Senior Contracts in Wiltshire

Senior
South West > Wiltshire

The median Senior daily rate in Wiltshire is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 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
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 61 48
Rank change year-on-year +22 -13 -17
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 13 28 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 2.94% 2.97% 4.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.30% 3.28% 4.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 11 31
10th Percentile £485 £450 £563
25th Percentile £571 - £579
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £605
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -17.36% +16.35%
75th Percentile £645 £600 £698
90th Percentile £650 £700 £750
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +5.00% -16.67% +14.29%

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 394 854 1,015
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.14% 90.56% 93.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 644 845
10th Percentile £261 £265 £355
25th Percentile £461 £460 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £669
90th Percentile £688 £725 £723
South West median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 23 12
10th Percentile £18.69 - £25.13
25th Percentile £18.87 £14.25 £60.00
Median hourly rate £22.01 £25.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.96% -61.83% +10.55%
75th Percentile £25.15 £74.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £42.58 - £86.50
South West median hourly rate £62.50 £55.00 £64.57
% change year-on-year +13.64% -14.82% +36.66%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Wiltshire

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in Wiltshire

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Wiltshire

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Wiltshire

Senior
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 Senior within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 12 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
Corsham - 9 £620 - 4
Swindon -8 2 £538 +7.50% 18
Salisbury -8 1 - -
Senior
South West

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior in the job title.

1 10 (76.92%) Security Cleared
2 8 (61.54%) SC Cleared
3 5 (38.46%) DV Cleared
4 3 (23.08%) VMware
4 3 (23.08%) PMO
4 3 (23.08%) Azure
4 3 (23.08%) AWS
4 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
5 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
5 2 (15.38%) NCSC
5 2 (15.38%) Windows
5 2 (15.38%) BGP
5 2 (15.38%) Network Design
5 2 (15.38%) Network Security
5 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
6 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
6 1 (7.69%) Security Hardening
6 1 (7.69%) Converged Infrastructure
6 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
6 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 1 (7.69%) Data Engineering
6 1 (7.69%) Threat Modelling
6 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (7.69%) Time Management
6 1 (7.69%) Data Protection
6 1 (7.69%) Project Management
6 1 (7.69%) vSphere
6 1 (7.69%) Security Architecture

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Functions
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Storage
2 1 (7.69%) Matillion
2 1 (7.69%) Serverless
2 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) BGP
1 2 (15.38%) Network Security
2 1 (7.69%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
General
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) .NET
1 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
1 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
1 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (15.38%) Network Design
2 1 (7.69%) Converged Infrastructure
2 1 (7.69%) Data Engineering
2 1 (7.69%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (7.69%) DevOps
2 1 (7.69%) Ergonomics
2 1 (7.69%) Human Factors
2 1 (7.69%) Incident Response
2 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (7.69%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (7.69%) Project Delivery
2 1 (7.69%) Security Hardening
2 1 (7.69%) Security Operations
2 1 (7.69%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 1 (7.69%) Wealth Management
2 1 (7.69%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 10 (76.92%) Security Cleared
2 8 (61.54%) SC Cleared
3 5 (38.46%) DV Cleared
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) PMO
2 2 (15.38%) NCSC
3 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (7.69%) VMware NSX
1 1 (7.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) Nessus
1 1 (7.69%) SCCM
1 1 (7.69%) vCenter Server
1 1 (7.69%) VxRail
1 1 (7.69%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) VMware
2 1 (7.69%) Dell