Software Engineering Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Software Engineering
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 51 53
Rank change year-on-year -15 +2 +4
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 4 3 22
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 0.64% 0.65% 2.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.75% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 18
10th Percentile - - £470
25th Percentile £563 £838 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £875 £550
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +59.09% -5.01%
75th Percentile £688 £913 £672
90th Percentile - - £758
South West median daily rate £447 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -25.50% +9.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £58.90
25th Percentile - - £61.00
Median hourly rate - - £67.00
75th Percentile - - £69.50
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £66.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -2.26% +2.31% -0.76%

All Process & 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 511 398 673
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 81.63% 86.52% 87.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 266 474
10th Percentile £400 £325 £300
25th Percentile £513 £452 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% - -
75th Percentile £712 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 3 15
10th Percentile £12.50 £22.23 £14.36
25th Percentile £15.31 £36.40 £15.15
Median hourly rate £22.27 £60.00 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -62.89% +36.67% -32.98%
75th Percentile £24.50 - £66.00
90th Percentile £25.15 - £74.00
South West median hourly rate £33.50 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -48.46% +8.33% -7.69%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Software Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire.

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Software Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Software Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Software Engineering

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 30 December 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 -13 4 £625 -28.57% 4
Software Engineering
South West

Software Engineering
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) IaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Gen AI Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) LangChain
1 1 (25.00%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Data Science
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) GitOps
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Prompt Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) SOA
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Packer
2 1 (25.00%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (25.00%) VMware