Hybrid/Remote Guidewire Contract Job Trends

Guidewire
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 13 December 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
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 308 380
Rank change year-on-year +7 +72 +169
Contract jobs citing Guidewire 17 8 11
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.17% 0.066% 0.062%
As % of the Vendors category 0.34% 0.15% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 5
10th Percentile £313 £551 £445
25th Percentile £440 £591 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +4.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £825 £663 -
90th Percentile £888 £708 £630
UK median daily rate £525 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -19.23% +8.33% +4.35%

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 4,946 5,452 8,024
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 48.57% 44.94% 45.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,090 3,270 5,106
10th Percentile £325 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.24% - -3.58%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £723 £721
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 100 188
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.36 £17.10
25th Percentile £19.66 £24.01 £26.19
Median hourly rate £30.00 £41.00 £56.68
Median % change year-on-year -26.83% -27.66% -1.43%
75th Percentile £63.75 £67.14 £73.13
90th Percentile £67.50 £86.00 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £29.39 £44.50
% change year-on-year -18.33% -33.97% +73.08%

Guidewire
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Guidewire job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Guidewire
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Guidewire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Guidewire

Guidewire
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Guidewire over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Guidewire daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (5.88%) GCP
2 1 (5.88%) GitHub
2 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Finance
3 3 (17.65%) Billing
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Lead
3 3 (17.65%) Programme Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Business IT Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) GCP DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) IT Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) IT Business Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) IT Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Java Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Lead Business Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Lead Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) SOAP
1 2 (11.76%) Web Services
2 1 (5.88%) Middleware
2 1 (5.88%) REST
2 1 (5.88%) RESTful
2 1 (5.88%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Data Modelling
1 6 (35.29%) Migration
2 4 (23.53%) Agile
2 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (17.65%) DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
3 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (17.65%) Programme Management
3 3 (17.65%) Re-Platforming
4 2 (11.76%) Business Case
4 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
4 2 (11.76%) Waterfall
5 1 (5.88%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (5.88%) Batch Processing
5 1 (5.88%) Business Strategy
5 1 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (5.88%) Data Analysis
5 1 (5.88%) Memory Management
5 1 (5.88%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (5.88%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) Java
1 2 (11.76%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Grafana
1 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle