Insurtech Contracts

Insurance Technology (Insurtech)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Insurtech skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Insurtech over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 497 556 674
Rank change year-on-year +59 +118 +98
Contract jobs citing Insurtech 23 26 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.079% 0.060% 0.074%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.086% 0.069% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 17 35
10th Percentile £405 £500 £400
25th Percentile £463 £563 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £725 £650 £719
90th Percentile £888 £665 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -17.50% -9.09% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Insurtech falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Insurtech
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Insurtech in the UK

Insurtech
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Insurtech in the UK

Insurtech
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Insurtech over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Insurtech in the UK

Insurtech
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Insurtech within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +56 21 £638 +6.25% 151
London +33 12 £700 +16.67% 106
UK excluding London +66 9 £413 -17.50% 73
South East +49 7 - - 42
Work from Home +28 7 £475 -20.83% 104
North West - 1 £413 - 15
East of England - 1 - - 8
North of England - 1 £413 - 19

Insurtech
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 1 (4.35%) Acrobat
Cloud Services
1 10 (43.48%) Azure
2 7 (30.43%) SaaS
3 6 (26.09%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (13.04%) Figma
4 3 (13.04%) Miro
4 3 (13.04%) Slack
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Stack
6 1 (4.35%) AWS
6 1 (4.35%) dbt
6 1 (4.35%) GCP
6 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.35%) Power BI
2 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) Cypress.io
2 4 (17.39%) Git
2 4 (17.39%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (13.04%) SpecFlow
4 2 (8.70%) Balsamiq
4 2 (8.70%) Moq
4 2 (8.70%) Selenium
4 2 (8.70%) Visual Studio
5 1 (4.35%) Cucumber
5 1 (4.35%) Eclipse
5 1 (4.35%) JIRA
5 1 (4.35%) JMeter
5 1 (4.35%) Mocha
General
1 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Finance
4 2 (8.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Senior
2 7 (30.43%) Developer
3 5 (21.74%) Senior Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Designer
4 3 (13.04%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 3 (13.04%) Product Designer
5 2 (8.70%) Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Customer Experience Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Data Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Product Owner
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Designer
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Product Designer
6 1 (4.35%) .NET Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Administrator
6 1 (4.35%) Business Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Project Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) AngularJS
1 4 (17.39%) CSS
1 4 (17.39%) HTML
1 4 (17.39%) React
1 4 (17.39%) RESTful
1 4 (17.39%) YAML
2 3 (13.04%) .NET
3 2 (8.70%) .NET Core
3 2 (8.70%) ASP.NET
3 2 (8.70%) Bootstrap
3 2 (8.70%) JSON
3 2 (8.70%) Ruby on Rails
3 2 (8.70%) Vue
3 2 (8.70%) XML
4 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (4.35%) FastAPI
4 1 (4.35%) Next.js
4 1 (4.35%) Playwright
4 1 (4.35%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.70%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (8.70%) Reinsurance
2 2 (8.70%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Agile
2 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
2 6 (26.09%) DevOps
2 6 (26.09%) Fintech
2 6 (26.09%) Scrum
2 6 (26.09%) Software Engineering
2 6 (26.09%) Sprint Planning
2 6 (26.09%) Sprint Retrospective
2 6 (26.09%) User Experience
2 6 (26.09%) Wireframes
3 5 (21.74%) Design Patterns
3 5 (21.74%) Mathematics
3 5 (21.74%) Technical Debt
3 5 (21.74%) Test Automation
3 5 (21.74%) Unit Testing
4 4 (17.39%) B2B
4 4 (17.39%) Computer Science
4 4 (17.39%) OO
4 4 (17.39%) SOLID
4 4 (17.39%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) TypeScript
2 6 (26.09%) C#
3 5 (21.74%) JavaScript
4 3 (13.04%) SQL
5 2 (8.70%) Python
5 2 (8.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) QA
2 2 (8.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.35%) PMO
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) TOWER Software
3 1 (4.35%) Adobe