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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Virtual Team in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Team over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 445 213 194
Rank change year-on-year -232 -19 +139
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Team 541 1,799 3,312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 1.78% 2.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.54% 4.15% 4.43%
Number of salaries quoted 320 517 1,322
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £49,688 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,250 £63,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.39% -9.29% +12.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,500 £102,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,800 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.43% -13.14% +21.74%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,043 43,311 74,759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.36% 42.74% 47.65%
Number of salaries quoted 23,056 23,480 33,820
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £84,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,550 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Virtual Team in the UK

Virtual Team
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Team over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Virtual Team in the UK

Virtual Team
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Team within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -206 439 £62,500 -3.85% 168
UK excluding London -280 306 £57,500 -5.43% 79
Work from Home +36 297 £60,000 -14.29% 100
London -69 185 £80,000 - 82
Midlands -19 74 £57,500 +4.55% 13
West Midlands +41 60 £57,500 -5.43% 5
North of England -91 53 £55,000 -9.54% 16
South East -202 51 £60,000 -7.69% 21
South West -23 50 £51,250 -15.84% 12
Scotland -150 45 £70,000 +15.13% 3
North West -50 33 £56,250 -7.48% 10
Wales -68 15 £60,000 +4.35% 4
Yorkshire -5 14 £55,000 -9.54% 6
East of England -109 13 £48,900 -11.73% 9
East Midlands -52 12 £82,500 +57.14% 8
North East -7 6 £55,000 -9.69%
Northern Ireland +9 5 - - 2

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 25 (4.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (3.33%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.22%) Confluence
4 7 (1.29%) Apache
5 2 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.37%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.37%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.37%) CMS
5 2 (0.37%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.37%) nginx
5 2 (0.37%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.37%) WordPress
6 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.18%) Drupal
6 1 (0.18%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (3.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.29%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (1.29%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.37%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.37%) Trello
5 1 (0.18%) Blender
5 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 22 (4.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (3.14%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (1.66%) Endur
3 9 (1.66%) SAP CO
3 9 (1.66%) SAP FI
3 9 (1.66%) SAP FI/CO
4 8 (1.48%) Dynamics NAV
5 7 (1.29%) OpenLink RightAngle
6 4 (0.74%) SAP CRM
6 4 (0.74%) SAP CX
6 4 (0.74%) SAP GTS
6 4 (0.74%) SAP SD
6 4 (0.74%) SAP WM
7 2 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.37%) SAP SCM
8 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.18%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.18%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 99 (18.30%) Azure
2 79 (14.60%) AWS
3 46 (8.50%) Power Platform
4 43 (7.95%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (6.65%) Microsoft 365
5 36 (6.65%) SaaS
6 22 (4.07%) Dynamics 365
6 22 (4.07%) GCP
6 22 (4.07%) GitHub
7 19 (3.51%) Serverless
8 17 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (2.96%) Power Automate
