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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 339 287 253
Rank change year-on-year -52 -34 +44
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 245 525 973
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.92% 1.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.90% 2.76% 3.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 301 685
10th Percentile £324 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £490 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £598 £675 £675
90th Percentile £656 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 8 8
10th Percentile - £28.45 £25.25
25th Percentile £13.00 £36.25 £33.61
Median hourly rate £24.90 £44.00 £44.78
Median % change year-on-year -43.41% -1.73% +2.93%
75th Percentile £26.50 £45.00 £65.91
90th Percentile - £63.60 £68.08
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 12,885 18,988 28,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.28% 33.25% 33.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,301 13,052 20,257
10th Percentile £269 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £674 £676 £660
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 890 627 724
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.14 £10.63 £17.23
Median hourly rate £31.25 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.98% -18.24% +4.05%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £21.04
% change year-on-year +29.55% +4.56% -12.33%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -49 214 £500 -9.09% 163
UK excluding London +6 122 £500 - 77
Work from Home +39 114 £500 -4.76% 104
London -45 96 £500 -13.79% 78
North of England +53 59 £493 +1.65% 16
North West +52 55 £493 +2.71% 8
Midlands +38 23 £510 -11.30% 16
South East -11 20 £615 +23.00% 19
West Midlands +20 14 £450 -21.74% 8
East Midlands +20 9 £581 +12.05% 8
East of England -22 8 £475 -13.64% 11
Scotland +40 7 £350 -45.10% 3
South West +14 6 £467 +6.81% 10
Yorkshire +18 4 £608 +10.45% 8
Northern Ireland 0 1 £190 -62.00%

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 (4.08%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.86%) CMS
3 5 (2.04%) Confluence
4 3 (1.22%) IIS
4 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.22%) SAS
5 2 (0.82%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.82%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.41%) Apache
6 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.41%) nginx
6 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 30 (12.24%) Microsoft Excel
1 30 (12.24%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (6.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.82%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.04%) NetSuite
3 3 (1.22%) Oracle 11i
3 3 (1.22%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (1.22%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.22%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (1.22%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.82%) CA PPM
4 2 (0.82%) JDE OneWorld
4 2 (0.82%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.82%) Oracle E-Business Tax
4 2 (0.82%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.82%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.41%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.41%) SAP R/3
5 1 (0.41%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 28 (11.43%) AWS
2 20 (8.16%) Azure
3 18 (7.35%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (5.71%) IaaS
4 14 (5.71%) SaaS
5 13 (5.31%) Google Workspace
5 13 (5.31%) PaaS
6 8 (3.27%) GitHub
6 8 (3.27%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (3.27%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.04%) GCP
8 4 (1.63%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.22%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.22%) Serverless
10 2 (0.82%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (0.82%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (0.82%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (0.82%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.82%) Figma
10 2 (0.82%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.76%) Firewall
2 6 (2.45%) LAN
3 3 (1.22%) 5G
3 3 (1.22%) Internet
3 3 (1.22%) NAS
3 3 (1.22%) Network Security
3 3 (1.22%) SAN
3 3 (1.22%) WAN
4 2 (0.82%) DKIM
4 2 (0.82%) DMARC
4 2 (0.82%) DNS
4 2 (0.82%) Extranet
4 2 (0.82%) Structured Cabling
4 2 (0.82%) VPN
4 2 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.82%) Wireless
5 1 (0.41%) Broadband
5 1 (0.41%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.41%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.67%) Big Data
2 8 (3.27%) Power BI
2 8 (3.27%) SQL Server
3 7 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (2.86%) SAP HANA
4 5 (2.04%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.22%) MySQL
5 3 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.22%) Star Schema
6 2 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.82%) Apache Hive
6 2 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.82%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.82%) Impala
6 2 (0.82%) KDB
6 2 (0.82%) SAP BW
6 2 (0.82%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (0.82%) Spark SQL
6 2 (0.82%) Tableau
7 1 (0.41%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 23 (9.39%) JIRA
2 11 (4.49%) Jenkins
3 10 (4.08%) Git
4 7 (2.86%) Gradle
5 6 (2.45%) CircleCI
6 4 (1.63%) ERwin
6 4 (1.63%) JUnit
7 3 (1.22%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.22%) Mockito
7 3 (1.22%) SpecFlow
7 3 (1.22%) TestRail
8 2 (0.82%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.82%) FitNesse
8 2 (0.82%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.82%) JMeter
8 2 (0.82%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.82%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.82%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.41%) GitLab
General
1 109 (44.49%) Social Skills
2 50 (20.41%) Finance
3 32 (13.06%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (12.24%) Public Sector
5 22 (8.98%) Legal
