IT Manager Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

IT Manager
South West > Wiltshire

The median IT Manager daily rate in Wiltshire is £613, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 50 70
Rank change year-on-year -4 +20 -10
Contract jobs requiring an IT Manager 4 14 10
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 0.86% 2.42% 1.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% 2.83% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 10
10th Percentile £521 £441 £363
25th Percentile £553 £450 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £544 £438
Median % change year-on-year +12.64% +24.29% -6.32%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £586
90th Percentile - £641 £604
South West median daily rate £456 £513 £475
% change year-on-year -10.98% +7.89% -1.04%

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 414 494 781
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.42% 85.32% 94.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 345 568
10th Percentile £325 £356 £304
25th Percentile £511 £460 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +2.09%
75th Percentile £670 £640 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £522 £513 £530
% change year-on-year +1.76% -3.30% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 11 25
10th Percentile £16.94 - £14.36
25th Percentile £20.58 - £44.25
Median hourly rate £24.00 £12.79 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +87.65% -74.42% -8.26%
75th Percentile £25.15 £15.58 £60.00
90th Percentile - £25.00 £69.50
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -61.31% +15.06% -8.15%

IT Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'IT Manager' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire.

IT Manager job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

IT Manager
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for IT Manager job vacancies in Wiltshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for IT Manager job vacancies in Wiltshire

IT Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for IT Manager job vacancies in Wiltshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for IT Manager job vacancies in Wiltshire

IT Manager
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 IT Manager within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 2 November 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
Corsham +6 2 £613 -2.00% 1
Swindon -2 2 £500 +11.11%
IT Manager
South West

IT Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire

For the 6 months to 2 November 2025, IT Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Wiltshire region featuring IT Manager in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Change Management
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) ITSM
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Customer-Centric Approach
3 1 (25.00%) Customer-Centricity
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) JIRA
3 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Operational Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Programme Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Project Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Remedy
3 1 (25.00%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Runbook
3 1 (25.00%) Service Catalogue

IT Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Legal
2 1 (25.00%) Military
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Change Management
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) ITSM
1 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Customer-Centric Approach
2 1 (25.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Operational Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Programme Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Project Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Runbook
2 1 (25.00%) Service Design
2 1 (25.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) Remedy