Consultant Contracts in Swindon

Consultant
Wiltshire > Swindon

The median Consultant daily rate in Swindon is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 20 19
Rank change year-on-year +8 -1 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 9 1 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Swindon 9.18% 0.81% 6.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.78% 0.91% 6.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 16
10th Percentile £495 - -
25th Percentile £544 £613 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +25.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £580 £638 £606
90th Percentile £627 - £650
Wiltshire median daily rate £563 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -10.00% +13.64% -1.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Swindon

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Swindon. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Swindon with a recognized job title 92 110 233
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.88% 89.43% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 69 190
10th Percentile £248 £143 £200
25th Percentile £354 £200 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -23.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £593 £538 £588
90th Percentile £650 £682 £694
Wiltshire median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +6.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 0
Median hourly rate - £16.50 -
Wiltshire median hourly rate £18.87 £20.75 £65.50
% change year-on-year -9.06% -68.32% +19.09%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

Job postings that featured Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Swindon.

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in Swindon

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Consultant in Swindon.

Daily rate trend for Consultant in Swindon

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in Swindon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in Swindon over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in Swindon

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Swindon

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Consultant in Swindon.

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in Swindon

Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Swindon

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Swindon region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 6 (66.67%) Finance
2 4 (44.44%) Banking
3 3 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (33.33%) SAP
3 3 (33.33%) PCI DSS
4 2 (22.22%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (22.22%) GDPR
4 2 (22.22%) IFRS
4 2 (22.22%) IFRS 9
4 2 (22.22%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (22.22%) Apple Pay
4 2 (22.22%) NonStop SQL
4 2 (22.22%) GCP
4 2 (22.22%) SAP Fiori
4 2 (22.22%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (22.22%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 2 (22.22%) IFRS 17
4 2 (22.22%) Web Services
4 2 (22.22%) SQL
4 2 (22.22%) ATM
4 2 (22.22%) HP
4 2 (22.22%) Apple
4 2 (22.22%) SAP BW
4 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
4 2 (22.22%) Migration
4 2 (22.22%) BASE24
4 2 (22.22%) ISO 8583
4 2 (22.22%) Financial Institution
4 2 (22.22%) Azure
4 2 (22.22%) AWS

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Swindon 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) BASE24
1 2 (22.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Apple Pay
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) NonStop SQL
1 2 (22.22%) SAP BW
1 2 (22.22%) SAP HANA
General
1 6 (66.67%) Finance
2 4 (44.44%) Banking
3 2 (22.22%) Financial Institution
4 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Billing
4 1 (11.11%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) SAP Fiori
1 2 (22.22%) Web Services
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
1 2 (22.22%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (22.22%) Migration
1 2 (22.22%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 2 (22.22%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (11.11%) Analytics
2 1 (11.11%) Contract Management
2 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis
2 1 (11.11%) Data Extraction
2 1 (11.11%) Data Transformation
2 1 (11.11%) Digital Banking
2 1 (11.11%) ERP
2 1 (11.11%) ETL
2 1 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) PCI DSS
1 3 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (22.22%) Basel III
2 2 (22.22%) GDPR
2 2 (22.22%) IFRS
2 2 (22.22%) IFRS 17
2 2 (22.22%) IFRS 9
2 2 (22.22%) ISO 8583
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) SAP
2 2 (22.22%) Apple
2 2 (22.22%) HP
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle