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 in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Team over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 325 286 257
Rank change year-on-year -39 -29 +38
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 231 419 778
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.62% 0.89% 1.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.04% 2.65% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 252 548
10th Percentile £336 £376 £407
25th Percentile £414 £492 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £580 £675 £675
90th Percentile £650 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £493 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -10.36% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 6 9
10th Percentile £13.00 £26.75 £25.39
25th Percentile £23.27 £34.25 £36.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £44.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% -12.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £26.50 £47.00 £65.42
90th Percentile - £74.00 £67.36
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £44.00 £45.25
% change year-on-year -40.91% -2.76% +7.74%

All Generic Skills
England

Virtual Team falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,349 15,786 23,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.26% 33.56% 33.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,319 11,005 17,096
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £698 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 850 549 600
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.39 £10.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +6.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.04
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 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
London -49 108 £500 -20.00% 62
North of England +44 55 £493 -10.36% 16
North West +46 50 £493 +2.71% 11
South East -1 31 £539 +17.12% 16
Midlands +24 22 £520 -9.57% 14
West Midlands +19 13 £450 -21.74% 9
East Midlands +13 9 £581 -20.87% 5
East of England -24 7 £488 -11.36% 14
South West -6 6 £479 +6.37% 10
Yorkshire +10 5 £564 +2.50% 5
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 11 (4.76%) Confluence
2 10 (4.33%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.16%) CMS
3 5 (2.16%) IIS
4 4 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.87%) Apache
6 2 (0.87%) nginx
6 2 (0.87%) SAS
6 2 (0.87%) WordPress
7 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
Applications
1 28 (12.12%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (11.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (6.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.87%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.43%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 4 (1.73%) Oracle 11i
1 4 (1.73%) Oracle Applications
1 4 (1.73%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (1.73%) Oracle EBS R12
1 4 (1.73%) Oracle Receivables
1 4 (1.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.87%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (0.87%) Oracle E-Business Tax
2 2 (0.87%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (0.87%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.87%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.43%) CA PPM
3 1 (0.43%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.43%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.43%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 27 (11.69%) AWS
2 21 (9.09%) Azure
3 17 (7.36%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (5.63%) IaaS
4 13 (5.63%) SaaS
5 12 (5.19%) Google Workspace
5 12 (5.19%) PaaS
6 8 (3.46%) GitHub
6 8 (3.46%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (3.03%) Power Platform
8 6 (2.60%) Entra ID
9 5 (2.16%) WhatsApp
10 4 (1.73%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.73%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.30%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 3 (1.30%) Figma
11 3 (1.30%) Mimecast
11 3 (1.30%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 22 (9.52%) Firewall
2 7 (3.03%) DNS
3 6 (2.60%) LAN
4 4 (1.73%) Internet
4 4 (1.73%) NAS
4 4 (1.73%) SAN
5 3 (1.30%) 5G
5 3 (1.30%) DHCP
5 3 (1.30%) DKIM
5 3 (1.30%) DMARC
5 3 (1.30%) Extranet
5 3 (1.30%) NetScaler
5 3 (1.30%) VPN
5 3 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.30%) Wireless
6 2 (0.87%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (0.87%) WAN
7 1 (0.43%) Broadband
7 1 (0.43%) LTE
7 1 (0.43%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.03%) Power BI
2 6 (2.60%) Big Data
2 6 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (2.60%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.73%) SAP HANA
3 4 (1.73%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.30%) MySQL
4 3 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.30%) Star Schema
5 2 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.87%) KDB
5 2 (0.87%) Tableau
6 1 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.43%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.43%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.43%) Impala
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.43%) Parquet
6 1 (0.43%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 30 (12.99%) JIRA
2 11 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 9 (3.90%) Git
4 7 (3.03%) Gradle
5 6 (2.60%) CircleCI
6 4 (1.73%) ERwin
6 4 (1.73%) JUnit
7 3 (1.30%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.30%) Mockito
7 3 (1.30%) SpecFlow
7 3 (1.30%) TestRail
8 2 (0.87%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.87%) FitNesse
8 2 (0.87%) GitLab
8 2 (0.87%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.87%) JMeter
8 2 (0.87%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.87%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.87%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 101 (43.72%) Social Skills
2 48 (20.78%) Finance
