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 16 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 9 10
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 70 69 109
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 11.78% 14.65% 14.16%
As % of the General category 22.15% 26.14% 28.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 34 94
10th Percentile £400 £416 £395
25th Percentile £513 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.52% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £681 £675 £638
90th Percentile £696 £733 £700
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
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 £60.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year -60.29% +21.21% -31.72%

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 common skills in Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 316 264 386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 53.20% 56.05% 50.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 171 294
10th Percentile £400 £215 £300
25th Percentile £513 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% - -
75th Percentile £738 £650 £650
90th Percentile £773 £737 £725
South West median daily rate £510 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.00% -9.09% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 5 9
10th Percentile £15.38 - £15.45
25th Percentile £18.87 £12.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.39 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.42% -68.39% -16.09%
75th Percentile £24.50 £60.00 £69.50
90th Percentile - - £78.93
South West median hourly rate £24.00 £65.00 £56.40
% change year-on-year -63.08% +15.26% -9.42%

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 16 December 2025.

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 16 December 2025. 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 22 £463 -2.63% 29
Corsham -19 20 £650 +11.59% 2
Pewsey - 6 - -
Salisbury -1 3 - - 7
Tidworth - 1 - -
Trowbridge - 1 £213 - 2
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 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.86%) Confluence
2 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 10 (14.29%) AWS
2 8 (11.43%) Azure
3 5 (7.14%) GCP
4 3 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (4.29%) Google Drive
4 3 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.86%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.43%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.43%) GitHub
6 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.43%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.43%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.71%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.43%) Firewall
2 1 (1.43%) LAN
2 1 (1.43%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.86%) Relational Database
1 2 (2.86%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.43%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.43%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (1.43%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (5.71%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.86%) GitLab
2 2 (2.86%) JIRA
2 2 (2.86%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.43%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.43%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.43%) Git
3 1 (1.43%) GoCD
3 1 (1.43%) Postman
3 1 (1.43%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.43%) Snyk
3 1 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 37 (52.86%) Public Sector
1 37 (52.86%) Telecoms
2 34 (48.57%) Electronics
2 34 (48.57%) Manufacturing
2 34 (48.57%) Marketing
3 23 (32.86%) Social Skills
4 9 (12.86%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.57%) Banking
6 5 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (7.14%) Legal
6 5 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (4.29%) Aerospace
7 3 (4.29%) Military
7 3 (4.29%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (18.57%) Architect
2 11 (15.71%) Consultant
3 8 (11.43%) IT Support
3 8 (11.43%) Security Consultant
4 7 (10.00%) Support Engineer
5 6 (8.57%) Analyst
5 6 (8.57%) IT Engineer
5 6 (8.57%) IT Support Engineer
5 6 (8.57%) ITIL Manager
5 6 (8.57%) Migration Engineer
6 5 (7.14%) Availability Manager
6 5 (7.14%) Incident Manager
6 5 (7.14%) ITIL Incident Manager
7 4 (5.71%) Enterprise Architect
7 4 (5.71%) Security Architect
8 3 (4.29%) Administrator
8 3 (4.29%) Cisco Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Communications Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Unified Communications Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.29%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.43%) JWT
2 1 (1.43%) Kafka
2 1 (1.43%) Node.js
2 1 (1.43%) OAuth
2 1 (1.43%) OAuth2
2 1 (1.43%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.14%) CMDB
2 4 (5.71%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (2.86%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.43%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.43%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (1.43%) DataPower
4 1 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.43%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.43%) STB
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.29%) Linux
1 3 (4.29%) Windows
2 1 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
2 34 (48.57%) Digital Marketing
2 34 (48.57%) Programme Management
3 17 (24.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 13 (18.57%) ITIL
5 12 (17.14%) Risk Management
6 11 (15.71%) Cloud Security
6 11 (15.71%) Service Management
7 10 (14.29%) Migration
7 10 (14.29%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
8 8 (11.43%) CI/CD
8 8 (11.43%) Roadmaps
9 7 (10.00%) Configuration Management
9 7 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
10 6 (8.57%) Microservices
10 6 (8.57%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (8.57%) Threat Modelling
10 6 (8.57%) TOGAF
10 6 (8.57%) Workflow
10 6 (8.57%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (7.14%) PowerShell
2 3 (4.29%) Bash
2 3 (4.29%) Python
3 1 (1.43%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 44 (62.86%) Security Cleared
2 30 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 18 (25.71%) DV Cleared
4 11 (15.71%) CISSP
5 8 (11.43%) CISM
6 7 (10.00%) CESG Certified Professional
7 5 (7.14%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 3 (4.29%) AWS Certification
8 3 (4.29%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (2.86%) Azure Certification
9 2 (2.86%) CISA
9 2 (2.86%) CLAS
9 2 (2.86%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (1.43%) ACCA
10 1 (1.43%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (1.43%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (17.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (11.43%) NCSC
3 7 (10.00%) NIST
3 7 (10.00%) RMADS
4 5 (7.14%) JSP 440
5 3 (4.29%) GDPR
6 2 (2.86%) COBIT
6 2 (2.86%) PCI DSS
7 1 (1.43%) Data Quality
7 1 (1.43%) GAAP
7 1 (1.43%) IFRS
7 1 (1.43%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (5.71%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.29%) Docker
3 1 (1.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (5.71%) Ansible
1 4 (5.71%) Kubernetes
1 4 (5.71%) Terraform
2 2 (2.86%) Grafana
2 2 (2.86%) NetBackup
2 2 (2.86%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.43%) FreeIPA
3 1 (1.43%) Icinga
3 1 (1.43%) Puppet
3 1 (1.43%) SCOM
3 1 (1.43%) vRealize
Vendors
1 34 (48.57%) SAP
2 7 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.14%) Remedy
4 4 (5.71%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.29%) Cisco
5 3 (4.29%) Google
6 2 (2.86%) Commvault
6 2 (2.86%) Splunk
6 2 (2.86%) Veritas
7 1 (1.43%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.43%) Citrix
7 1 (1.43%) IBM
7 1 (1.43%) Oracle
7 1 (1.43%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.43%) Veracode
7 1 (1.43%) VMware
7 1 (1.43%) Workday