Guidewire Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Guidewire
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 5 May 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 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 330 368
Rank change year-on-year -85 +38 +74
Contract jobs citing Guidewire 11 3 21
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.046% 0.023% 0.10%
As % of the Vendors category 0.11% 0.048% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 21
10th Percentile - £633 -
25th Percentile - £644 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £675 £550
Median % change year-on-year -33.78% +22.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £488 £694 -
90th Percentile £518 £698 £675
UK median daily rate £488 £601 £550
% change year-on-year -18.82% +9.18% -

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 9,755 6,229 8,731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 40.37% 48.78% 42.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,244 3,960 5,276
10th Percentile £270 £217 £206
25th Percentile £400 £368 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £662 £691
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £515
% change year-on-year -2.91% - -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 839 428 936
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.42 £11.79
25th Percentile £18.26 £17.21 £14.16
Median hourly rate £27.50 £24.18 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.73% +12.47% -45.71%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.75 £59.95
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.13 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £31.21 £26.45 £22.50
% change year-on-year +18.01% +17.56% -48.70%

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

Guidewire
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

Guidewire
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 5 May 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
North of England - 7 £447 -
North West - 6 £447 -
West Midlands -59 2 £525 -22.22%
Midlands -71 2 £525 -22.22%
Wales - 2 £475 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - -
South West - 1 £525 -
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UK

Guidewire
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) Apache
2 1 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (9.09%) Appian
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Functions
1 2 (18.18%) GCP
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Azure API Management
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Big Data
1 2 (18.18%) BigQuery
1 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (18.18%) RDBMS
1 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Billing
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Law
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Architect
1 6 (54.55%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Enterprise Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Data Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Lead
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Insurance Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Lead Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Apache Beam
2 1 (9.09%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Agile
2 4 (36.36%) Data Migration
2 4 (36.36%) Migration
3 3 (27.27%) Architecture Roadmap
3 3 (27.27%) Microservices
3 3 (27.27%) Roadmaps
3 3 (27.27%) Technology Roadmap
4 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (18.18%) ETL
4 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (9.09%) Backlog Management
5 1 (9.09%) CRM
5 1 (9.09%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 1 (9.09%) Insurtech
5 1 (9.09%) IT Governance
5 1 (9.09%) MoSCoW
5 1 (9.09%) Project Management
5 1 (9.09%) Requirements Engineering
5 1 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Java
1 2 (18.18%) Python
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Duck Creek
2 1 (9.09%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) IBM