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 22 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 18 13
Rank change year-on-year -1 -5 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 68 45 106
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 8.05% 10.02% 11.15%
As % of the General category 19.15% 16.13% 20.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 30 85
10th Percentile £370 £413 £200
25th Percentile £500 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £638 £775
90th Percentile £885 £743 £788
South West median daily rate £520 £510 £575
% change year-on-year +1.96% -11.30% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £18.06 - -
25th Percentile £19.47 - -
Median hourly rate £22.50 - -
75th Percentile £23.75 - -
90th Percentile £24.13 - -
South West median hourly rate £23.54 £62.50 £14.79
% change year-on-year -62.34% +322.58% -69.82%

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 355 279 507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 42.01% 62.14% 53.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 179 374
10th Percentile £305 £237 £263
25th Percentile £425 £460 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £715 £619 £675
90th Percentile £738 £688 £725
South West median daily rate £500 £501 £525
% change year-on-year -0.10% -4.67% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 1 19
10th Percentile £12.60 - £12.00
25th Percentile £13.45 - £14.25
Median hourly rate £17.50 £60.00 £14.54
Median % change year-on-year -70.83% +312.65% -78.27%
75th Percentile £23.75 - £23.75
90th Percentile £24.50 - £39.00
South West median hourly rate £32.50 £60.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -45.83% +33.33% -26.83%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 +4 34 £500 -6.98% 18
Salisbury - 6 £500 -
Corsham -28 3 £625 -
Pewsey - 1 - -
Tidworth - 1 - -
Trowbridge - 1 £213 - 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 3 (4.41%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (1.47%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (5.88%) NetSuite
2 2 (2.94%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (2.94%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (1.47%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.29%) AWS
2 3 (4.41%) Azure
2 3 (4.41%) Google Drive
3 1 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.47%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (1.47%) GCP
3 1 (1.47%) GitHub
3 1 (1.47%) OpenShift
3 1 (1.47%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.94%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.47%) Firewall
2 1 (1.47%) Network Security
2 1 (1.47%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (1.47%) Metadata
1 1 (1.47%) Oracle Database
1 1 (1.47%) Oracle Exadata
1 1 (1.47%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (1.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.94%) Bitbucket
2 2 (2.94%) Cucumber
2 2 (2.94%) Git
2 2 (2.94%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.47%) Ant
3 1 (1.47%) eggPlant
3 1 (1.47%) IntelliJ
3 1 (1.47%) Maven
3 1 (1.47%) Postman
3 1 (1.47%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.47%) Snyk
General
1 18 (26.47%) General Ledger
2 11 (16.18%) Public Sector
3 10 (14.71%) Social Skills
4 5 (7.35%) Electronics
4 5 (7.35%) Manufacturing
4 5 (7.35%) Marketing
4 5 (7.35%) Telecoms
5 4 (5.88%) Legal
6 3 (4.41%) Local Government
6 3 (4.41%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.94%) Banking
7 2 (2.94%) Military
7 2 (2.94%) Social Housing
8 1 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.47%) Law
8 1 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (20.59%) Lead
2 10 (14.71%) Architect
3 6 (8.82%) Data Architect
4 5 (7.35%) Consultant
4 5 (7.35%) Lead Architect
4 5 (7.35%) Project Manager
5 3 (4.41%) Administrator
5 3 (4.41%) AWS Architect
5 3 (4.41%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (4.41%) AWS Infrastructure Lead
5 3 (4.41%) Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (4.41%) Lead Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (4.41%) SC Cleared Project Manager
5 3 (4.41%) Senior
6 2 (2.94%) Compliance Authority
6 2 (2.94%) Lead Consultant
6 2 (2.94%) Lead Data Architect
6 2 (2.94%) NetSuite Consultant
6 2 (2.94%) Salesforce Architect
6 2 (2.94%) Unified Communications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.41%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (2.94%) Spring
3 1 (1.47%) .NET
3 1 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.47%) Gherkin
3 1 (1.47%) Hibernate
3 1 (1.47%) JWT
3 1 (1.47%) Node.js
3 1 (1.47%) OAuth
3 1 (1.47%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.47%) Playwright
3 1 (1.47%) RESTful
3 1 (1.47%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 17 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (1.47%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.47%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (1.47%) DataPower
2 1 (1.47%) Driving Licence
2 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.47%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.94%) Windows
2 1 (1.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 14 (20.59%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 13 (19.12%) Budgeting
4 12 (17.65%) Financial Modelling
4 12 (17.65%) Performance Analysis
5 10 (14.71%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (11.76%) Agile
7 6 (8.82%) Project Management
8 5 (7.35%) CI/CD
8 5 (7.35%) Digital Marketing
8 5 (7.35%) PRINCE2
8 5 (7.35%) Programme Management
8 5 (7.35%) Scrum
8 5 (7.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 4 (5.88%) Data Management
9 4 (5.88%) DevOps
9 4 (5.88%) ETL
10 3 (4.41%) BDD
10 3 (4.41%) Coaching
10 3 (4.41%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.41%) SQL
2 2 (2.94%) Java
2 2 (2.94%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.47%) Bash
3 1 (1.47%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.47%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (20.59%) ACCA
1 14 (20.59%) CIMA
2 11 (16.18%) Security Cleared
3 10 (14.71%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.88%) DBS Check
4 4 (5.88%) DV Cleared
4 4 (5.88%) PMP
5 3 (4.41%) CISSP
5 3 (4.41%) Degree
6 2 (2.94%) CESG Certified Professional
6 2 (2.94%) CLAS
6 2 (2.94%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.94%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (1.47%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.47%) CISM
7 1 (1.47%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.47%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.35%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.94%) JSP 440
3 2 (2.94%) NIST
3 2 (2.94%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.94%) RMADS
4 1 (1.47%) GDPR
4 1 (1.47%) PMO
4 1 (1.47%) QA
4 1 (1.47%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (4.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.94%) Ansible
1 2 (2.94%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.94%) Terraform
2 1 (1.47%) Icinga
Vendors
1 8 (11.76%) Oracle
2 7 (10.29%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.35%) SAP
4 3 (4.41%) Google
4 3 (4.41%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.94%) Cisco
6 1 (1.47%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.47%) IBM
6 1 (1.47%) Thales
6 1 (1.47%) Veracode