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 19 September 2025, 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
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 365 423
Rank change year-on-year +3 +58 +92
Contract jobs citing Guidewire 6 13 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.073% 0.014%
As % of the Vendors category 0.081% 0.16% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 3
10th Percentile £451 - -
25th Percentile £500 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +45.00% -4.76% -6.67%
75th Percentile £888 £675 £556
90th Percentile - £828 £568
UK median daily rate £601 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -7.62% +8.33% +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 7,382 7,892 9,880
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 47.72% 44.02% 45.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,570 4,595 6,348
10th Percentile £220 £220 £206
25th Percentile £363 £393 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.13% - +3.09%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 593 580 497
10th Percentile £14.42 £14.16 £14.40
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.62 £17.72
Median hourly rate £21.39 £29.89 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.43% -29.68% +112.50%
75th Percentile £42.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £70.00 £74.63
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -16.17% -32.58% +86.11%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Guidewire as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Guidewire 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 19 September 2025.

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 19 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
West Midlands -7 4 £825 +13.79% 2
Midlands -14 4 £825 +13.79% 2
South West - 2 £468 -
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Billing
3 1 (16.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) IT Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Migration
1 4 (66.67%) Re-Platforming
2 3 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 2 (33.33%) ETL
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Business Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines