Developer Contracts in Wiltshire

Developer
South West > Wiltshire

The median Developer daily rate in Wiltshire is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 43 20
Rank change year-on-year -1 -23 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 12 51 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 2.73% 5.27% 8.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.07% 5.93% 9.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 41 75
10th Percentile £388 £363 £400
25th Percentile £394 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.37% +12.62%
75th Percentile £613 £700 £588
90th Percentile £628 - £612
South West median daily rate £439 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -2.39% -10.00% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Wiltshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Wiltshire. 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 Wiltshire with a recognized job title 391 860 1,005
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.07% 88.84% 94.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 646 828
10th Percentile £278 £306 £350
25th Percentile £463 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £669
90th Percentile £688 £719 £724
South West median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 27 11
10th Percentile £18.65 £12.79 £21.25
25th Percentile - £14.25 £60.75
Median hourly rate £18.87 £16.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.36% -74.81% +21.30%
75th Percentile £25.15 £74.00 £77.50
90th Percentile - - £87.50
South West median hourly rate £56.12 £55.00 £64.00
% change year-on-year +2.04% -14.06% +40.35%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Wiltshire

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in Wiltshire.

Daily rate trend for Developer in Wiltshire

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Wiltshire

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in Wiltshire.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Wiltshire

Developer
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 29 May 2025. 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
Swindon -4 4 £550 +10.00% 144
Salisbury -10 4 £625 +56.25% 1
Developer
South West

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire

For the 6 months to 29 May 2025, Developer 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 Wiltshire region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 6 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (41.67%) High Availability
2 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
2 5 (41.67%) Workflow
3 4 (33.33%) Migration
3 4 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 4 (33.33%) Agile
3 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 4 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 4 (33.33%) Customer Experience
4 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (25.00%) AWS
5 2 (16.67%) Azure
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (16.67%) NonStop SQL
5 2 (16.67%) ATM
5 2 (16.67%) Scrum
5 2 (16.67%) BASE24
5 2 (16.67%) COBOL
5 2 (16.67%) HP
5 2 (16.67%) EMV
5 2 (16.67%) Salesforce
5 2 (16.67%) .NET
5 2 (16.67%) Regulatory Change
5 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
5 2 (16.67%) MongoDB
5 2 (16.67%) User Stories
5 2 (16.67%) DevOps

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 1 (8.33%) Alfresco
1 1 (8.33%) Camunda
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Functions
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Storage
3 1 (8.33%) iPaaS
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (8.33%) Power Automate
3 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (8.33%) PowerApps
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 2 (16.67%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (8.33%) MySQL
2 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JUnit
1 1 (8.33%) VersaTest
General
1 6 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (8.33%) Military
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (8.33%) .NET Core
2 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET
2 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (8.33%) Hibernate
2 1 (8.33%) HTML
2 1 (8.33%) JPA
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) Keycloak
2 1 (8.33%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (8.33%) React
2 1 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) Spring
2 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (8.33%) Visualforce
2 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) EMV
2 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) PKI
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (41.67%) High Availability
2 5 (41.67%) Workflow
3 4 (33.33%) Agile
3 4 (33.33%) Customer Experience
3 4 (33.33%) Migration
3 4 (33.33%) Task Automation
4 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (16.67%) DevOps
5 2 (16.67%) Regulatory Change
5 2 (16.67%) Scrum
5 2 (16.67%) User Stories
6 1 (8.33%) Integration Patterns
6 1 (8.33%) Microservices
6 1 (8.33%) Observability
6 1 (8.33%) Project Delivery
6 1 (8.33%) SOLID
6 1 (8.33%) Sprint Review
6 1 (8.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (16.67%) COBOL
3 1 (8.33%) Apex Code
3 1 (8.33%) C#
3 1 (8.33%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (8.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 2 (16.67%) HP
2 2 (16.67%) Salesforce
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) MuleSoft
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle