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

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 447 208 192
Rank change year-on-year -239 -16 +126
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Team 546 1,801 3,444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 1.81% 2.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.55% 4.24% 4.46%
Number of salaries quoted 316 560 1,328
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £49,688 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,899 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -13.00% +12.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £117,500 £101,185 £95,000
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 35,172 42,459 77,244
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.19% 42.66% 47.90%
Number of salaries quoted 23,043 23,224 34,014
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,435 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,625
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 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £109,865 £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 19 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 19 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 -221 448 £62,500 +2.63% 167
UK excluding London -284 307 £57,500 -5.43% 79
Work from Home +29 293 £60,000 -14.29% 86
London -66 190 £81,250 +1.56% 96
Midlands -12 74 £57,500 -4.17% 10
West Midlands +39 60 £57,500 -5.43% 7
North of England -118 53 £55,000 -9.54% 14
South East -206 53 £60,000 -1.48% 31
South West -18 50 £51,250 -15.71% 10
Scotland -160 42 £70,000 +15.13% 3
North West -69 34 £55,000 -9.54% 6
Wales -66 15 £60,000 +4.35% 3
East of England -118 15 £48,900 -19.57% 8
Yorkshire -19 13 £55,000 -9.54% 8
East Midlands -47 12 £82,500 +39.48% 3
North East -8 6 £55,000 -9.54%
Northern Ireland +5 5 - - 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 24 (4.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (3.30%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.20%) Confluence
4 7 (1.28%) 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%) Liferay
6 1 (0.18%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (3.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (1.47%) MS Visio
4 7 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.37%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.37%) Trello
6 1 (0.18%) Blender
6 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 22 (4.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (2.93%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (1.65%) SAP CO
3 9 (1.65%) SAP FI
3 9 (1.65%) SAP FI/CO
4 8 (1.47%) Dynamics NAV
5 7 (1.28%) Endur
6 6 (1.10%) OpenLink RightAngle
7 3 (0.55%) SAP CRM
7 3 (0.55%) SAP CX
7 3 (0.55%) SAP GTS
7 3 (0.55%) SAP SD
7 3 (0.55%) SAP WM
8 2 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.37%) SAP SCM
9 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 97 (17.77%) Azure
2 79 (14.47%) AWS
3 47 (8.61%) Power Platform
4 41 (7.51%) Azure DevOps
5 39 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
6 34 (6.23%) SaaS
7 22 (4.03%) Dynamics 365
8 21 (3.85%) GitHub
9 20 (3.66%) GCP
10 18 (3.30%) Serverless
11 16 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (2.93%) Power Automate
12 14 (2.56%) PowerApps
13 13 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (1.28%) Entra ID
14 7 (1.28%) Firebase
15 6 (1.10%) IaaS
15 6 (1.10%) PaaS
16 5 (0.92%) Amazon EKS
16 5 (0.92%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.48%) Firewall
2 17 (3.11%) Network Security
3 14 (2.56%) DNS
4 13 (2.38%) BGP
4 13 (2.38%) OSPF
5 11 (2.01%) WAN
6 10 (1.83%) DHCP
7 8 (1.47%) VPN
7 8 (1.47%) Wireless
8 7 (1.28%) LAN
8 7 (1.28%) Multicast
9 5 (0.92%) SD-WAN
9 5 (0.92%) WLAN
10 4 (0.73%) Internet
10 4 (0.73%) IPsec
10 4 (0.73%) MPLS
10 4 (0.73%) PBX
10 4 (0.73%) VoIP
11 2 (0.37%) SNMP
