Finance Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Financial
South West > Wiltshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Wiltshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 13 18
Rank change year-on-year +1 +5 -6
Contract jobs citing Finance 72 50 92
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 8.91% 10.68% 9.78%
As % of the General category 21.49% 17.30% 18.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 35 74
10th Percentile £423 £413 £186
25th Percentile £500 £514 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +1.74% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £775
90th Percentile £925 £815 £788
South West median daily rate £525 £531 £548
% change year-on-year -1.18% -2.97% -4.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £17.25 - -
Median hourly rate £17.50 £28.55 -
Median % change year-on-year -38.70% - -
75th Percentile £17.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £41.15 £57.50 £15.99
% change year-on-year -28.43% +259.71% -67.14%

All General Skills
Wiltshire

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 335 289 490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 41.46% 61.75% 52.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 188 363
10th Percentile £305 £220 £263
25th Percentile £413 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £607 £628 £675
90th Percentile £713 £716 £749
South West median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 4 24
10th Percentile £12.86 £22.39 £12.00
25th Percentile £13.45 £24.09 £12.79
Median hourly rate £15.29 £25.11 £14.52
Median % change year-on-year -39.13% +72.95% -72.99%
75th Percentile £26.55 £26.00 £17.25
90th Percentile £48.21 £27.53 £30.25
South West median hourly rate £35.00 £30.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year +15.70% -32.78% -21.51%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire.

Finance job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 18 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Wiltshire

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Finance

Finance
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 Finance within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 18 June 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
Swindon +2 49 £585 +11.43% 22
Salisbury - 3 £500 -
Corsham -19 2 £500 -20.00% 2
Trowbridge - 1 - -
Finance
South West

Finance
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 1 (1.39%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.39%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (1.39%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (15.28%) NetSuite
2 8 (11.11%) Oracle Payables
2 8 (11.11%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (2.78%) Workday HCM
4 1 (1.39%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 12 (16.67%) AWS
2 4 (5.56%) Azure
3 3 (4.17%) GCP
4 1 (1.39%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.39%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.39%) Big Data
2 1 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.39%) Metadata
2 1 (1.39%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.39%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Ant
1 1 (1.39%) Bitbucket
1 1 (1.39%) Cucumber
1 1 (1.39%) eggPlant
1 1 (1.39%) Git
1 1 (1.39%) IntelliJ
1 1 (1.39%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.39%) Maven
1 1 (1.39%) SonarQube
General
1 25 (34.72%) General Ledger
2 8 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 7 (9.72%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.56%) Local Government
5 3 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.78%) Banking
6 2 (2.78%) Legal
6 2 (2.78%) Social Housing
7 1 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.39%) Law
7 1 (1.39%) Military
7 1 (1.39%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (30.56%) Lead
2 11 (15.28%) Architect
3 9 (12.50%) Consultant
3 9 (12.50%) Lead Architect
4 8 (11.11%) Implementation Consultant
5 7 (9.72%) AWS Architect
5 7 (9.72%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
5 7 (9.72%) AWS Infrastructure Lead
5 7 (9.72%) Infrastructure Architect
5 7 (9.72%) Lead Consultant
5 7 (9.72%) Lead Infrastructure Architect
5 7 (9.72%) NetSuite Consultant
6 6 (8.33%) Transformation Consultant
7 5 (6.94%) Analyst
7 5 (6.94%) Project Manager
8 4 (5.56%) Data Architect
8 4 (5.56%) Senior
9 3 (4.17%) Applications Support
9 3 (4.17%) SC Cleared Project Manager
10 2 (2.78%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.17%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (2.78%) Spring
3 1 (1.39%) .NET
3 1 (1.39%) Gherkin
3 1 (1.39%) Hibernate
3 1 (1.39%) RESTful
3 1 (1.39%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 17 (23.61%) Onboarding
2 1 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (1.39%) Driving Licence
2 1 (1.39%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.39%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.78%) Windows
2 1 (1.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (26.39%) Budgeting
2 18 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 14 (19.44%) Budgeting and Forecasting
4 12 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 12 (16.67%) Financial Modelling
4 12 (16.67%) Performance Analysis
5 11 (15.28%) PRINCE2
6 9 (12.50%) Agile
6 9 (12.50%) ETL
7 8 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
8 7 (9.72%) Change Management
8 7 (9.72%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (9.72%) Scrum
8 7 (9.72%) Workflow
9 6 (8.33%) Project Management
9 6 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 6 (8.33%) Technology Enablement
10 4 (5.56%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (5.56%) High Availability
10 4 (5.56%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 9 (12.50%) SQL
2 2 (2.78%) Java
3 1 (1.39%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.39%) Python
3 1 (1.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (27.78%) ACCA
1 20 (27.78%) CIMA
2 10 (13.89%) PMP
3 5 (6.94%) DBS Check
3 5 (6.94%) Security Cleared
4 4 (5.56%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.17%) Degree
6 2 (2.78%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.78%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (1.39%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.39%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.39%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.39%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.78%) GDPR
3 1 (1.39%) PMO
3 1 (1.39%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.39%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (18.06%) Oracle
2 11 (15.28%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.78%) Dynatrace
3 2 (2.78%) Workday
4 1 (1.39%) Databricks
4 1 (1.39%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.39%) Thales