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 19 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 12 12
Rank change year-on-year -7 0 -2
Contract jobs citing Finance 60 50 99
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 9.13% 11.24% 12.33%
As % of the General category 18.29% 18.87% 25.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 27 81
10th Percentile £409 £428 £413
25th Percentile £513 £505 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £669 £681 £675
90th Percentile £688 £737 £738
South West median daily rate £525 £528 £580
% change year-on-year -0.47% -9.05% +5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £21.01 - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - -
Median hourly rate £24.00 - -
75th Percentile £24.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £23.83 £65.00 £15.99
% change year-on-year -63.35% +306.63% -67.38%

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 328 265 388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 49.92% 59.55% 48.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 165 298
10th Percentile £400 £215 £263
25th Percentile £513 £423 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% - -
75th Percentile £725 £650 £638
90th Percentile £754 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £500 £505 £550
% change year-on-year -0.99% -8.18% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 3 17
10th Percentile £14.79 £22.23 £14.42
25th Percentile £17.67 £36.40 £14.54
Median hourly rate £22.27 £60.00 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.89% +263.64% -74.83%
75th Percentile £24.50 - £69.50
90th Percentile - - £75.20
South West median hourly rate £26.75 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -57.20% +13.64% -13.02%

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 19 January 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 19 January 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 0 18 £500 -9.09% 73
Corsham -29 11 £575 -8.00% 2
Pewsey - 6 - -
Salisbury +5 3 - -
Tidworth - 1 - - 2
Trowbridge - 1 £213 -
Warminster - 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 5 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 3 (5.00%) Google Drive
1 3 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (3.33%) AWS
2 2 (3.33%) Azure
3 1 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (1.67%) GCP
3 1 (1.67%) GitHub
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (1.67%) OpenShift
3 1 (1.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.67%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.67%) Firewall
2 1 (1.67%) LAN
2 1 (1.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (1.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.67%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.67%) Git
2 1 (1.67%) GoCD
2 1 (1.67%) Postman
2 1 (1.67%) REST Assured
2 1 (1.67%) Snyk
2 1 (1.67%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 30 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 29 (48.33%) Telecoms
3 28 (46.67%) Electronics
3 28 (46.67%) Manufacturing
3 28 (46.67%) Marketing
4 14 (23.33%) Social Skills
5 9 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (8.33%) Legal
7 3 (5.00%) General Ledger
7 3 (5.00%) Military
7 3 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (3.33%) Local Government
8 2 (3.33%) Social Housing
9 1 (1.67%) Banking
9 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (11.67%) Consultant
1 7 (11.67%) Support Engineer
2 6 (10.00%) IT Engineer
2 6 (10.00%) IT Support
2 6 (10.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 6 (10.00%) ITIL Manager
2 6 (10.00%) Migration Engineer
3 5 (8.33%) Architect
3 5 (8.33%) Availability Manager
3 5 (8.33%) Incident Manager
3 5 (8.33%) ITIL Incident Manager
4 4 (6.67%) Analyst
4 4 (6.67%) Security Consultant
5 3 (5.00%) Administrator
5 3 (5.00%) Cisco Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Cisco Voice Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Communications Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Unified Communications Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Voice Engineer
6 2 (3.33%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (1.67%) JWT
1 1 (1.67%) Node.js
1 1 (1.67%) OAuth
1 1 (1.67%) OAuth2
1 1 (1.67%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.67%) Onboarding
2 5 (8.33%) CMDB
3 2 (3.33%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (3.33%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.67%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.67%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (1.67%) DataPower
4 1 (1.67%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.67%) STB
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.33%) Windows
2 1 (1.67%) Linux
2 1 (1.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (55.00%) Business Intelligence
2 28 (46.67%) Digital Marketing
2 28 (46.67%) Programme Management
3 13 (21.67%) ITIL
3 13 (21.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 11 (18.33%) Service Management
5 10 (16.67%) Migration
5 10 (16.67%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
6 7 (11.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (10.00%) CI/CD
7 6 (10.00%) Configuration Management
7 6 (10.00%) Risk Management
7 6 (10.00%) Workflow
7 6 (10.00%) Workflow Management
8 5 (8.33%) Availability Management
8 5 (8.33%) Compliance Audit
8 5 (8.33%) Lean Six Sigma
8 5 (8.33%) Performance Monitoring
8 5 (8.33%) Service Catalogue
8 5 (8.33%) Software Licensing
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.67%) Bash
2 1 (1.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 33 (55.00%) Security Cleared
2 28 (46.67%) SC Cleared
3 10 (16.67%) DV Cleared
4 6 (10.00%) CISSP
5 4 (6.67%) ACCA
5 4 (6.67%) CISM
6 3 (5.00%) CESG Certified Professional
6 3 (5.00%) CIMA
6 3 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (3.33%) CISA
7 2 (3.33%) CLAS
8 1 (1.67%) Degree
8 1 (1.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (6.67%) NIST
3 3 (5.00%) GDPR
3 3 (5.00%) JSP 440
3 3 (5.00%) RMADS
4 2 (3.33%) COBIT
4 2 (3.33%) NCSC
4 2 (3.33%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.67%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.67%) GAAP
5 1 (1.67%) IFRS
5 1 (1.67%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (3.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.67%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (3.33%) Ansible
1 2 (3.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.33%) NetBackup
1 2 (3.33%) Terraform
2 1 (1.67%) FreeIPA
2 1 (1.67%) Icinga
2 1 (1.67%) SCOM
2 1 (1.67%) vRealize
Vendors
1 28 (46.67%) SAP
2 7 (11.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.33%) Remedy
4 4 (6.67%) Salesforce
5 3 (5.00%) Cisco
5 3 (5.00%) Google
6 2 (3.33%) Commvault
6 2 (3.33%) Veritas
7 1 (1.67%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.67%) Citrix
7 1 (1.67%) IBM
7 1 (1.67%) Oracle
7 1 (1.67%) Veracode
7 1 (1.67%) VMware
7 1 (1.67%) Workday