11 2 (0.37%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (6.23%) SQL Server
2 31 (5.68%) Power BI
3 17 (3.11%) Relational Database
4 12 (2.20%) RDBMS
5 10 (1.83%) MySQL
6 7 (1.28%) Data Lake
6 7 (1.28%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.10%) Tableau
8 5 (0.92%) Metadata
9 4 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (0.73%) Redis
10 3 (0.55%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.55%) Big Data
10 3 (0.55%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.55%) DTS
10 3 (0.55%) GIS
11 2 (0.37%) Apache Pinot
11 2 (0.37%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 55 (10.07%) Git
2 21 (3.85%) JIRA
3 17 (3.11%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.83%) Maven
5 8 (1.47%) CircleCI
5 8 (1.47%) Selenium
6 7 (1.28%) git-flow
7 6 (1.10%) Crashlytics
7 6 (1.10%) SonarQube
8 5 (0.92%) Cypress.io
8 5 (0.92%) GitLab
8 5 (0.92%) Xcode
9 4 (0.73%) Ant
10 3 (0.55%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.37%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.37%) Mercurial
11 2 (0.37%) NUnit
11 2 (0.37%) Subversion
11 2 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (0.18%) TeamCity
General
1 192 (35.16%) Social Skills
2 160 (29.30%) Finance
3 85 (15.57%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (11.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 50 (9.16%) Presentation Skills
6 35 (6.41%) Marketing
7 31 (5.68%) Banking
8 23 (4.21%) Law
9 21 (3.85%) Manufacturing
10 18 (3.30%) Pharmaceutical
11 17 (3.11%) Games
12 16 (2.93%) Retail
13 15 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
14 13 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (2.20%) Legal
16 9 (1.65%) Tech for Good
17 7 (1.28%) Back Office
17 7 (1.28%) Health Technology
17 7 (1.28%) Public Sector
18 6 (1.10%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 99 (18.13%) Lead
2 92 (16.85%) Senior
3 81 (14.84%) Developer
4 51 (9.34%) Architect
5 46 (8.42%) Project Manager
6 42 (7.69%) Software Engineer
7 35 (6.41%) Analyst
8 22 (4.03%) Senior Manager
9 21 (3.85%) Business Analyst
9 21 (3.85%) Senior Architect
9 21 (3.85%) Senior Developer
9 21 (3.85%) Technical Manager
10 20 (3.66%) Consultant
11 17 (3.11%) Salesforce Architect
11 17 (3.11%) Software Developer
11 17 (3.11%) Software Manager
12 16 (2.93%) Service Manager
13 15 (2.75%) .NET Developer
13 15 (2.75%) Senior Software Engineer
13 15 (2.75%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (9.34%) HTML
2 50 (9.16%) .NET
3 39 (7.14%) CSS
4 27 (4.95%) React
5 21 (3.85%) AngularJS
6 19 (3.48%) ASP.NET
6 19 (3.48%) LESS
6 19 (3.48%) RESTful
6 19 (3.48%) SOAP
7 18 (3.30%) Node.js
8 17 (3.11%) .NET Core
9 16 (2.93%) .NET Framework
9 16 (2.93%) Entity Framework
9 16 (2.93%) HTML5 Canvas
9 16 (2.93%) Spring
10 14 (2.56%) Spring Boot
11 13 (2.38%) Redux
12 10 (1.83%) Hibernate
12 10 (1.83%) SAP Fiori
13 9 (1.65%) BAPI
Miscellaneous
1 33 (6.04%) Data Structures
2 29 (5.31%) Data Centre
3 26 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
4 24 (4.40%) Management Information System
5 19 (3.48%) Cloud Native
5 19 (3.48%) Onboarding
6 18 (3.30%) Product Ownership
7 16 (2.93%) Algorithms
8 15 (2.75%) IoT
8 15 (2.75%) Mobile App
9 13 (2.38%) Biopharmaceutical
9 13 (2.38%) Client/Server
9 13 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (2.38%) Public Cloud
10 12 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (1.83%) Freedom of Information
12 7 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (1.28%) Swaptions
13 6 (1.10%) Private Cloud
13 6 (1.10%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 52 (9.52%) Windows
2 34 (6.23%) Linux
3 19 (3.48%) Windows Server
4 17 (3.11%) Apple iOS
5 12 (2.20%) Android
6 8 (1.47%) Windows 10
7 6 (1.10%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.73%) Windows Server 2003
8 4 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.73%) Windows Vista
9 2 (0.37%) Unix
9 2 (0.37%) VMS
