Virtual Team Contracts in the UK excluding London

Virtual Team (including Distributed Team, Remote Team, Dispersed Team)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Virtual Team in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 274 270 272
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +23
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 129 162 259
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.60% 0.71% 0.85%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.13% 2.23% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 93 174
10th Percentile £363 £280 £313
25th Percentile £422 £413 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% - +16.28%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £575
90th Percentile £649 £648 £648
UK median daily rate £493 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -10.36% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 6
10th Percentile - - £39.90
25th Percentile £13.00 - £45.38
Median hourly rate £26.00 £100.00 £62.56
Median % change year-on-year -74.00% +59.85% +48.95%
75th Percentile £26.50 - £66.88
90th Percentile - - £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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,066 7,275 9,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.45% 32.06% 32.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,573 4,875 6,837
10th Percentile £210 £220 £208
25th Percentile £375 £381 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
75th Percentile £600 £602 £586
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 764 409 422
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.90
25th Percentile £14.36 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.25 £22.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.23% +2.33% -4.44%
75th Percentile £62.81 £62.50 £45.00
90th Percentile £70.13 £74.40 £61.50
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Virtual Team as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Team in the UK excluding London

Virtual Team
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Team in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Team in the UK excluding London

Virtual Team
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Team in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Team in the UK excluding London

Virtual Team
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Team in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Team in the UK excluding London

Virtual Team
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Virtual Team in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Virtual Team in the UK excluding London

Virtual Team
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
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
Scotland +42 9 £345 -44.80% 4
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
Northern Ireland -8 1 £190 -56.57%
Virtual Team
UK

