GWT Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Google Web Toolkit (GWT)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring GWT skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GWT 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 300 334 473
Rank change year-on-year +34 +139 +141
Contract jobs citing GWT 4 11 4
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.040% 0.072% 0.015%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.16% 0.30% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 3
10th Percentile £375 £388 -
25th Percentile £479 £456 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -20.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £563 £534 £644
90th Percentile - £556 £648
UK median daily rate £550 £375 £625
% change year-on-year +46.67% -40.00% +4.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

GWT 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 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

GWT trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing GWT.

GWT daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing GWT over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

GWT 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
1 3 (75.00%) Google Compute Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Metadata
1 3 (75.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Selenium
2 1 (25.00%) SpecFlow
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Lead
2 3 (75.00%) Java Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Lead Java Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Lead Test Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) JWT
1 3 (75.00%) OAuth
1 3 (75.00%) REST
1 3 (75.00%) Servlets
1 3 (75.00%) Spring
1 3 (75.00%) Spring Boot
1 3 (75.00%) Spring Security
2 1 (25.00%) Blazor
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) API Design
1 3 (75.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (75.00%) Data Migration
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Fintech
1 3 (75.00%) Microservices
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
1 3 (75.00%) OWASP
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Coaching
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Open Source
2 1 (25.00%) Product Management
2 1 (25.00%) Product Requirements
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Google
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle