Hybrid/Remote Guava Contract Job Trends

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Guava skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 319 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Guava 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.010% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.037% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £435 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

Guava 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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,693 2,723 3,944
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.41% 24.80% 24.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,762 1,813 2,796
10th Percentile £356 £331 £345
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £643
90th Percentile £750 £774 £738
UK median daily rate £510 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 23 44
10th Percentile £33.00 £21.40 £37.08
25th Percentile £43.00 £26.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -3.23% -4.62%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £74.69
90th Percentile £68.75 £92.50 £90.25
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -15.38%

Guava
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Guava and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Guava job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Guava
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Commons
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) JSF
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Struts
1 1 (100.00%) Swagger
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes