5.60%) Java
3 13 (5.20%) Python
4 7 (2.80%) PowerShell
5 5 (2.00%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.00%) PL/SQL
5 5 (2.00%) TypeScript
6 4 (1.60%) Kotlin
7 3 (1.20%) BeanShell
7 3 (1.20%) Go
7 3 (1.20%) Perl
7 3 (1.20%) Ruby
8 2 (0.80%) C
8 2 (0.80%) C++
8 2 (0.80%) VB
9 1 (0.40%) C#
9 1 (0.40%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.40%) Swift
9 1 (0.40%) XPath
Qualifications
1 52 (20.80%) Degree
2 51 (20.40%) Security Cleared
3 31 (12.40%) SC Cleared
4 17 (6.80%) DV Cleared
5 16 (6.40%) PMP
6 14 (5.60%) APMP
6 14 (5.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (5.20%) PMI Certification
8 6 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.20%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.20%) CISSP
9 3 (1.20%) ISTQB
9 3 (1.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (1.20%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.80%) APMG
10 2 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.80%) GIAC
10 2 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.40%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.20%) PMO
2 8 (3.20%) SLA
3 7 (2.80%) QA
4 4 (1.60%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 4 (1.60%) NIST
4 4 (1.60%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.80%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.40%) COREP
6 1 (0.40%) FINREP
6 1 (0.40%) GDPR
6 1 (0.40%) GRC
6 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (5.20%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.60%) Docker
3 3 (1.20%) OpenAM
3 3 (1.20%) OpenIDM
4 2 (0.80%) BitLocker
4 2 (0.80%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.80%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (2.40%) Ansible
1 6 (2.40%) SCCM
2 5 (2.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.00%) Progress Chef
3 4 (1.60%) PowerBroker
3 4 (1.60%) Puppet
3 4 (1.60%) Terraform
4 3 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (1.20%) CFEngine
4 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.80%) NetBackup
5 2 (0.80%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.80%) SCOM
5 2 (0.80%) SCVMM
5 2 (0.80%) VxRail
6 1 (0.40%) Argo
6 1 (0.40%) CASB
6 1 (0.40%) PingFederate
6 1 (0.40%) Salt
6 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 24 (9.60%) Oracle
3 21 (8.40%) SAP
4 19 (7.60%) Dell
4 19 (7.60%) Google
5 15 (6.00%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.20%) Ariba
7 4 (1.60%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.60%) HP
7 4 (1.60%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.20%) BMC
8 3 (1.20%) ForgeRock
8 3 (1.20%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.20%) Workday
9 2 (0.80%) Avaya
9 2 (0.80%) Commvault
9 2 (0.80%) Databricks
9 2 (0.80%) Dell Compellent
9 2 (0.80%) Equitrac
9 2 (0.80%) Juniper