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

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 10 9
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing Finance 70 90 121
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 16.13% 14.35% 14.04%
As % of the General category 28.11% 27.61% 29.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 57 104
10th Percentile £440 £180 £411
25th Percentile £513 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £581
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -9.68% +1.09%
75th Percentile £681 £675 £650
90th Percentile £755 £775 £713
South West median daily rate £575 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +9.52% -8.70% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £28.55 - -
South West median hourly rate £15.96 £34.00 £37.18
% change year-on-year -53.06% -8.54% +3.26%

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 249 326 406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 57.37% 51.99% 47.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 228 321
10th Percentile £274 £205 £300
25th Percentile £459 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.23% -2.18% -
75th Percentile £638 £668 £650
90th Percentile £721 £756 £723
South West median daily rate £495 £504 £550
% change year-on-year -1.74% -8.41% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 6
10th Percentile £20.99 - £35.00
25th Percentile £21.25 - £50.63
Median hourly rate £25.08 £12.79 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year +96.05% -79.03% +12.96%
75th Percentile £25.15 - £69.50
90th Percentile £27.19 £13.91 £78.08
South West median hourly rate £23.50 £65.00 £54.33
% change year-on-year -63.85% +19.63% +3.31%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire.

Job vacancy trend for Finance 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 September 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 18 September 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 0 31 £525 +16.67% 22
Corsham +9 28 £650 -1.89% 6
Warminster - 1 - -
Finance
South West

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (4.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.43%) BASE24
2 1 (1.43%) IntelliMatch
2 1 (1.43%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 12 (17.14%) AWS
2 10 (14.29%) Azure
3 7 (10.00%) GCP
4 3 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.86%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.43%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.43%) ATM
1 1 (1.43%) DNS
1 1 (1.43%) Firewall
1 1 (1.43%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.29%) SAP BW
1 3 (4.29%) SAP HANA
2 2 (2.86%) Power BI
2 2 (2.86%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.43%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.43%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 3 (4.29%) GitLab
1 3 (4.29%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.86%) JIRA
3 1 (1.43%) GoCD
3 1 (1.43%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 35 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 32 (45.71%) Telecoms
3 30 (42.86%) Electronics
3 30 (42.86%) Manufacturing
3 30 (42.86%) Marketing
4 20 (28.57%) Social Skills
5 11 (15.71%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (14.29%) Banking
7 6 (8.57%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (4.29%) Aerospace
9 2 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.86%) Military
9 2 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.43%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (1.43%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.43%) Legal
10 1 (1.43%) Police
10 1 (1.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (21.43%) Architect
1 15 (21.43%) Consultant
2 11 (15.71%) Security Consultant
3 7 (10.00%) Analyst
4 6 (8.57%) ITIL Manager
4 6 (8.57%) Security Architect
5 5 (7.14%) Availability Manager
5 5 (7.14%) Incident Manager
5 5 (7.14%) ITIL Incident Manager
6 4 (5.71%) Data Analyst
6 4 (5.71%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (4.29%) Administrator
7 3 (4.29%) SAP Consultant
7 3 (4.29%) SAP Technical Consultant
7 3 (4.29%) Security Administrator
7 3 (4.29%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.29%) Technical Consultant
8 2 (2.86%) Head of Information Security
8 2 (2.86%) IT Support
8 2 (2.86%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.29%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (4.29%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (1.43%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.14%) CMDB
2 4 (5.71%) Mainframe
2 4 (5.71%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (2.86%) IBM Mainframe
3 2 (2.86%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.43%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.43%) EMV
4 1 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.43%) STB
4 1 (1.43%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.71%) Linux
1 4 (5.71%) Windows
2 3 (4.29%) zOS
3 1 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (52.86%) Business Intelligence
2 30 (42.86%) Digital Marketing
2 30 (42.86%) Programme Management
3 14 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 13 (18.57%) Risk Management
5 12 (17.14%) ITIL
5 12 (17.14%) Service Management
6 10 (14.29%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
7 9 (12.86%) Cloud Security
7 9 (12.86%) Configuration Management
8 8 (11.43%) Threat Modelling
9 7 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
10 6 (8.57%) Agile
10 6 (8.57%) Collaborative Working
10 6 (8.57%) Identity Access Management
10 6 (8.57%) Roadmaps
10 6 (8.57%) Service Catalogue
10 6 (8.57%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (8.57%) TOGAF
11 5 (7.14%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 6 (8.57%) SQL
2 3 (4.29%) Bash
2 3 (4.29%) PowerShell
2 3 (4.29%) Python
3 1 (1.43%) C
3 1 (1.43%) C++
3 1 (1.43%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 40 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 26 (37.14%) SC Cleared
3 21 (30.00%) CISSP
4 19 (27.14%) DV Cleared
5 10 (14.29%) CESG Certified Professional
5 10 (14.29%) CISM
6 5 (7.14%) CLAS
6 5 (7.14%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 3 (4.29%) AWS Certification
7 3 (4.29%) IBM Certification
8 2 (2.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (2.86%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.86%) CISA
8 2 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (2.86%) CRISC
8 2 (2.86%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (1.43%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (1.43%) ISTQB
9 1 (1.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (17.14%) NIST
3 10 (14.29%) RMADS
4 8 (11.43%) JSP 440
4 8 (11.43%) NCSC
5 6 (8.57%) GDPR
6 5 (7.14%) PCI DSS
7 4 (5.71%) IFRS
7 4 (5.71%) IFRS 9
7 4 (5.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (4.29%) Basel III
8 3 (4.29%) IFRS 17
9 2 (2.86%) COBIT
10 1 (1.43%) Accessibility
10 1 (1.43%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (1.43%) CRD IV
10 1 (1.43%) Data Quality
10 1 (1.43%) ISO 8583
10 1 (1.43%) QA
System Software
1 3 (4.29%) Docker
1 3 (4.29%) RACF
2 2 (2.86%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (5.71%) Ansible
2 3 (4.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.29%) Prometheus
2 3 (4.29%) Terraform
3 2 (2.86%) Grafana
3 2 (2.86%) Puppet
4 1 (1.43%) FreeIPA
4 1 (1.43%) SCOM
4 1 (1.43%) vRealize
Vendors
1 33 (47.14%) SAP
2 5 (7.14%) Remedy
3 3 (4.29%) IBM
3 3 (4.29%) Splunk
3 3 (4.29%) VMware
4 2 (2.86%) Citrix
4 2 (2.86%) MobileIron
5 1 (1.43%) Broadcom
5 1 (1.43%) Cisco
5 1 (1.43%) Foundry
5 1 (1.43%) HP
5 1 (1.43%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.43%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.43%) Workday