GWT Contracts

Google Web Toolkit (GWT)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring GWT skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GWT over the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 546 539 667
Rank change year-on-year -7 +128 +167
Contract jobs citing GWT 10 23 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.059% 0.002%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.13% 0.27% 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 1
10th Percentile £305 £363 -
25th Percentile £307 £366 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £413 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -31.25% -
75th Percentile £563 £506 £625
90th Percentile - £534 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £305 £438 £600
% change year-on-year -30.29% -27.08% -12.73%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

GWT falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,469 8,572 11,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.52% 21.96% 22.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,045 5,851 8,629
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £427 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £635 £665 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 248 156
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.50 £32.88
25th Percentile £40.88 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.94 £53.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.21% -10.42% +6.50%
75th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £79.35 £74.46 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £58.60 £58.55
% change year-on-year -6.15% +0.10% +1.82%

GWT
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for GWT in the UK

GWT
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for GWT in the UK

GWT
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GWT over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GWT in the UK

GWT
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GWT.

Hourly rate trend for GWT in the UK

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Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GWT within the UK over the 6 months to 3 August 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
Work from Home +18 5 £550 +10.00%
England +9 4 - - 5
London +7 4 - - 4
Wales +11 3 £305 -
UK excluding London -6 3 £305 -30.29% 3

GWT
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) GCP
1 3 (30.00%) Google Compute Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Metadata
1 3 (30.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) JIRA
2 3 (30.00%) GitLab
2 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (30.00%) Selenium
2 3 (30.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Lead
2 4 (40.00%) Java Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Lead Java Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Lead Test Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Middleware Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Test Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Messaging Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Unix Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Unix Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) AWT
1 4 (40.00%) JMS
1 4 (40.00%) Kafka
1 4 (40.00%) Rendezvous
1 4 (40.00%) TIBCO EMS
2 3 (30.00%) Blazor
2 3 (30.00%) CSS
2 3 (30.00%) HTML
2 3 (30.00%) JWT
2 3 (30.00%) Middleware
2 3 (30.00%) OAuth
2 3 (30.00%) REST
2 3 (30.00%) Servlets
2 3 (30.00%) Spring
2 3 (30.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (30.00%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Equities
2 3 (30.00%) Replication
3 2 (20.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
1 4 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (40.00%) Garbage Collection
2 4 (40.00%) Low Latency
2 4 (40.00%) Multithreading
2 4 (40.00%) OO
2 4 (40.00%) OOD
3 3 (30.00%) API Design
3 3 (30.00%) Auto-Scaling
3 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) Cloud Security
3 3 (30.00%) Coaching
3 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (30.00%) Data Migration
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Fintech
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (30.00%) Microservices
3 3 (30.00%) Product Requirements
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Java
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
3 3 (30.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Degree
2 3 (30.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Google
2 4 (40.00%) TIBCO
3 3 (30.00%) Oracle