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 14 May 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 35 58
Rank change year-on-year +20 +23 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 63 19 31
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 7.56% 4.37% 3.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.38% 4.91% 3.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 10 25
10th Percentile £320 £515 £292
25th Percentile £450 £528 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £713 £597 £725
90th Percentile £725 £626 £850
South West median daily rate £550 £525 £513
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Median hourly rate £51.00 - -
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year -17.86% +24.44% -27.18%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 752 387 852
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.28% 88.97% 90.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 536 265 643
10th Percentile £400 £258 £276
25th Percentile £450 £458 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - -
75th Percentile £663 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £688 £725
South West median daily rate £518 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +3.50% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 6 23
10th Percentile £13.45 £18.69 -
25th Percentile £18.87 £18.87 £14.25
Median hourly rate £29.50 £22.01 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.03% -11.96% -61.83%
75th Percentile £51.00 £25.15 £74.00
90th Percentile £85.25 £42.58 -
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -14.26%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Consultant' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire.

Consultant job vacancy trend 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 14 May 2026.

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 14 May 2026. 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 +21 46 £625 +4.17% 8
Swindon +3 14 £628 +16.74% 4
Chippenham - 1 £457 - 1
Consultant
South West

Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire

For the 6 months to 14 May 2026, Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Wiltshire region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 38 (60.32%) Security Cleared
2 30 (47.62%) SC Cleared
3 18 (28.57%) Python
4 17 (26.98%) SQL
5 15 (23.81%) DV Cleared
6 14 (22.22%) BMC
6 14 (22.22%) Splunk
7 13 (20.63%) AIX
7 13 (20.63%) Dashboard Development
7 13 (20.63%) Linux
7 13 (20.63%) Nagios
7 13 (20.63%) PowerShell
7 13 (20.63%) REST
7 13 (20.63%) Search Processing Language
7 13 (20.63%) SNMP
7 13 (20.63%) SolarWinds
7 13 (20.63%) Windows
7 13 (20.63%) ZABBIX
8 12 (19.05%) Netcool
8 12 (19.05%) Tivoli
9 11 (17.46%) HP
9 11 (17.46%) IBM
9 11 (17.46%) OpenView
9 11 (17.46%) Tivoli Monitoring
10 9 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
11 8 (12.70%) AWS
11 8 (12.70%) SIEM
11 8 (12.70%) Tableau
11 8 (12.70%) Workflow
12 7 (11.11%) Cybersecurity

Consultant Skill Set
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 3 (4.76%) Apache
1 3 (4.76%) Apache Superset
2 1 (1.59%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (6.35%) NetSuite
1 4 (6.35%) Oracle Payables
1 4 (6.35%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.59%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 8 (12.70%) AWS
2 7 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 3 (4.76%) Amazon S3
3 3 (4.76%) Serverless
4 1 (1.59%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (20.63%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.70%) Tableau
2 7 (11.11%) Power BI
3 4 (6.35%) NonStop SQL
4 3 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
General
1 7 (11.11%) Finance
2 3 (4.76%) General Ledger
3 2 (3.17%) Electronics
3 2 (3.17%) Manufacturing
3 2 (3.17%) Marketing
3 2 (3.17%) Public Sector
3 2 (3.17%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.59%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.59%) Law
4 1 (1.59%) Military
4 1 (1.59%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (20.63%) REST
2 1 (1.59%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.76%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.17%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 13 (20.63%) AIX
1 13 (20.63%) Linux
1 13 (20.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (20.63%) Dashboard Development
2 9 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (12.70%) SIEM
3 8 (12.70%) Workflow
4 7 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (11.11%) Security Operations
5 6 (9.52%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (9.52%) Visualisation
6 5 (7.94%) Analytics
6 5 (7.94%) Data Analytics
6 5 (7.94%) Data Engineering
6 5 (7.94%) Data Science
6 5 (7.94%) Data Transformation
6 5 (7.94%) Data Visualisation
6 5 (7.94%) Risk Management
6 5 (7.94%) Value Proposition
6 5 (7.94%) Workflow Development
7 4 (6.35%) Change Management
7 4 (6.35%) Project Delivery
7 4 (6.35%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (28.57%) Python
2 17 (26.98%) SQL
3 13 (20.63%) PowerShell
3 13 (20.63%) Search Processing Language
4 5 (7.94%) R
Qualifications
1 38 (60.32%) Security Cleared
2 30 (47.62%) SC Cleared
3 15 (23.81%) DV Cleared
4 4 (6.35%) ACCA
4 4 (6.35%) CIMA
4 4 (6.35%) PMP
5 2 (3.17%) CESG Certified Professional
5 2 (3.17%) CISSP
5 2 (3.17%) CLAS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (11.11%) JSP 440
1 7 (11.11%) NIST
1 7 (11.11%) RMADS
2 1 (1.59%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.59%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 4 (6.35%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (6.35%) VMware NSX
1 4 (6.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (20.63%) Nagios
1 13 (20.63%) ZABBIX
2 12 (19.05%) Netcool
2 12 (19.05%) Tivoli
3 11 (17.46%) OpenView
3 11 (17.46%) Tivoli Monitoring
4 4 (6.35%) NetBackup
4 4 (6.35%) vRealize
Vendors
1 14 (22.22%) BMC
1 14 (22.22%) Splunk
2 13 (20.63%) SolarWinds
3 11 (17.46%) HP
3 11 (17.46%) IBM
4 5 (7.94%) VMware
5 4 (6.35%) Microsoft
5 4 (6.35%) Oracle
5 4 (6.35%) Veritas
5 4 (6.35%) Zerto
6 2 (3.17%) SAP