Guidewire Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Guidewire
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 20 October 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
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 105 -
Rank change year-on-year -15 - -
Contract jobs citing Guidewire 5 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.26% 0.32% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.49% 0.66% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 0
10th Percentile £658 - -
25th Percentile £725 £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 £631 -
Median % change year-on-year +30.69% - -
75th Percentile £888 £670 -
90th Percentile - £763 -
England median daily rate £600 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +4.35%

All Vendors
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,019 908 997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 53.21% 48.58% 49.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 652 596 632
10th Percentile £263 £220 £210
25th Percentile £400 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +7.53% -6.06%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £600
90th Percentile £656 £713 £688
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.95% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 13 21
10th Percentile £15.71 £14.40 £17.50
25th Percentile £19.69 £15.22 £17.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £26.13 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.83% +13.59% +39.39%
75th Percentile £35.63 £35.00 £34.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £57.75 £42.25
England median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -28.57% -20.27% +77.09%

Guidewire
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Guidewire relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Guidewire job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Guidewire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Guidewire

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Guidewire in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Guidewire in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Guidewire within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 October 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
Warwickshire +3 5 £825 +32.00% 1
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure API Management
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Billing
3 2 (40.00%) Law
4 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (20.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Migration
1 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (60.00%) Programme Management
2 3 (60.00%) Re-Platforming
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) API Management
4 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) IBM