6 20 (8.16%) Presentation Skills
7 16 (6.53%) Banking
8 12 (4.90%) Retail
9 11 (4.49%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (3.67%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.63%) Front Office
12 4 (1.63%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.63%) Local Government
12 4 (1.63%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.22%) Back Office
13 3 (1.22%) Publishing
14 2 (0.82%) Billing
14 2 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.82%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 23 (9.39%) Project Manager
2 16 (6.53%) Consultant
3 15 (6.12%) Analyst
3 15 (6.12%) Architect
4 14 (5.71%) Developer
5 13 (5.31%) Problem Manager
6 12 (4.90%) Senior
7 10 (4.08%) Delivery Manager
8 9 (3.67%) IT Support
9 8 (3.27%) Integration Analyst
9 8 (3.27%) SAP Analyst
9 8 (3.27%) Software Asset Manager
9 8 (3.27%) Software Manager
10 7 (2.86%) Agile Delivery Manager
10 7 (2.86%) Designer
11 6 (2.45%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (2.45%) Integration Specialist
11 6 (2.45%) Solutions Architect
12 5 (2.04%) Configuration Manager
12 5 (2.04%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.53%) REST
2 7 (2.86%) Android Jetpack
2 7 (2.86%) Jetpack Compose
3 6 (2.45%) JSON
4 5 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (2.04%) OAuth
4 5 (2.04%) RAML
4 5 (2.04%) React Native
4 5 (2.04%) SAML
4 5 (2.04%) Spring
4 5 (2.04%) XML
5 4 (1.63%) Dagger
5 4 (1.63%) OkHttp
5 4 (1.63%) OpenID
5 4 (1.63%) RxJava
5 4 (1.63%) Spring Boot
5 4 (1.63%) WireMock
6 3 (1.22%) Kafka
6 3 (1.22%) Node.js
6 3 (1.22%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.39%) Self-Motivation
2 18 (7.35%) Management Information System
3 12 (4.90%) CMDB
3 12 (4.90%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.67%) Data Centre
5 8 (3.27%) Mobile App
6 7 (2.86%) EPoS
7 6 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.45%) Legacy Code
7 6 (2.45%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.63%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.63%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.63%) NHS
8 4 (1.63%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.22%) FMCG
9 3 (1.22%) Freedom of Information
9 3 (1.22%) Freedom of Information Act
9 3 (1.22%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.71%) Linux
1 14 (5.71%) Windows
2 13 (5.31%) Unix
3 8 (3.27%) Android
4 2 (0.82%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.41%) AIX
5 1 (0.41%) CentOS
5 1 (0.41%) OS/390
5 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.41%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (35.10%) Problem-Solving
2 52 (21.22%) Agile
2 52 (21.22%) Virtual Team Management
3 38 (15.51%) Stakeholder Management
4 34 (13.88%) Project Management
5 33 (13.47%) Service Management
6 30 (12.24%) Quality Management
7 28 (11.43%) ITIL
7 28 (11.43%) Mentoring
8 24 (9.80%) Computer Science
8 24 (9.80%) Statistics
9 19 (7.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (6.94%) Roadmaps
11 16 (6.53%) Change Management
11 16 (6.53%) Migration
11 16 (6.53%) Proactive Monitoring
11 16 (6.53%) Root Cause Analysis
12 15 (6.12%) Customer Requirements
12 15 (6.12%) Problem Management
12 15 (6.12%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 18 (7.35%) SQL
2 14 (5.71%) Java
3 13 (5.31%) Python
4 7 (2.86%) PowerShell
5 5 (2.04%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.04%) TypeScript
6 4 (1.63%) Kotlin
6 4 (1.63%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.22%) BeanShell
7 3 (1.22%) Perl
7 3 (1.22%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.82%) C
8 2 (0.82%) C++
8 2 (0.82%) VB
9 1 (0.41%) C#
9 1 (0.41%) Go
9 1 (0.41%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.41%) Ruby
9 1 (0.41%) Swift
9 1 (0.41%) XPath
Qualifications
1 52 (21.22%) Degree
1 52 (21.22%) Security Cleared
2 32 (13.06%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.94%) DV Cleared
4 15 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (5.71%) APMP
5 14 (5.71%) PMP
6 13 (5.31%) PMI Certification
7 6 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.22%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.22%) CISSP
8 3 (1.22%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (1.22%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.82%) APMG
9 2 (0.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.82%) GIAC
10 1 (0.41%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.49%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.27%) SLA
3 7 (2.86%) PMO
3 7 (2.86%) QA
4 4 (1.63%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 4 (1.63%) NIST
4 4 (1.63%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.82%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.41%) COREP
6 1 (0.41%) FINREP
6 1 (0.41%) GRC
6 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (4.90%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.22%) OpenAM
2 3 (1.22%) OpenIDM
3 2 (0.82%) BitLocker
3 2 (0.82%) Docker
3 2 (0.82%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.82%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (2.45%) SCCM
2 5 (2.04%) Ansible
2 5 (2.04%) Terraform
3 4 (1.63%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.22%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.82%) NetBackup
5 2 (0.82%) PowerBroker
5 2 (0.82%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.82%) Puppet
5 2 (0.82%) SCOM
5 2 (0.82%) SCVMM
5 2 (0.82%) VxRail
6 1 (0.41%) Argo
6 1 (0.41%) CASB
6 1 (0.41%) Consul
6 1 (0.41%) Grafana
6 1 (0.41%) PingFederate
6 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 41 (16.73%) Microsoft
2 24 (9.80%) Oracle
3 20 (8.16%) Google
3 20 (8.16%) SAP
4 19 (7.76%) Dell
5 15 (6.12%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.86%) Ariba
7 4 (1.63%) HP
8 3 (1.22%) BMC
8 3 (1.22%) ForgeRock
8 3 (1.22%) Remedy
8 3 (1.22%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.22%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.22%) Workday
9 2 (0.82%) Databricks
9 2 (0.82%) Dell Compellent
9 2 (0.82%) Equitrac
9 2 (0.82%) F5
9 2 (0.82%) MobileIron
9 2 (0.82%) Proofpoint