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 8 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 8 10
Rank change year-on-year -11 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 56 63 85
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 7.52% 15.25% 14.38%
As % of the General category 13.69% 26.36% 27.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 47 51
10th Percentile £411 £502 £180
25th Percentile £480 £525 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +16.50% -14.17%
75th Percentile £735 £688 £664
90th Percentile £925 £785 £725
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £24.00 -
South West median hourly rate £43.96 £20.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year +119.80% -41.18% -30.10%

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 409 239 308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 54.90% 57.87% 52.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 157 213
10th Percentile £362 £270 £208
25th Percentile £463 £481 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £633 £675 £675
90th Percentile £735 £738 £749
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 10 9
10th Percentile - £20.82 -
25th Percentile £13.45 £21.81 -
Median hourly rate £14.43 £24.00 £12.79
Median % change year-on-year -39.90% +87.65% -79.03%
75th Percentile £20.68 £25.14 -
90th Percentile £54.12 £25.49 £13.91
South West median hourly rate £38.50 £24.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +60.42% -63.08% +15.06%

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 8 October 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 8 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
Swindon -1 41 £585 +4.00% 47
Corsham -28 6 £550 -15.38% 6
Salisbury - 1 - - 8
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 (1.79%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.79%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (12.50%) NetSuite
1 7 (12.50%) Workday HCM
2 6 (10.71%) Oracle Payables
2 6 (10.71%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (1.79%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 13 (23.21%) AWS
2 6 (10.71%) Azure
3 3 (5.36%) GCP
4 1 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (1.79%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (1.79%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.79%) GitHub
4 1 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (1.79%) OpenShift
4 1 (1.79%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.79%) Serverless
4 1 (1.79%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (3.57%) Star Schema
1 2 (3.57%) Tableau
2 1 (1.79%) Big Data
2 1 (1.79%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.79%) EDRMS
2 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.79%) Metadata
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.79%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.79%) Git
2 1 (1.79%) GitLab
2 1 (1.79%) GoCD
2 1 (1.79%) Gradle
2 1 (1.79%) JUnit
2 1 (1.79%) Maven
General
1 12 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 11 (19.64%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (17.86%) Social Skills
4 9 (16.07%) General Ledger
5 6 (10.71%) Military
6 4 (7.14%) Legal
6 4 (7.14%) Local Government
7 2 (3.57%) Banking
8 1 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (33.93%) Lead
2 10 (17.86%) Analyst
3 8 (14.29%) Architect
3 8 (14.29%) Lead Architect
4 7 (12.50%) AWS Architect
4 7 (12.50%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
4 7 (12.50%) AWS Infrastructure Lead
4 7 (12.50%) Consultant
4 7 (12.50%) Infrastructure Architect
4 7 (12.50%) Lead Infrastructure Architect
5 6 (10.71%) Financial Analyst
5 6 (10.71%) Implementation Consultant
5 6 (10.71%) Workday Analyst
6 5 (8.93%) Lead Consultant
6 5 (8.93%) NetSuite Consultant
6 5 (8.93%) Transformation Consultant
7 4 (7.14%) Applications Support
7 4 (7.14%) Report Analyst
7 4 (7.14%) Senior
8 3 (5.36%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.57%) Node.js
1 2 (3.57%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (3.57%) REST
1 2 (3.57%) Terraform
2 1 (1.79%) FreeMarker
2 1 (1.79%) Hibernate
2 1 (1.79%) HTML
2 1 (1.79%) HTML5
2 1 (1.79%) JDBC
2 1 (1.79%) JPA
2 1 (1.79%) JSF
2 1 (1.79%) JSP
2 1 (1.79%) React
2 1 (1.79%) Redux
2 1 (1.79%) Servlets
2 1 (1.79%) Spring
2 1 (1.79%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.36%) Onboarding
1 3 (5.36%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.79%) Data Structures
2 1 (1.79%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (1.79%) Freedom of Information Act
2 1 (1.79%) IVR
2 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.79%) Linux
1 1 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (1.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 12 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
2 11 (19.64%) ETL
3 10 (17.86%) Requirements Gathering
4 9 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (14.29%) Agile
5 8 (14.29%) Analytics
5 8 (14.29%) Change Management
5 8 (14.29%) PRINCE2
5 8 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
6 7 (12.50%) Decision-Making
7 6 (10.71%) Budgeting
7 6 (10.71%) Data Governance
7 6 (10.71%) Data Modelling
7 6 (10.71%) Workflow
7 6 (10.71%) Workshop Facilitation
8 5 (8.93%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (8.93%) Technology Enablement
9 4 (7.14%) Business Continuity
9 4 (7.14%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 11 (19.64%) SQL
2 3 (5.36%) Python
3 2 (3.57%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.79%) Bash
4 1 (1.79%) Java
4 1 (1.79%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.79%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.71%) ACCA
3 6 (10.71%) CIMA
3 6 (10.71%) PMP
4 4 (7.14%) DV Cleared
5 3 (5.36%) DBS Check
6 2 (3.57%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.79%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.71%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.36%) GDPR
2 3 (5.36%) PMO
3 1 (1.79%) JSP 440
3 1 (1.79%) NCSC
3 1 (1.79%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (3.57%) Ansible
2 1 (1.79%) Argo
2 1 (1.79%) Grafana
2 1 (1.79%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.79%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (16.07%) Oracle
2 8 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 8 (14.29%) Workday
3 2 (3.57%) Databricks
3 2 (3.57%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.79%) Concur
4 1 (1.79%) Foundry
4 1 (1.79%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.79%) Palantir
4 1 (1.79%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.79%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.79%) SAP
4 1 (1.79%) Splunk