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 4 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 17 15
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 -2
Contract jobs citing Finance 71 49 97
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 8.84% 10.79% 10.05%
As % of the General category 21.71% 17.38% 19.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 33 79
10th Percentile £411 £423 £180
25th Percentile £500 £525 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £775
90th Percentile £925 £845 £788
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
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 £31.41 £58.75 £15.99
% change year-on-year -46.53% +267.53% -63.40%

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 327 282 500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 40.72% 62.11% 51.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 183 370
10th Percentile £305 £220 £263
25th Percentile £413 £458 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £611 £631 £675
90th Percentile £725 £695 £726
South West median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 3 23
10th Percentile £13.11 £22.01 £12.00
25th Percentile £13.45 £23.14 £12.79
Median hourly rate £16.71 £25.08 £14.54
Median % change year-on-year -33.38% +72.46% -72.95%
75th Percentile £23.99 £26.83 £17.25
90th Percentile £45.43 £27.86 £30.25
South West median hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year - -27.78% -25.00%

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 4 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 4 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 46 £525 - 21
Corsham -19 3 £550 -21.43% 1
Salisbury - 3 £500 -
Trowbridge - 1 - - 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 (1.41%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.41%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (1.41%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (5.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (15.49%) NetSuite
2 8 (11.27%) Oracle Payables
2 8 (11.27%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (2.82%) Workday HCM
4 1 (1.41%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 11 (15.49%) AWS
2 4 (5.63%) Azure
3 2 (2.82%) GCP
4 1 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.41%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.41%) GitHub
4 1 (1.41%) OpenShift
4 1 (1.41%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.41%) Firewall
1 1 (1.41%) Network Security
1 1 (1.41%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.41%) Big Data
1 1 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (1.41%) Metadata
1 1 (1.41%) Oracle Database
1 1 (1.41%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (1.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Bitbucket
1 2 (2.82%) Jenkins
1 2 (2.82%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.41%) Ant
2 1 (1.41%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.41%) eggPlant
2 1 (1.41%) Git
2 1 (1.41%) IntelliJ
2 1 (1.41%) Maven
2 1 (1.41%) Snyk
General
1 25 (35.21%) General Ledger
2 8 (11.27%) Public Sector
2 8 (11.27%) Social Skills
3 4 (5.63%) Local Government
4 3 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.23%) Banking
5 2 (2.82%) Legal
5 2 (2.82%) Social Housing
6 1 (1.41%) Electronics
6 1 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.41%) Law
6 1 (1.41%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.41%) Marketing
6 1 (1.41%) Military
6 1 (1.41%) Retail
6 1 (1.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (30.99%) Lead
2 11 (15.49%) Architect
3 10 (14.08%) Consultant
4 9 (12.68%) Lead Architect
5 8 (11.27%) Implementation Consultant
6 7 (9.86%) AWS Architect
6 7 (9.86%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
6 7 (9.86%) AWS Infrastructure Lead
6 7 (9.86%) Infrastructure Architect
6 7 (9.86%) Lead Consultant
6 7 (9.86%) Lead Infrastructure Architect
6 7 (9.86%) NetSuite Consultant
7 6 (8.45%) Transformation Consultant
8 5 (7.04%) Analyst
8 5 (7.04%) Project Manager
9 4 (5.63%) Data Architect
9 4 (5.63%) Senior
10 3 (4.23%) SC Cleared Project Manager
11 2 (2.82%) Compliance Authority
11 2 (2.82%) Workday Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.23%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (2.82%) Spring
3 1 (1.41%) .NET
3 1 (1.41%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.41%) Gherkin
3 1 (1.41%) Hibernate
3 1 (1.41%) Node.js
3 1 (1.41%) RESTful
3 1 (1.41%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 17 (23.94%) Onboarding
2 1 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (1.41%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.41%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (1.41%) Driving Licence
2 1 (1.41%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.41%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.41%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.82%) Windows
2 1 (1.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (26.76%) Budgeting
2 18 (25.35%) Stakeholder Management
3 14 (19.72%) Budgeting and Forecasting
4 13 (18.31%) Business Intelligence
5 12 (16.90%) Financial Modelling
5 12 (16.90%) Performance Analysis
6 11 (15.49%) PRINCE2
7 9 (12.68%) Agile
7 9 (12.68%) ETL
8 8 (11.27%) Requirements Gathering
9 7 (9.86%) Change Management
9 7 (9.86%) Scrum
9 7 (9.86%) Workflow
10 6 (8.45%) Project Management
10 6 (8.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 6 (8.45%) Technology Enablement
11 5 (7.04%) Problem-Solving
12 4 (5.63%) Continuous Improvement
12 4 (5.63%) Data Governance
12 4 (5.63%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 5 (7.04%) SQL
2 2 (2.82%) Java
2 2 (2.82%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.82%) Python
3 1 (1.41%) Bash
3 1 (1.41%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (28.17%) ACCA
1 20 (28.17%) CIMA
2 10 (14.08%) PMP
3 6 (8.45%) Security Cleared
4 5 (7.04%) DBS Check
4 5 (7.04%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.23%) Degree
6 2 (2.82%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.82%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.82%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (1.41%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.41%) CESG Certified Professional
7 1 (1.41%) CISSP
7 1 (1.41%) CLAS
7 1 (1.41%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.41%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.63%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.82%) GDPR
3 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.41%) JSP 440
3 1 (1.41%) NIST
3 1 (1.41%) PMO
3 1 (1.41%) QA
3 1 (1.41%) RMADS
System Software
1 3 (4.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.41%) Ansible
1 1 (1.41%) Icinga
1 1 (1.41%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (18.31%) Oracle
2 11 (15.49%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.82%) Workday
4 1 (1.41%) Checkmarx
4 1 (1.41%) Databricks
4 1 (1.41%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.41%) SAP
4 1 (1.41%) Thales
4 1 (1.41%) Veracode