10 14 (2.59%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (2.59%) PowerApps
11 7 (1.29%) Entra ID
11 7 (1.29%) Firebase
12 6 (1.11%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (1.11%) IaaS
12 6 (1.11%) PaaS
13 5 (0.92%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.51%) Firewall
2 17 (3.14%) Network Security
3 13 (2.40%) BGP
3 13 (2.40%) DNS
3 13 (2.40%) OSPF
4 12 (2.22%) WAN
5 9 (1.66%) DHCP
6 8 (1.48%) VPN
6 8 (1.48%) Wireless
7 7 (1.29%) LAN
7 7 (1.29%) Multicast
8 5 (0.92%) MPLS
8 5 (0.92%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.92%) WLAN
9 4 (0.74%) Internet
9 4 (0.74%) IPsec
9 4 (0.74%) PBX
9 4 (0.74%) VoIP
10 3 (0.55%) SNMP
10 3 (0.55%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (6.84%) SQL Server
2 30 (5.55%) Power BI
3 19 (3.51%) Relational Database
4 14 (2.59%) RDBMS
5 10 (1.85%) MySQL
6 6 (1.11%) Data Lake
6 6 (1.11%) NoSQL
6 6 (1.11%) Tableau
7 5 (0.92%) Metadata
8 4 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.74%) Redis
9 3 (0.55%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.55%) Big Data
9 3 (0.55%) BigQuery
9 3 (0.55%) GIS
10 2 (0.37%) Apache Pinot
10 2 (0.37%) Flink
10 2 (0.37%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 55 (10.17%) Git
2 20 (3.70%) JIRA
3 18 (3.33%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.85%) Maven
5 9 (1.66%) CircleCI
6 8 (1.48%) git-flow
6 8 (1.48%) Selenium
7 6 (1.11%) Crashlytics
7 6 (1.11%) GitLab
7 6 (1.11%) SonarQube
8 5 (0.92%) Cypress.io
8 5 (0.92%) Xcode
9 4 (0.74%) Ant
10 3 (0.55%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.37%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.37%) Mercurial
11 2 (0.37%) Subversion
11 2 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (0.18%) NUnit
12 1 (0.18%) TeamCity
General
1 183 (33.83%) Social Skills
2 150 (27.73%) Finance
3 82 (15.16%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (10.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 39 (7.21%) Presentation Skills
6 35 (6.47%) Marketing
7 25 (4.62%) Banking
8 23 (4.25%) Law
9 20 (3.70%) Games
9 20 (3.70%) Manufacturing
10 17 (3.14%) Pharmaceutical
11 13 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (1.85%) Legal
13 9 (1.66%) Tech for Good
14 8 (1.48%) Back Office
14 8 (1.48%) Public Sector
15 7 (1.29%) Health Technology
16 6 (1.11%) Retail
17 5 (0.92%) French Language
Job Titles
1 99 (18.30%) Lead
2 85 (15.71%) Senior
3 82 (15.16%) Developer
4 46 (8.50%) Project Manager
5 44 (8.13%) Software Engineer
6 43 (7.95%) Architect
7 31 (5.73%) Analyst
8 22 (4.07%) Senior Developer
9 21 (3.88%) Business Analyst
10 20 (3.70%) Consultant
11 18 (3.33%) Software Developer
11 18 (3.33%) Software Manager
12 17 (3.14%) Senior Manager
12 17 (3.14%) Senior Software Engineer
13 16 (2.96%) Technical Manager
14 15 (2.77%) .NET Developer
14 15 (2.77%) Data Engineer
15 14 (2.59%) C# Developer
15 14 (2.59%) DevOps Engineer
15 14 (2.59%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (9.24%) .NET
1 50 (9.24%) HTML
2 38 (7.02%) CSS
3 26 (4.81%) React
4 21 (3.88%) AngularJS
5 20 (3.70%) ASP.NET
5 20 (3.70%) SOAP
6 19 (3.51%) LESS
6 19 (3.51%) RESTful
7 18 (3.33%) Node.js
8 17 (3.14%) .NET Core
9 16 (2.96%) .NET Framework
9 16 (2.96%) Entity Framework
9 16 (2.96%) HTML5 Canvas
9 16 (2.96%) Spring
10 14 (2.59%) Spring Boot
11 13 (2.40%) Redux
12 10 (1.85%) Hibernate
12 10 (1.85%) SAP Fiori
13 9 (1.66%) BAPI
Miscellaneous
1 30 (5.55%) Data Centre
2 24 (4.44%) Management Information System
2 24 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
3 23 (4.25%) Cloud Native
3 23 (4.25%) Data Structures
4 21 (3.88%) Onboarding
5 17 (3.14%) Product Ownership
6 15 (2.77%) Algorithms
7 13 (2.40%) Client/Server
7 13 (2.40%) IoT
7 13 (2.40%) Mobile App
7 13 (2.40%) Public Cloud
8 12 (2.22%) Biopharmaceutical
8 12 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (1.66%) Freedom of Information
9 9 (1.66%) Swaptions
10 7 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.11%) Private Cloud
11 6 (1.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 55 (10.17%) Windows
2 39 (7.21%) Linux