3 36 (15.58%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (12.55%) Public Sector
5 21 (9.09%) Legal
6 19 (8.23%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (6.49%) Banking
7 15 (6.49%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (5.19%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (5.19%) Retail
9 7 (3.03%) Local Government
10 5 (2.16%) Marketing
11 4 (1.73%) Front Office
11 4 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.30%) Back Office
12 3 (1.30%) Electronics
12 3 (1.30%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.30%) Korean Language
12 3 (1.30%) Publishing
12 3 (1.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (12.12%) Project Manager
2 18 (7.79%) Architect
3 14 (6.06%) Consultant
3 14 (6.06%) Problem Manager
4 13 (5.63%) Senior
5 11 (4.76%) Analyst
5 11 (4.76%) Delivery Manager
5 11 (4.76%) Developer
6 8 (3.46%) Agile Delivery Manager
6 8 (3.46%) Digital Project Manager
6 8 (3.46%) Integration Analyst
6 8 (3.46%) IT Support
6 8 (3.46%) SAP Analyst
6 8 (3.46%) Software Asset Manager
6 8 (3.46%) Software Manager
6 8 (3.46%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (3.03%) Lead
8 6 (2.60%) Integration Specialist
9 5 (2.16%) Designer
9 5 (2.16%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.19%) REST
2 7 (3.03%) Android Jetpack
2 7 (3.03%) Jetpack Compose
3 6 (2.60%) JSON
4 5 (2.16%) OAuth
4 5 (2.16%) React Native
4 5 (2.16%) XML
5 4 (1.73%) Dagger
5 4 (1.73%) OpenID
5 4 (1.73%) RAML
5 4 (1.73%) SAML
6 3 (1.30%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.30%) LDAP
6 3 (1.30%) Middleware
6 3 (1.30%) OAuth2
6 3 (1.30%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (1.30%) RxJava
6 3 (1.30%) Software Packaging
6 3 (1.30%) Spring
6 3 (1.30%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.52%) Self-Motivation
2 15 (6.49%) Management Information System
3 11 (4.76%) CMDB
4 10 (4.33%) Data Centre
4 10 (4.33%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.60%) Legacy Code
6 6 (2.60%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.16%) EPoS
7 5 (2.16%) NHS
7 5 (2.16%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.73%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.73%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.73%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.73%) PKI
9 3 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.30%) FMCG
9 3 (1.30%) Freedom of Information
9 3 (1.30%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.06%) Windows
2 13 (5.63%) Linux
3 10 (4.33%) Android
4 9 (3.90%) Unix
5 3 (1.30%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.30%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.87%) CentOS
7 1 (0.43%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 59 (25.54%) Agile
3 55 (23.81%) Virtual Team Management
4 40 (17.32%) Stakeholder Management
5 37 (16.02%) Project Management
6 32 (13.85%) ITIL
6 32 (13.85%) Quality Management
6 32 (13.85%) Service Management
7 30 (12.99%) Mentoring
8 25 (10.82%) Computer Science
8 25 (10.82%) Statistics
9 20 (8.66%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (8.23%) Roadmaps
11 17 (7.36%) Change Management
11 17 (7.36%) CI/CD
11 17 (7.36%) Root Cause Analysis
11 17 (7.36%) Scrum
12 16 (6.93%) Proactive Monitoring
12 16 (6.93%) Problem Management
12 16 (6.93%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 14 (6.06%) SQL
2 12 (5.19%) Java
2 12 (5.19%) Python
3 11 (4.76%) PowerShell
4 5 (2.16%) JavaScript
4 5 (2.16%) PL/SQL
5 4 (1.73%) Kotlin
5 4 (1.73%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.30%) BeanShell
6 3 (1.30%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.87%) C++
8 1 (0.43%) C#
8 1 (0.43%) Dart
8 1 (0.43%) Go
8 1 (0.43%) Objective-C
8 1 (0.43%) PHP
8 1 (0.43%) Swift
8 1 (0.43%) VB
8 1 (0.43%) XPath
Qualifications
1 59 (25.54%) Degree
2 51 (22.08%) Security Cleared
3 32 (13.85%) SC Cleared
4 17 (7.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (7.36%) DV Cleared
5 14 (6.06%) PMP
6 13 (5.63%) PMI Certification
7 12 (5.19%) APMP
8 5 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.73%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.73%) ISTQB
10 3 (1.30%) CISSP
10 3 (1.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.87%) APMG
11 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.87%) GIAC
12 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.19%) PMO
2 11 (4.76%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.90%) SLA
4 8 (3.46%) QA
5 4 (1.73%) ISO 9001
6 3 (1.30%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (1.30%) NIST
6 3 (1.30%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.43%) GRC
7 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (6.93%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.60%) Hyper-V
2 6 (2.60%) Microsoft App-V
2 6 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.30%) BitLocker
3 3 (1.30%) OpenAM
3 3 (1.30%) OpenIDM
3 3 (1.30%) XenApp
3 3 (1.30%) XenDesktop
4 1 (0.43%) Docker
4 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (3.46%) Terraform
2 6 (2.60%) Ansible
2 6 (2.60%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.16%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (2.16%) SCCM
4 4 (1.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (1.30%) NetBackup
5 3 (1.30%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.30%) SCOM
5 3 (1.30%) SCVMM
5 3 (1.30%) VxRail
6 2 (0.87%) Puppet
6 2 (0.87%) Salt
6 2 (0.87%) SELinux
6 2 (0.87%) yum
7 1 (0.43%) Consul
7 1 (0.43%) Grafana
7 1 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.43%) PowerBroker
7 1 (0.43%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 45 (19.48%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.96%) Oracle
3 18 (7.79%) Dell
4 15 (6.49%) Google
5 14 (6.06%) Salesforce
6 13 (5.63%) SAP
7 6 (2.60%) VMware
8 4 (1.73%) Ariba
8 4 (1.73%) Citrix
9 3 (1.30%) Avaya
9 3 (1.30%) BMC
9 3 (1.30%) Brio
9 3 (1.30%) Cisco
9 3 (1.30%) Commvault
9 3 (1.30%) EMC
9 3 (1.30%) Forcepoint
9 3 (1.30%) HP
9 3 (1.30%) Juniper
9 3 (1.30%) Mitel
9 3 (1.30%) Wyse