Consultant Contract Job Trends 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 21 July 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 31 50
Rank change year-on-year +12 +19 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 62 23 32
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 8.14% 4.93% 3.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.77% 5.50% 4.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 14 32
10th Percentile £320 £529 £360
25th Percentile £450 £556 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +19.05%
75th Percentile £725 £675 £738
90th Percentile £744 £688 £850
South West median daily rate £556 £575 £586
% change year-on-year -3.30% -1.92% +11.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Median hourly rate £51.00 - -
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -17.86% +40.00% -35.28%

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 707 418 749
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 89.51% 88.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 469 282 580
10th Percentile £375 £263 £324
25th Percentile £450 £459 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +6.88% -2.18%
75th Percentile £625 £640 £646
90th Percentile £725 £688 £710
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £521
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.08% -0.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 15 18
10th Percentile £12.21 £18.65 -
25th Percentile £14.36 £18.87 £12.79
Median hourly rate £30.50 £22.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.64% +51.72% -77.69%
75th Percentile £51.00 £25.15 £23.34
90th Percentile £85.25 - £30.25
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £29.50 £63.75
% change year-on-year +94.92% -53.73% -0.62%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 +14 38 £575 -8.00% 4
Swindon +8 21 £650 +23.81% 9
Chippenham - 1 £457 - 2
Consultant
South West

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

For the 6 months to 21 July 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 35 (56.45%) Security Cleared
2 23 (37.10%) SC Cleared
3 19 (30.65%) Python
3 19 (30.65%) SQL
4 17 (27.42%) DV Cleared
5 14 (22.58%) BMC
5 14 (22.58%) Splunk
6 13 (20.97%) AIX
6 13 (20.97%) Linux
6 13 (20.97%) Nagios
6 13 (20.97%) PowerShell
6 13 (20.97%) REST
6 13 (20.97%) Search Processing Language
6 13 (20.97%) SNMP
6 13 (20.97%) SolarWinds
6 13 (20.97%) Windows
6 13 (20.97%) ZABBIX
7 12 (19.35%) Dashboard Development
7 12 (19.35%) HP
7 12 (19.35%) Netcool
7 12 (19.35%) Tivoli
7 12 (19.35%) Workflow
8 11 (17.74%) IBM
8 11 (17.74%) OpenView
8 11 (17.74%) Tivoli Monitoring
9 9 (14.52%) AWS
10 8 (12.90%) ACCA
10 8 (12.90%) CIMA
10 8 (12.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 8 (12.90%) Microsoft

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 (4.84%) Apache
1 3 (4.84%) Apache Superset
2 1 (1.61%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (12.90%) NetSuite
1 8 (12.90%) Oracle Payables
1 8 (12.90%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.61%) BASE24
2 1 (1.61%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 9 (14.52%) AWS
2 7 (11.29%) Power Platform
3 4 (6.45%) Amazon S3
4 3 (4.84%) Serverless
5 1 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.61%) GCP
5 1 (1.61%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (20.97%) SNMP
2 1 (1.61%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.90%) Tableau
2 7 (11.29%) Power BI
3 5 (8.06%) NonStop SQL
4 3 (4.84%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.61%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (14.52%) Finance
2 7 (11.29%) General Ledger
3 4 (6.45%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.61%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.61%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (20.97%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.84%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.23%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.23%) CSOC
2 2 (3.23%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (1.61%) Replication
3 1 (1.61%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.61%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 13 (20.97%) AIX
1 13 (20.97%) Linux
1 13 (20.97%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (19.35%) Dashboard Development
1 12 (19.35%) Workflow
2 8 (12.90%) PRINCE2
2 8 (12.90%) Risk Management
3 7 (11.29%) Budgeting
3 7 (11.29%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (11.29%) Change Management
3 7 (11.29%) Requirements Gathering
3 7 (11.29%) SIEM
3 7 (11.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (9.68%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (9.68%) Security Operations
4 6 (9.68%) Technology Enablement
5 5 (8.06%) Analytics
5 5 (8.06%) Data Analytics
5 5 (8.06%) Data Engineering
5 5 (8.06%) Data Transformation
5 5 (8.06%) Data Visualisation
5 5 (8.06%) Visualisation
5 5 (8.06%) Workflow Development
Programming Languages
1 19 (30.65%) Python
1 19 (30.65%) SQL
2 13 (20.97%) PowerShell
2 13 (20.97%) Search Processing Language
3 5 (8.06%) R
4 1 (1.61%) C
4 1 (1.61%) C++
4 1 (1.61%) COBOL
4 1 (1.61%) Java
4 1 (1.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (56.45%) Security Cleared
2 23 (37.10%) SC Cleared
3 17 (27.42%) DV Cleared
4 8 (12.90%) ACCA
4 8 (12.90%) CIMA
4 8 (12.90%) PMP
5 1 (1.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.61%) CISSP
5 1 (1.61%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.61%) GCIA
5 1 (1.61%) GCIH
5 1 (1.61%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (11.29%) NIST
3 6 (9.68%) JSP 440
4 5 (8.06%) RMADS
5 2 (3.23%) NCSC
6 1 (1.61%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.61%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 4 (6.45%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (6.45%) VMware NSX
1 4 (6.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (20.97%) Nagios
1 13 (20.97%) ZABBIX
2 12 (19.35%) Netcool
2 12 (19.35%) Tivoli
3 11 (17.74%) OpenView
3 11 (17.74%) Tivoli Monitoring
4 4 (6.45%) NetBackup
4 4 (6.45%) vRealize
5 1 (1.61%) Grafana
5 1 (1.61%) Kibana
5 1 (1.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (22.58%) BMC
1 14 (22.58%) Splunk
2 13 (20.97%) SolarWinds
3 12 (19.35%) HP
4 11 (17.74%) IBM
5 8 (12.90%) Microsoft
5 8 (12.90%) Oracle
6 5 (8.06%) VMware
7 4 (6.45%) Veritas
7 4 (6.45%) Zerto
8 1 (1.61%) Databricks
8 1 (1.61%) Google