3 18 (3.33%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.96%) Apple iOS
5 11 (2.03%) Android
6 9 (1.66%) Mac OS
7 8 (1.48%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.74%) Windows Vista
9 3 (0.55%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (0.37%) Unix
10 2 (0.37%) VMS
10 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.18%) Debian
11 1 (0.18%) Solaris
11 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (32.53%) Agile
2 149 (27.54%) Problem-Solving
3 107 (19.78%) Software Engineering
4 102 (18.85%) Virtual Team Management
5 92 (17.01%) Project Management
6 70 (12.94%) Business Strategy
7 69 (12.75%) DevOps
8 67 (12.38%) Computer Science
9 65 (12.01%) Continuous Improvement
10 61 (11.28%) Project Delivery
11 60 (11.09%) Business Development
12 56 (10.35%) Mentoring
13 55 (10.17%) Actionable Insight
14 52 (9.61%) Scrum
15 50 (9.24%) Data Science
15 50 (9.24%) SDLC
16 46 (8.50%) CI/CD
17 39 (7.21%) Process Improvement
18 38 (7.02%) Presales
18 38 (7.02%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 80 (14.79%) JavaScript
2 52 (9.61%) Python
3 48 (8.87%) C#
4 45 (8.32%) Java
5 39 (7.21%) TypeScript
6 31 (5.73%) SQL
7 17 (3.14%) Go
8 15 (2.77%) C++
9 14 (2.59%) Bash
9 14 (2.59%) PHP
9 14 (2.59%) PowerShell
10 10 (1.85%) Kotlin
10 10 (1.85%) Rust
11 9 (1.66%) Swift
11 9 (1.66%) VB
12 7 (1.29%) Scala
12 7 (1.29%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.11%) C
14 4 (0.74%) R
15 3 (0.55%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 149 (27.54%) Degree
2 108 (19.96%) Security Cleared
3 99 (18.30%) SC Cleared
4 19 (3.51%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (2.77%) Master's Degree
7 11 (2.03%) PMI Certification
8 10 (1.85%) PMP
9 9 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (1.66%) MCSE
9 9 (1.66%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 8 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (1.48%) DV Cleared
10 8 (1.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 6 (1.11%) CISSP
12 5 (0.92%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.92%) CCNP
13 4 (0.74%) APMP
13 4 (0.74%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.74%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.84%) QA
2 12 (2.22%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.48%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.29%) GxP
4 7 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.29%) SLA
5 6 (1.11%) GDPR
5 6 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.74%) NIST
7 4 (0.74%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.37%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.18%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.18%) AUTOSAR
9 1 (0.18%) CDISC
9 1 (0.18%) Good Clinical Practice
9 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.18%) PMO
9 1 (0.18%) UCITS
System Software
1 28 (5.18%) Active Directory
2 24 (4.44%) Docker
3 13 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (0.92%) vSphere
5 2 (0.37%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.18%) KVM
6 1 (0.18%) LXC
6 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (5.73%) Terraform
2 28 (5.18%) Kubernetes
3 15 (2.77%) Ansible
4 12 (2.22%) SCCM
5 7 (1.29%) Argo
5 7 (1.29%) Progress Chef
5 7 (1.29%) Puppet
6 3 (0.55%) CASB
6 3 (0.55%) Grafana
6 3 (0.55%) SCOM
6 3 (0.55%) WSUS
7 2 (0.37%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.37%) Nessus
7 2 (0.37%) SolarWinds Orion
7 2 (0.37%) WebSphere Cast Iron
8 1 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.18%) Juju
8 1 (0.18%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 88 (16.27%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.81%) SAP
3 18 (3.33%) Dell
4 17 (3.14%) Cisco
4 17 (3.14%) VMware
5 16 (2.96%) Oracle
6 12 (2.22%) Google
7 10 (1.85%) Sybase
8 9 (1.66%) OpenLink
8 9 (1.66%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.66%) TIBCO
9 8 (1.48%) Meraki
10 7 (1.29%) McAfee
10 7 (1.29%) Symantec
11 6 (1.11%) Amplitude
11 6 (1.11%) SolarWinds
12 5 (0.92%) CrowdStrike
12 5 (0.92%) Juniper
12 5 (0.92%) ServiceNow
13 4 (0.74%) HP