IT Support Contracts in Wiltshire

IT Support
South West > Wiltshire

The median IT Support daily rate in Wiltshire is £220, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 August 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
12 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 74 68
Rank change year-on-year +31 -6 +11
Contract jobs requiring an IT Support 10 5 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 2.14% 0.67% 1.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.40% 0.76% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 10
10th Percentile £150 £103 £156
25th Percentile £203 £104 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £110 £173
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -36.23% -1.43%
75th Percentile £228 £195 £193
90th Percentile £288 £206 £324
South West median daily rate £210 £198 £178
% change year-on-year +6.33% +11.27% -11.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.00 - -
Median hourly rate £16.00 - -
75th Percentile £17.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £18.26 £13.12 £15.90
% change year-on-year +39.19% -17.52% +0.89%

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 417 656 930
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.10% 87.70% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 522 707
10th Percentile £263 £325 £325
25th Percentile £460 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -2.27% +2.33%
75th Percentile £644 £640 £638
90th Percentile £694 £700 £713
South West median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 10 11
10th Percentile £18.69 - £21.25
25th Percentile £18.87 - £52.13
Median hourly rate £22.25 £12.79 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.96% -79.70% +16.67%
75th Percentile £25.15 £16.98 £69.50
90th Percentile - £25.00 £77.50
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year -61.31% +3.17% +26.00%

IT Support
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Support in Wiltshire

IT Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for IT Support in Wiltshire

IT Support
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Support in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 12 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Support in Wiltshire

IT Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Support in Wiltshire

IT Support
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 Support within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 12 August 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
Salisbury +5 4 £220 +100.00% 1
Swindon +2 2 £150 -21.05%
Tidworth - 1 - - 1
IT Support
South West

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

For the 6 months to 12 August 2025, IT Support 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 IT Support in the job title.

1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (50.00%) Windows
3 5 (50.00%) ITIL
3 5 (50.00%) Service Management
3 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
4 4 (40.00%) Software Licensing
4 4 (40.00%) Windows 10
4 4 (40.00%) DV Cleared
4 4 (40.00%) Service Delivery
5 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (20.00%) AWS
6 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
6 2 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (20.00%) RBAC
6 2 (20.00%) Confluence
6 2 (20.00%) Agile
6 2 (20.00%) JIRA
6 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
6 2 (20.00%) Finance
7 1 (10.00%) Migration
7 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
7 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
7 1 (10.00%) Computacenter
7 1 (10.00%) Document Management
7 1 (10.00%) Google Workspace

IT Support 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 2 (20.00%) Confluence
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (10.00%) Google Workspace
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (10.00%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
2 4 (40.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) ITIL
1 5 (50.00%) Service Management
2 4 (40.00%) Service Delivery
2 4 (40.00%) Software Licensing
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (20.00%) RBAC
4 1 (10.00%) Budgeting
4 1 (10.00%) Customer Experience
4 1 (10.00%) Document Management
4 1 (10.00%) Migration
4 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
4 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Ticket Management
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Computacenter