Software Engineering Contracts in Wiltshire

Software Engineering
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 81 35
Rank change year-on-year +37 -46 +28
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 13 8 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 2.90% 0.85% 5.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.22% 1.03% 6.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 7 46
10th Percentile £563 £535 £450
25th Percentile £566 £569 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £601 £700 £579
Median % change year-on-year -14.11% +20.90% +0.70%
75th Percentile £663 £788 -
90th Percentile £674 £820 £669
South West median daily rate £575 £525 £579
% change year-on-year +9.52% -9.33% +5.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 404 778 1,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 89.98% 82.42% 92.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 569 855
10th Percentile £311 £315 £400
25th Percentile £478 £463 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £545 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.21% -5.22% +9.52%
75th Percentile £626 £663 £675
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 17 14
10th Percentile £18.58 £12.00 £60.45
25th Percentile £18.69 - £62.75
Median hourly rate £18.87 £14.54 £68.15
Median % change year-on-year +29.78% -78.66% +15.02%
75th Percentile £39.44 £30.25 £77.50
90th Percentile £51.77 £47.75 £85.25
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Wiltshire

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Wiltshire

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in Wiltshire

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Wiltshire

Software Engineering
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 Software Engineering within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 1 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 +35 10 £601 -19.83% 3
Swindon - 2 £588 - 51
Chippenham - 1 - - 1
Software Engineering
South West

Software Engineering
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 3 (23.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon EventBridge
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (15.38%) Datadog
2 2 (15.38%) GitHub
2 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (15.38%) SaaS
2 2 (15.38%) Serverless
3 1 (7.69%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.69%) MySQL
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 9 (69.23%) Git
2 3 (23.08%) Bitbucket
2 3 (23.08%) JIRA
3 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
4 1 (7.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Platform Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Software Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Integration Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Software Integration Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Development Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Node.js
1 2 (15.38%) REST
1 2 (15.38%) SOAP
2 1 (7.69%) .NET
2 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
2 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
2 1 (7.69%) Gherkin
2 1 (7.69%) React
2 1 (7.69%) Vue
Operating Systems
1 10 (76.92%) Linux
2 9 (69.23%) Windows
3 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Configuration Management
2 9 (69.23%) NsoIT
3 7 (53.85%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (53.85%) Platform Engineering
4 5 (38.46%) Agile
5 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (23.08%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (15.38%) API Development
7 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
7 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (15.38%) Data Engineering
7 2 (15.38%) Incident Management
7 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Management
7 2 (15.38%) Reverse Engineering
7 2 (15.38%) Service Management
7 2 (15.38%) System Testing
7 2 (15.38%) Validation
8 1 (7.69%) Coaching
8 1 (7.69%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) Python
2 10 (76.92%) PowerShell
3 3 (23.08%) Bash
4 2 (15.38%) SQL
5 1 (7.69%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (76.92%) SC Cleared
1 10 (76.92%) Security Cleared
2 9 (69.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (15.38%) CCNP
3 2 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (15.38%) OCA
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (15.38%) RHCA
3 2 (15.38%) RHCE
4 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (7.69%) Degree
4 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (69.23%) Ansible
1 9 (69.23%) Terraform
2 2 (15.38%) Progress Chef
2 2 (15.38%) Puppet
2 2 (15.38%) vCenter Server
3 1 (7.69%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) VMware
2 3 (23.08%) Atlassian
3 2 (15.38%) Cisco
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle
3 2 (15.38%) Salesforce