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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 332 279 256
Rank change year-on-year -53 -23 +39
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 258 520 972
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.60% 0.93% 1.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.99% 2.78% 3.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 300 679
10th Percentile £322 £399 £406
25th Percentile £414 £495 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £582 £675 £675
90th Percentile £650 £825 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.40% - +14.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 7 11
10th Percentile £13.00 £27.60 £25.68
25th Percentile £13.75 £34.50 £37.90
Median hourly rate £24.90 £44.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.41% -12.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £26.50 £46.00 £66.39
90th Percentile - £68.80 £67.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.00 £100.00 £62.56
% change year-on-year -74.00% +59.85% +48.95%

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 12,955 18,685 29,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.09% 33.33% 33.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,317 12,877 20,364
10th Percentile £270 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 922 612 691
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.18 £10.63 £17.19
Median hourly rate £35.00 £22.13 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +58.19% -17.99% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £74.93 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.61 £22.00 £21.25
% change year-on-year +57.30% +3.53% -7.61%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -49 224 £500 -9.09% 168
UK excluding London +1 121 £493 -1.40% 82
Work from Home +30 118 £500 -4.76% 91
London -39 108 £498 -17.08% 93
North of England +56 57 £493 +2.71% 13
North West +55 52 £493 +2.71% 8
South East -18 23 £588 +22.40% 22
Midlands +30 22 £520 -9.57% 12
West Midlands +15 13 £450 -21.74% 10
East Midlands +18 9 £581 +12.05% 2
Scotland +29 8 £339 -45.80% 5
East of England -24 7 £488 -11.36% 18
Yorkshire +17 5 £564 +2.50% 5
South West -1 5 £479 +12.62% 10
Northern Ireland -2 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 12 (4.65%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.33%) CMS
3 5 (1.94%) Confluence
3 5 (1.94%) IIS
3 5 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.55%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.16%) SAS
6 2 (0.78%) Apache
6 2 (0.78%) nginx
6 2 (0.78%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.78%) WordPress
7 1 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 30 (11.63%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (11.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (6.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.78%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.39%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 7 (2.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.94%) NetSuite
3 4 (1.55%) Oracle 11i
3 4 (1.55%) Oracle Applications
3 4 (1.55%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.55%) Oracle EBS R12
3 4 (1.55%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.78%) JDE OneWorld
4 2 (0.78%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.78%) Oracle E-Business Tax
4 2 (0.78%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.78%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.39%) CA PPM
5 1 (0.39%) Endur
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.39%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.39%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 34 (13.18%) AWS
2 25 (9.69%) Azure
3 19 (7.36%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (5.43%) IaaS
4 14 (5.43%) SaaS
5 13 (5.04%) Google Workspace
5 13 (5.04%) PaaS
6 9 (3.49%) GitHub
6 9 (3.49%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (3.10%) Power Platform
8 6 (2.33%) GCP
9 5 (1.94%) Amazon S3
9 5 (1.94%) Entra ID
9 5 (1.94%) WhatsApp
10 3 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.16%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.16%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 3 (1.16%) Figma
10 3 (1.16%) Mimecast
10 3 (1.16%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 21 (8.14%) Firewall
2 6 (2.33%) LAN
3 5 (1.94%) DNS
4 4 (1.55%) Internet
4 4 (1.55%) NAS
4 4 (1.55%) SAN
5 3 (1.16%) 5G
5 3 (1.16%) DKIM
5 3 (1.16%) DMARC
5 3 (1.16%) Extranet
5 3 (1.16%) VPN
5 3 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.16%) Wireless
6 2 (0.78%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (0.78%) WAN
7 1 (0.39%) 4G
7 1 (0.39%) DHCP
7 1 (0.39%) LTE
7 1 (0.39%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.39%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.26%) Big Data
2 9 (3.49%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.10%) Power BI
3 8 (3.10%) Relational Database
4 7 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (2.71%) SAP HANA
5 6 (2.33%) MySQL
6 4 (1.55%) Apache Hive
6 4 (1.55%) Impala
6 4 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.55%) Spark SQL
7 3 (1.16%) Star Schema
8 2 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.78%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.78%) KDB
8 2 (0.78%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.78%) SAP BW
8 2 (0.78%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (9.30%) JIRA
2 13 (5.04%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.26%) Git
4 8 (3.10%) Gradle
5 7 (2.71%) CircleCI
6 5 (1.94%) JUnit
7 4 (1.55%) ERwin
8 3 (1.16%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.16%) Mockito
8 3 (1.16%) SpecFlow
8 3 (1.16%) TestRail
9 2 (0.78%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.78%) FitNesse
9 2 (0.78%) GitLab
9 2 (0.78%) IntelliJ
9 2 (0.78%) JMeter
9 2 (0.78%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.78%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.78%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 116 (44.96%) Social Skills
2 59 (22.87%) Finance
3 30 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (11.63%) Public Sector
