Consultant Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Consultant
South West > Wiltshire

The median Consultant daily rate in Wiltshire is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 September 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
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 31 37
Rank change year-on-year +2 +6 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 25 32 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 5.90% 5.13% 4.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.48% 5.94% 4.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 28 26
10th Percentile £535 £474 £425
25th Percentile £613 £550 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £661 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +32.20% -12.05%
75th Percentile £688 £831 £622
90th Percentile £760 £850 £656
South West median daily rate £590 £598 £525
% change year-on-year -1.26% +13.81% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.00
Median hourly rate - - £61.50
75th Percentile - - £64.50
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £70.00 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -10.34%

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 386 539 828
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.04% 86.38% 96.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 397 610
10th Percentile £300 £333 £306
25th Percentile £453 £459 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% +0.55%
75th Percentile £640 £638 £629
90th Percentile £694 £725 £710
South West median daily rate £500 £515 £538
% change year-on-year -2.91% -4.19% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 11 22
10th Percentile £18.76 - £44.45
25th Percentile £18.87 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £22.38 £12.79 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -74.42% -7.41%
75th Percentile £25.15 £15.58 £61.88
90th Percentile - £25.00 £69.00
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -62.74% +12.50% +9.09%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in Wiltshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in Wiltshire

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in Wiltshire

Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in Wiltshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies 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 20 September 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 +12 14 £650 -7.14%
Swindon +2 10 £650 +30.00% 1
Salisbury - 1 £553 -
Consultant
South West

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

For the 6 months to 20 September 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 20 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (60.00%) Finance
3 14 (56.00%) SAP
3 14 (56.00%) DV Cleared
4 13 (52.00%) Public Sector
5 11 (44.00%) Marketing
5 11 (44.00%) Digital Marketing
5 11 (44.00%) Business Intelligence
5 11 (44.00%) Manufacturing
5 11 (44.00%) Electronics
5 11 (44.00%) Telecoms
5 11 (44.00%) Programme Management
6 10 (40.00%) CISSP
6 10 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (40.00%) RMADS
6 10 (40.00%) CESG Certified Professional
7 9 (36.00%) Risk Management
8 8 (32.00%) SC Cleared
9 5 (20.00%) JSP 440
9 5 (20.00%) CLAS
9 5 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
9 5 (20.00%) CISM
9 5 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
9 5 (20.00%) NCSC
9 5 (20.00%) NIST
9 5 (20.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 5 (20.00%) Cloud Security
10 4 (16.00%) vRealize
10 4 (16.00%) VMware
10 4 (16.00%) Business Continuity

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:

Applications
1 1 (4.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (12.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (4.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.00%) AWS
1 3 (12.00%) Azure
1 3 (12.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) SAP BW
1 3 (12.00%) SAP HANA
General
1 15 (60.00%) Finance
2 13 (52.00%) Public Sector
3 11 (44.00%) Electronics
3 11 (44.00%) Manufacturing
3 11 (44.00%) Marketing
3 11 (44.00%) Telecoms
4 4 (16.00%) Banking
4 4 (16.00%) Billing
5 3 (12.00%) Local Government
6 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (4.00%) General Ledger
7 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) SAP Fiori
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) Business Intelligence
1 11 (44.00%) Digital Marketing
1 11 (44.00%) Programme Management
2 9 (36.00%) Risk Management
3 5 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 5 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 5 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
4 4 (16.00%) Business Continuity
5 3 (12.00%) Dashboard Development
5 3 (12.00%) Data Modelling
6 2 (8.00%) Data Transformation
6 2 (8.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 1 (4.00%) Analytics
7 1 (4.00%) Business Analysis
7 1 (4.00%) Data Extraction
7 1 (4.00%) Digital Banking
7 1 (4.00%) Performance Optimisation
7 1 (4.00%) Performance Tuning
7 1 (4.00%) Project Delivery
7 1 (4.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (56.00%) DV Cleared
3 10 (40.00%) CESG Certified Professional
3 10 (40.00%) CISSP
4 8 (32.00%) SC Cleared
5 5 (20.00%) CISM
5 5 (20.00%) CLAS
5 5 (20.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (4.00%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (40.00%) RMADS
2 5 (20.00%) JSP 440
2 5 (20.00%) NCSC
2 5 (20.00%) NIST
3 3 (12.00%) Basel III
3 3 (12.00%) IFRS
3 3 (12.00%) IFRS 17
3 3 (12.00%) IFRS 9
4 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
4 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
4 1 (4.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (12.00%) VMware NSX
1 3 (12.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) vRealize
2 3 (12.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 14 (56.00%) SAP
2 4 (16.00%) VMware
3 3 (12.00%) Infoblox
4 1 (4.00%) BMC
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.00%) Remedy
4 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow