Consultant Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Consultant
South West > Wiltshire

The median Consultant daily rate in Wiltshire is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026.

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

 6 months to
5 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 32 29
Rank change year-on-year +6 -3 +11
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 46 21 33
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 6.13% 5.12% 5.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.42% 5.61% 6.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 17 28
10th Percentile £462 £535 £461
25th Percentile £518 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £638
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -1.96% +27.50%
75th Percentile £725 £688 £731
90th Percentile £745 £760 £850
South West median daily rate £578 £575 £598
% change year-on-year +0.52% -3.77% +13.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £51.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.38 - -
90th Percentile £85.20 - -
South West median hourly rate £76.00 - -

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 716 374 520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.47% 91.22% 86.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 238 380
10th Percentile £413 £308 £315
25th Percentile £463 £475 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £650 £644 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £702
South West median daily rate £526 £513 £508
% change year-on-year +2.68% +0.99% -5.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 23 11
10th Percentile £13.45 £18.87 -
25th Percentile £17.25 £19.69 -
Median hourly rate £41.71 £24.00 £12.79
Median % change year-on-year +73.79% +87.65% -74.42%
75th Percentile £62.40 £25.15 £15.58
90th Percentile £85.25 - £25.00
South West median hourly rate £62.00 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +146.52% -62.74% +12.50%

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 5 October 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Consultant in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 5 October 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 +7 25 £663 -1.85% 7
Swindon -5 18 £650 +18.18% 12
Salisbury -6 1 £800 +44.80%
Chippenham - 1 £457 - 4
Consultant
South West

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

For the 6 months to 5 October 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 27 (58.70%) Security Cleared
2 14 (30.43%) DV Cleared
3 12 (26.09%) SC Cleared
4 9 (19.57%) Python
5 8 (17.39%) SQL
5 8 (17.39%) Workflow
6 7 (15.22%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (15.22%) Microsoft
6 7 (15.22%) Oracle
6 7 (15.22%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (13.04%) ACCA
7 6 (13.04%) BMC
7 6 (13.04%) Budgeting
7 6 (13.04%) Change Management
7 6 (13.04%) CIMA
7 6 (13.04%) NetSuite
7 6 (13.04%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (13.04%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (13.04%) PMP
7 6 (13.04%) PRINCE2
7 6 (13.04%) Requirements Gathering
7 6 (13.04%) Splunk
8 5 (10.87%) AIX
8 5 (10.87%) Cyber Assurance
8 5 (10.87%) Linux
8 5 (10.87%) Migration
8 5 (10.87%) Nagios
8 5 (10.87%) PowerShell
8 5 (10.87%) REST
8 5 (10.87%) Search Processing Language

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 2 (4.35%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 6 (13.04%) NetSuite
1 6 (13.04%) Oracle Payables
1 6 (13.04%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (2.17%) BASE24
2 1 (2.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (6.52%) Amazon S3
1 3 (6.52%) AWS
2 2 (4.35%) Power Platform
2 2 (4.35%) Serverless
3 1 (2.17%) Alation
3 1 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (2.17%) Collibra
3 1 (2.17%) GCP
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.87%) SNMP
2 1 (2.17%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.52%) NonStop SQL
2 2 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (4.35%) Power BI
2 2 (4.35%) Tableau
3 1 (2.17%) Metadata
3 1 (2.17%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.17%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (4.35%) JIRA
2 1 (2.17%) GitLab
2 1 (2.17%) Oracle APEX
General
1 7 (15.22%) Finance
2 6 (13.04%) General Ledger
2 6 (13.04%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.87%) Military
4 2 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.87%) REST
2 2 (4.35%) Terraform
3 1 (2.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.35%) CSOC
1 2 (4.35%) Onboarding
1 2 (4.35%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (2.17%) Oracle Licensing
2 1 (2.17%) Replication
2 1 (2.17%) Security Posture
2 1 (2.17%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.87%) AIX
1 5 (10.87%) Linux
1 5 (10.87%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (17.39%) Workflow
2 7 (15.22%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (15.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (13.04%) Budgeting
3 6 (13.04%) Change Management
3 6 (13.04%) PRINCE2
3 6 (13.04%) Requirements Gathering
4 5 (10.87%) Cyber Assurance
4 5 (10.87%) Migration
4 5 (10.87%) Technology Enablement
5 4 (8.70%) Dashboard Development
5 4 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (8.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (6.52%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (6.52%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (6.52%) Risk Management
6 3 (6.52%) Systems Engineering
7 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (4.35%) Project Delivery
7 2 (4.35%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 9 (19.57%) Python
2 8 (17.39%) SQL
3 5 (10.87%) PowerShell
3 5 (10.87%) Search Processing Language
4 2 (4.35%) R
5 1 (2.17%) Bash
5 1 (2.17%) C
5 1 (2.17%) C++
5 1 (2.17%) COBOL
5 1 (2.17%) Java
5 1 (2.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (58.70%) Security Cleared
2 14 (30.43%) DV Cleared
3 12 (26.09%) SC Cleared
4 6 (13.04%) ACCA
4 6 (13.04%) CIMA
4 6 (13.04%) PMP
5 2 (4.35%) CISSP
6 1 (2.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (2.17%) CISA
6 1 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.17%) CISM
6 1 (2.17%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (2.17%) CRISC
6 1 (2.17%) GCIA
6 1 (2.17%) GCIH
6 1 (2.17%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.35%) NCSC
2 2 (4.35%) NIST
3 1 (2.17%) GRC
3 1 (2.17%) ISO 8583
3 1 (2.17%) JSP 440
System Software
1 3 (6.52%) Hyper-V
2 2 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (4.35%) VMware NSX
2 2 (4.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (10.87%) Nagios
1 5 (10.87%) ZABBIX
2 4 (8.70%) Netcool
2 4 (8.70%) Tivoli
3 3 (6.52%) OpenView
3 3 (6.52%) Tivoli Monitoring
4 2 (4.35%) NetBackup
4 2 (4.35%) vRealize
5 1 (2.17%) Ansible
5 1 (2.17%) Grafana
5 1 (2.17%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (15.22%) Microsoft
1 7 (15.22%) Oracle
2 6 (13.04%) BMC
2 6 (13.04%) Splunk
3 5 (10.87%) SolarWinds
4 4 (8.70%) HP
5 3 (6.52%) IBM
5 3 (6.52%) VMware
6 2 (4.35%) Databricks
6 2 (4.35%) Veritas
6 2 (4.35%) Zerto
7 1 (2.17%) Concur
7 1 (2.17%) Google
7 1 (2.17%) Remedy
7 1 (2.17%) SAP
23 Consultant jobs in Wiltshire