Guidewire Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Guidewire
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales requiring knowledge or experience of Guidewire products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Guidewire over the 6 months leading up to 5 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Guidewire Software, Inc.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Guidewire 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.48% - -
As % of the Vendors category 1.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median daily rate £475 - -

All Vendors
South Wales

Guidewire falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 177 104 138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 42.34% 40.78% 38.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 73 107
10th Percentile £275 £181 £188
25th Percentile £305 £250 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £409 £515
Median % change year-on-year +16.14% -20.58% +8.42%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £581
90th Percentile £750 £588 £625
Wales median daily rate £475 £409 £508
% change year-on-year +16.14% -19.49% +6.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 12 9
10th Percentile £12.21 - £11.00
25th Percentile £12.52 £16.00 £11.15
Median hourly rate £17.50 £22.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% -62.50% +252.32%
75th Percentile £21.25 £41.25 £87.80
90th Percentile £72.45 - £87.84
Wales median hourly rate £21.13 £22.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -6.11% +18.42% +11.57%

Guidewire
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Guidewire relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Guidewire job vacancy trend in South Wales

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Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Guidewire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Guidewire

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Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Guidewire within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 5 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
Cardiff - 2 £475 - 1
Guidewire
Wales

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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 2 (100.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Functions
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
1 2 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Beam
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) ETL Development
2 1 (50.00%) IT Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google