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 18 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 17 12
Rank change year-on-year -6 -5 -2
Contract jobs citing Finance 52 44 105
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 7.38% 10.26% 12.03%
As % of the General category 15.52% 16.54% 23.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 23 85
10th Percentile £400 £470 £477
25th Percentile £513 £514 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% -8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £647 £675 £738
90th Percentile £675 £735 £788
South West median daily rate £513 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -2.38% -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 £15.99
% change year-on-year -60.29% +275.35% -73.69%

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 335 266 447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 47.52% 62.00% 51.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 167 322
10th Percentile £350 £215 £315
25th Percentile £488 £424 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £550 £553
Median % change year-on-year +8.64% -0.45% +0.45%
75th Percentile £725 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £729
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +0.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 3 23
10th Percentile £13.51 £22.23 £12.00
25th Percentile £16.56 £36.40 £14.25
Median hourly rate £22.27 £60.00 £14.54
Median % change year-on-year -62.89% +312.65% -79.06%
75th Percentile £24.50 - £30.25
90th Percentile - - £70.70
South West median hourly rate £32.75 £60.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -45.42% +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 18 February 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 18 February 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 19 £400 -27.27% 8
Corsham -34 6 £588 -6.00% 1
Pewsey - 6 - -
Salisbury +2 3 - -
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 5 (9.62%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.92%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (5.77%) Google Drive
1 3 (5.77%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (3.85%) AWS
2 2 (3.85%) Azure
3 1 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.92%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (1.92%) GCP
3 1 (1.92%) GitHub
3 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (1.92%) OpenShift
3 1 (1.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.69%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.92%) Firewall
2 1 (1.92%) LAN
2 1 (1.92%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.85%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.92%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.92%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.85%) Bitbucket
2 2 (3.85%) Cucumber
2 2 (3.85%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.92%) Ant
3 1 (1.92%) Git
3 1 (1.92%) IntelliJ
3 1 (1.92%) Maven
3 1 (1.92%) Postman
3 1 (1.92%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.92%) Snyk
General
1 19 (36.54%) Public Sector
2 18 (34.62%) Telecoms
3 17 (32.69%) Electronics
3 17 (32.69%) Manufacturing
3 17 (32.69%) Marketing
4 10 (19.23%) Social Skills
5 7 (13.46%) General Ledger
6 6 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (9.62%) Legal
8 3 (5.77%) Military
8 3 (5.77%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (3.85%) Local Government
9 2 (3.85%) Social Housing
10 1 (1.92%) Banking
10 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (13.46%) Support Engineer
2 6 (11.54%) Consultant
2 6 (11.54%) IT Engineer
2 6 (11.54%) IT Support
2 6 (11.54%) IT Support Engineer
2 6 (11.54%) Migration Engineer
3 4 (7.69%) Architect
4 3 (5.77%) Administrator
4 3 (5.77%) Cisco Engineer
4 3 (5.77%) Cisco Voice Engineer
4 3 (5.77%) Communications Engineer
4 3 (5.77%) Unified Communications Engineer
4 3 (5.77%) Voice Engineer
5 2 (3.85%) Accountant
5 2 (3.85%) Data Architect
5 2 (3.85%) Lead
5 2 (3.85%) Migration Consultant
5 2 (3.85%) Salesforce Architect
5 2 (3.85%) Security Consultant
5 2 (3.85%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (1.92%) Gherkin
1 1 (1.92%) JWT
1 1 (1.92%) Node.js
1 1 (1.92%) OAuth
1 1 (1.92%) OAuth2
1 1 (1.92%) Playwright
1 1 (1.92%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 11 (21.15%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.85%) CMDB
3 1 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.92%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (1.92%) DataPower
3 1 (1.92%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (46.15%) Business Intelligence
2 17 (32.69%) Digital Marketing
2 17 (32.69%) Programme Management
3 10 (19.23%) Migration
4 7 (13.46%) Budgeting
4 7 (13.46%) Budgeting and Forecasting
4 7 (13.46%) Financial Modelling
4 7 (13.46%) Performance Analysis
4 7 (13.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 6 (11.54%) ITIL
5 6 (11.54%) Workflow
5 6 (11.54%) Workflow Management
6 5 (9.62%) CI/CD
6 5 (9.62%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (7.69%) Data Management
7 4 (7.69%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
7 4 (7.69%) Service Management
8 3 (5.77%) Agile
8 3 (5.77%) Project Management
8 3 (5.77%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.77%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.92%) Bash
2 1 (1.92%) Java
2 1 (1.92%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.92%) Python
2 1 (1.92%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (44.23%) Security Cleared
2 21 (40.38%) SC Cleared
3 8 (15.38%) ACCA
4 7 (13.46%) CIMA
4 7 (13.46%) DV Cleared
5 3 (5.77%) CISSP
6 2 (3.85%) CESG Certified Professional
6 2 (3.85%) CLAS
6 2 (3.85%) Degree
6 2 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.92%) CISM
7 1 (1.92%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.92%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.92%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.85%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.85%) JSP 440
2 2 (3.85%) NIST
2 2 (3.85%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.85%) RMADS
3 1 (1.92%) GAAP
3 1 (1.92%) GDPR
3 1 (1.92%) IFRS
3 1 (1.92%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (3.85%) Active Directory
1 2 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.85%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.85%) NetBackup
1 2 (3.85%) Terraform
2 1 (1.92%) Ansible
2 1 (1.92%) Icinga
Vendors
1 17 (32.69%) SAP
2 7 (13.46%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.69%) Salesforce
4 3 (5.77%) Cisco
4 3 (5.77%) Google
5 2 (3.85%) Commvault
5 2 (3.85%) Oracle
5 2 (3.85%) Remedy
5 2 (3.85%) Veritas
6 1 (1.92%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.92%) IBM
6 1 (1.92%) Thales
6 1 (1.92%) Veracode