Consultant Contracts in Wiltshire

Consultant
South West > Wiltshire

The median Consultant daily rate in Wiltshire is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 April 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
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 64 59
Rank change year-on-year +33 -5 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 24 28 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 5.39% 2.91% 3.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.14% 3.18% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 21 22
10th Percentile £506 £256 -
25th Percentile £531 £363 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £513
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +21.95% -9.29%
75th Percentile £616 £663 £619
90th Percentile £638 £725 £673
South West median daily rate £550 £533 £525
% change year-on-year +3.29% +1.43% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.00
Median hourly rate - - £63.00
75th Percentile - - £87.50
90th Percentile - - £102.50
South West median hourly rate £70.00 £71.25 £76.50
% change year-on-year -1.75% -6.86% +9.29%

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 391 880 1,068
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 87.87% 91.38% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 642 893
10th Percentile £285 £300 £313
25th Percentile £461 £463 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £659 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £723
South West median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 27 17
10th Percentile - - £44.50
25th Percentile - £14.25 £62.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £16.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +263.64% -74.81% +19.09%
75th Percentile - £74.00 £77.50
90th Percentile - - £83.00
South West median hourly rate £64.00 £47.83 £65.00
% change year-on-year +33.81% -26.42% +36.84%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in Wiltshire

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for Consultant in Wiltshire

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 2 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in Wiltshire

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in Wiltshire

Consultant
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 Consultant within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 2 April 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 +34 15 £550 -12.00% 1
Swindon +11 6 £565 -9.60% 2
Warminster - 1 - -
Consultant
South West

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

For the 6 months to 2 April 2025, Consultant 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 Consultant in the job title.

1 18 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (45.83%) DV Cleared
3 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
4 8 (33.33%) VMware
5 7 (29.17%) Billing
5 7 (29.17%) SC Cleared
5 7 (29.17%) Finance
6 6 (25.00%) Active Directory
6 6 (25.00%) vRealize
6 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (16.67%) Public Sector
7 4 (16.67%) Relational Database
7 4 (16.67%) CyberArk
7 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (16.67%) Onboarding
7 4 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (16.67%) RDBMS
7 4 (16.67%) SQL
7 4 (16.67%) Oracle
7 4 (16.67%) Unix
7 4 (16.67%) Windows
7 4 (16.67%) Linux
7 4 (16.67%) SAP
7 4 (16.67%) QA
8 3 (12.50%) Digital Marketing
8 3 (12.50%) Marketing
8 3 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (12.50%) Programme Management
8 3 (12.50%) Time Management
8 3 (12.50%) Manufacturing

Consultant 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.33%) Apple Pay
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) ATM
1 2 (8.33%) VSAN
2 1 (4.17%) S/MIME
2 1 (4.17%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) RDBMS
1 4 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 2 (8.33%) NonStop SQL
2 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 7 (29.17%) Billing
2 7 (29.17%) Finance
3 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 3 (12.50%) Electronics
4 3 (12.50%) Manufacturing
4 3 (12.50%) Marketing
4 3 (12.50%) Telecoms
5 2 (8.33%) Financial Institution
6 1 (4.17%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) Middleware
1 2 (8.33%) Web Services
2 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.17%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.17%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Linux
1 4 (16.67%) Unix
1 4 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (12.50%) Digital Marketing
3 3 (12.50%) Programme Management
3 3 (12.50%) Time Management
4 2 (8.33%) Dashboard Development
4 2 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (8.33%) Identity Management
4 2 (8.33%) Migration
4 2 (8.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 2 (8.33%) Threat Modelling
5 1 (4.17%) Analytics
5 1 (4.17%) CI/CD
5 1 (4.17%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (4.17%) Contract Management
5 1 (4.17%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (4.17%) Issue Tracking
5 1 (4.17%) Microservices
5 1 (4.17%) Privileged Access Management
5 1 (4.17%) Regulatory Change
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.17%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (45.83%) DV Cleared
3 7 (29.17%) SC Cleared
4 2 (8.33%) CESG Certified Professional
4 2 (8.33%) CISSP
4 2 (8.33%) CLAS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) QA
2 3 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (12.50%) NIST
3 2 (8.33%) GDPR
3 2 (8.33%) ISO 8583
3 2 (8.33%) JSP 440
3 2 (8.33%) PCI DSS
3 2 (8.33%) RMADS
3 2 (8.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (12.50%) VMware NSX
3 2 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) vRealize
2 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.33%) VxRail
3 1 (4.17%) Kibana
3 1 (4.17%) logstash
3 1 (4.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) VMware
2 4 (16.67%) CyberArk
2 4 (16.67%) Oracle
2 4 (16.67%) SAP
3 2 (8.33%) Apple
3 2 (8.33%) HP
3 2 (8.33%) Infoblox
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.17%) Workday