Consultant Contracts in Wiltshire

Consultant
South West > Wiltshire

The median Consultant daily rate in Wiltshire is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 40 40
Rank change year-on-year +12 0 -16
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 34 34 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 5.87% 4.13% 5.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.88% 4.36% 5.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 24 32
10th Percentile £494 - £469
25th Percentile £541 £425 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £691 £628 £675
90th Percentile £833 £671 £747
South West median daily rate £600 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - £60.15 £60.90
25th Percentile - £60.38 £62.25
Median hourly rate - £61.50 £66.50
Median % change year-on-year - -7.52% +5.56%
75th Percentile - £63.38 £75.94
90th Percentile - £64.05 £77.63
South West median hourly rate - £71.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year - +2.14% +11.11%

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 494 780 962
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.32% 94.78% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 567 757
10th Percentile £356 £300 £319
25th Percentile £459 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% +13.68%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £724 £700
South West median daily rate £513 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -4.65% +2.38% +14.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 24 20
10th Percentile - £22.31 £21.70
25th Percentile - £45.75 £38.19
Median hourly rate £12.79 £50.00 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -74.42% -8.26% -11.38%
75th Percentile £15.58 £60.63 £70.37
90th Percentile £25.00 £69.50 £76.90
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £56.49 £61.50
% change year-on-year +15.06% -8.15% +29.47%

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 31 October 2024.

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 31 October 2024. 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 +18 22 £672 +7.52% 4
Swindon +2 7 £525 +16.67% 6
Chippenham -7 1 £488 +21.88%
Consultant
South West

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, 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 26 (76.47%) Security Cleared
2 19 (55.88%) Social Skills
3 16 (47.06%) DV Cleared
4 12 (35.29%) Microsoft
4 12 (35.29%) NIST
5 11 (32.35%) SC Cleared
5 11 (32.35%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (29.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (26.47%) Incident Response
7 9 (26.47%) Windows
7 9 (26.47%) Finance
8 8 (23.53%) Linux
8 8 (23.53%) Time Management
8 8 (23.53%) CyberArk
8 8 (23.53%) Public Sector
9 7 (20.59%) Onboarding
9 7 (20.59%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (20.59%) Active Directory
9 7 (20.59%) PKI
9 7 (20.59%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (17.65%) Information Security
10 6 (17.65%) Risk Management
10 6 (17.65%) CISSP
10 6 (17.65%) RDBMS
10 6 (17.65%) Oracle
10 6 (17.65%) Unix
10 6 (17.65%) Relational Database
11 5 (14.71%) Algorithms
11 5 (14.71%) Digital Marketing

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.94%) Confluence
2 1 (2.94%) IIS
2 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.94%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.94%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.94%) AWS
1 1 (2.94%) Azure
1 1 (2.94%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (2.94%) Entra ID
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (2.94%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.71%) S/MIME
1 5 (14.71%) X.509
2 1 (2.94%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (2.94%) Firewall
2 1 (2.94%) Kerberos
2 1 (2.94%) Skype
2 1 (2.94%) Unified Communications
2 1 (2.94%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.65%) RDBMS
1 6 (17.65%) Relational Database
2 4 (11.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 19 (55.88%) Social Skills
2 11 (32.35%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (26.47%) Finance
4 8 (23.53%) Public Sector
5 5 (14.71%) Electronics
5 5 (14.71%) Manufacturing
5 5 (14.71%) Marketing
5 5 (14.71%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.94%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.82%) Middleware
2 1 (2.94%) Keycloak
2 1 (2.94%) LDAP
2 1 (2.94%) ModSecurity
2 1 (2.94%) OpenID
2 1 (2.94%) REST
2 1 (2.94%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.59%) Onboarding
1 7 (20.59%) PKI
2 5 (14.71%) Algorithms
3 4 (11.76%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 3 (8.82%) Cyber Defence
4 3 (8.82%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (5.88%) Management Information System
5 2 (5.88%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.94%) CMDB
6 1 (2.94%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.94%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (26.47%) Windows
2 8 (23.53%) Linux
3 6 (17.65%) Unix
4 1 (2.94%) CentOS
4 1 (2.94%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.94%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (26.47%) Incident Response
3 8 (23.53%) Time Management
4 7 (20.59%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (20.59%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (17.65%) Information Security
5 6 (17.65%) Risk Management
6 5 (14.71%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (14.71%) Digital Marketing
6 5 (14.71%) Key Management
6 5 (14.71%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 5 (14.71%) Programme Management
7 3 (8.82%) Identity Management
7 3 (8.82%) Incident Management
7 3 (8.82%) Mentoring
7 3 (8.82%) Privileged Access Management
7 3 (8.82%) Project Management
7 3 (8.82%) Protective Monitoring
7 3 (8.82%) SIEM
7 3 (8.82%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.71%) SQL
2 1 (2.94%) Bash
2 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 26 (76.47%) Security Cleared
2 16 (47.06%) DV Cleared
3 11 (32.35%) SC Cleared
4 6 (17.65%) CISSP
5 3 (8.82%) CESG Certified Professional
5 3 (8.82%) CISM
6 2 (5.88%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (5.88%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (2.94%) CCNA
7 1 (2.94%) CISA
7 1 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.94%) CLAS
7 1 (2.94%) CREST Certified
7 1 (2.94%) CRISC
7 1 (2.94%) Degree
7 1 (2.94%) MCSE
7 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.94%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (35.29%) NIST
2 10 (29.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (11.76%) JSP 440
3 4 (11.76%) QA
4 3 (8.82%) GDPR
4 3 (8.82%) NIST 800
4 3 (8.82%) PCI DSS
4 3 (8.82%) RMADS
5 2 (5.88%) COBIT
5 2 (5.88%) COSO
6 1 (2.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (2.94%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (2.94%) ISO 9001
6 1 (2.94%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (20.59%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 12 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 8 (23.53%) CyberArk
3 6 (17.65%) Oracle
4 5 (14.71%) SAP
5 2 (5.88%) Splunk
5 2 (5.88%) Tanium
6 1 (2.94%) Cisco
6 1 (2.94%) NEC
6 1 (2.94%) Northgate
6 1 (2.94%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.94%) Proofpoint
6 1 (2.94%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.94%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.94%) VMware