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 1 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 16 14
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 -2
Contract jobs citing Finance 67 45 103
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 8.11% 10.09% 10.73%
As % of the General category 18.36% 17.31% 20.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 27 83
10th Percentile £400 £413 £412
25th Percentile £500 £500 £529
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £625
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -10.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £669 £638 £775
90th Percentile £688 £758 £788
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £20.30 - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - -
Median hourly rate £22.50 - -
75th Percentile £24.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £23.83 £62.50 £14.79
% change year-on-year -61.88% +322.58% -69.82%

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 365 260 514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 44.19% 58.30% 53.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 169 378
10th Percentile £317 £220 £291
25th Percentile £463 £461 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -0.90%
75th Percentile £718 £625 £675
90th Percentile £738 £691 £733
South West median daily rate £500 £513 £530
% change year-on-year -2.44% -3.30% -3.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 2 21
10th Percentile £12.60 - £12.00
25th Percentile £15.03 - £14.25
Median hourly rate £18.87 £60.00 £14.54
Median % change year-on-year -68.55% +312.65% -76.92%
75th Percentile £24.12 - £30.25
90th Percentile £24.50 - £74.00
South West median hourly rate £33.00 £62.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -47.20% +56.25% -34.96%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 +5 30 £463 -9.76% 21
Salisbury +5 6 £500 -
Corsham -35 4 £625 -
Pewsey - 3 - -
Tidworth - 1 - -
Trowbridge - 1 £213 - 2
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 5 (7.46%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.49%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.49%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.48%) NetSuite
2 2 (2.99%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (2.99%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (1.49%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 4 (5.97%) AWS
2 3 (4.48%) Azure
2 3 (4.48%) Google Drive
3 2 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.49%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.49%) GCP
4 1 (1.49%) GitHub
4 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (1.49%) OpenShift
4 1 (1.49%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.97%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.49%) Firewall
2 1 (1.49%) LAN
2 1 (1.49%) Network Security
2 1 (1.49%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.48%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.49%) Metadata
2 1 (1.49%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.49%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.99%) Bitbucket
2 2 (2.99%) Cucumber
2 2 (2.99%) Git
2 2 (2.99%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.49%) Ant
3 1 (1.49%) eggPlant
3 1 (1.49%) IntelliJ
3 1 (1.49%) Maven
3 1 (1.49%) Postman
3 1 (1.49%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.49%) Snyk
General
1 15 (22.39%) General Ledger
2 14 (20.90%) Public Sector
3 12 (17.91%) Social Skills
4 11 (16.42%) Telecoms
5 10 (14.93%) Electronics
5 10 (14.93%) Manufacturing
5 10 (14.93%) Marketing
6 6 (8.96%) Legal
7 5 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (4.48%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.99%) Banking
9 2 (2.99%) Local Government
9 2 (2.99%) Military
9 2 (2.99%) Social Housing
10 1 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.49%) Law
10 1 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (11.94%) Consultant
2 7 (10.45%) Architect
2 7 (10.45%) Lead
3 5 (7.46%) Data Architect
4 4 (5.97%) Project Manager
4 4 (5.97%) Support Engineer
5 3 (4.48%) Administrator
5 3 (4.48%) Cisco Engineer
5 3 (4.48%) Cisco Voice Engineer
5 3 (4.48%) Communications Engineer
5 3 (4.48%) IT Engineer
5 3 (4.48%) IT Support
5 3 (4.48%) IT Support Engineer
5 3 (4.48%) Migration Engineer
5 3 (4.48%) Senior
5 3 (4.48%) Unified Communications Engineer
5 3 (4.48%) Voice Engineer
6 2 (2.99%) Compliance Authority
6 2 (2.99%) SC Cleared Project Manager
6 2 (2.99%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.99%) Spring
2 1 (1.49%) .NET
2 1 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.49%) Gherkin
2 1 (1.49%) Hibernate
2 1 (1.49%) JWT
2 1 (1.49%) Node.js
2 1 (1.49%) OAuth
2 1 (1.49%) OAuth2
2 1 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.49%) Playwright
2 1 (1.49%) RESTful
2 1 (1.49%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 17 (25.37%) Onboarding
2 1 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (1.49%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.49%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (1.49%) DataPower
2 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.49%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.49%) Windows
1 1 (1.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (32.84%) Business Intelligence
2 14 (20.90%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 13 (19.40%) Budgeting
4 12 (17.91%) Financial Modelling
4 12 (17.91%) Performance Analysis
5 10 (14.93%) Digital Marketing
5 10 (14.93%) Programme Management
5 10 (14.93%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (11.94%) Agile
7 7 (10.45%) Migration
7 7 (10.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 5 (7.46%) CI/CD
8 5 (7.46%) Data Management
8 5 (7.46%) PRINCE2
8 5 (7.46%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (7.46%) Project Management
8 5 (7.46%) Scrum
9 4 (5.97%) ITIL
9 4 (5.97%) Roadmaps
9 4 (5.97%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (5.97%) PowerShell
2 3 (4.48%) SQL
3 2 (2.99%) Java
4 1 (1.49%) Bash
4 1 (1.49%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.49%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (25.37%) Security Cleared
2 16 (23.88%) SC Cleared
3 15 (22.39%) ACCA
4 14 (20.90%) CIMA
5 7 (10.45%) DV Cleared
6 4 (5.97%) PMP
7 3 (4.48%) CISSP
7 3 (4.48%) Degree
8 2 (2.99%) CESG Certified Professional
8 2 (2.99%) CLAS
8 2 (2.99%) DBS Check
8 2 (2.99%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (2.99%) PMI Certification
8 2 (2.99%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (1.49%) CISM
9 1 (1.49%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.49%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.48%) Data Quality
1 3 (4.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.99%) JSP 440
2 2 (2.99%) NIST
2 2 (2.99%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.99%) RMADS
3 1 (1.49%) GAAP
3 1 (1.49%) GDPR
3 1 (1.49%) IFRS
3 1 (1.49%) QA
3 1 (1.49%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (4.48%) Docker
2 2 (2.99%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.99%) Ansible
1 2 (2.99%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.99%) NetBackup
1 2 (2.99%) Terraform
2 1 (1.49%) Icinga
Vendors
1 10 (14.93%) Microsoft
1 10 (14.93%) SAP
2 5 (7.46%) Oracle
3 4 (5.97%) Salesforce
4 3 (4.48%) Cisco
4 3 (4.48%) Google
5 2 (2.99%) Commvault
5 2 (2.99%) Veritas
6 1 (1.49%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.49%) IBM
6 1 (1.49%) Thales
6 1 (1.49%) Veracode