Jobs in Swindon, Wiltshire

Swindon is a town in South West England, located almost exactly halfway between Bristol and Reading. It began life as a tiny village on top of a hill in Wiltshire, until the mid-nineteenth century, when the town became a hub for the railway industry. Industrial works were built, labourers flocked to the town, and Swindon was twenty times larger by the end of the century.

Swindon is still growing - a 2011 census put the population at 209,000, an increase of 16% from 2001 - and counts Honda and Nationwide Building Society among the multinational corporations that have set up headquarters there.

Celebrities born in Swindon include Nick Hewer (Lord Alan Sugar's sardonic sidekick on BBC series The Apprentice) and cookery writer Sophie Grigson, while in 2001 the town became part of popular culture, used as the location for Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's fictional workplace in their BBC sitcom The Office.

Companies presently offering job vacancies in Swindon include Nationwide Building Society, Thames Water, BMI Healthcare..

85% of the live vacancies are full-time, however 15% of them are part-time positions.

The largest category under which open Swindon jobs are listed is Healthcare & Nursing Jobs, followed by Engineering Jobs.

77% of current opportunities are permanent, whereas 23% are contract jobs.

487 new job listings for this search have been found in the last calendar day, compared with 781 in the last 72 hours and 1,366 in the last week.