Guidewire Contracts

Guidewire
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 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
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 495 558 651
Rank change year-on-year +63 +93 +148
Contract jobs citing Guidewire 24 42 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.096% 0.10%
As % of the Vendors category 0.17% 0.23% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 35 48
10th Percentile £550 £500 £400
25th Percentile £600 £509 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £601 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.18% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £741
90th Percentile £700 £650 £833
UK excluding London median daily rate £675 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +22.73% +4.76% -

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,870 18,503 25,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.44% 42.44% 42.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,703 11,477 17,115
10th Percentile £288 £263 £273
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -
75th Percentile £619 £627 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 1,097 689
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.08 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.48 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.13 £22.15 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.46% -49.37% +108.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.33 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +107.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Guidewire as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Guidewire in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Guidewire.

Daily rate trend for Guidewire in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Guidewire over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Guidewire in the UK

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Top 6 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +42 20 £611 +11.00% 36
London +30 17 £600 -4.00% 21
UK excluding London +38 3 £675 +22.73% 15
Midlands +26 3 £675 -15.63% 9
West Midlands +18 3 £675 -15.63% 9
Work from Home +28 1 £600 +9.09% 16

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (12.50%) Camtasia
2 3 (12.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) GitHub
2 3 (12.50%) Lucidchart
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Subversion
2 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.17%) Eclipse
2 1 (4.17%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (29.17%) Finance
3 1 (4.17%) General Ledger
3 1 (4.17%) Law
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Senior
2 7 (29.17%) Lead
3 6 (25.00%) Project Manager
4 5 (20.83%) Consultant
5 4 (16.67%) Lead Consultant
5 4 (16.67%) Senior Consultant
6 3 (12.50%) Analyst
6 3 (12.50%) Business Analyst
6 3 (12.50%) Integration Manager
6 3 (12.50%) Integration Project Manager
7 2 (8.33%) Architect
7 2 (8.33%) Developer
7 2 (8.33%) Senior Manager
7 2 (8.33%) Senior Project Manager
8 1 (4.17%) Change Manager
8 1 (4.17%) Migration Engineer
8 1 (4.17%) Senior Developer
8 1 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (4.17%) Technical Analyst
8 1 (4.17%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) REST
1 2 (8.33%) SOAP
1 2 (8.33%) XML
2 1 (4.17%) Kafka
2 1 (4.17%) React
2 1 (4.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (12.50%) Learning Management System
3 2 (8.33%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Agile
2 8 (33.33%) Migration
3 6 (25.00%) Data Migration
4 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (12.50%) Document Management
5 3 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (8.33%) Business Analysis
6 2 (8.33%) Data Reconciliation
6 2 (8.33%) DevOps
7 1 (4.17%) CRM
7 1 (4.17%) Customer Engagement
7 1 (4.17%) ETL
7 1 (4.17%) GAP Analysis
7 1 (4.17%) Lean Six Sigma
7 1 (4.17%) Risk Management
7 1 (4.17%) Security Testing
7 1 (4.17%) Test Automation
7 1 (4.17%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.33%) Java
1 2 (8.33%) SQL
2 1 (4.17%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (4.17%) Confluent
1 1 (4.17%) Duck Creek
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle
1 1 (4.17%) Salesforce