9 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.18%) Debian
10 1 (0.18%) Solaris
10 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (33.52%) Agile
2 159 (29.12%) Problem-Solving
3 105 (19.23%) Software Engineering
4 102 (18.68%) Virtual Team Management
5 93 (17.03%) Project Management
6 79 (14.47%) Business Strategy
7 69 (12.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 68 (12.45%) Computer Science
9 66 (12.09%) DevOps
10 65 (11.90%) Mentoring
11 61 (11.17%) Project Delivery
12 60 (10.99%) Business Development
13 55 (10.07%) Actionable Insight
14 54 (9.89%) Data Science
15 49 (8.97%) Scrum
16 47 (8.61%) SDLC
17 45 (8.24%) CI/CD
18 42 (7.69%) Presales
19 39 (7.14%) Process Improvement
20 37 (6.78%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 80 (14.65%) JavaScript
2 51 (9.34%) Python
3 47 (8.61%) C#
4 44 (8.06%) Java
5 39 (7.14%) TypeScript
6 33 (6.04%) SQL
7 18 (3.30%) Go
8 15 (2.75%) C++
8 15 (2.75%) PowerShell
9 14 (2.56%) PHP
10 13 (2.38%) Bash
11 10 (1.83%) Kotlin
12 9 (1.65%) Rust
12 9 (1.65%) Swift
13 7 (1.28%) Scala
13 7 (1.28%) VB
14 6 (1.10%) C
14 6 (1.10%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.73%) R
16 3 (0.55%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 157 (28.75%) Degree
2 105 (19.23%) Security Cleared
3 97 (17.77%) SC Cleared
4 19 (3.48%) Microsoft Certification
5 17 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (2.75%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.20%) PMI Certification
8 11 (2.01%) PMP
9 10 (1.83%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 9 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (1.65%) MCSE
10 9 (1.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 8 (1.47%) DV Cleared
12 6 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (1.10%) CISSP
13 5 (0.92%) AWS Certification
13 5 (0.92%) CCNP
14 4 (0.73%) APMP
14 4 (0.73%) Azure Certification
14 4 (0.73%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (7.51%) QA
2 12 (2.20%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.65%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.28%) GDPR
4 7 (1.28%) GxP
4 7 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.28%) SLA
5 6 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.73%) NIST
6 4 (0.73%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.37%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.18%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 1 (0.18%) CDISC
8 1 (0.18%) Good Clinical Practice
8 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.18%) PMO
8 1 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.18%) UCITS
System Software
1 27 (4.95%) Active Directory
2 23 (4.21%) Docker
3 12 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.92%) vSphere
6 2 (0.37%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.18%) KVM
7 1 (0.18%) LXC
7 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (5.49%) Terraform
2 28 (5.13%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.56%) Ansible
4 12 (2.20%) SCCM
5 7 (1.28%) Argo
5 7 (1.28%) Progress Chef
5 7 (1.28%) Puppet
6 4 (0.73%) SCOM
7 3 (0.55%) CASB
7 3 (0.55%) Grafana
7 3 (0.55%) WSUS
8 2 (0.37%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.37%) Nessus
8 2 (0.37%) SolarWinds Orion
8 2 (0.37%) WebSphere Cast Iron
9 1 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.18%) Juju
9 1 (0.18%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 89 (16.30%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.58%) SAP
3 18 (3.30%) Salesforce
4 17 (3.11%) VMware
5 16 (2.93%) Cisco
5 16 (2.93%) Dell
6 15 (2.75%) Oracle
7 11 (2.01%) Google
8 8 (1.47%) Meraki
8 8 (1.47%) Sybase
9 7 (1.28%) OpenLink
9 7 (1.28%) Symantec
9 7 (1.28%) TIBCO
10 6 (1.10%) Amplitude
10 6 (1.10%) McAfee
10 6 (1.10%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.10%) SolarWinds
11 5 (0.92%) Computacenter
11 5 (0.92%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (0.73%) ION Trading