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 10 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 8 10
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 69 71 90
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 8.86% 16.10% 14.13%
As % of the General category 17.12% 27.84% 27.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 55 58
10th Percentile £412 £440 £180
25th Percentile £500 £513 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £503
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +14.43% -11.65%
75th Percentile £688 £681 £669
90th Percentile £925 £755 £775
South West median daily rate £550 £575 £520
% change year-on-year -4.35% +10.58% -9.57%
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 £43.96 £15.96 £33.00
% change year-on-year +175.44% -51.64% -11.23%

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 403 255 327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 51.73% 57.82% 51.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 168 229
10th Percentile £312 £263 £212
25th Percentile £436 £461 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.23% -2.18%
75th Percentile £629 £638 £667
90th Percentile £726 £716 £756
South West median daily rate £525 £488 £505
% change year-on-year +7.69% -3.47% -8.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 5 9
10th Percentile - £20.99 -
25th Percentile £13.45 £21.25 -
Median hourly rate £17.50 £25.08 £12.79
Median % change year-on-year -30.21% +96.05% -80.91%
75th Percentile £22.09 £25.15 -
90th Percentile £48.21 £27.19 £13.91
South West median hourly rate £35.71 £22.38 £63.50
% change year-on-year +59.54% -64.75% +19.63%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 46 £505 -3.81% 19
Corsham -33 4 £516 -20.67% 3
Salisbury - 2 £675 - 4
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 (1.45%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.45%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (1.45%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (5.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (15.94%) NetSuite
2 8 (11.59%) Oracle Payables
2 8 (11.59%) Oracle Receivables
3 7 (10.14%) Workday HCM
4 1 (1.45%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (1.45%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 14 (20.29%) AWS
2 7 (10.14%) Azure
3 3 (4.35%) GCP
4 1 (1.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (1.45%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (1.45%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.45%) GitHub
4 1 (1.45%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (1.45%) OpenShift
4 1 (1.45%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.45%) Serverless
4 1 (1.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.45%) CTI
1 1 (1.45%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.90%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (2.90%) Metadata
1 2 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.45%) Big Data
2 1 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.45%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.45%) EDRMS
2 1 (1.45%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.45%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.45%) Power BI
2 1 (1.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.45%) Git
2 1 (1.45%) GitLab
2 1 (1.45%) GoCD
2 1 (1.45%) Gradle
2 1 (1.45%) JUnit
2 1 (1.45%) Maven
General
1 14 (20.29%) General Ledger
1 14 (20.29%) Public Sector
2 11 (15.94%) Social Skills
3 10 (14.49%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.25%) Local Government
5 4 (5.80%) Military
6 3 (4.35%) Legal
7 2 (2.90%) Banking
7 2 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (37.68%) Lead
2 12 (17.39%) Analyst
3 11 (15.94%) Architect
4 9 (13.04%) Lead Architect
5 8 (11.59%) Consultant
5 8 (11.59%) Implementation Consultant
6 7 (10.14%) AWS Architect
6 7 (10.14%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
6 7 (10.14%) AWS Infrastructure Lead
6 7 (10.14%) Infrastructure Architect
6 7 (10.14%) Lead Consultant
6 7 (10.14%) Lead Infrastructure Architect
6 7 (10.14%) NetSuite Consultant
7 6 (8.70%) Financial Analyst
7 6 (8.70%) Transformation Consultant
7 6 (8.70%) Workday Analyst
8 4 (5.80%) Applications Support
8 4 (5.80%) Data Architect
8 4 (5.80%) Report Analyst
8 4 (5.80%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.35%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (2.90%) Node.js
2 2 (2.90%) REST
2 2 (2.90%) Terraform
3 1 (1.45%) FreeMarker
3 1 (1.45%) Hibernate
3 1 (1.45%) HTML
3 1 (1.45%) HTML5
3 1 (1.45%) JDBC
3 1 (1.45%) JPA
3 1 (1.45%) JSF
3 1 (1.45%) JSP
3 1 (1.45%) React
3 1 (1.45%) Redux
3 1 (1.45%) Servlets
3 1 (1.45%) Spring
3 1 (1.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.25%) Onboarding
2 2 (2.90%) Management Information System
2 2 (2.90%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.45%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.45%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (1.45%) Freedom of Information Act
3 1 (1.45%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.45%) Linux
1 1 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (1.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (24.64%) Stakeholder Management
2 12 (17.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 11 (15.94%) ETL
3 11 (15.94%) PRINCE2
3 11 (15.94%) Requirements Gathering
4 10 (14.49%) Agile
5 9 (13.04%) Change Management
5 9 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (11.59%) Budgeting
6 8 (11.59%) Translating Business Requirements
7 7 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (10.14%) Workflow
8 6 (8.70%) Analytics
8 6 (8.70%) Coaching
8 6 (8.70%) Data Governance
8 6 (8.70%) Data Modelling
8 6 (8.70%) Scrum
8 6 (8.70%) Technology Enablement
9 5 (7.25%) Business Case
9 5 (7.25%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 10 (14.49%) SQL
2 3 (4.35%) Python
3 2 (2.90%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.45%) Bash
4 1 (1.45%) Java
4 1 (1.45%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 9 (13.04%) ACCA
2 9 (13.04%) CIMA
2 9 (13.04%) PMP
3 6 (8.70%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.80%) DBS Check
4 4 (5.80%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.35%) Degree
6 2 (2.90%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.45%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.45%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.14%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.35%) GDPR
2 3 (4.35%) PMO
3 1 (1.45%) JSP 440
3 1 (1.45%) NCSC
3 1 (1.45%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (2.90%) Ansible
2 1 (1.45%) Argo
2 1 (1.45%) Grafana
2 1 (1.45%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (18.84%) Oracle
2 12 (17.39%) Microsoft
3 8 (11.59%) Workday
4 2 (2.90%) Databricks
4 2 (2.90%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.45%) Foundry
5 1 (1.45%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.45%) Palantir
5 1 (1.45%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.45%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.45%) Splunk