Guidewire Job Trends

Guidewire
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Guidewire products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Guidewire over the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Guidewire Software, Inc.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 555 682 693
Rank change year-on-year +127 +11 +296
Permanent jobs citing Guidewire 90 31 26
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.057% 0.049%
As % of the Vendors category 0.47% 0.15% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 69 23 9
10th Percentile £57,500 £46,750 -
25th Percentile £62,500 £53,750 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +57.89% -26.92%
75th Percentile £95,000 £88,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £93,000 £91,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £55,000 £28,500
% change year-on-year +40.91% +92.98% -45.71%

All Vendors
UK

Guidewire falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 19,064 20,076 21,309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.29% 36.89% 40.40%
Number of salaries quoted 10,793 10,314 16,333
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £91,934
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% +2.04% -2.00%

Guidewire
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Guidewire relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Guidewire job vacancy trend in the UK

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Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Guidewire.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Guidewire

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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Guidewire over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Guidewire in the UK

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Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Guidewire within the UK over the 6 months to 4 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +149 90 £72,500 -3.33% 26
London +112 73 £72,500 -17.14% 21
Work from Home +100 24 £60,000 -7.69% 8
UK excluding London +73 17 £77,500 +40.91% 12
South East +25 6 £90,000 +20.00% 7
North West +32 5 £42,500 -10.53% 1
North of England +25 5 £42,500 -10.53% 1
Midlands +21 4 £80,000 +52.38%
West Midlands +30 3 £80,000 +52.38%
South West - 2 £73,500 - 1
East Midlands - 1 - -

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 3 (3.33%) Maya
Business Applications
1 9 (10.00%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 16 (17.78%) Datadog
2 9 (10.00%) IaaS
2 9 (10.00%) PaaS
3 8 (8.89%) Azure
4 4 (4.44%) GCP
5 3 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (3.33%) SaaS
6 2 (2.22%) AWS
6 2 (2.22%) Azure Pipelines
6 2 (2.22%) Figma
7 1 (1.11%) GitHub
7 1 (1.11%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (17.78%) Relational Database
2 12 (13.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.33%) Eclipse
2 2 (2.22%) GitLab
2 2 (2.22%) REST Assured
2 2 (2.22%) Storybook
3 1 (1.11%) Bower
3 1 (1.11%) gulp
3 1 (1.11%) webpack
General
1 45 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 22 (24.44%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (15.56%) Billing
4 12 (13.33%) Dutch Language
4 12 (13.33%) French Language
4 12 (13.33%) Games
4 12 (13.33%) Law
5 10 (11.11%) Finance
6 3 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 31 (34.44%) Developer
2 23 (25.56%) Analyst
2 23 (25.56%) Senior
3 21 (23.33%) Lead
4 12 (13.33%) Applications Support
4 12 (13.33%) Applications Support Analyst
4 12 (13.33%) Support Analyst
5 11 (12.22%) Architect
5 11 (12.22%) Senior Developer
6 9 (10.00%) IT Architect
6 9 (10.00%) Lead Architect
7 6 (6.67%) Business Analyst
7 6 (6.67%) Lead Software Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) Software Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Business IT Analyst
8 5 (5.56%) Business Systems Analyst
8 5 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (5.56%) Senior Business Analyst
8 5 (5.56%) Senior IT Business Analyst
8 5 (5.56%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (15.56%) RESTful
2 12 (13.33%) .NET
3 4 (4.44%) React
4 3 (3.33%) CSS
4 3 (3.33%) HTML
4 3 (3.33%) Node.js
5 2 (2.22%) Playwright
6 1 (1.11%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 28 (31.11%) Onboarding
2 12 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.44%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (3.33%) Blockchain
6 2 (2.22%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.22%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (36.67%) DevOps
2 28 (31.11%) Agile
2 28 (31.11%) Microservices
2 28 (31.11%) Migration
3 25 (27.78%) Stakeholder Management
4 24 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 23 (25.56%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (23.33%) CI/CD
7 19 (21.11%) Scrum
8 18 (20.00%) Document Management
8 18 (20.00%) Mentoring
8 18 (20.00%) Test Automation
9 17 (18.89%) Business Strategy
10 16 (17.78%) Error Analysis
10 16 (17.78%) Requirements Gathering
11 14 (15.56%) IT Strategy
11 14 (15.56%) ITIL
11 14 (15.56%) Service Management
12 13 (14.44%) Project Management
13 12 (13.33%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 30 (33.33%) Java
2 28 (31.11%) C#
2 28 (31.11%) SQL
3 16 (17.78%) Python
4 3 (3.33%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (13.33%) Degree
2 2 (2.22%) ISTQB
2 2 (2.22%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 2 (2.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.00%) IFRS
1 9 (10.00%) IFRS 17
1 9 (10.00%) Solvency II
2 5 (5.56%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.22%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (15.56%) Duck Creek
2 12 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 9 (10.00%) SAP
4 3 (3.33%) Pega
4 3 (3.33%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.33%) Sitecore