Guidewire Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 4 January 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
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 341 -
Rank change year-on-year -49 - -
Contract jobs citing Guidewire 8 7 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.044% 0.049% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.095% 0.11% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 0
10th Percentile £547 £405 -
25th Percentile £613 £538 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year +32.00% - -
75th Percentile £888 £669 -
90th Percentile - £715 -
UK median daily rate £500 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% +4.35%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,385 6,549 9,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 46.14% 46.13% 46.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,495 3,886 5,706
10th Percentile £220 £214 £208
25th Percentile £375 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £687 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 637 341 521
10th Percentile £14.59 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £21.50 £25.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% -45.51% +95.09%
75th Percentile £47.50 £58.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.35 £44.50
% change year-on-year -12.89% -38.54% +66.48%

Guidewire
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Guidewire relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Guidewire job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Guidewire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Guidewire

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Guidewire in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Guidewire in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Guidewire within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 January 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
Midlands -40 6 £825 +32.00%
West Midlands -40 6 £825 +32.00%
North of England - 1 - - 1
South West - 1 £508 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - -
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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure API Management
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (25.00%) SaaS
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Billing
2 3 (37.50%) Law
3 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Programme Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Insurance Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) IT Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
1 5 (62.50%) Migration
1 5 (62.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (37.50%) Programme Management
2 3 (37.50%) Re-Platforming
3 2 (25.00%) API Management
4 1 (12.50%) API Development
4 1 (12.50%) Business Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (12.50%) Insurtech
4 1 (12.50%) Integration Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Project Management
4 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) IBM
2 1 (12.50%) Duck Creek