Virtual Team
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (6.20%) Confluence
2 6 (4.65%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.88%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.88%) CMS
4 1 (0.78%) OpenStack
Applications
1 20 (15.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (13.95%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (9.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.55%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.78%) CA PPM
3 1 (0.78%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 17 (13.18%) AWS
2 11 (8.53%) Azure
3 10 (7.75%) IaaS
4 9 (6.98%) Google Workspace
4 9 (6.98%) PaaS
4 9 (6.98%) SaaS
5 8 (6.20%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (3.88%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.55%) GitHub
8 2 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.55%) Serverless
9 1 (0.78%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.78%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.78%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.78%) Azure API Management
9 1 (0.78%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.78%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.78%) GCP
9 1 (0.78%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.55%) 5G
1 2 (1.55%) Firewall
2 1 (0.78%) 4G
2 1 (0.78%) LAN
2 1 (0.78%) LTE
2 1 (0.78%) NAS
2 1 (0.78%) SAN
2 1 (0.78%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.43%) Big Data
2 5 (3.88%) Apache Hive
2 5 (3.88%) Impala
2 5 (3.88%) MySQL
2 5 (3.88%) Power BI
2 5 (3.88%) Spark SQL
3 4 (3.10%) SAP HANA
4 2 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.78%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.78%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.78%) DataStage
5 1 (0.78%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.78%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.78%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (9.30%) JIRA
2 3 (2.33%) Git
2 3 (2.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.33%) Mockito
3 2 (1.55%) CircleCI
3 2 (1.55%) Gradle
4 1 (0.78%) ERwin
4 1 (0.78%) JUnit
General
1 68 (52.71%) Social Skills
2 28 (21.71%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (18.60%) Public Sector
4 23 (17.83%) Finance
5 16 (12.40%) Legal
6 15 (11.63%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (7.75%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (6.98%) Banking
9 8 (6.20%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (6.20%) Retail
10 5 (3.88%) Investment Banking
11 4 (3.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (3.10%) Marketing
12 3 (2.33%) Electronics
12 3 (2.33%) Korean Language
13 2 (1.55%) Local Government
13 2 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (1.55%) Public Speaking
13 2 (1.55%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.78%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 18 (13.95%) Project Manager
2 14 (10.85%) Problem Manager
3 11 (8.53%) Analyst
4 10 (7.75%) Developer
5 8 (6.20%) Architect
5 8 (6.20%) Digital Project Manager
5 8 (6.20%) Integration Analyst
5 8 (6.20%) SAP Analyst
5 8 (6.20%) Software Asset Manager
5 8 (6.20%) Software Manager
6 6 (4.65%) Consultant
6 6 (4.65%) Integration Specialist
7 5 (3.88%) IT Support
7 5 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (3.10%) Business Integration Analyst
8 4 (3.10%) Database Developer
8 4 (3.10%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (3.10%) Linux Engineer
9 3 (2.33%) Delivery Manager
9 3 (2.33%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.43%) REST
2 5 (3.88%) React Native
3 4 (3.10%) Android Jetpack
3 4 (3.10%) Jetpack Compose
4 3 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (2.33%) JSON
4 3 (2.33%) Middleware
4 3 (2.33%) OAuth
4 3 (2.33%) OAuth2
4 3 (2.33%) OpenID
4 3 (2.33%) SAML
4 3 (2.33%) XML
5 2 (1.55%) Lucene
5 2 (1.55%) Node.js
5 2 (1.55%) RESTful
6 1 (0.78%) Kafka
6 1 (0.78%) Mustache
6 1 (0.78%) React
6 1 (0.78%) RxJava
6 1 (0.78%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.08%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (6.98%) CMDB
3 8 (6.20%) Management Information System
4 6 (4.65%) Mobile App
5 5 (3.88%) EPoS
5 5 (3.88%) NHS
5 5 (3.88%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.10%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.33%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.33%) SCADA
8 2 (1.55%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.55%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.78%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.78%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.78%) IoT
9 1 (0.78%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.78%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.75%) Unix
2 6 (4.65%) Android
2 6 (4.65%) Linux
3 4 (3.10%) Windows
4 3 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.55%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.55%) CentOS
6 1 (0.78%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (38.76%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (29.46%) Virtual Team Management
3 29 (22.48%) Service Management
4 28 (21.71%) Stakeholder Management
5 26 (20.16%) Quality Management
6 24 (18.60%) Agile
6 24 (18.60%) Mentoring
7 23 (17.83%) Statistics
8 22 (17.05%) ITIL
8 22 (17.05%) Project Management
9 16 (12.40%) Proactive Monitoring
10 15 (11.63%) Problem Management
10 15 (11.63%) Root Cause Analysis
11 13 (10.08%) E-Commerce
11 13 (10.08%) Roadmaps
12 11 (8.53%) Customer Requirements
13 10 (7.75%) Business Analysis
13 10 (7.75%) DevOps
13 10 (7.75%) Project Delivery
14 9 (6.98%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 7 (5.43%) Java
2 5 (3.88%) Python
2 5 (3.88%) Shell Script
2 5 (3.88%) SQL
3 3 (2.33%) BeanShell
4 2 (1.55%) Perl
5 1 (0.78%) C
5 1 (0.78%) Dart
5 1 (0.78%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.78%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 37 (28.68%) Security Cleared
2 31 (24.03%) Degree
3 30 (23.26%) SC Cleared
4 11 (8.53%) PMP
5 10 (7.75%) PMI Certification
6 9 (6.98%) APMP
7 4 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.55%) APMG
8 2 (1.55%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.55%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.78%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.78%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.75%) PMO
2 6 (4.65%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.10%) ISO 9001
4 3 (2.33%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (1.55%) NIST
5 2 (1.55%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.33%) OpenAM
1 3 (2.33%) OpenIDM
2 2 (1.55%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.55%) SCCM
2 2 (1.55%) SELinux
2 2 (1.55%) yum
3 1 (0.78%) Ansible
3 1 (0.78%) PowerBroker
3 1 (0.78%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (17.05%) Microsoft
2 15 (11.63%) Google
3 14 (10.85%) Oracle
4 12 (9.30%) SAP
5 10 (7.75%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.10%) Ariba
7 3 (2.33%) BMC
7 3 (2.33%) Brio
7 3 (2.33%) ForgeRock
8 2 (1.55%) Dell
8 2 (1.55%) HP
8 2 (1.55%) Remedy
9 1 (0.78%) Apple
9 1 (0.78%) Databricks
9 1 (0.78%) Embarcadero
9 1 (0.78%) Genesys
9 1 (0.78%) Infor
9 1 (0.78%) Teradata