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 18 September 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
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 320 395
Rank change year-on-year +25 +75 +181
Contract jobs citing Guidewire 12 17 12
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.13% 0.060%
As % of the Vendors category 0.26% 0.30% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 6
10th Percentile £478 - £450
25th Percentile £524 - £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £626 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +25.10% -4.76% -25.00%
75th Percentile £859 - £547
90th Percentile £888 £588 £675
UK median daily rate £601 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -7.62% +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 4,564 5,576 8,824
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 46.38% 43.77% 44.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,832 3,400 5,829
10th Percentile £325 £325 £320
25th Percentile £418 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - -3.67%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £645
90th Percentile £719 £725 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 107 210
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.80 £16.49
25th Percentile £20.50 £21.25 £24.56
Median hourly rate £34.65 £41.57 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.64% -20.83% +16.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £78.00 £77.57
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -16.17% -31.66% +83.61%

Guidewire
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Guidewire as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Guidewire trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

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

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

Guidewire
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Guidewire over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Guidewire daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (8.33%) Apache
1 1 (8.33%) Apache Spark
1 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) AWS
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (8.33%) dbt
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (8.33%) Delta Lake
1 1 (8.33%) Metadata
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) ER Studio
2 1 (8.33%) ERwin
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) JUnit
2 1 (8.33%) Selenium
2 1 (8.33%) TestNG
2 1 (8.33%) TestRail
2 1 (8.33%) WebDriver
2 1 (8.33%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Billing
2 3 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Developer
1 3 (25.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Automation Tester
2 1 (8.33%) Business Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Business IT Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Data Modeller
2 1 (8.33%) GCP DevOps Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Integration Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Integration Project Manager
2 1 (8.33%) IT Business Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) IT Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Java Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
2 1 (8.33%) QA Tester
2 1 (8.33%) Senior
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Project Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) SOAP
1 3 (25.00%) Web Services
2 2 (16.67%) REST
3 1 (8.33%) RESTful
3 1 (8.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
1 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Agile
1 5 (41.67%) Migration
2 4 (33.33%) DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) Programme Management
3 3 (25.00%) Re-Platforming
3 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (25.00%) Waterfall
4 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 2 (16.67%) Model Validation
5 1 (8.33%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (8.33%) Batch Processing
5 1 (8.33%) Business Case
5 1 (8.33%) Business Strategy
5 1 (8.33%) Coaching
5 1 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (8.33%) Event-Driven
5 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
5 1 (8.33%) Observability
5 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Java
1 3 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (8.33%) QA
1 1 (8.33%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Grafana
1 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Duck Creek
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) Salesforce