4 22 (8.53%) Legal
4 22 (8.53%) Presentation Skills
5 18 (6.98%) Banking
6 12 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (4.26%) Retail
8 9 (3.49%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.33%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.94%) Local Government
11 4 (1.55%) Front Office
12 3 (1.16%) Back Office
12 3 (1.16%) Publishing
12 3 (1.16%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.78%) Billing
13 2 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.78%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 25 (9.69%) Project Manager
2 19 (7.36%) Developer
3 18 (6.98%) Architect
3 18 (6.98%) Consultant
4 14 (5.43%) Problem Manager
5 13 (5.04%) Analyst
5 13 (5.04%) Senior
6 11 (4.26%) Delivery Manager
7 9 (3.49%) IT Support
8 8 (3.10%) Agile Delivery Manager
8 8 (3.10%) Integration Analyst
8 8 (3.10%) SAP Analyst
8 8 (3.10%) Software Asset Manager
8 8 (3.10%) Software Manager
8 8 (3.10%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (2.71%) Designer
10 6 (2.33%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (2.33%) Integration Specialist
10 6 (2.33%) Support Engineer
11 5 (1.94%) Configuration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.59%) REST
2 8 (3.10%) Android Jetpack
2 8 (3.10%) Jetpack Compose
3 6 (2.33%) JSON
4 5 (1.94%) Dagger
4 5 (1.94%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (1.94%) OAuth
4 5 (1.94%) RAML
4 5 (1.94%) React Native
4 5 (1.94%) SAML
4 5 (1.94%) Spring
4 5 (1.94%) XML
5 4 (1.55%) OkHttp
5 4 (1.55%) OpenID
5 4 (1.55%) RxJava
5 4 (1.55%) Spring Boot
5 4 (1.55%) WireMock
6 3 (1.16%) Node.js
6 3 (1.16%) OAuth2
6 3 (1.16%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.91%) Self-Motivation
2 16 (6.20%) Management Information System
3 12 (4.65%) CMDB
4 11 (4.26%) Product Ownership
5 10 (3.88%) Data Centre
6 8 (3.10%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.10%) Mobile App
7 7 (2.71%) Legacy Code
8 6 (2.33%) EPoS
9 5 (1.94%) NHS
9 5 (1.94%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.55%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.55%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.55%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.55%) PKI
11 3 (1.16%) Fat Client
11 3 (1.16%) FMCG
11 3 (1.16%) Freedom of Information Act
11 3 (1.16%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.20%) Linux
2 15 (5.81%) Windows
3 14 (5.43%) Unix
4 10 (3.88%) Android
5 3 (1.16%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.78%) CentOS
6 2 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.39%) AIX
7 1 (0.39%) OS/390
7 1 (0.39%) Solaris
7 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (34.11%) Problem-Solving
2 57 (22.09%) Agile
3 56 (21.71%) Virtual Team Management
4 38 (14.73%) Stakeholder Management
5 34 (13.18%) Project Management
6 33 (12.79%) Service Management
7 32 (12.40%) ITIL
7 32 (12.40%) Quality Management
8 30 (11.63%) Mentoring
9 28 (10.85%) Computer Science
10 25 (9.69%) Statistics
11 20 (7.75%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (6.98%) CI/CD
12 18 (6.98%) Root Cause Analysis
13 17 (6.59%) Migration
13 17 (6.59%) Problem Management
13 17 (6.59%) Scrum
14 16 (6.20%) Change Management
14 16 (6.20%) Continuous Integration
14 16 (6.20%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 24 (9.30%) SQL
2 15 (5.81%) Java
3 14 (5.43%) Python
4 9 (3.49%) PowerShell
5 6 (2.33%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.33%) Shell Script
6 5 (1.94%) Kotlin
6 5 (1.94%) PL/SQL
6 5 (1.94%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.16%) BeanShell
7 3 (1.16%) VB
8 2 (0.78%) C++
8 2 (0.78%) Perl
9 1 (0.39%) C
9 1 (0.39%) C#
9 1 (0.39%) Go
9 1 (0.39%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.39%) PHP
9 1 (0.39%) Swift
9 1 (0.39%) XPath
Qualifications
1 56 (21.71%) Degree
2 53 (20.54%) Security Cleared
3 32 (12.40%) SC Cleared
4 19 (7.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (6.59%) DV Cleared
6 15 (5.81%) PMP
7 14 (5.43%) PMI Certification
8 13 (5.04%) APMP
9 5 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.55%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.55%) ISTQB
11 3 (1.16%) CISSP
11 3 (1.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (1.16%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.78%) APMG
12 2 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.78%) GIAC
13 1 (0.39%) CEH
13 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.26%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.49%) QA
2 9 (3.49%) SLA
3 7 (2.71%) PMO
4 4 (1.55%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (1.16%) NIST
5 3 (1.16%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.78%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.39%) GRC
7 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (5.43%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.55%) Hyper-V
2 4 (1.55%) Microsoft App-V
2 4 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.16%) BitLocker
3 3 (1.16%) OpenAM
3 3 (1.16%) OpenIDM
4 2 (0.78%) Docker
5 1 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.39%) XenApp
5 1 (0.39%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (3.10%) Terraform
2 7 (2.71%) Ansible
2 7 (2.71%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.33%) SCCM
4 4 (1.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.16%) NetBackup
5 3 (1.16%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.16%) SCOM
5 3 (1.16%) SCVMM
5 3 (1.16%) VxRail
6 2 (0.78%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.78%) Puppet
6 2 (0.78%) Salt
7 1 (0.39%) Argo
7 1 (0.39%) CASB
7 1 (0.39%) Consul
7 1 (0.39%) PingFederate
7 1 (0.39%) PowerBroker
7 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 44 (17.05%) Microsoft
2 28 (10.85%) Oracle
3 23 (8.91%) Google
4 20 (7.75%) Dell
4 20 (7.75%) SAP
5 15 (5.81%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.71%) Ariba
7 5 (1.94%) HP
8 4 (1.55%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.55%) VMware
9 3 (1.16%) Brio
9 3 (1.16%) Brocade
9 3 (1.16%) F5
9 3 (1.16%) ForgeRock
9 3 (1.16%) Mitel
9 3 (1.16%) MobileIron
9 3 (1.16%) Proofpoint
9 3 (1.16%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.16%) Splunk
9 3 (1.16%) Wyse